Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, published digitally online on March 2, 2026, on Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday, will be presented in 10 days at 100 Years with Rothbard, Porto, Portugal, June 27, 2026. The deluxe cloth hardcover will be presented at that event; our host for the event, PFS member Manuel Ogando, has just received boxes of the first printing from the printer; photos below.
The book is available now for pre-order from The Saif House in hardcover and other formats. See:
Reginald Godwyn, “Trump and the Peace: America Has Found Its Churchill,” Libertarian Alliance (UK) (17 June, 2026)
I have been given a purported copy of the Memorandum of Understanding that the Americans will sign this week in Geneva to end their war with Iran. I cannot assure you that it is genuine: we must all wait until the Americans themselves release the document—not that they seem in any hurry to do so. However, what I have has the look of a document that has been carefully drafted and is intended to form part of an international agreement. Assuming it is genuine, you do not need my legal advice to assure you that America has suffered a notable and humiliating defeat. It began this war by murdering much of the Iranian Government while it was known to be discussing a false American offer. It continued with barbarous attacks on Iranian schools and general civilian infrastructure. When these failed to bring an Iranian collapse, it turned to threats of nuclear annihilation. For three months, the world was subjected to an endless barrage of ludicrous demands and boasting by men who seemed to regard an oil shock, attended by starvation in the Global South, as a collateral benefit. Now all else has failed, and the American armed forces have been shown as a bloodthirsty rabble equipped with weaponry more expensive than useful, and its leadership an Epstein Syndicate variously bribed or blackmailed into blundering aggression, the Americans are accepting Iranian regional dominance and preparing to hand over almost unlimited reparations for wanton damage to Iran. [continue reading…]
From Saifedean Ammous’s Bitcoin Standard Podcast, ep. 330:
Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Stephan Kinsella read the preface, introduction, and first chapter of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, published by The Saif House, July 2026. Preorder your copy now, and join us for the Rothbard At 100 conference in Porto on June 27. Details are on rothbard100.pt
See also: Rothbard at 100 Available to Pre-Order Now:
Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, published digitally online on March 2, will be presented later this month at 100 Years with Rothbard, Porto, Portugal, June 27, 2026. It is available now for pre-order from The Saif House in hardcover and other formats.
Alessandro Fusillo, “Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Justice: The Negation of Da Mihi Factum, Dabo Tibi Ius and the Danger of Confusing Fact with Prediction,” Property and Freedom Journal (June 16, 2026)
Editor’s note: This paper was presented at the event “Coercion, extortion under the guise of prevention” on June 13, 2026. Participants:
Abstract: This article examines the philosophical, legal, and theological implications of predictive-justice systems based on artificial intelligence. Starting from the Misesian axiom of human action and moving through the internal Austrian School debate among Hayek, Hülsmann, and Hoppe, it draws a parallel with the Roman-law principle da mihi factum, dabo tibi ius. The analysis integrates the Catholic conception of sin and retributive justice, the distributist critique of the servile state (Belloc, Chesterton), the historical precedent of English vagrancy laws, the historical parallel with Lombrosianism and algorithmic racial profiling, and the question of a criminal law of intentions, algorithmic opacity, and the risk of a technological thought police.
Murray Rothbard pinpointed them in 1961, referring to the “devastating consequences for the libertarian movement” and saying that “America never recovered from . . . the statist consequences” of Lincoln’s war. Namely, “the enormous toll of death,” “setting aside of the civilized ‘rules of war,'” waging of total war against the civilian population of the South, ending of federalism or “states’ rights,” ending of the right of secession and the voluntary union of states, creation of a national monetary monopoly, generations of protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare run amok, skyrocketing national debt, the “inauguration of despotic and dictatorial methods beyond the dreams of the so-called ‘despots of ’98,'” rampant militarism, suppression of civil liberties, military conscription, income taxation, a permanent standing army, and much worse. All of this is what Lincoln and the Republican party (to this day) called “a new birth of freedom.”
Doug French, “The Moniker Millionaire, Billionaire, and Trillionaire are just a Reflection of Inflation,” DouglasinVegas.com, 2023/6/14
Investors had their eyes to the skies last Friday riding Elon’s SpaceX rocket, making him the world’s first trillionaire. John D. Rockefeller was the first billionaire 110 years ago, and according to CoPilot Search the first millionaire was the world’s first Keynesian, long before Keynes’s birth, John Law whose “innovative financial schemes involved issuing paper money and trading shares, which allowed him to amass immense wealth, making him one of Europe’s first recognized millionaires,” in the early 18th century. Of course, he died broke after the Mississippi Bubble collapsed.
