Kinsella on Liberty
by Stephan Kinsella
The Kinsella on Liberty podcast covers libertarian theory and applications, especially from an Austrian, Rothbardian and anarchist perspective. The podcast is released irregularly, occasionally includes a short monologue or interview or discussion with someone else, but consists mainly of speeches, lectures, and interviews on other podcasts, often on the topic of intellectual property, but on other topics as well. Youtube video links are provided on the website where available, at https://stephankinsella.com/kinsella-on-liberty-podcast/.
Episodes
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KOL472 | “What Is Property? And What Is Not? — Part 2 — Fireside Chat on Intellectual Property with Albert Lu,” Capitalism & Morality (Vancouver)
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 472. This is my second talk this morning at Jayant Bhandari's (@JayantBhandari5) Capitalism & Morality 2025 (Vancouver) conference. Part 1: KOL471 | “What Is Property? And What Is Not? — Part 1," Capitalism & Morality (Vancouver)....
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KOL471 | “What Is Property? And What Is Not? — Part 1,” Capitalism & Morality (Vancouver)
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 471. This is my talk this morning at Jayant Bhandari's (@JayantBhandari5) Capitalism & Morality 2025 (Vancouver) conference. It was followed later that day by Part 2, Fireside Chat with Albert Lu, whose podcast I've been on in the past. (( KOL193 | The Economy...
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KOL468 | Is Group Ownership and Co-ownership Communism?
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 468. Related: Libertarian Answer Man: Co-ownership and Ownership and Punishment of Criminals Libertarian Answer Man: Joint Ownership (Co-ownership) and Future, Conditional Title Transfers Armoutidis, Who Owns Public Property? Libertarian Property Theory and…
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KOL430 | An Insider’s Introduction to Austrian Economics, Bastiat Society—Houston
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 430. This is my presentation, “An Insider’s Introduction to Austrian Economics,” Bastiat Society—Houston, American Institute for Economic Research, The Briar Club, Houston Texas (May 2, 2024). From their shownotes: Join AIER’s Bastiat Society program in…
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What Libertarianism Is: in Audio
An audio version of my 2009 article, “What Libertarianism Is,” Mises Daily (August 21, 2009), has been produced, narrated by Graham Wright (audio file). Update: See also the version by Duma Denga of ManPatria (KOL422).
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FreeTalkLive/XM Extreme Talk Appearance re Intellectual Property
I was a guest last night on FreeTalkLive (Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011), discussing intellectual property with Sunday hosts Mark Edge and Stephanie. We talked for about an hour and a half, from 7pm-830pm EDT and had a good, wide-ranging discussion. A few callers called in near the end. This was the FTL...
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Education Today and Tomorrow: Interview about Montessori with AMI President
André Roberfroid, President of Association Montessori Internationale I've discussed my thoughts on the Montessori educational method previously (see my article Montessori, Peace, and Libertarianism; also my posts Montessori and “Unschooling”; Bullying and Libertarianism; Libertarian Parenting–A...
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Associate’s Foulmouthed Voicemail Makes the Rounds on the Internet and other funny stories
Some humorous emails from my legal blog: Professional Courtesy August 20, 2004 According to the attorney who sent it to me: this was a voicemail message “that an associate at Winston & Strawn left for an associate at Latham. Latham is representing a borrower in a real estate transaction and W&S;...
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Federalist Society IP Debate (Ohio State)
UPDATE: SEE KOL079 | “Federalist Society IP Debate (Ohio State)” (2011) Last week I participated in a debate on IP at the The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Student Chapter of The Federalist Society (Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 3, 2011). This was...
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Kinsella on Thinking Liberty
I was a guest on the Feb. 15, 2011 episode of Thinking Liberty, "an interactive libertarian anarchist talk program." We talked for quite a while about IP; the hosts asked very intelligent questions. (My segment is from about 25:00 to 1:16:00.) (local MP3 file) (KOL Podcast version)
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Kinsella: “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright”
My article, "Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright," was published today in Economic Notes (No. 113, Jan. 18, 2011), a publication of the UK-based Libertarian Alliance. (This article is based on my speech of Nov. 6, 2010, at the 2010 Students for Liberty Texas Regional...
