I am launching this podcast because I prefer to listen to books rather than read them. Kinsella is the great legal mind of the 21st Century. He put out this compendium of how best to live and form a society that works best (albeit not claiming perfection), assuming people desire to be Free.

There is irony in making audio to avoid text, because of course now I'm reading the text aloud. I do this in hopes that my fellows who prefer audio will hear these ideas, and spread them.

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Kinsella's friend and luminary Hans Hermann Hoppe sets the stage for Kinsella's great work.

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The issue of what property rights we have, or should have, what laws are just and proper, has long confronted mankind, and continues to be the subject of debate today.

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As noted in the Preface, I’ve been intensely involved in libertarianism for over forty years and, for almost thirty years, with the Mises Institute.

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First published as part of the LewRockwell.com autobiography series initiated by Walter Block, as “How I Became A Libertarian,” LewRockwell.com (December 18, 2002). Later included as “Being a Libertarian” in I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians (compiled by Walter Block; Mises Institute 2010). Additional biographical pieces may be found at www.stephankinsella.com/publications/#biographical.

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Originally published in Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Guido Hülsmann & Stephan Kinsella, eds., Mises Institute, 2009). https://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/07/hoppe-festschrift-published/ The original author’s note thanked “fellow Hoppe aficionados Juan Fernando Carpio, Paul Edwards, Gil Guillory, Manuel Lora, and Patrick Tinsley for helpful comments.”

Note: There are Appendices to this chapter, that I will record as a future episode.

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I waited until now to explain my treatment of footnotes/endnotes, and Appendices.

I am not reading the footnotes, only the main body of text in the book. Usually an audiobook includes a free-download of a pdf, containing footnotes, graphs, and the like. But the book I am reading is itself a freely-downloadable pdf. So if you want to reference the footnotes, they are available for your access. Also, reading them would make the audio un-listenable.

I include Appendices as separate episodes. I assume some may want to skip them.

As Kinsella notes, Chapter Appendices were created when footnotes became longer than the page they are on. As such they are readable, and I presume, listen-able, for those who find them interesting. If that is you, enjoy! If not, Mark As Read in your pod-catcher and drive on.

-Mike Williams, December 2024

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Originally published at LewRockwell.com ( Jan. 20, 2004; https://perma.cc/QAJ6-KHKN); reprinted in Keith Knight, ed., The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes (2022; https://perma.cc/N8UX-4PX4).

See also Kinsella, “The Irrelevance of the Impossibility of Anarcho-Libertarianism,” Mises Economics Blog (Aug. 20, 2009).

This concludes Part 1: Libertarianism

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