Stephan's Media to Listen To

Kinsella’s “Against Intellectual Property”: Audiobook Version

Stephan Kinsella — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:04:48 +0000

An audiobook of my monograph Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008; Mises Store; PDF; Scribd; HTML) has been prepared. The narrator is Jock Coats, who produced a very impressive, professional-quality product. The audiobook, about 1 hour, 54 minutes in length, is available in .mp3 format and in .m4b iTunes book format (each about 57M). The .m4b file has chapter breaks built in. It’s also available in a Mises.org version and on iTunes U.

[Mises; AM]

Walter Block: Hilarious TV Appearance

Stephan Kinsella — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:37:23 +0000

Recently Walter Block was on a TV show run by black power advocates. He thought they were going to discuss the Katrina hurricane disaster in New Orleans, but the discussion ended up focusing on racism and a variety of other issues. Video; audio only.

It is one of the most surreal and fascinating viewing experiences I’ve had in a long time. I literally spit my bourbon out on my laptop 3 times. Such as when Walter had to answer the question about the turbo-diesel Chrysler; or the be-doo-ragged guy who insisted North Korea was doing better than South Korea–you can’t be sure whether the guy is just confused, or whether that is actually his view. Walter is so into ideas, and so sincere, he’s actually having a serious intellectual conversation with these guys–and it’s kind of interesting, as much as they fumble around and are uninformed by the kind of academic and economic and political theories Block just unabashedly hurls at them, they are somewhat sincere and earnest, and for the most part really listening to him, unlike most “normal” “mainstream” audiences or hosts. What a great video! Just fast forward past the first 15 minutes or so until Block starts talking.

These and other Block TV and radio appearances and debates can be found here. In addition to the one linked above, Block also highly recommends the one on WalMart and also his debate with Richard Epstein.

[LRC cross-post]

Kinsella IP Interview on The Peter Mac Show

Stephan Kinsella — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:36:51 +0000

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 Intellectual Property and Libertarianism just the day before (!)). The MP3 files are here: hour 1; hour 2 (on Peter’s site, hour 1, hour 2). [Local files: hour 1; hour 2]