Free to Choose: Watch the original PBS series now

Nick Gillespie | August 18, 2009

As Brian Doherty notes below, Rose Friedman helped create one of the great statements about the benefits of a libertarian world, Free to Choose (the book version of Free to Choose that my parents received way back when from the Book of the Month Club was instrumental in my own thinking about public policy and just about everything else). 

The original 1980 PBS series is available for free streaming at IdeaChannel.tv (so is an updated 1990 series, featuring introductions by folks such as Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Watch it all here.

Comments

mark|8.18.09 @ 4:50PM|#

I still had to shudder a bit when Don Rumsfeld came on...

mark|8.18.09 @ 4:56PM|#

But you gotta love watching a young Thomas Sowell take down the ivory tower, welfare-doling liberals.

T|8.18.09 @ 5:02PM|#

Strangely, I just picked up a version of it the other day and am reading it now.

|8.18.09 @ 5:10PM|#

I also read my parents copy of "Free To Choose" from a book of the month club when I was about 16.

Biff|8.18.09 @ 5:21PM|#

"The original 1980 PBS series is available for free streaming at IdeaChannel.tv (so is an updated 1990 series, featuring introductions by folks such as Arnold Schwarzenegger)."

Which one should zI watch? Which one? God I hate choosing. Damn you big freedom!

Larry|8.18.09 @ 5:46PM|#

Biff, the updated version is a slightly condensed version of the 1980's series, but the debates at the end are different.

Biff |8.18.09 @ 5:49PM|#

This is so hard! Oooohhhh.

LFB|8.18.09 @ 6:10PM|#

The DVD set of the series is available for sale from Laissez Faire Books at www.lfb.org.

|8.19.09 @ 2:09AM|#

Just starting watching episode 1 of the 1980 version. Anyone else realize that they are using the exact same arguments/complaints in the roundtables as in today's political debate? Christ all-mighty! 30 years and nothing has changed other than hairstyles!

Me|8.19.09 @ 7:34AM|#

LFB | August 18, 2009, 6:10pm | #

The DVD set of the series is available for sale from Laissez Faire Books at www.lfb.org.

For sale? Bah! Modern libertarians are also free to choose...to file-share!

You|8.19.09 @ 7:38AM|#

Christ all-mighty! 30 years and nothing has changed other than hairstyles!

Kind of makes you want to stop commenting on the blogs and crawl into a hole, doesn't it? We're making no meaningful difference, you know. Have a nice day.