1. fan letter
From: Stephan Kinsella <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:56 PM
To: Dr. Walter Block <[email protected]>; Hans Hoppe <[email protected]>
Subject: Fwd: thank you letter
the kind of stuff that keeps me motivated.
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From: ondu <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 8:52 PM
Subject: thank you letter
To: <[email protected]>
Hi.
You dont know me but its ok – im happy reader/viewer of your stuff on the internet.
Become ancap cuz you wallter block and hoppe.
You have a brilliant thing for identification of problems and sharp ways of solving them.
You made my life unimaginately richer.
Thank you sir.
Wish nothing less but a good health and happiness to you and your family.
Best regards .
Ondrej Dulava
From: Walter Block <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:47 PM
To: Stephan Kinsella ; Hans Hoppe
Subject: RE: thank you letter
Dear Ondu:
Thanks for your kind words.
Best regards,
Walter
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Stephan Kinsella
2. Dueling
From: Stephan Kinsella
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:55 PM
To: Dr. Walter Block <[email protected]>
Subject: defending
Walter, you were great on Woods. Something occurred to me — not sure if you have covered this yet in your books but — how about dueling. I think Congress tried to outlaw it by constitutional amendment, and even some libertarians (like Patrick Burke) oppose it. Or down a notch–professional sports, football, boxing, car racing–where people take risks of injury, for fame or fortune.
On a related matter–when you talked about the middleman I was reminded of something in a recent podcast interview of Rob Bradley where he was going into all these contortions some oil traders etc. would engage in , in the 70s or 80s or whatever, to avoid all these energy regulations–they would sell the barrel many times through different parties to re-classify the barrel so as to lower taxes. The end result was a work-around, around the restrictions that would otherwise have restricted gasoline supply to consumers, but of course this was at the price of higher costs, and also, spread the profit around to newer parties, many of then truly unnecessary “middlemen” (because you don’t really need to trade a barrel of oil 10 times to get it to the consumer, but the regulations incentivized this).
Hope all is well.
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Stephan Kinsella
Dear Stephan:
Defending the Undefendable II
Part I. TRADE
Chapter 1. The Multinational Enterpriser…………………………………………….Page 13
Chapter 2. The Smuggler…………………………………………………………………..Page 25
Chapter 3. British Petroleum………………………………………………………………Page 45
Chapter 4. Nuclear Energy………………………………………………………………..Page 53
Chapter 5. The Corporate Raider……………………………………………………….Page 59
Part I. LABOR
Chapter 6. The Hatchet Man……………………………………………………………..Page 67
Chapter 7. The Home Worker……………………………………………………………Page 73
Chapter 8. Picket-Line Crosser ………………………………………………………….Page 79
Chapter 9. The Daycare Provider……………………………………………………….Page 97
Chapter 10. The Automator……………………………………………………………….Page 105
Part III. MEDICAL
Chapter 11.The Smoker……………………………………………………………………Page 117
Chapter 12. The Human-Organ Merchant…………………………………………..Page 127
Chapter 13. Breast-Milk Substitute Purveyor ………………………………………Page 139
Part IV. SEX
Chapter 14. Topless in Public……………………………………………………………Page 149
Chapter 15. Polygamous Marriage……………………………………………………Page 155
Chapter 16. Burning Bed………………………………………………………………….Page 159
Part V. DISCRIMINATORS
Chapter 17. The Sexist…………………………………………………………………….Page 167
Chapter 18. Peeping Tom…………………………………………………………………Page 177
Chapter 19. The Ageist…………………………………………………………………….Page 191
Chapter 20. The Homophobe……………………………………………………………Page 197
Chapter 21. Stereotyper……………………………………………………………………Page 207
Part VI. BUSINESS
Chapter 22. The War Toy Manufacturer…………………………………………….Page 223
Chapter 23. The Colorizer………………………………………………………………..Page 233
Chapter 24. The Baby Seller……………………………………………………………..Page 239
Chapter 25. Heritage Building Destroyer……………………………………………Page 243
Part VII. THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT
Chapter 26. The Bad Samaritan…………………………………………………………Page 255
Chapter 27. The Duelist……………………………………………………………………Page 267
Chapter 28. The Executioner…………………………………………………………….Page 275
Chapter 29. The Dwarf Thrower…………………………………………………………Page 285
Chapter 30. Intellectual Property Denier………………………………………………Page 291
Best regards,
Walter
3. Senility
From: Stephan Kinsella
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2020 7:16 PM
To: Walter Block <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: defending
I think I knew this! I blame it on memory and old age and entropy, and God. Mea culpa!
Dear Stepan:
We’re all getting senile. I’ve got less of an excuse than you. I WROTE this essay on dueling, and still wasn’t sure that I had; I had to check.
On at least 2 occasions, I wrote a second book review for the same book, forgetting that I had already reviewed that book!
And that’s several years ago.
I’ll betcha you can’t top that!
Block, Walter E. 1996. Book review of Hoppe, Hans Hermann, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy, Kluwer: Boston, 1993, in 49 Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Vol. VII, No. 1, March, pp. 161-165;
Block, Walter E. 2002. Book review of Hoppe, Han-Hermann, Democracy, The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order, 2001, in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 61, July, pp. 747-750;
Block, Walter E. 1991. Book review of Michael Levin, Feminism and Freedom, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1987, in The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. X, No. 1, pp. 97-106; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/10_1/10_1_6.pdf; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228278236_Levin_on_Feminism_and_Freedom?ev=prf_pub
Block, Walter E. 1989. Book review of Michael Levin, Feminism and Freedom, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1987, in Nomos, Vol. 7, No. 1, spring, pp. 25-26.
I’m afraid to look at these four publictions of mine, for fear that I took different perspectives on these two books each time I wrote about them. I doubt I did, but I’m too scared to look.
Look at the DATES on these 4 publications. I’ve been senile for a long time!
4:17 pm on June 14, 2020