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On Constitutional Sentimentalism
In a comment to his post on Sarah Palin, Sheldon Richman writes: I don't see that it's obvious that the Supreme Court has been dishonest about the Constitution. It was written as a deliberately vague document designed to satisfy multiple interests. It's very much an inkblot. Madison said it...
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Kinsella on Ernest Hancock Discussing Intellectual Property
I appeared yesterday on Ernest Hancock's Declare Your Independence radio show for about two hours (hours 2 and 3 of his show) discussing intellectual property. It was a pretty wide-ranging, radical discussion, but I think I made progress with Ernie. The MP3 files are on the show's page for that...
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Recent Blogposts on The Libertarian Standard and Mises Blog
That I did not cross-post here: Stefan Molyneux’s “Libertarian Parenting” Series Stefan Molyneux, of Freedomain Radio, has recently had a very interesting series of interviews on “libertarian parenting”. The three guests (so far?) were me, my fellow TLS blogger Gil Guillory, and just today, David...
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Examples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual Property
I will collect here links to various articles or discussions about how authors, etc. can make money without relying on the copyright monopoly model. Please feel free to email suggestions or add them to the comments; I'll update this post from time to time. “Innovations that Thrive without IP,”...
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Terence Kealey: “Science is a Private Good–Or: Why Government Science is Wasteful”
I recently attended at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey (see my Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report). I delivered a speech entitled "Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual...
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PFS Speech: Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong
UPDATE: SEE KOL 054 | “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong” (2010, Property and Freedom Society) Earlier this month, I spoke at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey (see my Bodrum Days and Nights: The...
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Kinsella Discusses Environmentalism, Nuclear Power, etc. with Gene Basler
I was a guest on the Gene Basler show tonight (formerly called anarcho-environmentalism) discussing a variety of anarcho-libertarian matters--environmentalism, nuclear power, state propaganda in government schools, class action lawsuits, reparations, how to achieve an anarcho-libertarian society,...
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Don’t Bet on China
China is widely viewed as a "threat" to the US because of its perceived rapid and unstoppable economic growth. This is, in my view, doubly confused. First: if the premise were true, this would be good, not bad. Second: I don't think China is in such great shape. Unfortunately. Some free market...
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Kinsella and Wicks on The Peter Mac Show
see KOL057 | Guest on The Peter Mac Show: “Capitalism,” Anarchy, IP and other topics (2010) I was on The Peter Mac Show on May 12, 2010, with my fellow Libertarian Standard co-blogger Rob Wicks. We discussed a variety of matters, including whether libertarians should use the word "capitalism,"…
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Kinsella on Anarchy Time Discussing Immigration
I was a guest on the May 9, 2010 episode of BlogTalkRadio’s show Anarchy Time, hosted by James Cox. Other guests included C4SS Development Specialist Mariana Evica, Wilt Alston, and Stefan Molyneux. (Local MP3.)
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Kinsella on Qaoss Talk Radio with Don Cooper
Fellow guest Becky Akers and I discussed anarchy, the role of education in fighting statism, and related matters, with host Don Cooper on his Qaoss Talk Radio show, April 10, 2010. The show is archived here (local MP3).
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Kinsella Intellectual Property discussion on Freedomain Radio Book Club
From Stefan Molyneux's post on the Mises forum: The Freedomain Radio Book Club had a great discussion with Stephan about intellectual property which I thought you might enjoy... FDR1616 Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property from Freedomain Radio Play Now We did this yesterday, Mar. 20, 2010.…
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Interview: Nina Paley on Copyright
TCLP 2010-02-24 Interview: Nina Paley This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. [mp3 ; flac] No listener feedback this week. Due to the length of the interview, there is also no new hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is an interview with cartoonist and...
