The Rothbard Institute from Brazil has published today my article “The Mises Institute Versus the Legacy of Murray Rothbard.”
In the article, I discuss the decline in the quality of the articles published on Mises.org over the last few years, a trend in which the emergence of Javier Milei has played a significant role.
For more on the editorial decline at Mises.org, click here.
Dear Hans,
Given the nature of your recent public statements about the Mises Institute,1 we hereby grant you a Distinguished Eternal Fellow designation. We will host more than ever your past, present and future articles, books, and lectures on rothbardbrasil.com.
That Germany is not a free country and that free speech is under attack there, as all over the so-called free world, is hardly news. However, there are some peculiarities of Germany illustrated here.
The AFD (Alternative for Germany) election campaign poster from Wilko Möller below reads: We protect your children.
AFD (Alternative for Germany) election campaign poster from Wilko Möller: “We protect your children”
In 2026, a German court ruled that the raised-arm gesture (especially the man’s right arm) visually resembled the banned Hitler salute closely enough to violate a special German law prohibiting the use of symbols of so-called unconstitutional organizations. Möller was fined 11,600 Euros. The verdict is still under appeal.
Incidentally, the same law prohibits the exclamation, in public speeches, of “Alles für Deutschland” (Everything for Germany). AFD politician Björn Höcke was found in violation of the law twice, and fined first 13,000 Euro, and for the second time 19,900 Euro.
From StephanKinsella.com.
On my list of things to write someday is an overview of the social thought of Hoppe, whom I consider to be the preeminent social thinker of our time, along the lines of Oxford University Press’s 100-page “A Very Short Introduction” series (previously called “Past Masters“).1 I may use the term “A Précis” due to my fascination with Louisiana law and French terms and my former law professor Alain Levasseur’s fondness for this term for a concise, student-oriented textbook or summary-style treatise, something shorter and more accessible than a full-scale, comprehensive treatise, or “a student edition of a comprehensive treatise with the same title.”2
In the meantime, the assembled links will have to suffice.
Cross-posted at HansHoppe.com
This is April 1, but this is not an April Fool’s Day joke (I despise April Fool’s Day jokes).
In response to “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?,” Property and Freedom Journal (March 25, 2026), Professor Hoppe has been removed as a Distinguished Senior Fellow (~2000–2026) with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, as indicated in the following email exchange. Hans was appointed Senior Fellow early in his association with the Mises Institute, which began when he moved to the US to study with Rothbard in 1985, and elevated to Distinguished Senior Fellow around 2000 or so. Hans remains the only person to have ever received this distinction from the Mises Institute; it now has no one with this designation.1
In response to all this, Hans asked me to post this image:
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito!
A correspondent of Dr. Hoppe wrote him
Hi, I’m Walter Castillo. I am writing to you to share Paul Villegas’ writings regarding his ‘proposal’ for the ‘axiom of contextual action’ and his ‘defense’ of Hayek. I would like to know your opinion, criticism, or refutation of his publications.
1. A DEFENSE AND EXPANSION OF THE HAYEKIAN ARGUMENT AGAINST ROTHBARD AND HOPPE
2. A REFUTATION OF ROTHBARDIAN AND HOPPEAN CRITIQUES OF F.A. HAYEK
3. SYMPOIETIC COSMOS: ACTION, FINITUDE, AND THE STRUCTURE OF ANARCHYI personally believe that Paul Villegas is completely wrong..
Martin, Milei having the … chutzpah … to attack Hoppe as economically illiterate (while later praising him yet again, like a schizo) reminds me of the time that Cato pest Tom Palmer had the temerity to attack Hans Hoppe for noting that on the free market, “unemployment” is “always voluntary.” When I defended Hoppe to Palmer, he wrote me:
[…] who could take a self-described economist seriously when he writes that unemployment is impossible in a free market? And when he claims that that’s somehow an implication of Austrian economics he adds insult to ignorance. […] The fact is that Mr. Hoppe is an embarrassment.
Update: Translation in Korean: 소위 “오스트로-리버테리언” 대통령이 또 다시 사고치다.
Javier Milei’s administration has recently announced a plan to inject pesos through Argentina’s central bank, with the declared objective of boosting consumption and thus “stimulating growth. This implies a reduction by 5 points in the banking system reserve requirements.”1 [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 319.
AI-assisted audio narration of the main chapters of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026) is available at this PFS Youtube Playlist; the mp3 files may also be downloaded in this zip file.
