As you know, earlier this month we published, on Murray Rothbard’s 100th Birthday, March 2, 2026, Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment online in digital format, and we are working on kindle, paperback, and deluxe hardcover/cloth editions which will be released well before our upcoming 20th Anniversary PFS meeting in September.
Appreciative of our efforts at the PFS to prepare and publish this book, and aware that such books are usually produced at a loss, some PFS members and friends have expressed an interest in helping to defray PFS costs associated with this and other projects. Accordingly, we will list Patrons in the published version of the book and provide a signed copy of the hardback to each Patron (after the 2026 PFS Annual Meeting, when many of the contributors will be available for signing). [continue reading…]
Als Gülçin und ich im Mai 2006 das Karia Princess für das erste Treffen der Property and Freedom Society (PFS) eröffneten, waren viele organisatorische und inhaltliche Fragen in unseren Köpfen noch ungelöst. Es dauerte Jahre des Experimentierens und Lernens: des Definierens, Verfeinerns und Optimierens des Produkts, das heute die PFS und ihr jährlicher Salon ist. [continue reading…]
Danish translation of A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline forthcoming, by Rasmus Hansen, co-founder SHOP21.DK, who has previously published several Mises Institute books into Danish in collaboration with Jonas Ejlersen (Anatomy of the State, For a New Liberty, What Has Government Done to Our Money?).
PFS 2026, the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, hosted by Drs. Gülçin & Hans Hoppe, will be held in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess from Thursday, September 17, 2026to Tuesday, September 22, 2026. As the inaugural meeting was held in 2006 and the 2020 meeting was canceled due to covid restrictions, this will be the twentieth annual meeting of the PFS held over the past twenty years. [continue reading…]
The PFS will publish a collection of tributes to and commentary on Rothbard, on the occasion of his 100th birthday on March 2, 2026, from several longtime PFS members, including many who knew him personally.
The commentary will be published on the PFS website on March 2, and later this year as a small book, Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment, Stephan Kinsella and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, eds. (forthcoming 2026). Further details here.
“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.
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)
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…]
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), StephanKinsella (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).
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)
The Pope, the Libertarian, and the Angelic Doctor Walk Into a Bar…
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.
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…]
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.
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.
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