Stephan Kinsella, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023) is now available in a Chinese translation as 自由社会的法律根基 (Feb. 2025) (pdf) (previous draft mentioned here).
The book was translated by Li San (李三) of the Mises Translation and Compilation Society (米塞斯编译社译丛), a group dedicated to translating and editing the classic works of the Austrian School.
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 289.
This panel discussion is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Ammous, Polleit, Hoppe, Kinsella, Hülsmann, Discussion, Q&A.
See also Ammous, Polleit, Hoppe, Kinsella, Hülsmann, Discussion, Q&A.
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 288.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): “About Natural Order and its Destruction”.
See also “About Natural Order and its Destruction”
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 287.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Thorsten Polleit (Germany): “Immanuel Kant’s ‘Enlightenment’—One of the Sharpest Weapons for the Libertarian Fight”.
See also “Immanuel Kant’s ‘Enlightenment’—One of the Sharpest Weapons for the Libertarian Fight”.
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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Conceived in LibertyMurray N. Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty, single-volume ed. (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2011) (pdf; epub).
Click here for Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791
There’s never been a better time to remember the revolutionary and even libertarian roots of the American founding, and there’s no better guide to what this means in the narrative of the Colonial period than Murray Rothbard.
For anyone who thinks of Murray Rothbard as only an economic theorist or political thinker, this giant book is something of a surprise. It is probably his least known treatise. It offers a complete history of the Colonial period of American history, a period lost to students today, who are led to believe American history begins with the US Constitution.
Rothbard’s ambition was to shed new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the culminating event of the American Revolution. These volumes are a tour de force, enough to establish Rothbard as one of the great American historians.
It is a detailed narrative history of the struggle between liberty and power, as we might expect, but it is more. Rothbard offers a third alternative to the conventional interpretive devices. Against those on the right who see the American Revolution as a “conservative” event, and those on the left who want to invoke it as some sort of proto-socialist uprising, Rothbard views this period as a time of accelerating libertarian radicalism. Through this prism, Rothbard illuminates events as never before.
The original four volumes were published in the 1970s, but the odd timing and uneven distribution prevented any kind of large audience. They were beloved only by a few specialists, and sought after by many, thanks to their outstanding reputation. The Mises Institute is pleased to be the publisher of this integrated edition.
This single volume covers the discovery of the Americas and the colonies in the 17th century, the period of “salutary neglect” in the first half of the 18th century, the advance to revolution, from 1760-1775 and the political, military, and ideological history of the revolution and after.
The Irrepressible RothbardMurray N. Rothbard, The Irrepressible Rothbard: The Rothbard-Rockwell Report Essays of Murray N. Rothbard (Center for Libertarian Studies, 2000; pdf; epub).
Summing up the work of libertarian economist and historian Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) and noting its stunning range, philosopher David Gordon once wondered “if there are really three, four, or five geniuses writing under his name.” The lively essays collected in The Irrepressible Rothbard display one of those geniuses: Rothbard the journalist, cultural critic, political observer, and movement organizer. Even more remarkable, they represent just a fraction of what he wrote in his spare time, for just one publication, and in just the last few years of his life.
His articles combined libertarian antigovernment economics, decentralist local patriotism, antiwar isolation, and a dissident/reactionary cultural outlook that saw the growth of government as the key to the loss of the Old Republic. He defended land-rights groups against environmentalists, citizen militias against gun grabbers, isolationists against imperialists, paleoconservatives against neoconservatives, populists against party regulars, anti–New World Order conspiracy theorists against the establishment, nationalists against internationalist planners, states’ righters against libertarian centralists, the Christian Right against its own leadership, and much more.
These essays show not only Rothbard’s intellectual vigor but the complete joy with which he embraced life, and how his extreme optimism made even the most severe setbacks tolerable. He experienced great disappointments and great successes, but through it all he was heroic, undaunted, and irrepressible.
This volume displays Murray Rothbard’s late political writing as an intellectual model for those who long for liberty, and work for it in our times. This volume’s eighty-five essays address political strategy, war, nationalism, culture, feminism, and much more.
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 286.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): “Coercive Democracy: A Critique”.
See also Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): “Coercive Democracy: A Critique”.
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 285.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Stephan Kinsella (USA): “Abortion: A Radically Decentralist Approach”
Also podcast as KOL443 | Abortion: A Radically Decentralist Approach (PFS 2024), with additional commentary.
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
Panel discussion:
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 284.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan): “Can the Real Interest Rate Fall to Zero? What would that Imply?”
