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From Twitter: Dear @NSKinsella , I have a question about argumentative ethics.

[From my Webnote series] Related: Mises and Rand (and Rothbard) Objectivists have long been bitter that libertarians accept most of Objectivism’s politics without accepting the rest of her philosophy: mainly, its metaphysics (objective reality), epistemol…

To the most excellent Norman Stephan Kinsella, So I was having this discussion on X with a few people.

The Spanish language translation for Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023) has been completed (translator: Laura van Leeuwen Henche), under the title Fundamentos Legales de una Sociedad Libre.

Related: Mises on God Human Action and Universe Creation “Can God Own Your Soul?”

In my youth I was fond of the occasional shenanigan (or travesura, as my friend Juan Carpio might call it).

Respected sir, I have read your work on intellectual property and I also read Dr.

Update: Prague 2025: Liberland Constitution Celebration: Photos; KOL480 | The Liberland Constitution and Libertarian Principles (Liberland Prague, 2025); Hoppe, Fusillo, Kinsella Speak at Liberland Constitution Celebration *** Despite my frequent criticis…

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 475.

Related: The Libertarian Approach to Negligence, Tort, and Strict Liability: Wergeld and Partial Wergeld Libertarian Answer Man: Libertarian Liability Theory, Behavior, and Intentional Action Libertarian Answer Man: Strict Liability; and Tracing Title Back

I received an email from one Jared Lewis, attaching his draft paper “Philosophical and Ethical Underpinnings of Tautological Natural Rights” (July 8, 2025).

Allen Gindler, “Refining the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP): A Formal Approach to Bystander Intervention” (draft; 2025).

Related The Universal Principles of Liberty Kinsella, “Announcing the Universal Principles of Liberty“ Libertarian Nation and Related Projects Liberland The Voluntaryist Constitution Live and Let Live Mark Victor KOL358 | Peace Radicals Ep. 40, with Marc…

Christos Armoutidis, “Who Owns Public Property?

Re PFS 2025 Annual Meeting Sebastian Wang, “Bodrum 2025: Reflections on a Journey,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 24, 2025) Thomas DiLorenzo, “The Preeminent Libertarian Meeting of the Year,” LewRockwell.com Blog (Sep. 13, 2025) Other pictures may…

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[From my Webnote series] Related: Tariffs and Legal Uncertainty Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society, in Legal Foundations of a Free Society On the Non Liquet in Libertarian Theory and Armchair Theorizing Hoppe on Hayek Hayek on Intellec…

Related “All that is not permitted is forbidden” KOL474 | Where The Common Law Goes Wrong (PFS 2025) KOL463 | Contracts, Usury, Fractional-Reserve Banking with André Simoni KOL457 | Sheldon Richman & IP; Andre from Brazil re Contract Theory, Student Loan…

Re Michael Oakeshott, On Human Conduct (1991) 1 ChatGPT query: summarize and analyze the attached book by Oakeshott.

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Related: The Limits of Armchair Theorizing: The case of Threats Ralph Raico, R.I.P.

Ernst Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology (1957).

Econ Journal Watch, Volume 22, Issue 2, September 2025: Isaiah Berlin on Karl Marx: An earlier exchange (1, 2, 3, 4) touched upon whether Karl Marx’s having become a big deal was adventitious or destined.

Oliver Janich, The Order of Freedom: The Only Principle That Can Save the World (2020).

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 474.

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?

Related: The Libertarian Approach to Negligence, Tort, and Strict Liability: Wergeld and Partial Wergeld Libertarian Answer Man: Libertarian Liability Theory, Behavior, and Intentional Action Libertarian Answer Man: Strict Liability; and Tracing Title Back

Related: The problem of particularistic ethics or, why everyone really has to admit the validity of the universalizability principle Chapter 5: A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights Chapter 6: Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights Chapter 7:…

Related: Libertarian Answer Man: Eminent Domain and Ownership of State Monetary Payments On “Unowned” State Property, Legal Positivism, Ownership vs.

[From my Webnote series] Related: Structural Safeguards to Limit Legislation and State Power Constitutional Structures in Defense of Freedom (ASC 1998) Randy Barnett’s “Federalism Amendment”–A Counterproposal; and related posts How to Fix the US KOL345 |…

Yet another entry to be added to the list of libertarian movements and projects (Libertarian Nation and Related Projects): The Maksima Declaration: Maksima is an inspiration community that is building a political, ideological and spiritual movement based…

Related: Abortion Correspondence with Doris Gordon, Libertarians For Life (1996) (June 14, 2023) KOL443 | Abortion: A Radically Decentralist Approach (PFS 2024) (Sept. 22, 2024) Abortion: A Radically Decentralist Libertarian Solution (Grok) Walter Block,…

My podcast consumption has varied over the years.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 473.

I dub Labor Day the worst day of the year.

Re: KOL418 | Corporations, Limited Liability, and the Title Transfer Theory of Contract, with Jeff Barr: Part II; see comments there.

One “Abraham Thomas” sent me a manuscript with this note: Your work on intellectual freedom and principled liberty has been formative for me.

My brother, Michael, died unexpectedly last year, and my sister Sheila this year.

In grad school and law school while at LSU (1988–1991) I wrote various columns and letters to the editor to the LSU Daily Reveille 1 and also to the local paper, then The Morning Advocate, now The Advocate.

Below is the “A draft constitution for the state in the third millennium,” by Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein, from Prince Hans-Adam, The State in the Third Millennium (2009; pdf).

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 472.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 471.

Bert Schwitters alerted me to his book Liberating Liberty and upon my request, sent me a PDF.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 470.

Published as “Announcing The Universal Principles of Liberty,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] (25 Aug 2025).

[From my Webnote series] Related: Classificationism, Legislation, Copyright Dualism, Monism, Scientism, Causality, Teleology: Hoppe, Mises, Rothbard The Great Fractional Reserve/Freebanking Debate Fractional-Reserve Banking, Contracts of Deposit, and the…

When spanking and other issues are debated by libertarians, someone invariably brings up the issue of grabbing or touching someone in other contexts: for example, if you see a child or stranger about to run into traffic or into the path of a speeding bus,…

I have mentioned before my year obtaining an LL.M. in international business law at the University of London, 1991–1992, after law school. 1 In that course I was required to take at least half my courses from King’s College London, my “base” school, and w…

Related: Hoppe, From Nation to Household: The Middle American Illusions of Sam Francis (and Pat Buchanan) Hoppe, Where the Right Goes Wrong (1997) Hoppe, Libertarianism and the Alt-Right: In Search of a Libertarian Strategy for Social Change (2017) Kinsel…

The business community in Texas has encouraged the State of Texas to form specialized new business trial courts as well as “the first operational appellate level business court in the United States, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals.” 1 This is a good illust…