In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting some of them here in this Bookstream.

The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry.

Related

• Why We Have Rights – Christian Michel (French version)
• Kinsella, The Prior-Later Distinction
• Kinsella, On Property Rights in Superabundant Bananas and Property Rights as Normative Support for Possession
• On Rothbard’s alternatives of self-ownership, communism, or slavery, see The Prior-Later Distinction; Kinsella, “How We Come To Own Ourselves,” in Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023); PFP341 | Stephan Kinsella, “Rothbard’s Greatest Hits: A Personal Mix Tape”—100 Years with Rothbard, Portugal; Kinsella, “Mises, Rothbard, Hoppe: An Indispensable Framework”
• Kinsella, Grass stamped flat soon becomes a path

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A new podcast has just launched: Enemies of the State. I learned of this from its founder Christopher Fox, whom I met this past weekend at the Free Cities Foundation annual meeting 2026 in Próspera, Roatan, Hondura. Check it out. First episode, 001:

The first episode · Dexter speaks first

Rights Must Be Insisted Upon

A prison call with Dexter Taylor. A conversation with Ammon Bundy. Two personal accounts of what happens after insisting that rights exist beyond the permission of the State.

Guns, Speech, and Government Power: Dexter Taylor Meets Ammon Bundy

The Hanse Was More Radical than You Think

09/05/2026 • Mises Wire • Matteo Salonia

During the Commercial Revolution—roughly from the 10th to the 14th century—medieval Europe experienced a demographic recovery, an improvement in agricultural productivity, a revival of its long-distance trade, and the diffusion of market institutions. In this context, the Hanse were merchants from Lower Germany and the Elbe river basin who found themselves scattered across a vast region around the North and Baltic seas. [continue reading…]

Below is a documentary on Carl Menger, produced by the Ludwig von Mises Institute Poland. Carl Menger. Notes on the margin, a film by Tomasza Agenckiego:

This film, “Carl Menger. Notes on the margin” — a documentary about a visionary without whom the economic genius of Ludwig von Mises would not have emerged — was made possible thanks to the support of our Donors.

With Tom Woods, narrator. Transcript below.

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In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting some of them here in this Bookstream.

The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry.

Related

• republished as Carlo Lottieri, “Classical Natural Law and Libertarian Theory,” Mises Daily (7/7/2021) and here
• Stephan Kinsella, “Causation and Aggression,” in Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023), n.2, Hate Crime–Intentional Action and Motivations, discussing the the distinction between an action’s intentionality or purposiveness (thus distinguishing it from mere behavior, such as a reflexive or involuntary response), which factors into responsibility and liability, and its motive or actual purpose, which factors into the appropriate punishment.

• On Hoppe’s view of his argumentation ethics approach as falling in a “rightly conceived” natural rights tradition, see Hoppe, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, pp. 156–57, n.118; Kinsella, “Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights,” text at n.14 and “The Undeniable Morality of Capitalism,” text at n.23, both in Legal Foundations of a Free Society.

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KOL497 | Debate: “Should Free Cities Protect Intellectual Property?” Free Cities Foundation Annual Conference — Próspera, Honduras 2026:

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 497.

Yesterday (Sep. 5, 2026) I participated in the debate: “Should Free Cities Protect Intellectual Property?” with IP attorney Brian O’Beirne, moderated by Tipolis CFO Alex VossTopic, held at the Free Cities Foundation annual Conference, Próspera, Honduras, Sept. 4–7 (Sat. Sept. 5, 2026) (SK profile; O’Beirne profile) (see Free Cities Foundation Annual Conference — Próspera 2026).

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From C4SIF.org:

Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, Christoph Luetge and Marianne Thejls Ziegler, eds. (Springer, Dordrecht 2026) has been published, including my chapter “The Problem with Intellectual Property.” Published as of Aug. 29, 2026. This chapter is based on Stephan Kinsella, “The Problem with Intellectual Property,” Papinian Press Occasional Paper, No. 2 (May 15, 2025) [v.1.1]. See further background details there.

As noted at Against Intellectual Property + Supplementary Material, this is the most recent and comprehensive presentation of my case against IP—at least until I complete Copy This Book: The Case for Abolishing Intellectual Property (in progress).

Text: pdf (with errata); pdf (original); HTML (below).

Proving once again that truth is always the first casualty of war.  Especially World War II says Paul Craig Roberts in “The True Story of World War II.”

In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting some of them here in this Bookstream.

The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here.

