Stephan Kinsella

Stephan is an attorney and libertarian writer in Houston, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF), and the founder and editor of Libertarian Papers. His most recent book is Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (co-editor, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann; Mises Institute, 2009).

Stephan Kinsella has written 169 radical posts for the Libertarian Standard.

Education by Experience as the Only Hope for Mankind

by Stephan Kinsella April 9, 2012

a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. —Thomas Paine It has been my experience that many libertarians abhor realism. They deride it as [...]

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TLS Podcast Picks: Ridley and Lehrer on Creativity and Ideas

by Stephan Kinsella April 7, 2012

Recommended podcasts: “How Creativity Works: An interview with Jonah Lehrer,” by June Thomas, Slate’s The Afterword podcast (Friday, March 30, 2012).  “In Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer explores some of the myths of creativity and discovers that it isn’t a gift possessed by a lucky few, but rather a variety of processes that everyone [...]

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Spike Lee’s Twitter Message About George Zimmerman and Causation under Libertarian Theory

by Stephan Kinsella March 31, 2012

As Bob Wenzel notes here: I hate to say this about a fellow Knicks fan and author of one of my favorite books, Best Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir, but Spike Lee did something really stupid. He tweeted what he thought was the address of George Zimmerman, the shooter of Trayvon Martin. That’s [...]

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TLS Podcast Picks: Tibor Machan and Jeff Tucker

by Stephan Kinsella March 21, 2012

Recommended podcasts: Profiles in Liberty: Tibor Machan, by Stephen Hicks. Great profile of an important libertarian thinker and good friend of mine.  “Tibor Machan is professor of philosophy at Chapman University in California. He was born in Communist Hungary, smuggled out as a teenager, and came to the United States, where he earned his Ph.D. [...]

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Daily Bell Interview: Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn’t Exist

by Stephan Kinsella March 18, 2012

From The Daily Bell:   Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn’t Exist Sunday, March 18, 2012 – with Anthony Wile The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Stephen Kinsella (left). Introduction: Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian scholar and attorney in Houston. The Executive Editor of Libertarian [...]

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Jeff Tucker on Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything”

by Stephan Kinsella March 12, 2012

Jeff Tucker was invited to submit a video reply to the most popular questions submitted to him via a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” thread. See feedback on Part I; the two video parts are below. Fascinating interview from one of my favorite modern libertarians and a good friend. In the interview he argues that “Stefan [...]

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Goodbye, Mises Blog

by Stephan Kinsella March 11, 2012

Over on the Mises Blog, my friend Peter Klein has posted its last post … ever. It’s being shut down. As Peter notes, “it went live on May 5, 2003. Since then, it has hosted 16,647 posts and 234,839 comments and become one of the highest-ranked economics blogs on the internet …” I authored 826 [...]

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