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); Saifedean Ammous, “Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,” Property and Freedom Journal (May 7, 2026)]
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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.
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] or [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.
Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, an Anti-Intellectual Intellectual
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.”
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 305.
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.
Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria/Switzerland): Bitcoin from the Viewpoint of the Austrian School.
Note: For those who complain that some Austrian groups do not give enough attention to, are or even hostile to, bitcoin (see Robert P. Murphy, Bitcoin and the Theory of Money, Mises Wire (04/29/2020); Kinsella, KOL401 | Sazmining Twitter Space: Bitcoin & Property Rights; Bitcoin Confiscation vs. Gold Confiscation; On Coinbase, Bitcoin, Fractional-Reserve Banking, and Irregular Deposits; LIBERTARIAN ANSWER MAN: Smart Contracts), keep in mind that for many years PFS has accepted donations by Bitcoin; we have featured Saifedean Ammous many times, often touching on bitcoin [PFP222 | Saifedean Ammous: Hard Money and Time Preference (PFS 2021)]; years ago Roman Skaskiw was here and gave an informal lecture and handed out cards with $5 worth of bitcoin, as I recall, to attendees (which would be worth $4200 or so today, June 28, 2025; see PFS 2013 Annual Meeting—Speakers and Presentations); Professor Hoppe has never spoken out against it, unlike other Austrians (in fact, see his comments at PFP251 | Van Dun, Hoppe, Dürr, Discussion, Q&A (PFS 2022) and Hoppe on Germany, East and West, Russia/Ukraine, and US-NATO (PFS 2022)]; I spoke on it [KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019)]; Šimašius’s comments in [Interview] Libertarian Mayor of Vilnius Speaks!; and so on.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 304.
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.
Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): The Universities and the State [Sebastian Wang, “Guido Hülsmann on Universities and the State – PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)]
Professor Hoppe’s email address may be found at his Contact page. It is now [email protected].
Please note that hoppe @ mises.com should no longer be used.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 303.
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.
Jeff Deist (USA): Understanding Post-Persuasion America [Sebastian Wang, “Jeff Deist on Post-Persuasion America – PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)]
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Stephan Kinsella (USA), and Alessandro Fusillo (Italy) were guests and speakers at the Liberland Christmas Party and Constitution Celebration held in Prague at the elegant Le Palais Art Hotel in Prague on 19 Dec. 2025. Invited by long-time PFS member and Liberland President and Founder Vít Jedlička, the gathering featured speeches, presentations, a press conference, and various awards, presentations, and announcements. President Jedlička awarded the Liberland Award of Merit to Professor Hoppe and Mr. Kinsella, and citizenship and passports to Mr. Kinsella and Mr. Fusillo. Photographs from the event may be be found at Prague 2025: Liberland Constitution Celebration: Photos; also Vit’s post at Facebook, my facebook post, and online at google drive (full set) and here (Kinsella set). [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 302.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Thorsten Polleit (Germany): Stanislav Andreski’s Social Sciences as Sorcery (1972): Known Errors, Deceptions and Intellectual Corruption That Endure [Polleit, “Stanislav Andreski’s Social Sciences as Sorcery: Enduring Errors and Academic Corruption – Thorsten Polleit, PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)]
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 301.
This panel discussion is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Alessandro Fusillo (Italy), Anthony Daniels (Dalrymple) (England), David Dürr (Switzerland), Sean Gabb (England), Stephan Kinsella (USA), Discussion, Q&A. Shownotes and transcript below.
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist. [continue reading…]
Related:
- Democracy: The God That Failed (Transaction, 2001)
- From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy (Mises 2014)
- The Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy, and the Idea of a Natural Order (Vol. 11 Num. 2) (excerpted as “Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy,” Mises Daily (Feb. 1, 2010)
- Time Preference, Government, and the Process of De-Civilization – From Monarchy to Democracy, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Vol.5, 2, 1994; also published in John Denson, ed., The Costs of War (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1997) and as ch. 1 of Democracy: God that Failed
- The Trouble With Democracy, Nov. 12, 2001
- Prince Hans-Adam, The State in the Third Millennium (I.B. Tauris 2009)
- Kinsella, Hoppe Is Not A Monarchist
Romaric Godin, “Liechtenstein’s Feudal Prince Has Become a Libertarian Hero,” Jacobin (12.02.2025). Mentions Hoppe as well. Excerpt: [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 300.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
David Dürr (Switzerland): A Brief History of Swiss Anarchism [Sebastian Wang, “David Dürr on Swiss Anarchism – Property and Freedom Society Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 21, 2025)] Shownotes and transcript below.
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist. [continue reading…]
The latest PFS book has just been published by Sebastian Wang and his Hampden Press, co-published with the Property and Freedom Society.
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). It also includes a Foreword by Stephan Kinsella. It is available in paper, Kindle, and audiobook (Amazon.com). All PFS members should be grateful to Dr. Gabb for producing this work.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 299.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Alessandro Fusillo (Italy): The Pirates of the Caribbean as Forebears of the Libertarians and of the American Revolution [Sebastian Wang, “Pirates, Liberty, and Revolution: Alessandro Fusillo in Bodrum,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 19, 2025)] Shownotes and transcript below.
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist. [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 298.
This talk is from the recently-concluded 19th annual PFS 2025 Annual Meeting (Sep. 18–23, 2025, Bodrum, Turkey).
Anthony Daniels (Dalrymple) (England): The Worldly Adventures of a Skeptical Doctor. Shownotes and transcript below.
Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist. [continue reading…]
Saifedean Ammous has published his novel The Gold Standard: An Alternative History of the Twentieth Century.
Grok analysis of this clever novel (with some spoilers so beware). The book reminds me of Henry Hazlitt’s underappreciated but great novel Time Will Run Back, which uses a future dystopia to illustrate the calculation problem. [continue reading…]
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