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Antiwar Interview: Kinsella on Bill of Rights, Intellectual Property
see KOL 035 | Antiwar Interview: Federalism, Bill of Rights, Constitutional Sentimentalism, IP (2010)
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Jeff Tucker Free Talk Live Interview on Open Information and IP
Jeff Tucker was interviewed yesterday by Mark Edge, as part of his “Edgington Post Interview Series,” for his Free Talk Live radio show, about the Mises Institute's "open information" approach (see Jeff Tucker, A Theory of Open, B.K. Marcus, Mises.org on iTunes U, Doug French, The Intellectual...
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Kinsella Free Talk Live Interview on Reducing IP Costs
I was interviewed yesterday by Mark Edge, as part of his "Edgington Post Interview Series," for his Free Talk Live radio show, about my Mises Daily article, "Reducing the Cost of IP Law." The interview is lasts about 35 minutes, and starts at 2:02:36 in the Jan. 20, 2010 show (MP3). Edge…
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Tom Paine, Copyright Statist
Great comment about Thomas Paine by Bill Stepp on this thread: Paine forfeited his copyright in "Common Sense" so that any printer could publish it (this was prompted by a dispute with his printer, if memory serves), but he later defended copyright. For what it's worth, he also defended the evil...
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Kinsella IP Interview on The Peter Mac Show
SEE NOW: [KOL027] I was invited to be a guest on The Peter Mac Show last night and ended up staying on for both hours. It was a pretty in-depth interview. The host asked impressively intelligent questions for someone who had just started coming around to the anti-IP position (after reading my...
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Obama Deserves the Nobel–or Two!
Manuel, Lew, David -- Yes, we should not be surprised at this. Hans Hoppe once noted that f you want to win the Nobel peace prize, it helps if you are a mass murderer; if you want to win the economics Nobel prize, it is always of advantage if you have contributed to ruining various countries'...
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Fantastic Libertarian Rapper: Neema V
As noted on LewRockwell.com, there's a wonderful Rap video by a young libertarian rapper, Neema V (from Houston, so he's my homie). See the video below, and a great short interview by him on FreeTalkLive, in which Neema V goes on about the influence Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, and Butler Shaffer had…
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Volume 3 of Rothbard’s History of Economic Thought
It's a tragedy Rothbard died in 1995, before he could finish his History of Economic Thought series. At the time of his death, he had only published volumes I and II (epub and PDF files available here). However, as noted in the Mises store entry for Vol. III, The History of Economic Thought: From...
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Verstehen and the Role of Economics in Forecasting, or: If You’re so Rich, Why Aren’t You Smart?
At Recovery or Stagnation?, a Mises Circle held in San Francisco on August 29, 2009, there was a great Speakers' Panel featuring Walter Block, Thomas DiLorenzo, Douglas French, and Robert Murphy. Great comments on the current financial mess. One thing that especially interested me were Walter...
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Career Advice by North
[Update: see various biographical pieces on my publications page, including Alan D. Bergman, Adopting Liberty: The Stephan Kinsella Story (2025).] Gary North delivered a wonderful lecture last month during Mises University 2009 (the same day I gave my own speech), "Calling and Career as an…
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My old Against Monopoly Blog Posts
Here are some of my older AgainstMonopoly.org blogposts, which were not cross-referenced here (but will be going forward): The IP Dogs! The post Animal Abuse mentions the state's use of "DVD-sniffing anti-piracy dogs."Res ipsa loquitur. [Posted at 06/03/2009 08:53 AM by Stephan Kinsella on IP as…
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Insight Magazine symposium: Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?
Local copy of: Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?: Yes, Insight magazine, May 21, 2001 (reading of and discussion of this piece by hosts at Free Talk Live, 8/31/07 show; audio is here [starts around 5:25]) (Web archive version of the article.) symposium Q: Do patents and...
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The Kinsella on Liberty podcast covers libertarian theory and applications, especially from an Austrian, Rothbardian and anarchist perspective. The podcast is released irregularly, occasionally includes a short monologue or interview or discussion with someone else, but consists mainly of speeches, lectures, and interviews on other podcasts, often on the topic of intellectual property, but on other topics as well. Youtube video links are provided on the website where available, at https://stephankinsella.com/kinsella-on-liberty-podcast/.
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