Property and Freedom Podcast

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 201. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. David Dürr (Switzerland), From Divine Law to Papal Infallibility and Back Again. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 200. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Progress According to Pinker (Part II). PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 199. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), The Libertarian Search for a Grand Historical Narrative (Part I). A transcript is available. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 198. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Frank van Dun (Belgium), What Did the Reformation Reform? PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 197. This panel discussion is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (USA), Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), Pascal Salin (France), Jeff Deist (USA), Michael Malice (USA), Discussion, Q&A. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 196. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Jeff Deist (USA), The Zeitgeist Libertarians. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 195. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (USA), International Law Through A Libertarian Lens. Powerpoint slides embedded below. Also podcast at: KOL250 | International Law Through a Libertarian Lens (PFS 2018). PFS 2018 Playlist. Related material: see material linked in the above slides, including: Kinsella, On the UN, the Birchers, and International Law Rubins, Papanastasiou & Kinsella’s International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide, Second Edition (Oxford, 2020) KOL001 | “The (State’s) Corruption of (Private) Law” (PFS 2012) International Law MOOC (Youtube) Sovereignty, International Law, and the Triumph of Anglo-American Cunning | Joseph R. Stromberg Rosalyn Higgins, Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It (Clarendon, 1994) Mark Janis, International Law (7th Ed. 2018) Restatement (Third) of the Law, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States (1987), HeinOnline, Westlaw (not online) American Society of International Law (ASIL), Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) https://www.asil.org/resources/electronic-resource-guide-erg and http://www.eisil.org/ M.N. Shaw, International Law (7th Ed. 2017) Ian Brownlie (Crawford), Principles of Public International Law (1966) (8th ed., 2012) Update: See also my International Law, Libertarian Principles, and the Russia-Ukraine War; and Murray Rothbard, “Just War,” in John Denson, ed., The Costs of War: Much of “classical international law” theory, developed by the Catholic Scholastics, notably the 16th-century Spanish Scholastics such as Vitoria and Suarez, and then the Dutch Protestant Scholastic Grotius and by 18th- and 19th-century jurists, was an explanation of the criteria for a just war. For war, as a grave act of killing, needs to be justified. … Classical international law … should be brought back as quickly as possible.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 194b. This is a bonus episode. While at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, guest speaker Michael Malice (USA) interviewed Professor Hoppe for his show “YOUR WELCOME”. PFS 2018 Playlist. From Malice’s shownotes: It took a trip to Bodrum, Turkey, but on this week’s “YOUR WELCOME” Michael Malice sits down for an exclusive interview with the legendary and notorious Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Hoppe is the author of (among other works) “Democracy: The God That Failed” and one of the world’s leading exponents of right-wing libertarian thought–and the consequent subject of many memes. As president and founder of the Property and Freedom Society, Hoppe hosts an annual international meeting of political radicals. Hoppe has taken a policy of declining all interviews so this is a rare chance to see him discuss his work, being a dad, studying with Murray Rothbard and, yes, telling a joke.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 194. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Michael Malice (USA), The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: The God That Failed. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 193. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), The Cultural Background of the Austrian School PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 192. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Pascal Salin (France), On Understanding France and French Intellectual History. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 191. This panel discussion is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Sean Gabb (England), X (England), Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Discussion, Q&A. PFS 2018 Playlist. Note: Up until today we have been releasing talks from previous meetings at a pace of 5 episodes per week, to get past the backlog. Since we are almost caught up, starting with this episode we are switching to a release schedule of once per week, on Mondays. The material from the upcoming 2022 meeting will start being released in June 2023.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 190. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), The Psychology of Multiculturalism. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 189. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Why Are Western Europeans So Naive? An Empathic Cultural Anthropology. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 187. This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Sean Gabb (England), How Rome Fell and Byzantium Continued for Another Millennium. For further information, see the written version, including the mentioned maps. PFS 2018 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 186. This bonus talk from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society is an interview conducted on site during the meeting: Interview with Stephan Kinsella—Private Law in a Libertarian Society (Grosse Freiheit TV). See also KOL226 | Grosse Freiheit TV Interview: Private Law in a Libertarian Society. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 185. This bonus talk for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society is Professor Hoppe’s “Coming of Age with Murray”, Keynote speech, Mises Institute 35th Anniversary Gala (Oct. 7, 2017). PFS 2017 Playlist. For related, see Murray N. Rothbard and the Ethics of Liberty, Introduction to the new edition of Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty (New York: New York University Press, 1998) Hoppe, Libertarianism and the “Alt-Right” (PFS 2017) Hoppe’s Review of Rothbard’s Festschrift Introduction to Democracy: The God That Failed Hoppe’s remarks in Presentation of the 2015 Murray N. Rothbard Medal of Freedom Other links in Kinsella, Hoppe: A Précis

