Originally published at The Rude Awakening.
The Rude Awakening (Sept. 25, 2026)
Do you have any idea what a foul mood it puts me in to agree with that neocon chickenhawk Bill Kristol first thing on a Monday morning?
The 2026 Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was recently concluded. Jeff Deist’s talk was “Rothbard and the Paleo Right.” This and other PFS 2026 speeches will be released on the PFS Youtube channel and on the Property and Freedom Podcast presently.
The text of Jeff’s paper is published today at Jeff Deist, “Rothbard and the Paleo Right,” Property and Freedom Journal (Sept. 27, 2026). [continue reading…]
A więc w ONZ było tak… 👇
Mamy po prostu absolutnie najlepsze państwo na świecie. Nikt nie ma lepiej. Dajemy energię całej planecie, serio, cała Ziemia chodzi na naszej energii.
Jesteśmy najmocniejsi na całej planecie, najsilniejsi w historii, i jakby nie było, jesteśmy też… pic.twitter.com/LYDBoZS39M— Rysiek 🇪🇺🇵🇱 (@Rysiek04071893) September 22, 2026
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. It was also republished at Mises Daily (1/26/2010) (Portuguese).
Related: Kinsella, The Great Mises-Hayek Dehomogenization/Economic Calculation Debate.
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. It was also republished in Mises Daily (10/21/2009).
A więc w ONZ było tak… 👇
Mamy po prostu absolutnie najlepsze państwo na świecie. Nikt nie ma lepiej. Dajemy energię całej planecie, serio, cała Ziemia chodzi na naszej energii.
Jesteśmy najmocniejsi na całej planecie, najsilniejsi w historii, i jakby nie było, jesteśmy też… pic.twitter.com/LYDBoZS39M— Rysiek 🇪🇺🇵🇱 (@Rysiek04071893) September 22, 2026
This is a Polish satirical paraphrase of Trump’s speech to the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2026. The clip compresses the most self-congratulatory stretches of the address into carnival-barker Polish.
In the actual speech, Trump told the hall America is “back” and “stronger today than ever before,” that its economy is “the envy of the world,” its military the most powerful on earth, and that “our energy is fueling the planet.” He claimed that since taking office he had “settled eight wars” (Cambodia–Thailand, Kosovo–Serbia, DRC–Rwanda, Pakistan–India, Armenia–Azerbaijan, Gaza, plus others depending on the list), that almost every one of those countries wrote him a thank-you letter, and that Pakistan’s prime minister credited him with saving 30 million lives. He also threatened to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” if Iran would not take a deal, attacked the UN and the ICC, rejected global taxes and climate/AI governance, and sold border enforcement and cartel strikes as restoration of sovereignty. [continue reading…]
Vigilante justice: Motorcycle thieves tied up in a small Mexican town (AI-generated). Image source: Editorial staff
My English translation below of David Dürr, „Bürgerlicher Anarchismus: Selbstjustiz“ in eigentümlich frei (print issue ef 263, Sep./Oct. 2026), from my regular column “Bürgerlicher Anarchismus.”
David Dürr
First published in eigentümlich frei, September/October 2026
Did you also read the recent reports from the Mexican city of Lagos de Moreno? The city apparently has a widespread problem with young people stealing motorcycles, usually under cover of darkness, riding them recklessly and then abandoning them somewhere. The bikes are found the following morning, often damaged. The police know about the problem but appear to have little appetite for tackling it. [continue reading…]
Blast from the past. See Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The In-Depth Interview-Jeff Deist, The Austrian (March-April 2020).
From Vol. 6, no. 2 (2020) of the Mises Institute publication The Austrian. Back when it has a great President and a great Distinguished Senior Fellow. “Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The In-Depth Interview,” by Jeff Deist. Also in The Great Fiction, 2d ed.
My book Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023) is now available in a Spanish translation as Fundamentos Legales de una Sociedad Libre. (Amazon.com kindle; paperback)
For further information, including the Spanish translations of Professor Hoppe’s Foreword and my Preface, and related material, see Spanish Translation of Legal Foundations of a Free Society, StephanKinsella.com. Other translations.