The first two chapters—my “Preface” and Hans’s “Introduction”—were published the week of Rothbard’s birthday here on the Property and Freedom Podcast (PFP315 and PFP314). The other main chapters will be released sequentially weekly on Mondays. The next in the queue:
4. Douglas E. French, “Remembering Murray Rothbard: Teacher, Friend, and Inspiration”
Lots of libertarians adore Congressman Thomas Massie. It’s not quite clear why; he never claims to be a libertarian.
“Massie describes himself as a constitutional conservative. He believes in intellectual property and thinks it is necessary for incentivizing innovation. Massie has remarked that this is one of the areas where he is not a libertarian.”https://t.co/SQY94D56ns
“I like to point…
— Stephan Kinsella (@NSKinsella) June 15, 2024
From Wikipedia:
Massie describes himself as a constitutional conservative. He believes in intellectual property and thinks it is necessary for incentivizing innovation. Massie has remarked that this is one of the areas where he is not a libertarian.
Bloomberg reported last week that Turkey sold and swapped a total of nearly 60 tons of gold due to the US-Israel war on Iran which is putting a strain on “Turkey’s disinflation strategy, which relies heavily on maintaining a stable or steadily depreciating lira, including with hard-currency interventions, usually via state-run banks. Rising energy import costs and increased dollar demand since the conflict began have made that approach more challenging to maintain.” The Istanbul Post reports that the Lira is now trading 44.44 to the dollar. Back in 2022 one US dollar bought 18.3866 lira. [continue reading…]
From the Property and Freedom Journal:
Saifedean Ammous, “Escalating from Suez to Waterloo: Trump’s Three-Card-Monte Takes on the Chess Grandmasters,” Property and Freedom Journal (March 29, 2026).
Update: Republished as Saifedean Ammous, “Escalating from Suez to Waterloo: Trump’s Three-Card-Monte Takes on the Chess Grandmasters,” Unz Review (March 29, 2026)
When Israel and the US launched their war on Iran, they claimed it would last a few days. A few days later, they said it would last 3 to 4 weeks. As the fourth week ends, it is a good time to take stock of what has happened and the war’s scoreboard, and the political and economic implications. Military matters are unpredictable, and everything can change quickly in battlefields, so this analysis is tentative, but there are clear changes in the facts on the ground so far that indicate the US has suffered a significant setback with important ramifications, and if the US chooses to double down, it may exacerbate it, with momentous political, economic, and military implications for the Middle East, the US, and the world at large.
Related:
Upon publishing this: “An Open Letter to Walter E. Block,” LewRockwell.com (Jan. 31, 2024), Jesus Huerta de Soto (JHS) sent me this note:
Dear Hans:
Congratulations for your article on Block’s position. I mostly agree with your, as always, impeccable arguments.
Best wishes
Jesus Huerta de Soto
In a 2003 article on the American Enterprise Institute web site entitled “The Neoconservative Persuasion” the late Irving Kristol boasted of being the “godfather” of neoconservatism. Gaining political clout in the 1980s during the Reagan administration, the neocons have dominated American foreign policy ever since.
In his article Kristol explained that the original neocons like himself were all former communist “Trotskyists” who decided to temper their communistic impulses in light of all the failures of socialism. They remained foreign policy imperialists, statists, Zionists, and enemies of classical liberalism, however, as Kristol also explained in the article. [continue reading…]
In addition to the Property and Freedom Podcast, the Property and Freedom Blog, and other content and publications, the PFS will be publishing occasional original long-form articles in the Property and Freedom Journal, containing articles which are more in-depth than the briefer and more informal posts on the Property and Freedom Blog. As noted on the Property and Freedom Journal‘s page,
The Property and Freedom Journal of the PFS serves as a more formal counterpart to the Property and Freedom Blog features in-depth articles and papers on topics of interest to PFS members and others, such as economics, history, and contemporary political issues, typically from authors writing in the Rothbardian/Misesian Austro-libertarian perspective.
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We will also add to the journal some previous articles previously published as stand-alone articles at the PFS site.
En el mundo anarcocapitalista y austriaco se habla de Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Murray Rothbard o Ludwig von Mises y está bien, pero el nombre de Thomas DiLorenzo queda sistemáticamente relegado. No es casualidad. pic.twitter.com/6tzkPRiJ4n
— Fran morales 🇹🇷🇮🇹 (@frani_morales) March 27, 2026
In the anarcho-capitalist and Austrian world, people talk about Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Murray Rothbard, or Ludwig von Mises, and that’s fine, but the name of Thomas DiLorenzo is systematically relegated. It’s no coincidence.