See also Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan): “Can the Real Interest Rate Fall to Zero? What would that Imply?”
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 283.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Müller, Dürr, Deist, Gabb, Hoppe, Discussion, Q&A
See also Müller, Dürr, Deist, Gabb, Hoppe, Discussion, Q&A
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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PFS 2025, the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, hosted by Drs. Gülçin & Hans Hoppe, was held in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess from Thursday, September 18, 2025 to Tuesday, September 23, 2025. This was the nineteenth annual meeting of the PFS held over a nineteen year period, starting in 2006 (the 2020 meeting was canceled due to covid restrictions).
Those interested in obtaining an invitation to future meetings of our exclusive annual salon should write to the PFS secretary Mr. Thomas Jacob ([email protected]) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements. For information about previous annual meetings, see here, the PFS Youtube channel and the Property and Freedom Podcast.
The list of speakers and topics for the 2025 Annual Meeting follows. The presentations and panels below may be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist and will be released in forthcoming weeks on the Property and Freedom Podcast.
A video from the Gala and group photo. Other pictures are below.
arrivals and registration
Dinner (pool area)
Book Presentation (Doug French, When Movements Become Rackets) (pool area) [Sebastian Wang, “Douglas E. French’s When Movements Become Rackets: Review of the PFS Trilogy,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 22, 2025)]
Reception and Dinner at the Hotel
Dinner at the Hotel
Gala Dinner at the Hotel
Gulet Boat Excursion. Swimming. Lunch on the Boat (Walk to the Marina)
Dinner at the Hotel
Sebastian Wang, Freedom Under the Sun: Proceedings of the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, 2025, edited and with an introduction by Sean Gabb (Hampden Press and Property and Freedom Society, 2025)Additional photos below. Others from PFS 2025 available at:
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The Property and Freedom Society (Facebook; Twitter) was established in May, 2006 at the initiative of world-renowned libertarian philosopher and Austrian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe. The Inaugural Meeting and subsequent annual meetings have been held at the Hotel Karia Princess in Bodrum, Turkey. Programmes and video of previous presentations are available here.
The PFS is an international society for the promotion of “Austro-Libertarianism,” the economic and social philosophy most prominently represented during the 20th century by the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and his leading American student Murray N. Rothbard, and tying back to the 19th century French economists Frederic Bastiat and Gustave de Molinari.
As such, the PFS 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. In the words of Professor Hoppe in 2010, at the Fifth Annual Meeting:
After the first meeting, 5 years ago, here at the Karia Princess, my plan became more specific still. Inspired by the charm of the place and its beautiful garden, I decided to adopt the model of a salon for the Property And Freedom Society and its meetings. The dictionary defines a salon as “a gathering of intellectual, social, political, and cultural elites under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation.” Take the “political” out of this definition—and there you have it what I have tried to accomplish for the last few years, together with Gülcin, my wife and fellow Misesian, without whose support none of this would be possible: to be hostess and host to a grand and extended annual salon, and to make it, with your help, the most attractive and illustrious salon there is. [Video here and streamed below]
For further information, see:
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For further information about the PFS and its previous meetings, see the Press & Offsite Material page, and various articles such as:
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 282.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Jeff Deist (USA): “A New Approach to Hoppe’s ‘Open Border Critics'”
See also A New Approach to Hoppe’s ‘Open Border Critics’
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 281.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Alan Bickley (England): “What is Happening in Britain?”
See also What is Happening in Britain?
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 280.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Special: Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Javier Milei” (PFS 2024). This is an excerpt of Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe‘s remarks on Javier Milei, excerpted from the panel discussion “Dürr, Müller, Fusillo, Bagus, Hoppe, Roundtable: What to Make of Milei” (PFP279).
See also Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Javier Milei” (PFS 2024); “Who is Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the former inspiration of Javier Milei whom he has now called a ‘libertacrazy liberal,’” La Nacion [Argentina] (12 Dec. 2024).
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 279.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Dürr, Müller, Fusillo, Bagus, Hoppe, Roundtable: What to Make of Milei.
See also Roundtable: What to Make of Milei; “Who is Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the former inspiration of Javier Milei whom he has now called a ‘libertacrazy liberal,’” La Nacion [Argentina] (12 Dec. 2024).
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 278.
This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).
Antony Müller (Germany/Brazil): “Milei after Nine Months: A Critical Update”
See also “Milei after Nine Months: A Critical Update” and Antony P. Mueller, “Nine Months of Javier Milei as President of Argentina: A Critical Assessment,” Mises Wire (Oct. 29, 2024).
Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.
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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, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
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]).
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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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