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Slow-Cooker Shepherd’s Pie and Other Recipes
A few weeks ago my wife and I tried this Williams-Sonoma recipe: Slow-Cooker Shepherd’s Pie. It’s really good. We have some family coming to visit from Louisiana, so we are making it tomorrow for...
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My little frog, Amphibeneur
I used to publish articles, columns, and letters to the editor in high school, in local newspapers (in Baton Rouge) and then, while at LSU (1983-91), in the LSU Daily Reveille. I was a columnist for a...
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My Epitaph
My parents’ recent selection of their tombstones got me ta thinkin’. I think the epitaph I’d like would be: Father, Husband, Libertarian.
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Lea’s Ham Sandwiches
From a LRC post in 2006: Re: Reuben deviationists Posted by Stephan Kinsella on September 12, 2006 10:18 PM Okay guys, I have to weigh in here: Sure corned beef sammiches are good (Corned Beef Academy...
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Ethan’s “Books” Haiku
My 8 year old recently brought home a few haikus he wrote at school. (A haiku is a type of Japanese poetry where you have 3 lines, with 5, 7, and 5 “on” (like a syllable);...
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Stephen Kinsella’s I am Not
Stephen Kinsella. Not me. This is the EU Competition lawyer guy. Over the years I on occasion get mistaken for other Kinsella’s. Our name is rare in the US. Usually when I sign a bill people say “hey...
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Letter to Mr. Owens about the Six Cities Problem
In 1978 or so, in seventh grade at St. George, a Catholic elementary school in Baton Rouge, one of my favorite teachers was Mr. Owens. In 1989, when I was in grad school, I sent him the following...
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KOL139 | Power and Market Report with Albert Lu
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 139. Albert Lu interviewed me for his Power and Market podcast, posted July 29, 2014. Unlike most interviews, we talked about education, career choices, and...
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Kinsella Clan Keeps Growing
No no, we’re done having kids. None of this prepper “have a ton of kids” stuff. Kinsella is for me an interesting name to have inherited (literally, as I’m adopted). It’s not too weird, hard to spell,...
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Remembering Tibor Machan, Libertarian Mentor and Friend: Reflections on a Giant
My memoriam for Tibor Machan, R.I.P., was published today at FEE.org: Remembering Tibor Machan, Libertarian Mentor and Friend: Reflections on a Giant. A local copy is repixeled below. Update: Jack...
View ArticleMy Six Year Old’s Helicopter Tax Evasion Scheme
Yesterday, totally out of the blue, my six year old drops this one on me. We had not even been talking about taxes or anything for weeks. Last serious political talk was right before Earth Day, when I...
View ArticleMy Niece Emily’s Beach Wedding
Just got back from a very nice beach wedding in Fort Walton, for my niece Emily Turner, who married Steven Crowe. It was at The Breakers; we stayed nearby at Waterscape, where Ethan had a lot of fun on...
View ArticleRomantic Means No Anniversary Presents
Today is my wife’s and my 17th wedding anniversary. We dated about 8 years so we’ve been together a quarter century now. Long time. I’ve long disliked artificial gift-giving obligations like...
View ArticleCareer Change
I’ve moved to libertarian scholarship full-time. Quit job, well mostly–working 1 day a week, mostly remotely. Rest of the time: full time libertarian and legal speaking, lecturing, publishing. Very...
View ArticleErudite, Scholarly, and Unfailingly Polite: To Sean Gabb on the Occasion of...
The following is my contribution to the “digital festschrift” for Sean Gabb, arranged by our mutual friend Keir Martland, in honor of Sean’s 60th birthday. Other entries so far: SEAN GABB TURNS SIXTY,...
View Article“No Offense, Kinsella”
I have had a private freewheeling libertarian email discussion list for many years, and many private memes have emerged. I used to gaslight someone by adding “No offense, John” after a comment that I...
View ArticleThe Basset Hound (1981)
A short story I wrote in high school, 1980-82 or so. The Basset Hound The Basset Hound leisurely trotted down the center of the railroad tracks. The sky was vast, pale, and blue, and curved down an...
View ArticleThe Dawn of Knowledge (1980)
A short story I wrote in high school, 1980-82 or so. Around the time I decided to stop hunting. The Dawn of Knowledge The boy impatient clicked the safety of his 20 gauge shotgun on and off. As he...
View ArticleMeeting Rothbard and Hoppe: John Randolph Club, 1994
At the Mises Supporters Summit 2023 this past weekend, a group of us visited the archive room, which was fascinating. Tons of material from Mises, Rothbard, and others. Pat Barnett was there and we...
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