by Stephan Kinsella
on July 16, 2026
From PFS Blog
Rothbard Porto – Kinsella speaking and crowd
100 Years with Rothbard was held two weekends ago in beautiful Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, June 27, 2026, featuring and attended by a number of PFS members, including Professor Hoppe and Gülçin Imre Hoppe, Stephan Kinsella, Saifedean Ammous, Thomas Jacob, Greg and Joy Morin, and Alessandro and Domitia Fusillo. From the PFS side, Hoppe, Kinsella, and Ammous spoke at the conference, along with many other wonderful speakers (program). It was a wonderful event, attended by hundreds from Portugal and many other countries. Below is my report of the event, along with some photos of the event. [continue reading…]
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 13, 2026
I noted what a great time I had at the recent Rothbard event in Portugal: Rothbard Takes Portugal: 100 Years with Rothbard: A Personal Account. Among the people I met there was Paul Kogos, a passionate libertarian and Catholic from Brazil.
At dinner one night, I noticed his scapular so asked him about his Catholicism. We ended up talking atheism, sedevacantism, and whether Mises’s praxeology is compatible with God. I think this came up when he mentioned something about how Praxeology is compatible with man’s natural ends or something like that and I ended up responding that to the contrary one reason the very idea of God is nonsensical is because he cannot act because that would imply uneasiness, dissatisfaction, imperfection.
I have discussed such issues many times before, e.g. Mises on God and others collected there (see below), and I was not attempting to really press the case for atheism but just to observe that the notion of God does seem to be incompatible with praxeology and its assumptions. [continue reading…]
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 4, 2026
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 494.
This is my interview by Alex Buxeda of at Schweizer Monat [Swiss Monthly; linktree]; recorded June 22, 2026. Youtube shownotes:
Stephan Kinsella, patent attorney, legal theorist, and one of the leading critics of intellectual property sits with Alex Buxeda to explore whether ideas can be owned. Starting from first principles, they discuss why Kinsella argues that patents and copyrights are incompatible with property rights, the role of scarcity in economics, innovation without intellectual property, pharmaceutical patents, entrepreneurship, pricing, and the philosophical foundations of ownership.
Grok summary: We discussed why intellectual property is fundamentally incompatible with genuine property rights. Stephan Kinsella argued that patents and copyrights are not legitimate property but state-granted monopolies that violate real ownership of scarce, physical resources. He explained that ideas and knowledge are non-scarce and non-rivalrous — one person’s use does not prevent another’s — so enforcing IP requires aggression against others’ tangible property. We explored the flaws in common justifications for patents (especially in pharmaceuticals), the arbitrary nature of IP law, the myth that “creation” grants ownership, and how free competition and open knowledge flows drive far more innovation than government-protected monopolies. Kinsella also addressed the ethics of piracy, the distorting effects of the FDA and tariffs, and why emerging technologies like 3D printing and AI will increasingly undermine IP systems.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on June 29, 2026
