“Interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe, an Anti-Intellectual Intellectual” (pdf), English translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Potret Intelektual Anti-Intelektual (local version), interview (in Indonesian) by Sukasah Syahdan in Akal dan Kehendak (“Reason and Will,” an online weekly Journal on Liberty, Indonesia), Apr. 28, 2008. The English translation is below.
For other biographical material, see Hoppe Biography. [continue reading…]
Tom Woods, “Interview with Hans Hoppe,” Tom Woods Elite Letter, Issue #18 (Summer 2025), idem, “The Hans Hoppe Interview Concluded,” Tom Woods Elite Letter, Issue #19 (August 2025). Reprinted with permission. See other biographical pieces in Hoppe Biography.
Tom Woods, “Interview with Hans Hoppe,” Tom Woods Elite Letter, Issue #18 (Summer 2025)
The Tom Woods Elite Letter, Issue #18 (Summer 2025)
INTERVIEW WITH HANS-HERMANN HOPPE
Issue #18, Summer 2025 Double Issue
Dear Supporter:
Our good friend Hans-Hermann Hoppe was feeling under the weather for part of July, and that delayed the exclusive interview with him that I wanted to conduct for you. But here it is at last. [continue reading…]
From Hoppe, Fusillo, Kinsella Speak at Liberland Constitution Celebration:
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Stephan Kinsella (USA), and Alessandro Fusillo (Italy) were guests and speakers at the Liberland Christmas Party and Constitution Celebration held in Prague at the elegant Le Palais Art Hotel in Prague on 19 Dec. 2025. Invited by long-time PFS member and Liberland President and Founder Vít Jedlička, the gathering featured speeches, presentations, a press conference, and various awards, presentations, and announcements. President Jedlička awarded the Liberland Award of Merit to Professor Hoppe and Mr. Kinsella, and citizenship and passports to Mr. Kinsella and Mr. Fusillo. Photographs from the event may be be found at Prague 2025: Liberland Constitution Celebration: Photos; also Vit’s post at Facebook, my facebook post, and online at google drive (full set) and here (Kinsella set).
Professor Hoppe’s email address may be found at his Contact page. It is now [email protected].
Please note that hoppe @ mises.com should no longer be used.
“The Role of Intellectuals and Anti-intellectual Intellectuals” was originally published in The Libertarian Alliance (UK) (2008; republished Dec. 24, 2025) and later in The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline (Laissez Faire Books, 2012; Second Expanded Edition, Mises Institute, 2021). It was also republished as “Reflections on the Origin and the Stability of the State,” LewRockwell.com, June 23, 2008. Due to site changes at the Libertarian Alliance the original has been lost. It is being republished there on Dec. 24, 2025 (link forthcoming). [continue reading…]
Until someone writes a biography, there is biographical information in various personal and biographical pieces, such as:
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Romaric Godin, “Liechtenstein’s Feudal Prince Has Become a Libertarian Hero,” Jacobin (12.02.2025). Mentions Hoppe as well. Excerpt: [continue reading…]
From Sean Ring, “The Pope, the Libertarian, and the Angelic Doctor Walk Into a Bar…,” The Daily Reckoning (Nov. 20, 2025).
My good friend and host of the No Way Out podcast, Mark McGrath, likes to call me the second-most famous Villanova graduate in Italy. Of course, the most famous one sits on the Throne of St. Peter and has this uncanny penchant for pissing me off.
I had high hopes for Papa Leone, as we call him here in Italy. But time and again, from blessing ice blocks to condemning nation-states for enforcing borders, he’s let me down.
Juan Fernando Carpio has translated into Spanish Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “The Politics of Johann Wolfgang Goethe” (2012).
For more Spanish translations, click here.
Este año marca el 250.º aniversario del nacimiento de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. La mayoría de los europeos sabe que fue el más grande de los escritores y poetas alemanes, y una de las figuras colosales de la literatura universal. Menos conocido es que también fue un liberal clásico cabal, defensor del libre comercio y del libre intercambio cultural como claves del bienestar auténtico de las naciones y de una integración internacional pacífica. Además, se opuso firmemente a la expansión, centralización y unificación del poder político, argumentando que tales tendencias solo pueden obstaculizar la prosperidad y el verdadero desarrollo cultural. Por su relevancia en el proceso de construcción europea, me atrevo a nominar a Goethe como el europeo del milenio. [continue reading…]
Oscar Grau, “Abandoning Classical Liberalism with Hans-Hermann Hoppe,” Libertarian Institute (Oct. 16, 2025):
Law is a social institution independent of the existence of the state. Law explicitly recognizes the principles of justice, which can only be consistently recognized as universal for all times and places. These principles serve not only to deliver justice, but also to judge the justice of the laws applied in any society. The state usurps law by a combination of force and ideology, monopolizing the final say in society and setting itself up as the final judge of all conflicts and crimes, including those involving the state itself. The state thus becomes both judge and party in its own cases.