The next entry is What Libertarianism Is – Stephan Kinsella. It was also published as “What Libertarianism Is,” Mises Daily (August 21, 2009), and as “What Libertarianism Is,” LewRockwell.com (Aug. 24, 2009) (audio); also translated into several other languages. Additional commentary and related resources are available here. The version below is the updated version that appeared as chapter 2 in Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023). [continue reading…]

[Cross-posted at StephanKinsella.com]

I’m here at the Free Cities Foundation Annual Meeting 2026 in Próspera, Roatan, Hondura. Several PFS members are involved, and some here today. I have a debate on IP tomorrow, Debate: Should Free Cities Protect Intellectual Property?, between me and with IP attorney Brian O’Beirne, moderated by Tipolis CFO Alex Voss. [See “Debate: Should Free Cities Protect Intellectual Property?” Free Cities Foundation Annual Conference — Próspera, Honduras 2026] Today’s livestream is on their youtube channel.

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CAPITALISM IS LOSING THE MORAL ARGUMENT

Last month I was having a chat with Saifedean Ammous, and he told me a story that really stuck with me.

He said it has become increasingly difficult to win an argument with a socialist at a dinner party. https://t.co/duMSdBTD8u pic.twitter.com/3KTOOKErGV

— Cory Klippsten 🦢 Swan.com (@CorySwan) September 4, 2026

Pure fire from @ComicDaveSmith pic.twitter.com/cNzJ54moYw

— Owen Shroyer (@OwenShroyer1776) September 4, 2026

A phenomenal response to @AlanDersh after he called @ComicDaveSmith an anti-semite. pic.twitter.com/MysdIoUvXN

— Christian Malazarte (@ChristianMalaza) September 3, 2026

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In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting some of them here in this Bookstream.

The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry: Hardy Bouillon, “A Note on Intellectual Property and Externalities,” in Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Stephan Kinsella, eds. (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2009).

Related

• Also republished as Hardy Bouillon, “A Note on Intellectual Property and Externalities,” Mises Daily (Oct. 27, 2009)
  • See also Archived comments, reproduced in Kinsella, “Hardy Bouillon, A Note on Intellectual Property and Externalities: Archived comments,” C4SIF.org Blog (Oct. 27, 2007)

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Many students of Murray Rothbard’s writings will be greatly disappointed by the new book by Joe Salerno and Patrick Newman—Murray N. Rothbard: The Making of an Economist. It is not an intellectual biography as the authors claim. Eighty-five percent of it is essentially a detailed book review of Man, Economy and State, published in 1962. There is no mention of any of Rothbard’s works after that date, which is why it is actually insulting to Rothbard’s legacy to call it an intellectual biography. It is Rothbard’s brilliant interdisciplinary writings in the subsequent thirty-three years (and beyond, since he has posthumous publications) that created what is known as Rothbardianism. [continue reading…]

Interesting Working Paper from PFS member Rahim Taghizadegan writing at scholarium.

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Professor Hoppe 77th birthday is today—Happy Birthday Hans!

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In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting some of them here in this Bookstream.

The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here.

The photographs from the Frontispiece and Photos section  (between pages 134 and 135) are posted below.

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Interesting interview of Stephanie Slade, author of the recent book Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right (University of Notre Dame Press, 2026), by James M. Patterson on the Law and Liberty Podcast, episode “Fusionism’s First Principles with Stephanie Slade” (Sept. 1, 2026).

Though she does buy into the simplistic and erroneous “liberty is libertarians’ highest value” canard when talking about, say, Ayn Rand:  [continue reading…]

[Cross-posted at hanshoppe.com]

Professor Hoppe’s article, “The Libertarian Quest for a Grand Historical Narrative,” Mises Wire (Nov. 5, 2018), also published as “The Libertarian Quest for a Grand Historical Narrative,” J. Libertarian Stud. 24 (2020) and in The Great Fiction, has been translated into German, by Andreas Tank, as “Das Libertäre Streben Nach Einer Grossen Historischen Erzählung.” The article is based on the transcript available here and at Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Libertarian Search for a Grand Historical Narrative (Part I) (PFS 2018), which is a transcript of PFP199 | Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Libertarian Search for a Grand Historical Narrative (Part I) (PFS 2018).

An audio narration is also available below, as is the text (docx; pdf).

In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting some of them here in this Bookstream.

The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry.

Related: Kinsella, Austrian Law and Economics

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A German translation of Douglas E. French, When Movements Become Rackets and Other Swindles: The PFS Trilogy, Stephan Kinsella, ed. (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press and Property and Freedom Society, 2025), is now available, as Wenn Bewegungen Zu Betrugsmodellen Und Anderem Schwindel Werden: Die Pfs-Trilogie, translated by Andreas Tank.