Both John Law and Elon Musk earned their fortunes under fiat money systems. Rockefeller earned his under a gold standard. [continue reading…]
Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, published digitally online on March 2, will be presented later this month at 100 Years with Rothbard, Porto, Portugal, June 27, 2026. It is available now for pre-order from The Saif House in hardcover and other formats.
Edited by two of the most important contemporary scholars in the Austrian tradition: Hans-Hermann Hoppe and @NSKinsella . Their introduction and preface are already free to read here: https://t.co/y1UjzkEgCo pic.twitter.com/mmIgRFrX0Y
— Saifedean Ammous (@saifedean) June 15, 2026
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 330.
AI-assisted audio narration of the main chapters of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026) is available at this PFS Youtube Playlist; the mp3 files may also be downloaded in this zip file.
The first two chapters—my “Preface” and Hans’s “Introduction”—were published the week of Rothbard’s birthday here on the Property and Freedom Podcast (PFP315 and PFP314). The other main chapters will be released sequentially weekly on Mondays. The next in the queue:
15. Alessandro Fusillo, “Rothbard, Philosopher of Law”
Note: These audio versions were prepared by Jorge Besada. As noted in Rothbard at 100 Available to Pre-Order Now, Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment will be presented later this month at 100 Years with Rothbard, Porto, Portugal, June 27, 2026 and is available now for pre-order from The Saif House in hardcover and in professionally-produced audio formats.
[Cross-posted at StephanKinsella.com]
This video, based on Christopher Ingraham, “Victory! Illinois Village Agrees to Let Laura’s Garden Grow After IJ Letter,” Institute for Justice Press Release (, covers a recent “right to garden” case in Illinois involving a homeowner, Laura Schaefer, and the Village of Millstadt, Illinois (apparently a local government, as it has a mayor).
Schaefer, a gardener and botany instructor with decades of experience, and her husband bought a village block that included a house and several vacant lots. Over five years, she transformed the half-acre property into a well-maintained oasis of native plants, pollinator plants, heirloom vegetables, and edible plants, with mowed paths and detailed documentation. In May, the village issued her a citation for violating a local ordinance against “high grass and weeds” (specifically prohibiting vegetation over one foot tall). A village official threatened that if she didn’t tear out the garden within 7 days, village workers would destroy it and bill her $40 per hour. [continue reading…]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 492.
This is my interview by Matthew Geiger of the Carl Menger Institute for Menger Institute Podcast #6 (recorded June 11, 2026). Shownotes and transcript below. [continue reading…]
Tom, re “LewRockwell.com Publishes a Communistic Screed about “The Need to End Capitalism” and your comment: “I have no idea who is editing LewRockwell.com these days.” Case in point, despite the obvious bad blood between Rockwell/Mises and Jeffrey Tucker, for some reason on Wednesday this week LRC ran a Tucker article. It is apparent the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing and Rockwell is not running LRC. I suppose the left hand did not realize Tucker’s LRC archives had been disappeared and memory-holed Orwell-style after he was ousted from MI in November 2011.1 [Update: Tucker’s articles apparently are still there, but the link on the Columnists page has been removed to make them harder to find.]
The Mises Institute is also planning a Festschrift for Rockwell. See this email from Ryan McMaken from about a month ago: [continue reading…]
By socialist author Caitlin Johnstone. She claims capitalism is “destroying the biosphere” along with “driving us into doom.” “Capitalism has no ability to solve problems,” she ignorantly intones. “We need new systems,” namely “collaboration based systems where human behavior isn’t driven by the pursuit of profit.” You know, like communism for example.
I have no idea who is editing LewRockwell.com these days.
Speaking of the egalitarian left (Classic Hoppe on the Realistic Right vs. the Egalitarian Left):
Where The West Went Horribly Wrong – David Butterfield. I had never heard of this guy—formerly of Cambridge, left to join Ralston—but from these clips, he seems pretty impressive classics and Latin expert.
Interview of Guido Hülsmann by Matthew Geiger of the Carl Menger Institute
Related:
From Guate Libre Mises: “Panini” stickers for Rothbardians (e.g. Rothbard, Mises, etc.).
I never heard of this before, I don’t follow soccer, but according to Grok:
A Panini sticker is a small, collectible adhesive picture (usually about the size of a trading card) featuring soccer players, teams, crests, stadiums, and other World Cup-related images. You peel off the backing and stick them into a dedicated album to “complete” the collection.
It’s like baseball cards or Pokémon cards, but specifically stickers designed to fill pages in a big book. The quote you shared captures it perfectly—it’s a global tradition run by the Italian company Panini that’s been going strong since the 1970 World Cup.
See: Panini sites for the FIFA World Cup 2026 Sticker Collection: Panini America; Main sticker collection page; International Panini Store; MyPanini; FIFA Panini Collection.
