KOL230 | Yale Political Union Debate: Resolved: IP Should Be Abolished!

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 230. This is my own audio recording of my debate on IP at the Yale Political Union (Facebook) on Tues., Dec. 5, 2017. My opponent was attorney Candice Cook. My initial argument begins at 4:40 and my closing argument at 1:42:20. As expected, I lost the debate, by vote of the students, by a vote of about 2:1. I laid out a systematic argument against IP based the nature of human action, human interaction, and property rights. Lots of explicit Marxism and socialism among the students, but it was fun and they were very civil and respectful. My initial presentation was a very condensed (15-20 minutes) but very fundamental explanation of the nature of property rights and why intellectual property is totally incompatible with property rights. Video of the debate is expected to be posted later and will be added here at that time. (I spoke on IP before a smaller student group back in 2014—see KOL151 | Yale Speech: Balancing Intellectual Property Rights and Civil Liberties: A Libertarian Perspective.)