Here’s another reason to attend the Property and Freedom Society annual conference at The Karia Princess hotel in Bodrum, Turkey: Come and enjoy Liberty Libations and the best of Murray’s Mixology at the poolside Roth-Bar. [continue reading…]
Saifedean Ammous, “Ep. 344. Can Stablecoins Save the Dollar?“, The Bitcoin Standard Podcast (Sept. 23, 2026)
Shownotes:
Saifedean examines whether growing stablecoin demand can reduce price inflation & help US fiscal solvency. He focuses on often-overlooked trade-offs: lost seigniorage, displaced long-term Treasury demand & bank credit, & more fragile short-term funding & rollover risk.
- Marina Azzimonti and Vincenzo Quadrini — Digital Assets and the Exorbitant Dollar Privilege
- Marina Azzimonti and Vincenzo Quadrini — Digital Economy, Stablecoins, and the Global Financial System
- Stephen Miran — A Global Stablecoin Glut: Implications for Monetary Policy
- Rashad Ahmed and Iñaki Aldasoro — Stablecoins and Safe Asset Prices
- Congressional Budget Office — How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2026 to 2036
- Saifedean Ammous — Bitcoin & Tether: Drinking the Dollar Milkshake — Bitcoin 2025
- Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee — Report to the Secretary of the Treasury
See also Dr. Ammous’s recent PFS talk (video forthcoming), from the 2026 Twentieth Annual Meeting of the PFS: “The Gold Standard: An Alternative History of the Twentieth Century.” [continue reading…]
Originally published at The Rude Awakening.
The Rude Awakening (Sept. 23, 2026)
It takes only 32 minutes to get from the Pizza Hut on Camp Lemmonier in Djibouti City to China’s only overseas military base on the northeast side of town. A mere 10 miles separate 4,000 US personnel from the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
On a clear day, they can probably see each other’s flags without the spy tech.
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. It was also republished at Mises Daily (1/8/2010).
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. It was also republished at The Market Oracle and Mises Daily (11/12/2009).
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. It was also republished at The Liberty Archive. Portuguese translation.
The Final Program Schedule, including Speakers and Topics, for the PFS 2026 Annual Meeting is now available.
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. It was also republished as Robert Nef, “Against the Primacy of Politics—Against the Overestimation of the Majority Principle,” Mises Daily (4/26/2019).
The 2026 Twentieth Anniversary Annual Meeting of the PFS is about to commence. People from around the world are starting to descend upon Bodrum. I am about to head to Istanbul from Houston, with Jeff Barr and with PFS hats and teeshirts in tow.
With the help of Jeff Barr, and of course Doug French, I was able to recently acquire and upload Doug and Deanna French’s very special wedding video—the wedding was held in Bodrum, May 30, 2011, at PFS 2011.
For other PFS memories, see:
Some group photos from over the years…
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. It was also republished as Robert Higgs, “Democracy and Faits Accomplis,” Mises Daily (12/28/2009).
On September 4, 2026, Argentine President Javier Milei made the following statement:
“The Malvinas Islands are Argentine, by history and by right. There is no doubt about this. The islands have been part of Argentine territory since the founding of our nation. In 1833, the United Kingdom occupied the Malvinas, expelled the Argentine authorities, and established a colonial situation that persists to this day.
This implies that the islands’ inhabitants—being a population planted in a usurped territory—do not have a legitimate right to self-determination, and that any argument based on referendums held on the islands is invalid.”
Apparently, Milei uses the criterion of original appropriation of a previously unowned resource (homestead) to establish the legitimacy of land ownership. This legitimacy would be maintained only if the property were voluntarily ceded or exchanged, and lost if taken through coercion. Milei claims the Malvinas Islands fall into this latter category: they were legitimately appropriated by Argentines and coercively seized by the British—who renamed them the Falkland Islands—making their current possession of the archipelago illegitimate. If this is indeed what happened, Milei is right, and the Malvinas are Argentine. Let us examine the facts. [continue reading…]
From the Libertarian Alliance.
