That's right, its a book authored by Stephan Kinsella. Since you're a fan you already know that Stephan granted full rights to others to create an audiobook. Since I can't read a 804-page book quickly enough to release it in audio, I'm doing it episodically. I hope you enjoy.
-Michael Williams, December 2024
As noted above, the material here was originally intended to appear
in footnote 21, above. Due to its length, I include this material in this
appendix.
2 Jan 2026
Part 3 Chapter 10 Inalienability and Punishment: A Reply to George Smith
George H. Smith published “A Killer’s Right to Life” in Liberty magazine in
1996, making various arguments and claims about inalienability. I responded in
the Journal of Libertarian Studies, in a piece which complements and supplements
my previous articles on the inalienability and punishment issues, now
chapters 5 and 9 in the present volume. Despite my disagreements with Smith
on this issue, I respect and have learned from his work, such as his great essay
“Justice Entrepreneurship in a Free Market.”
30 Dec 2025
Part 3 Chapter 9 A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability
While in law school in Louisiana (the only civil law state in the US), I was
introduced to the Roman and civil law and also to contract law and theory.
It was during my first-year contracts class, in 1988, that I conceived of my
“estoppel” based theory of rights. I also became interested in the Rothbard-Evers
title-transfer theory of contract. I presented a paper on this topic in 1999,
integrating the views of Rothbard and Evers with various concepts from the
civil law and the common law. I later published an article on this in the
Journal of Libertarian Studies, upon which this chapter is based.
29 Dec 2025
Part 3 Chapter 8 Causation and Aggression
In 2001, I presented a paper entitled “Reinach and the Property Libertarians
on Causality in the Law” at a Mises Institute symposium on Adolf Reinach
and Murray Rothbard. I later collaborated with Patrick Tinsley on an article
based on this paper, published in 2004 in a related symposium issue in
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. This chapter is a substantially
revised version of that article.
23 Dec 2025
Part 2 Chapter 7 Defending Argumentation Ethics
This chapter is based on an article originally published in 2002 on the
now-defunct site Anti-state.com (http://Anti-state.com), as a response to an article by Robert
P. Murphy and Gene Callahan (hereinafter, MC), on the same forum,
which was critical of Hoppe’s argumentation ethics.
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22 Dec 2025
Part 2 Chapter 6 Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights
After publishing articles on my estoppel-based theory of rights and
Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “argumentation ethics” defense of libertarian rights
between 1992 and 1996, I published an article surveying estoppel, argumentation
ethics, and similar theories in the Journal of Libertarian Studies in
1996, entitled “New Rationalist Directions in Libertarian Rights Theory.”
An updated version of this article was published as “Dialogical Arguments
for Libertarian Rights” in The Dialectics of Liberty in 2019. This chapter is
based on the latter piece, and is updated still further.
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17 Jan 2025
Chapter 5 Appendix The Justice Of Responsive Force
In Part III.C above, I discussed the legitimacy of punishing aggressors, that is, the justice of responsive force—force that is in response to aggression, or initiated force. As noted above, the material here was originally intended to appear in footnote 44, above. Due to its length, I include this material in this appendix.
17 Jan 2025
Part 2 Chapter 5 A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights
Libertarian scholar David Boaz discusses how a libertarian theory of punishment can protect individual rights and promote a free society by establishing a moral framework for just consequences.
31 Dec 2024
Chapter 4 Appendix
The Appendix includes references to concepts put forth by Rothbard, Hoppe, Locke, and even Communism proponent G. A. Cohen.
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31 Dec 2024
Part 2 Chapter 4 How We Come To Own Ourselves
Continuing to Part 2, Rights, of the Audiobook, I have demarked it Season 2. Unlike most podcasts that make you wait a year for Season 2, this is an Audiobook and I'm producing as quickly as possible.
-Mike Williams, December 2024
Chapter 4: Originally published in Mises Daily (Sep. 7, 2006). The illustrating photochosen by an editor at Mises.org for the original article inspired the imageused on the back cover of this book. See my post “The Story of a Libertarian Book Cover (https://stephankinsella.com/2011/03/the-story-of-a-libertarian-book-cover/),” StephanKinsella.com (http://StephanKinsella.com) (March 4, 2011).
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30 Dec 2024
Part 1 Chapter 3
Originally published at LewRockwell.com (http://LewRockwell.com) ( Jan. 20, 2004; https://perma.cc/ (https://perma.cc/QAJ6-KHKN)
QAJ6-KHKN (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 (https://perma.cc/N8UX-4PX4)).
See also Kinsella, “The Irrelevance of the Impossibility of Anarcho- (https://stephankinsella.com/2009/08/the-irrelevance-of-the-impossibility-of-anarcho-libertarianism/)
Libertarianism (https://stephankinsella.com/2009/08/the-irrelevance-of-the-impossibility-of-anarcho-libertarianism/),” Mises Economics Blog (Aug. 20, 2009).
This concludes Part 1: Libertarianism
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30 Dec 2024
Chapter 2 Appendices
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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30 Dec 2024
Part 1 Chapter 2 What Libertarianism Is
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/ (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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27 Dec 2024
Part 1 Chapter 1 How I Became a Libertarian
First published as part of the LewRockwell.com (http://LewRockwell.com) autobiography series initiated
by Walter Block, as “How I Became A Libertarian,” LewRockwell.com (http://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 (http://www.stephankinsella.com/publications/#biographical).
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27 Dec 2024
LFFS Foreword by Hans Hermann Hoppe
Kinsella's friend and luminary Hans Hermann Hoppe sets the stage for Kinsella's great work.
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27 Dec 2024
LFFS Preface
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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27 Dec 2024
LFFS Acknowledgments
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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23 Dec 2024
Legal Foundations of a Free Society: Main Titles
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.
If you wish to contribute to this effort, INSTEAD I ask you to consider kicking a few bucks to the Mises Institute, https://mises.org/giving (https://mises.org/giving)
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