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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Milton Friedman Dead at 94
UPDATE: I am going through piles of old Milton Friedman text and video. It is breathtaking—just incredible—how fresh and new and not-thoroughly-explored are the ideas of liberty and free markets. Or perhaps it is incredible how much has just been forgotten. I wonder how many people my age can credibly make the argument for free choice and against socialism. I suspect too few. I’m not entirely confident in my ability to make that argument against a quick-witted opponent. Milton Freidman, as Glenn Reynolds wrote just a few hours ago, is “someone has been plucked untimely at the age of 94,” and it is a rare set of whom that can be said.
UPDATE: In the below episode of Uncommon Knowledge, filmed on February 10, 1999, Peter Robinson (an occasional reader of this very page) interviews Milton Friedman on the question of libertarianism. Please don’t mind the minor lip synch issues.
UPDATE: More Friedman videos at Power Line Video.
Posted on November 16, 2006 05:03 PM. Permalink | E-mail This