It is available in Paperback (Amazon.de); full text below (docx; pdf). [continue reading…]

[Cross-posted at StephanKinsella.com]

Thorsten Polleit, “Immanuel Kant and Libertarianism,” Libertarian Alliance (30 Aug. 2026)

Related

• Bruce Goldberg, “Ayn Rand’s ‘For the New Intellectual’” (1961)
• Hoppe: My Discovery of Human Action and of Mises as a Philosopher
• Rothbard, My Break With Branden and the Rand Cult (Liberty, September 1989)
• Ayn Rand to Mises: “You are treating me like a poor, ignorant little Jewish girl!”
• Kinsella, Mises and Rand (and Rothbard) (Feb. 4, 2005)
• Thorsten Polleit, “Thank you, Murray Rothbard, For Your Extreme ‘Defense of Extreme Apriorism,’” in Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, eds. (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026)
• Kinsella, “Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (May 27, 2011)
• Kinsella, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023): chapters: “A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights,” “Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights,” “Defending Argumentation Ethics,”  and “The Undeniable Morality of Capitalism“

Immanuel Kant and Libertarianism

A few interesting attempts, beginning with Jim Ostrowski on Facebook.

I posted this on Twitter; others chimed in: [continue reading…]

In 2009, the Mises Institute published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a project Guido Hülsmann and and Stephan Kinsella spearheaded to honor Hans Hoppe on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Only a few of the pieces were published independently; we are posting some of them here in this Bookstream.

The first entry was republished at Property, Freedom, and Society Bookstream: Introduction, Hülsmann and Kinsella. Links to the remaining chapters may be found at the book’s landing page here, which will be updated as the book is streamed here. Here’s the next entry.

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Related

• Kinsella, Knowledge vs. Calculation, Mises Economics Blog (July 11, 2006)
• Ammous, Murray Rothbard: An Ode to an Intellectual Hero
• Kinsella, “Mises, Rothbard, Hoppe: An Indispensable Framework”
• PFP341 | Stephan Kinsella, “Rothbard’s Greatest Hits: A Personal Mix Tape”—100 Years with Rothbard, Portugal
• Kinsella, Don’t tell me to read Hayek

No, it can’t. The problem of socialist calculation is the absence of property rights, as Mises explained, not knowledge, as Hayek put it. Without property rights, there is no possibility of calculating profit/loss with real opportunity costs for an actual owner who reaps the… https://t.co/YXsYKtrgMU

— Saifedean Ammous (@saifedean) August 29, 2026

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[Cross-posted at StephanKinsella.com]

Just as some critics of today’s version of “capitalism” equate it with what we libertarians or advocates of “true capitalism” would call crony capitalism—or, as Gene Epstein calls it, “crapitalism”¹ —some also criticize private property rights as a type of “theft”² because of “capitalist” versions of “private property rights” such as those stemming from the English Enclosure movement.

Yet as Hoppe has pointed out, there can be “partial” homesteading of land—homesteading of easements or rights-of-way, by usage—and this can be done by individuals or by groups who have been using the land—a path or street—and anyone who seeks to privatize the remainder of the land takes it subject to the pre-existing group-owned easement. After all, the key act that constitutes original appropriation is occupation (occupātiō) or use (( On occupation or homesteading, see The Universal Principles of Liberty, §3; IP is Not “Not Property”, at n.5; Homesteading, Abandonment, and Unowned Land in the Civil Law (Mises Blog, 2009); also KOL473 | The Universal Principles of Liberty, with Mark Maresca of The White Pillbox; A Critique of Mutualist Occupancy; Inability to Abandon Property in the Civil Law. ))—using, possessing, employing a previously unused and unowned resource, according to its nature,³ to serve as a causally efficacious means of action. Writes Hoppe: [continue reading…]

1. Gene Epstein, Austrian Perspective on the Great Recession and its Aftermath (Socratic Seminar) (16 de noviembre de 2011); Gene Epstein (part 01); Gene Epstein, “History Needn’t Repeat Itself,” Barron’s (Aug 17, 2009). [↩]
2. Kinsella, Libertarian Answer Man: Mises [and Proudhon] on “Property is Theft”; KOL374 | The Intellectual Contributions of Hans-Hermann Hoppe: The Great Fiction Podcast Ep. 1; Hoppe: A Précis. [↩]
3. Kinsella, “the very framing of the dispute helps to identify what the thing is in dispute”. [↩]