Doug French, “Fertility Down, Social Security in Trouble,” DouglasinVegas.com, 2023/6/10
Bad news for everyone depending on Uncle Sam’s Ponzi scheme was released the other day, “Social Security is expected to deplete the fund that helps pay out retirement benefits by late 2032,” reported The Wall Street Journal. That would be just six years away. Last year the projected depletion date was 2033, so who knows maybe next year expected depletion date will be 2031.
Trump’s tax law gave senior citizens an extra deduction that reduced taxes on benefits for many Social Security recipients. Those still working don’t qualify. [continue reading…]
[Cross-posted at C4SIF.org]
Congrats, pro-IP libertarians. This is the kind of fascist bullshit you support. https://t.co/Om2WrqIbRI
— Stephan Kinsella (@NSKinsella) June 11, 2026
“Since Lockdowns, a 12% GDP Loss; Half of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen,” Brownstone Journal (June 2, 2026)
Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 – including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization – was in fact far greater than official statistics indicate.
What follows will shore up this intuition, using new techniques and numbers from an innovative project called RealityIndex.co.
It’s true that official data is bad enough, showing a 26% loss in purchasing power, slow growth in output, and only marginal improvements in real income. The labor participation rate and worker/population ratio never fully recovered and continue to fall.
Adam Haman, “The Karmelo Anthony / Austin Metcalf Tragedy: A Pointless Murder, Professional Agitators, and the Left’s Racial Poison,” Haman Nature (Jun 10, 2026)
Hi folks. Yesterday was momentous in a horrible kind of way.
The long-awaited Anthony/Metcalf murder trial has finally come and gone — much like poor Austin Metcalf’s tragically truncated existence on this earth.
Another young life snuffed out over nothing. Another courtroom spectacle turned into a racial circus. The verdict is in, the sentence handed down, and yet I think the real story keeps getting buried and twisted under layers of grievance theater.
Yesterday (June 9, 2026) a Collin County, Texas jury convicted 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony (17 at the time of the incident) of first-degree murder for the April 2, 2025, stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco ISD track meet. [continue reading…]
Fascinating piece by Mr. Wang: Sebastian Wang, “Distributivism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good,” Libertarian Alliance (UK) (10 June, 2026).
Sebastian Wang
Libertarian Alliance (UK), 10 June, 2026
Distributivism is one of those doctrines that is usually dismissed before it is understood. To the modern liberal, it sounds like nostalgia for a vanished world of small farms, local tradesmen, village workshops, and parish life. To the socialist, it appears too timid, because it does not abolish private property. To the more doctrinaire libertarian, it can look too moralising, too Catholic, and too willing to talk about the common good. Yet these dismissals tell us more about the limits of modern political imagination than about distributivism itself. The real question raised by distributivism is not whether we can return to a world of blacksmiths and thatched cottages. We cannot. The question is whether a society can remain free, humane, and morally serious when productive property is concentrated either in the hands of the state or in the hands of a comparatively small class of corporate owners. [continue reading…]
One of my favorite Hoppe pieces: “A Realistic Libertarianism,” LewRockwell.com (Sept. 30, 2013). I have never agreed that libertarians are left or right, that we are “orthogonal,” yet I have always sensed a closer affinity between conservativism and libertarianism than between modern American leftist/liberal/progressives and libertarianism.
Of course, all non-libertarians are in a sense statist and socialist (see quotes below). And as I noted in “What Libertarianism Is,” Hoppe, in his treatise A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (chapters 3–6), provides a systematic analysis of various forms of socialism: Socialism Russian-Style, Socialism Social-Democratic Style, the Socialism of Conservatism, and the Socialism of Social Engineering. In fact, recognizing the common elements of various forms of socialism and their distinction from libertarianism (capitalism), Hoppe incisively defines socialism as “an institutionalized interference with or aggression against private property and private property claims.” Ibid., p. 2 (emphasis added).1
But this does not mean that libertarianism is equidistant, so to speak, between left and right. In the past, I have described the modern American left and right this way: “liberals” are soft socialists. Conservatives are an incoherent hodgepodge of three mostly unrelated groups: moral majority/cultural conservatives, neocon warmongers/muscular Americanism, and free enterprise “Chamber of Commerce” types–the best of the bunch. In the era of Trump this may have shifted a bit but the point is the left seemed somewhat coherent but evil, socialism-lite; the right was an incoherent agglomeration of different factions, with some loose admiration of traditional and classical values, respect for free markets and capitalism, wariness of big government and respect for the Founders and the Constitution and its supposed limits on state power.2 [continue reading…]
Joel Salatin, “Subsidies Warp Technology Markets and Rob Society of Better Solutions,” The Epoch Times (6/5/2026)
Cows graze in the area where a proposed data center will be built in Utah on May 15, 2026. Natalie Behring/Getty Images
AI data centers. The very phrase makes some folks shudder and others leap for joy. As these mega-developments proceed, more and more people are growing concerned about their energy and water requirements. [continue reading…]
[Cross-posted at HansHoppe.com]
Translation of René Scheu and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Hans-Hermann Hoppe im Gespräch” [Hans-Hermann Hoppe in conversation], Schweizer Monat Issue 982 (Dec. 13, 2010) (pdf), a German-language interview on the topic of democracy and private law society, with the Swiss monthly Schweizer Monatshefte (Dec. 2010).