Related:
Blast from the past. Panel: The Significance of Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Austrian Economics Research Conference, Mises Institute 2019, Auburn, Ala.
Choosing covers for the paper version of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026): Weigh in! The editors disagree. I won’t tell you which one der Hoppeinator prefers.
Update (April 15, 2026): We have selected 1b.
Rothbard at 100: new cover 2
I have today published Mises Institute: Quo Vadis? on my site and as Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?,” Property and Freedom Journal (March 25, 2026)
Update: Hoppe Removed as Mises Institute Senior Distinguished Fellow
Mises Institute: Quo Vadis?
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
March 25, 2026My close, personal association with the Mises Institute goes back more than 40 years, to 1985, only three years after the Institute’s founding. In the course of the years I have given dozens upon dozens of lectures. I have been awarded its Schlarbaum Prize and the Rothbard Medal. For a decade, I served as editor of its Journal of Libertarian Studies. I am the MI’s only long standing Distinguished Senior Fellow. Only two years ago, in 2024, I was a featured speaker at the Institute’s Human Action Conference, and my 75th birthday was celebrated at the occasion. In the same year I sent this congratulatory note to Lew Rockwell at the occasion of the festivities organized in honor of his own 80th birthday:
Dear Lew, to your 80th birthday I send you my best wishes and want to say thanks for by now almost 40 years of friendship and intellectual camaraderie.
I know you are too humble to say this, but I can certainly do it: You rank among the most brilliant commentators and analysts of the present age and you are the world’s greatest living promoter of sound economics in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard and, more generally, of liberty, peace, common sense, and reason.
Your legacy is assured: You are already a legend.
Yours truly,
Hans
The consequences of hosting Milei’s Spaniard propagandist, who stated from the Mises Institute podium that the most Zionist president in the world is the person who had done more than anyone before to spread the principles of the Austrian School and anarcho-capitalist ideas, came quickly.
On the same day, accounts promoting the Chabad-Lubavitch asset took advantage of this phrase to reaffirm, with the imprimatur of the Mises Institute, that the cryptoscammer Milei is the greatest Austro-libertarian who ever lived: [continue reading…]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:01 — 4.5MB)
Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 318.
AI-assisted audio narration of the main chapters of Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment (Papinian Press and The Saif House, 2026) is available at this PFS Youtube Playlist; the mp3 files may also be downloaded in this zip file.
The first two chapters—my “Preface” and Hans’s “Introduction”—were published the week of Rothbard’s birthday here on the Property and Freedom Podcast (PFP315 and PFP314). The other main chapters will be released sequentially weekly on Mondays. The next in the queue:
3. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “The Inspiring and Courageous Intellect of Murray Rothbard”
Professor Hoppe’s Economic Science and the Austrian Method (1995) has been translated into Greek as Η Οικονομική Επιστήμη και η Αυστριακή Μέθοδος (pdf; docx). Text below.
According to the translator, the aptly soi-disant Praxeologos,
Introducing this important work to a Greek audience that is largely unfamiliar with economics (and that includes Professors of Economics) would be of real value.
Please note that the translation includes the recommended bibliography in its original English form, but the footnotes are still missing.
More on Milie: PFS; HansHoppe; StephanKinsella
From Oscar Grau’s tweet:
Many followers of the Austro-libertarian tradition in political and economic thought will, for some time, remain unable to grasp the shamefulness of this particular moment and the way in which it has dishonored the memory of Mises and Rothbard within the Mises Institute itself. pic.twitter.com/xH5IRxHkbe
— Oscar Grau (@ograu90) March 21, 2026
So … the self-professed world’s greatest Zionist president, supporter of Natenyahu’s genocidal war in Gaza, Trump, and the USrael war against Iran is the greatest libertarian ever … What a joke. And, sadly, there is applause instead of boos.
The list of countries currently at war is staggering. Murray Rothbard, who would have been 100 on March 2, was always against war. He was dismayed by the cold war. He would be more than alarmed by the aforementioned list and the US’s and Israel’s invasion of Iran. “I am getting more and more convinced,” he wrote a libertarian associate in 1959,
that the war-peace question is the key to the whole libertarian business, and that we will never get anywhere in this great intellectual counter-revolution (or revolution) unless we can end this Verdamte cold war—a war for which I believe our ‘tough’ policy is largely responsible.
As noted here, the 2026 Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society will be held from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
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