[S.] M. Carlson, America Hijacked: How Deep State Actors from LBJ to Obama Killed for Money and Power, and Why They Hate Trump So Much, Second Edition, 268 pages. Paperback ISBN 978-1-7336755-4-3; hardcover ISBN 978-1-7336755-3-6.
Who hijacked America?
[S.] M. Carlson’s answer is that no single party, president, or intelligence agency did it alone. The hijacking was carried out over decades by overlapping groups of officials, political families, military contractors, covert operators, propagandists, and wealthy fixers. They lied the country into wars, concealed one another’s crimes, protected useful criminals, and then invited Americans to argue about whether the Republicans or Democrats were to blame. Carlson’s America Hijacked is broadly right about that. It is also a useful introduction for readers who sense that the public history of the United States no longer accounts for the country in which they live. [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. It was also republished as Douglas E. French, “The Trouble With Democracy: Maslow Meets Hoppe,” Mises Daily (9/8/2008).
[Cross-posted at StephanKinsella.com]
Everyone is freaking out about the Lindsay Clancy trial and the hung jury.1 Clancy, who had been having serious mental problems, strangled and killed her three children—Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months—in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on January 24, 2023, and was on trial for first-degree murder. She did not dispute that she killed them. Her defense was lack of criminal responsibility, commonly called an insanity defense. The jury, consisting of 9 women (all white) and 3 men, two white and one black, heard about five weeks of trial and then deliberated for seven days—roughly 38 to 40 hours—and could not reach a verdict. According to later interviews with jurors in the majority, 11 jurors would have voted to acquit on the basis of insanity, while the black male juror, the only non-white member of the panel, would have voted guilty.2 A mistrial was declared on September 4, 2026. Because a hung jury is not an acquittal, prosecutors may retry the case.
The left basically defended Clancy, some on the grounds of postpartum psychosis, but some on ridiculous grounds—e.g., that she didn’t actually commit the murders, or that it was excused because of abuse by her husband or “the Patriarchy.” (She has admitted the killings; her own lawyer has rejected the online theories blaming her ex-husband. See NBC News.) The right, partly in response to these ridiculous left/feminist takes, started blaming women in general for siding with Clancy, saying this shows women should not have the right to vote, and so on. Many on the right and many libertarians celebrated the lone juror who refused to acquit even though, according to interviews with other jurors, he admitted that the prosecution had not proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. (The holdout himself has not spoken publicly; that account comes from other jurors.) [continue reading…]
Reginald Godwyn, “Three Cheers—Or Perhaps Two—for the Adam Smith Institute’s Freedom of Speech Bill,” Libertarian Alliance (12 September 2026).
Three Cheers—Or Perhaps Two—for the Adam Smith Institute’s Freedom of Speech Bill
12 September, 2026 • Reginald Godwyn
I have never found it easy to think well of the Adam Smith Institute. I attended various of its functions during the 1980s and 1990s, when I was younger and more patient, and when I was still under the delusion that invitations to gatherings described as “libertarian” might bring me into contact with libertarians. They seldom did. The other people present were invariably drawn from that familiar class of grifters and corporate shills who constitute so much of what is fraudulently called the conservative and libertarian movement. I once even saw Michael Howard at one of these functions. I took care not to meet him. [continue reading…]
Brilliant (copyright fair use) re-use of This Land Is Mine, a parody of “The Exodus Song,” by Nina Paley, the creator of the acclaimed Sita Sings the Blues animated film (2008). Acclaimed before she was canceled by the left for her “heterodorx” views on trans issues.
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. It was also republished as Frank van Dun, “Freedom and Property: Where They Conflict,” Mises Daily (10/29/2009). [continue reading…]
As noted here, the 2026 Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was recently held from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026. Information on the 2027 meeting will be released in early 2027.
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