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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 313.
This bonus presentation is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Thomas Jacob (Switzerland): Oboxplanet Presentation.
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 312.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Alessandro Fusillo (Italy), Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Sean Gabb (England), Thomas J. DiLorenzo (USA), Open Discussion, Q&A
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
Douglas E. French, The Failure of Common Knowledge (Baltimore, Maryland: Laissez Faire Books, 2013; epub), a collection of selected columns published while Doug was at LFB, is no longer available online except as a B&N eBook. It was published via a CC-BY license, and Doug has made it available here, until and if he decides to make it available in print.
Note: the copyright notice, “Copyright © 2013 by Laissez Faire Books,” is incorrect. Copyright was and is held by the author, Douglas E. French, and he hereby releases this edition under a CC-BY license.
Douglas E. French, Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth, 2d ed. (Baltimore, Maryland: Laissez Faire Books, 2012; pdf; epub) is an update of Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2010), with a new Foreword by Lee I. Iglody and a new chapter by Doug, “Death by Foreclosure and Battered-Homeowner Syndrome.” Because LFB went under and the volume is no longer available (except for an eBook version on Barnes & Noble), we provide the files here, with Doug and Lee’s permission; an Amazon version, or new edition, will be available when the stars align.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 311.
This roundtable is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Moderator of Speaker Roundtable Discussion: Of Frauds, Fakes, Crooks, Creeps and Clowns: with Alessandro Fusillo (Italy), Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Sean Gabb (England), Thomas J. DiLorenzo (USA).
A Brazilian Portuguese translation of A Life in Liberty: Liber Amicorum in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, edited by Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Stephan Kinsella (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2024) has been published as Uma vida dedicada à liberdade: Liber Amicorum em homenagem a Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Tradução: Fernando Fiori Chiocca (Instituto Rothbard, 2026).
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 310.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
Thomas J. DiLorenzo (USA): “Virtuous” War Crimes: The American and Israeli Traditions [Sebastian Wang, “Tom DiLorenzo on “Virtuous” War Crimes – The American and Israeli Traditions (PFS Bodrum 2025),” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 21, 2025)]
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 309.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan): Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict [Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Substack (Nov. 10, 2025)]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 308.
This panel discussion is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria/Switzerland), Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), Jeff Deist (USA), Kristoffer Mousten Hansen (Denmark/Germany), Thorsten Polleit (Germany), Discussion, Q&A
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 307.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): Democratic Peace and Re-Education: The German Experience [based on: On War, Democratic Peace, and Reeducation: The “German Experience” in Reactionary Perspective“; see Sebastian Wang, “Hans-Hermann Hoppe on Democratic Peace and Re-Education – PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)]
PFS 2026, the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, hosted by Drs. Gülçin & Hans Hoppe, will be held from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026. As the inaugural meeting was held in 2006 and the 2020 meeting was canceled due to covid restrictions, this will be the twentieth annual meeting of the PFS held over the past twenty years.
Past events have been held in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess. Because of some uncertainties in Turkey regarding new regulations on hotels, we are hopeful to hold the event again at the Karia; we will confirm the exact situs presently.
PFS Members/returning guests, or those interested in obtaining an invitation for this upcoming annual meeting of our exclusive annual salon, should write to the PFS secretary Mr. Thomas Jacob ([email protected]) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements. [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 306.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist.
Kristoffer Mousten Hansen (Denmark/Germany): Mileinomics [Sebastian Wang, “Javier Milei and the Austrian School – A Critique from Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 21, 2025); Kristoffer Mousten Hansen, “Javier Milei and the Austrian School,” Instituto Rothbard (Sep. 26, 2025); idem, “Javier Milei and the Austrian School,” Mises Portugal (Sep. 29, 2025)]
The PFS will publish a collection of tributes to and commentary on Rothbard, on the occasion of his 100th birthday on March 2, 2026, from several longtime PFS members, including many who knew him personally.
The commentary will be published on the PFS website on March 2, and later this year as a small book, Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, eds. (forthcoming 2026). Further details here.
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. [continue reading…]
On Thursday, January 8, Professor Jörg Guido Hülsmann delivered a lecture at the Grémio Literário, in Lisbon, on his latest book, Abundance, Generosity and the State: An Inquiry into the Economic Principles, marking the publication of its European Portuguese translation by Manuel Ogando. The book is available for purchase through Cataláxia Editora, or as a free download here. [continue reading…]
From HansHoppe.com:
“Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, an Anti-Intellectual Intellectual” (pdf), English translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Potret Intelektual Anti-Intelektual (local version), interview (in Indonesian) by Sukasah Syahdan in Akal dan Kehendak (“Reason and Will,” an online weekly Journal on Liberty, Indonesia), Apr. 28, 2008. The English translation is below.
For other biographical material, see Hoppe Biography.
Sukasah Syahdan*
As is sometimes the case even today, Hans-Hermann Hoppe as a young man was also a left-winger. Yet a reading of Böhm-Bawerk’s critiques of Marxism quickly planted a first seed of disbelief in the system, making him aware of the illusion overwhelming the Zeitgeist. For some time, he became a mild Popperian and social democrat. This precursored his determination to examine further the economic science and sociology.
By this time young Hoppe seemed to have arrived at a crucial conclusion: on the existence of sciences whose theorems are ‘empirically’ irrefutable or non-falsifiable, even in social realms. His exploration led him to believe that economic laws are a priori, traceable by use of deductive syllogism. However, it was his exposure to the thoughts of Ludwig von Mises, the eminent scholar of the tradition that later bears his very name, that he came to understand his place amidst the sometimes hostile competing thoughts. He learned that he, a native German, was in fact an “Austrian.”
As noted here, the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society will be held from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
PFS Members or others interested in attending should contact Mr. Thomas Jacob ([email protected]) (Administrative Secretary/ Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.
Speakers and topics for previous Annual Meetings may be found here.
PFS Members/Attendees may sign up to the PFS-Announce Google Group or email Stephan Kinsella ([email protected]).
To donate with BITCOIN please use the address below. If you would like us to credit your payment (for dues, conference fees, etc.) please email Stephan Kinsella ([email protected]) when you make the bitcoin payment.
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“Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.” — Frédéric Bastiat
“Because the concept of property, for instance, is so basic that everyone seems to have some immediate understanding of it, most people never think about it carefully and can, as a consequence, produce at best a very vague definition. But starting from imprecisely stated or assumed definitions and building a complex network of thought upon them can lead only to intellectual disaster. For the original imprecisions and loopholes will then pervade and distort everything derived from them. To avoid this, the concept of property must first be clarified.” —Hans-Hermann Hoppe, TSC, ch. 2
The Property and Freedom Society (PFS; Facebook) stands for an uncompromising intellectual radicalism: for justly acquired private property, freedom of contract, freedom of association—which logically implies the right to not associate with, or to discriminate against—anyone in one's personal and business relations—and unconditional free trade. It condemns imperialism and militarism and their fomenters, and champions peace. It rejects positivism, relativism, and egalitarianism in any form, whether of "outcome" or "opportunity," and it has an outspoken distaste for politics and politicians. As such it seeks to avoid any association with the policies and proponents of interventionism, which Ludwig von Mises identified in 1946 as the fatal flaw in the plan of the many earlier and contemporary attempts by intellectuals alarmed by the rising tide of socialism and totalitarianism to found an anti-socialist ideological movement. Mises wrote: "What these frightened intellectuals did not comprehend was that all those measures of government interference with business which they advocated are abortive. ... There is no middle way. Either the consumers are supreme or the government."
(A more complete statement of our Principles can be found here.)
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