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 184. This panel discussion is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Stephan Kinsella (USA), David Dürr (Switzerland), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Discussion, Q&A. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 183. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Libertarianism and the “Alt-Right”. PFS 2017 Playlist. An article based on the talk has been published as Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Libertarianism and the Alt-Right: In Search of a Libertarian Strategy for Social Change,” The Libertarian Alliance (UK) (20 Oct. 2017) (also at VDare). Related talks: Hans Hermann Hoppe, “On The Ethics of Argumentation” (PFS 2016) Q&A (TBD) “Coming of Age with Murray”, Mises Institute 35th Anniversary Gala Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Realistic Libertarianism as Right-Libertarianism” (PFS 2014) The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years (video) For a silly response, see Bill Wirtz, Hey Hoppe, this is what the ‘Stupids for Liberty’ do (Nov. 14, 2017) (archive)

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 182. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. David Dürr (Switzerland), Suing the State for Independence. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 181. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (USA), Reflections on the Theory of Contract. PFS 2017 Playlist. See shownotes, slides, transcript, and related links at Kinsella on Liberty ep. 225.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 180. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Political Correctness in Medical Journals. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 179. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), Janusz Korwin-Mikke (Poland), Patrik Schumacher (Germany/UK), Titus Gebel (Germany), Discussion, Q&A. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 178. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Titus Gebel (Germany), Creating Free Private Cities. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 177. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Patrik Schumacher (Germany/UK), Free Market Urban Order—Urbanism beyond Planning. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 176. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Janusz Korwin-Mikke (Poland), The EU Parliament: A Report from Inside the Insane Asylum. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 175. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), Understanding Hungary and the Hungarians. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 174. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), The Ethics of Capital Incomes. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 173. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Entrepreneurs: Heros, Crooks, and Visionaries. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 172. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Sean Gabb (England), X (England), Bruno Bandulet (Germany), Peter Wong (Lion Rock Institute) (Hong Kong), Discussion, Q&A. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 171. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Peter Wong (Lion Rock Institute) (Hong Kong), The Return of the Middle Kingdom: Will It Be Stopped? Should It Be Stopped? PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 170. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Bruno Bandulet (Germany), The Looting of Germany: 1945–Present. PFS 2017 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 168. This talk is from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. It contains introductory comments by Professor Hoppe including a remembrance of Ralph Raico, who had recently passed.1 The main talk is: Sean Gabb (England), The Value of the Greek and Roman Classics. PFS 2017 Playlist. See the article version of this speech here.   See Ralph Raico, R.I.P.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 167. This panel discussion is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Walter Block (USA), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), David Dürr (Switzerland), Peter Thiel, In Praise of Free Market Monopoly; Doug Casey (USA), “Discussion—Q&A.” PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 166. This talk is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Doug Casey (USA), On Prospecting the World’s Regions. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 165. This talk is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. David Dürr (Switzerland), On How to Take the State to Court. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 164. This is Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe‘s (Germany/Turkey) introduction before the afternoon sessions on Day 3 of the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 163. This talk is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), On the Ethics of Argumentation. Transcript below. PFS 2016 Playlist. Related: Kinsella’s “Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (May 27, 2011). See youtube below: Hans-Hermann Hoppe The Ethics of Argumentation [Originally published at The Libertarian Alliance Blog, 9 Oct. 2016. Version below edited to include links and notes.]1 I At repeated requests from many sides – and given my already advanced stage in life – I have deemed it appropriate to take this opportunity to speak a bit about myself. Not about my private life, of course, but about my work. And not about all subjects—and there are several to which I have made some, however little contribution in the course of the years—but one subject only. The one subject, where I consider my contribution the most important: the apriori of argumentation as the ultimate foundation of law. I developed the central argument during the mid-1980s, in my own mid-thirties. Not from scratch, of course. I took up ideas and arguments previously developed by others, in particular my first principal philosophy teacher and Doktorvater, Jürgen Habermas, and even more importantly Habermas’ long-time friend and colleague, Karl-Otto Apel, as well as by the philosopher-economists Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. In any case, however, the argument I ultimately developed appeared to me essentially new and original. (Around the same time, Frank van Dun, living in Flanders and writing in Dutch, and having been brought up in very different philosophical circumstances and traditions, had come up with a very similar argument and conclusion. Yet at the time, we both did not know of each other’s work and would only find out years later.) In a nutshell – I shall come to more detailed explanations and clarifications shortly – the argument runs like this: That: All truth-claims – all claims that a given proposition is true, false, indeterminate or un-decidable or that an argument is valid and complete or not – are raised, justified and decided upon in the course of an argumentation. That: The truth of this proposition cannot be disputed without falling into contradiction, as any attempt to do so would itself have to come in the form of an argument. Hence, the“Apriori” of argumentation. That: Argumentation is not free-floating sounds but a human action, i.e., a purposeful human activity employing physical means – a person’s body and various external things – in order to reach a specific end or goal: the attainment of agreement concerning the truth-value of a given proposition or argument. That: While motivated by some initial disagreement, dispute or conflict concerning the validity of some truth-claim, every argumentation between a proponent and an opponent is itself a conflict-free – mutually agreed on, peaceful – form of interaction aimed at resolving the initial disagreement and reaching some mutually agreed-on answer as to the truth-value of a given proposition or argument. That: The truth or validity of the norms or rules of action that make argumentation between a proponent and an opponent at all possible – the praxeological presuppositions of argumentation – cannot be argumentatively disputed without falling into a pragmatic or performative contradiction. That: The praxeological presuppositions of argumentation, then, i.e., what makes argumentation as a specific form of truth-seeking activity possible, are twofold: a) each person must be entitled to exclusive control or ownership of his physical body (the very mean that he and only he can control directly, at will) so as to be able to act independently of one another and come to a conclusion on his own, i.e., autonomously; and b), for the same reason of mutually independent standing and autonomy, both proponent and opponent must be entitled to their respective prior possessions, i.e., the exclusive control of all other, external means of action appropriated indirectly by them prior to and independent of one another and prior to the on-set of their argumentation. And that: Any argument to the contrary: that either the proponent or the opponent is notentitled to the exclusive ownership of his body and all prior possessions cannot be defended without falling into a pragmatic or performative contradiction. For by engaging in argumentation, both proponent and opponent demonstrate that they seek a peaceful, conflict-free resolution to whatever disagreement gave rise to their arguments. Yet to deny one person the right to self-ownership and prior possessions is to deny his autonomy and his autonomous standing in a trial of arguments. It affirms instead dependency and conflict, i.e., heteronomy, rather than conflict-free and autonomously reached agreement and is thus contrary to the very purpose of argumentation. When I had worked out this argument at last, I

