Tom Woods Elite Letter: The Hoppe Interview: PFS Comments

by Stephan Kinsella on January 11, 2026

From HansHoppe.com:

Tom Woods Elite Letter: The Hans Hoppe Interview (2025)

Tom Woods, “Interview with Hans Hoppe,” Tom Woods Elite Letter, Issue #18 (Summer 2025), idem, “The Hans Hoppe Interview Concluded,” Tom Woods Elite Letter, Issue #19 (August 2025). Reprinted with permission. See other biographical pieces in Hoppe Biography.

I include here one excerpt (for more about the PFS, see the PFS About and Press pages):

Woods: Before we wrap up, do you want to say a quick word about the Property and Freedom Society?

Hoppe: I have done that for for 20 years now. We have a hotel that is owned by my wife and her brothers. It’s a small part of the overall business that they have in Turkey. In the beginning we had difficulties persuading people to come to Turkey because Turkey is a strange country. But now, one week after we announce the conference times, we are booked solid. It’s a hotel that has between 50 and 60 rooms, and we always fill it for the conference. The hotel is always reserved only for the attendees of the conference.
My principle is that I invite as speakers only people who are sympathetic to libertarianism. They don’t have to be hardcore libertarians. But they should not be people who ardently promote, for instance, “limited government.” Because the main view is we are anarchists there. It creates an atmosphere like no other one that I’ve ever experienced at any other conference.

Everything takes place at the hotel, so you don’t have to go out at night and find some other place to eat. You can change your table at every meal, eat breakfast together, eat lunch together, dinner together, party until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning.

Many different kinds of people have attended, between the first conference and the last one. We have poor students and we have billionaires coming to the conference. It’s a very interesting mixture of people. I want interdisciplinary talks: economics, history, philosophy, and cultural stuff. It is the mixture of topics and also the mixture of people.

When I started it, most of the people attending were Americans. Since then, it has become predominantly European. But we also have people coming from South America and Australia. It is a very unusual conference, and I don’t think anybody who has ever attended it went away without saying: that was something special.