From StephanKinsella.com:
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Professor Hoppe’s monograph Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung: Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung von Soziologie und Ökonomie [Critique of Causal Scientific Social Research: Studies on the Foundation of Sociology and Economics] (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1983) has been translated into English by Andreas Tank. This monograph based is the published version of his “Habilitation” thesis, in Sociology and Economics, 1981, from the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
It is available here (pdf; word) and pasted below. [continue reading…]
The paper will be published in the forthcoming book based on the Mises Institute’s Revisionist History of War Conference (May 15, 2025—May 17, 2025). It also served as the basis for Professor Hoppe’s talk “Democratic Peace and Re-Education: the German Experience,” 2025 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 20, 2025) [PFP307]. See also PFP290 | Hoppe: Considerations and Reflections of a Veteran Reactionary Libertarian (AERC 2025), Professor Hoppe’s 2025 AERC speech in which he talked a bit about what he was planning to do in in his PFS 2025 talk.
On War, Democratic Peace, and Reeducation:
The “German Experience” in Reactionary Perspective
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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All States make war. Indeed, States owe their very origin to war and are the result of war.[1] But there are different sorts of wars. Historically, for instance, there exists the ideal-typical distinction and difference of and between monarchical wars on the one hand and democratic wars on the other.[2] [continue reading…]
From The Diversity Con, and Other Deceptions, with Auron MacIntyre | Tom Woods Show #2688, guest Auron MacIntyre (The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies, 2024) on Hoppe:
[27:32] Tom Woods: Some people’s contribution to thought is “woke is bad.” I agree—woke people are hopeless, their arguments baseless. But speculating beyond that isn’t allowed because the range of acceptable opinion is tiny, with “woke is bad” taking up most of it. You and Tucker touched on issues not even well-known enough to be third rails, like democracy’s long-term problems. You made comments, possibly derived from Hans-Hermann Hoppe, about monarchy and democracy’s incentive structures. There’s nothing wrong with discussing this, but it shocked someone. The response was pointing and shouting, no engagement, because we’re dealing with not very bright people on the far-left wing of our movement. How can you live under this system, see how impossible it is to move the needle even when most agree with you, and not question it? You can’t pinpoint who’s to blame or get anyone to listen—they just repeat slogans. What would it take for their brains to switch on?
Mark Thornton’s reading of “Hans Hoppe is No Revolutionary,” his contribution to A Life in Liberty: Liber Amicorum in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, edited by Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Stephan Kinsella (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2024).
Sebastian Wang, “Hoppe’s Lost Civilisation: A Review of A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline,” Libertarian Alliance Blog [UK] (21 August, 2025)
Hoppe’s Lost Civilisation: A Review of A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline
Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 2015,
113 pages, ISBN: 978-1-61016-592-4; download here, or preferably buy hereHans-Hermann Hoppe is a divisive thinker, though not in the way one might expect. He does not shout, nor does he sermonise. He reasons. And in A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline, published by the Mises Institute, he offers a calm but devastating account of how civilisation was built—and how it is now being dismantled, largely with democratic consent. It is not a cheerful book. But then again, neither is history.
At 113 pages, this is no sprawling chronicle. It is a tightly argued triptych of essays: “On the Origin of Private Property and the Family,” “From the Malthusian Trap to the Industrial Revolution,” and “From Aristocracy to Monarchy to Democracy.” Each follows logically from the last, and each takes aim at a cherished myth of modernity. Progress, Hoppe reminds us, is real. But it is also reversible.
Oscar Grau has translated the resignation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe and other academics from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany, due to the recently award announced in favor of the president of Argentina, Javier Milei.
For more Spanish translations, click here.
El 13 de julio de 2025, el Prof. Dr. Rolf W. Puster, el Prof. Dr. Jörg Guido Hülsmann y el Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe anunciaron su renuncia al Consejo Asesor Científico del Instituto Ludwig von Mises Alemania. Solo dos de los cinco miembros originales permanecen en dicho Consejo.
A continuación, Puster, Hülsmann y Hoppe explican los motivos de su dimisión. [continue reading…]
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Update: From Freiheitsrevolution in Argentinien | Mises Konferenz 2025 | Thorsten Polleit & Andreas Tiedtke | Begrüßung and The Freedom Revolution in Argentina – A Blueprint for the West
From the transcript:
0:08 – Opening Welcome and Conference Introduction
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Polleit
Dear ladies, dear gentlemen, dear guests, dear friends of freedom, we are very pleased that you are with us today and in the name of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany I warmly welcome you to the 13th Annual Conference. It is titled “The Freedom Revolution in Argentina: A Blueprint for the West.”
0:31 – Regrettable Absence of Argentine President
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Polleit
As you probably already know, the Argentine President, our guest, unfortunately had to cancel. He unfortunately cannot be here today. Recent unexpected events in Argentina so shortly before the election make it impossible for him. Milei has therefore asked to postpone the awards ceremony and we are now thinking about how to best design and keep it up to date, as it is handled. But regardless, today you can expect a truly exceptional and exciting program.
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Resignation from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany
On 13 July 2025, Prof. Dr. Rolf W. Puster, Prof. Dr. Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe declared their resignation from the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ludwig von Mises Institute Germany. Only two of the original five members remain on that Board.
Below, Puster, Hülsmann and Hoppe explain the reasons for their resignation. [continue reading…]
The Mises Institute has received a request from Shanghai University of Finance & Economics Press for permission to publish translations of A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline and Economy, Society, and History, along with two other Mises Institute publications:
Both books have passed the official appraisal of Shanghai Administration of Press and Publication, which is very good news. Furthermore, these two books will be included in the series of “Classics of the Austrian School of Economics”, in which we already have ten classic works translated and published in the market a few years ago.