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 162. This talk is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Walter Block (USA), “Market Failure” – Fact or Fiction? PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 161. This is Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe‘s (Germany/Turkey) introduction before the morning sessions on Day 3 of the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 160. This panel discussion is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Heiner Rindermann (Germany), Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof (Germany), Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey): “Discussion—Q&A”. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 159. This talk is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Norman Stone† (UK/Turkey), On Politics and Religion. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 158. This talk is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), “On Bogus Illnesses and Their Enablers”. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 155. This talk is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Heiner Rindermann (Germany), “Cognitive and Cultural ‘Enrichment’ of Europe by Immigration”. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 153. This panel discussion is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Olivier Richard (Switzerland), Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), X (England), Sean Gabb (England), Daniel Model (Liechtenstein; Model Holding), “Discussion—Q&A.” PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 151. This talk is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Sean Gabb (England), “Margaret Thatcher—Hero or Villain?” PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 149. This is Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe‘s (Germany/Turkey) introduction before the afternoon talks on Day 1 of the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 147. This talk is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), On the Rise and Fall of the University. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 147. This talk is from the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Olivier Richard (Switzerland), On Free and Compulsory Education. PFS 2016 Playlist.

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 146. This is Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe‘s (Germany/Turkey) introduction before the morning sessions on Day 1 of the 2016 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. (Recorded Sept. 2, 2016) PFS 2016 Playlist.