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How We Come To Own Ourselves: Spanish Translation

April 5, 2013 Austrian Economics

My Mises Daily article How We Come To Own Ourselves (Sep. 7, 2006, Mises.org blog discussion; audio version) has been translated into Spanish, by Josep Purroy: Cómo los niños se vuelven dueños de sí mismos.

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KOL 038 | Debate with Robert Wenzel on Intellectual Property

April 1, 2013 Intellectual Property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 038. [update: I have just updated the mp3: I forgot to record it at my end until about 1:07, but my audio quality was better. So I spliced in the better second half from my recording. So starting at 1:07 or so you can hear better audio quality at my [...]

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KOL 037 | Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Political Theory

March 28, 2013 Economics

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 037. [Transcript.] I spoke last weekend at one of the best events I’ve ever been part of: the “Liberty in the Pines” (facebook event) conference at Stephen F. Austin State University, in Nacogdoches, Texas. Sponsored by the Young Americans for Liberty chapter and the Charles Koch Foundation, this one-day event brought together liberty-lovers of [...]

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KOL 036 | Rothbardian Circle Q&A: Lockean Homesteading

March 26, 2013 Intellectual Property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 036. I was a last-minute guest last week for the Rothbardian Circle (substituting for Dan D’Amico), a Miami-based discussion group, for their event “Introduction to Free Markets/Libertarian Theory“ (Mar. 20, 2013). We discussed a variety of issues, mostly in a Q&A format, including the essentials of libertarian property theory, Lockean homesteading, Rothbard’s [...]

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KOL 035 | Antiwar Interview: Federalism, Bill of Rights, Constitutional Sentimentalism, IP (2010)

March 21, 2013 Intellectual Property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 035. This is from my Antiwar Interview: Kinsella on Bill of Rights, Intellectual Property by host Scott Horton (Feb. 11, 2010). We discussed “the federal government’s appropriation of the Bill of Rights – through the 14th Amendment – to regulate state powers, the debate about whether current lawlessness can rightfully be blamed on [...]

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KOL 034 | “Mental Self Defense” Radio with Jake Shannon on Intellectual Property

March 20, 2013 Intellectual Property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 034. I was a guest yesterday on Jake Shannon’s libertarian “Mental Self Defense” radio show discussing intellectual property (what’s new). Good host. Podcast (kinsella-on-liberty): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:54:40 — 26.2MB) | Embed

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KOL 033 | Free Talk Live Interview on Reducing IP Costs (2010)

March 17, 2013 Intellectual Property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 033. I was interviewed back on Jan. 20, 2010 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 original Jan. 20, 2010 [...]

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The Golden Age of America is Now

March 14, 2013 Culture

Too many libertarians, especially of the “sky is falling” crowd (the ones who have been predicting major societal collapse for 40 years), are sure we are in End Times. Some previous age was America’s apex, from which we’ve long been in rapid decline. America has gone from being a pretty decent place to a near [...]

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KOL 032 | On the Bill Handel Show Discussing Blackmail, Tiger Woods, David Letterman (2009)

March 14, 2013 Kinsella on Liberty Podcast

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 032. From Kinsella on Bill Handel Show Discussing Blackmail, Tiger Woods, David Letterman (Dec. 14, 2009) (Mises): I was a guest on the Bill Handel Show in late 2009 discussing the libertarian perspective on blackmail, with reference to the Tiger Woods and other cases. (See my post Blackmail should be legal: the case [...]

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KOL 031 | Smash Walls Radio Podcast: Episode 9: Patent Shenanigans

March 10, 2013 Kinsella on Liberty Podcast

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 031. This is my appearance on the Smash Walls Radio Podcast, Episode 9: Patent Shenanigans, with host Trevor Hultner. We discussed patent trolls, the SHIELD Act, and related matters. For more on that issue, see Patent trolls as mafioso (and that’s a compliment) and The SHIELD Act doesn’t go far enough: protect [...]

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KOL 030 | Interview with Derek Khanna

March 8, 2013 Intellectual Property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 030. This is an interview of Derek Khanna, a conservative/libertarian pro-innovation and pro-free market activist. Khanna was the Congressional staffer who authored a copyright reform brief for the Republican Study Committee (the conservative caucus of House Republicans). The brief was entitled Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix [...]

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KOL 029 | First Degree Liberty Interview: Argumentation Ethics and the Title-Transfer Theory of Contract

March 6, 2013 Kinsella on Liberty Podcast

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 029. This is my appearance on Episode 18 of First Degree Liberty: Ethics with Stephan Kinsella, with hosts Chase Rachels and Michael Martelli. We discussed argumentation ethics and the title-transfer theory of contract, and other issues (originally recorded Mar. 4, 2013; released Mar. 5, 2013). For background on some of [...]

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“Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Economics and Political Theory,” Liberty in the Pines Conference (March 2013)

March 5, 2013 Intellectual Property

Stephen F. Austin State University‘s Young Americans for Liberty chapter and the Charles Koch Foundation will be hosting a conference called “Liberty in the Pines” (facebook event) later this month at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas (about 2 hours N of Houston). I will be speaking on “Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property [...]

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KOL 028 | The Liberty Movement, Past And Present: Recollections With A Friend From The Beginning

March 4, 2013 Kinsella on Liberty Podcast

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 028. My old friend Jack Criss (ProBizMS, Ready, Aim, Right!) and I had a discussion reminiscing about how we became friends 25 years ago, our early Objectivist phases, how communication and the movement has changed over the years, his 1980s libertarian radio talk show in Jackson, MS. We touched on [...]

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KOL 027 | The Peter Mac Show (2009, discussing IP)

March 1, 2013 Intellectual Property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 027. I was invited to be a guest on The Peter Mac Show in late 2009 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 [...]

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KOL 026 | FreeDomain Radio with Stefan Molyneux discussing Corporations and Limited Liability

February 28, 2013 Kinsella on Liberty Podcast

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 026. This is FreeDomain Radio episode 2336, in which host Stefan Molyneux and I discussed libertarian aspects of corporations and limited liability law. (Originally recorded Feb. 22, 2013, released by FDR on Feb. 26.) For more on this issue see my Libertarian Standard post Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation. Podcast (kinsella-on-liberty): [...]

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KOL 025 | Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast, with Michael Shanklin: Intellectual Property, Ron Paul vs RonPaul.Com, Aaron Swartz, Corporatism

February 27, 2013 Intellectual Property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 025. This is my appearance on Michael Shanklin’s Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast with Michael Shanklin (Feb. 26, 2013; originally recorded Feb. 25, 2013). We discussed intellectual property and a few other matters, such as the Ron Paul vs RonPaul.Com dispute, Aaron Swartz, Corporatism, and the like. For the initial discussion [...]

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Who is a libertarian?

February 26, 2013 Libertarianism

After much thought and debate about this topic over the last 25 or so years, here is my attempt at a lean, concise, precise definition of what a libertarian is: A libertarian is a person who believes that the invasion of the borders of (trespass against) others’ bodies or owned external scarce resources, i.e. property [...]

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KOL 024 | Daniels, Kinsella, Marks, Hoppe, Tucker: “Discussion, Q&A” (PFS 2012, Day 3)

February 25, 2013 Kinsella on Liberty Podcast

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 024. I previously podcasted my speech from September 2012 at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey (KOL001 | “The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law” (PFS 2012)). Later that day I and the other speakers from that day, including Jeff Tucker and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, participated in [...]

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