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is one of the most controversial libertarian intellectuals of the present day. He offers in his books a radical critique of democracy. It is for him that form of state in which a majority skillfully helps itself at the expense of a minority. René Scheu met Hans-Hermann Hoppe in Zurich and Lech am Arlberg. After the preliminary talks, the exchange of ideas took place in a classic-binding manner via e-mail.
by René Scheu and Hans-Hermann Hoppe
12/13/2010
Mr. Hoppe, with friends in Brazil I recently led an intensive discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of direct-democratic models. When I explained to them the political system of Switzerland, in which the people have the last word, their spontaneous answer was: “That is indeed the purest communism!” We see that differently in Switzerland and are proud of our direct-democratic tradition, for which many Europeans envy us. How do you see that?
Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Yes, of course democracy, whether direct or indirect, is a form of communism. A majority decides about what belongs to me and what belongs to you and what I and you are allowed to do or not. That has nothing to do with private property, but very much with the relativization of property, thus with common property, thus with communism. [continue reading…]
Marian Halcombe, “Henry Nowak and the Selective Morality of the Left,” Libertarian Alliance (UK) (7 June, 2026)
The death of Henry Nowak was a terrible crime. A young man was stabbed to death. The police response appears to have been grossly inadequate. His killer, Vickrum Digwa, was arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Nothing that follows should obscure these facts. Nor should anything that follows diminish the grief of Henry Nowak’s family, whose dignity in bereavement has been evident throughout.
At the same time, there are events that refuse to remain private. They illuminate wider truths about the society in which they occur. They reveal assumptions and habits of thought that extend far beyond the immediate circumstances. The reaction to Henry Nowak’s death has become one of those events.
Particularly revealing has been the response of the left-wing blogging collective Sodium Haze. Their statement deserves careful attention, not because it is especially unusual, but because it is representative. It expresses with unusual clarity a habit of thought that has become hegemonic throughout much of the contemporary left. [continue reading…]
“The Data Center Bubble“. Originally posted at DouglasinVegas.com, 2023/6/3
It’s AI this and AI that on Wall Street everyday. “AI-related equities constitute no less than 40% of current equity market cap,” reports the latest Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, citing Bank of America strategists. This year’s bubble in stocks means the Austrian Business Cycle Theory will be ignored again until it all comes tumbling down. This all starts with the highest order good, land. Bisnow.com tells us,
Nationally, sales of land earmarked for future data center development totaled roughly $3.3B in the first three months of 2026, up 141% from the same period in 2025, according to data provided to Bisnow by Avison Young. Roughly 30% of all spending on development sites in the first quarter went to data center land deals, up from about 19% in 2025.
Nationwide, the public has had it with data center development, making it hard to find large available tracts that can be zoned for data centers. Local politicians listen to the neighbors who vote and the entrepreneurial process is squelched by the Not-in-my-backyard gang. But, as CRG Chief Operating Officer Steve Schnur told Bisnow, “If you’re in a state that is a business-friendly state and you have access to power and you have a large piece of land, oh, my gosh, you’re sitting on a gold mine.” [continue reading…]
Reginald Godwyn, “The Real Defeat of America,” Libertarian Alliance (UK) (8 June 2026)
The military defeat of the United States in the Iran War is only the beginning. Military defeats matter, of course. They destroy reputations. They expose incompetence. They reveal weaknesses that enemies had previously suspected but could not prove. Yet military defeats are often survivable. Great powers have lost wars before. Britain survived the American Revolution. Russia survived the Crimean War. France survived the humiliations of 1815 and 1870. The danger for the United States is that this defeat strikes at the foundations of the system that has sustained American predominance for half a century.
For thirty years, American politicians, generals, intelligence officials, journalists, and academic experts have repeated the same claim. The United States was not merely the strongest country in the world. It was the indispensable nation. It possessed an unmatched military. It controlled the world’s financial system. It maintained alliances on every continent. It could intervene almost anywhere and dictate outcomes. The Iran War has exposed this as fantasy. [continue reading…]
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