Video for the talks presented at the Sixteenth Annual (2022) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society are now available at the PFS 2022 YouTube Playlist. Audio for these talks will be rolled out gradually in upcoming months at the Property and Freedom Podcast.
Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership),
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 199.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), The Libertarian Search for a Grand Historical Narrative (Part I).
A transcript is available.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 198.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Frank van Dun (Belgium), What Did the Reformation Reform?
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 197.
This panel discussion is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (USA), Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), Pascal Salin (France), Jeff Deist (USA), Michael Malice (USA), Discussion, Q&A.
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The Sixteenth Annual (2022) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was held from Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022 to Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess. Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership),
This meeting follows the 2021 Annual Meeting and the aborted 2020 Annual Meeting (see Kinsella, Property, Freedom, and Defiance: PFS 2021 in a Covid World). Those interested in attending future Annual Meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.
Media for the talks listed below can be found at the PFS 2022 YouTube Playlist (mirror PFS 2022 Odysee Playlist). Audio is available at the Property and Freedom Podcast.
The finalized list of speakers and topics for the 2022 meeting follows below, with links to the video of the speeches:
Final Program Schedule
Thursday, September 15, 2022 arrivals and registration
Friday, September 16, 2022
Saturday, September 17, 2021
Sunday, September 18, 2021
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 196.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Jeff Deist (USA), The Zeitgeist Libertarians.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 195.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (USA), International Law Through A Libertarian Lens. Powerpoint slides embedded below.
Also podcast at: KOL250 | International Law Through a Libertarian Lens (PFS 2018).
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 194b.
This is a bonus episode. While at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, guest speaker Michael Malice (USA) interviewed Professor Hoppe for his show “YOUR WELCOME”.
From Malice’s shownotes:
It took a trip to Bodrum, Turkey, but on this week’s “YOUR WELCOME” Michael Malice sits down for an exclusive interview with the legendary and notorious Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Hoppe is the author of (among other works) “Democracy: The God That Failed” and one of the world’s leading exponents of right-wing libertarian thought–and the consequent subject of many memes. As president and founder of the Property and Freedom Society, Hoppe hosts an annual international meeting of political radicals. Hoppe has taken a policy of declining all interviews so this is a rare chance to see him discuss his work, being a dad, studying with Murray Rothbard and, yes, telling a joke.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 194.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Michael Malice (USA), The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: The God That Failed.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 193.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), The Cultural Background of the Austrian School
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 192.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Pascal Salin (France), On Understanding France and French Intellectual History.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 191.
This panel discussion is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Sean Gabb (England), X (England), Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Discussion, Q&A.
Note: Up until today we have been releasing talks from previous meetings at a pace of 5 episodes per week, to get past the backlog. Since we are almost caught up, starting with this episode we are switching to a release schedule of once per week, on Mondays. The material from the upcoming 2022 meeting will start being released in June 2023.
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The PFS started releasing past speeches via the Property and Freedom Podcast in December 2021, starting with the available audio from the first PFS Annual Meeting in 2006, and proceeding forward until we catch up to the 2021 meeting. Because of the large number of past recorded talks and panel discussions (234 as of the conclusion of PFS 2021, to be exact), we started releasing episodes 5 times a week.
Starting 8 Aug. 2022, we will release remaining episodes from 2018, 2019, and 2021 (2020 was canceled due to Covid restrictions), once per week, on Mondays, and then will release the 2022 episodes, starting June 12, 2023, once a week as well. For subsequent PFS meetings we will release all recorded sessions on the PFS Youtube channel (Odysee backup channel) shortly after the meeting, and will release the audio on the PFP podcast feed weekly.
Any suggestions or comments as to this approach are welcome, in the comments, or email me at nskinsella@gmail.com.
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 190.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), The Psychology of Multiculturalism.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 189.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Why Are Western Europeans So Naive? An Empathic Cultural Anthropology.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 187.
This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Sean Gabb (England), How Rome Fell and Byzantium Continued for Another Millennium.
For further information, see the written version, including the mentioned maps.
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As noted here, PFS 20, the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, will be held from Thursday, September 18, 2025 to Tuesday, September 23, 2025, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership),
Speakers and topics for previous Annual Meetings may be found here.
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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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