The Best of Reason: Milton Friedman Was No Conservative

A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.

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The Best of Reason: Milton Friedman Was No Conservative

This week's featured article is "Milton Friedman Was No Conservative" by Brian Doherty.

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses

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[VULGAR MADMAN]

I’ve got news for you Brian, the left hate libertarians at least as much as it hates conservatives. Nice try though.

[minnix]

Don't forget the right is no stranger to hating libertarians as well. If I had a nickel for every time I was told by a right-winger to "love it or leave it" or to "go to Somalia".

[VULGAR MADMAN]

The left wants to put you in a shallow grave.

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[JesseAz]

Is that you Jussie?

You may not have noticed but it is the left demanding segregation in schools and such.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Well the right is in favor of voter suppression.

Both teams suck.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

Not letting dead, or illegal immigrants voting rights equals voter suppression.

[Mother's Lament]

"If I had a nickel for every time I was told by a right-winger to “love it or leave it”

...you'd be broke, you lying fuck.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

Lol!

[StevenF]

If you had a dollar for every time someone ACTUALLY on the right said that, you would be BROKE. You are allowing leftists to falsely define right and left.

[StevenF]

Conservatives seek to CONSERVE something. American conservatives seek to conserve the PRINCIPLES on which the Constitution is based. HONEST libertarians ARE conservatives by that DEFINITION.
Leftists don't hate libertarians "as much as" but merely AS conservatives.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Conservatives vs progs?

There is enough evidence to hate both.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

If only there were a particular philosophy that catered to your “unique” proclivities.

[Mother's Lament]

Epsteinism, and it's incredibly popular amongst the oligarchs Buttplug fetishizes.

[Chumby]

Boaf Sidez

[sarcasmic]

Progs are evil people with evil intentions. Conservatives are good people with good intentions. Anyone who says different is a leftist.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Hmmm, Elon Musk declares X-Twitter open for pro Nazi comments and advertisers flee?

What is the problem here?

[JesseAz]

Youre really concerned about MMFA and their false reporting i see.

[Mother's Lament]

"Elon Musk declares X-Twitter open for pro Nazi comments and advertisers flee"

I hope he sues you and your fifty-centing ass, right alongside Media Matters.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Wow, you really hate free speech.

If Musk goes full Nazi then free speech is the antidote.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

These guys probably haven't even seen the story where Elon Musk explicitly praises - not just retweets, but praises - some dude's tweet that pushed the same anti-Semitic bullshit that the Tree of Life shooter from Pittsburgh wrote in his manifesto. Because why would The Federalist or Breitbart run with that story?

[VULGAR MADMAN]

Stop lying fatso.

[charliehall]

That wasn't a lie.

[StevenF]

You actually REFUSE to see the FACTS. The claim he explicitly praises Nazis is a FLAT OUT LIE. The again, so is your username. You are not even remotely an individualist. You are a dyed in the wool victim of indoctrination.

[charliehall]

Musk retweets neo-Nazis. And he welcomes actual Nazis on his site. Then he whines that businesses don't want to associate with that. Crybaby.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2]

Neo-Nazi falls in Florida approval rating:

Matt Gaetz at 21% approval rating in Florida, poll says
Jim Little
Pensacola News Journal

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/politics/2023/11/21/congressman-matt-gaetz-at-21-approval-following-house-speaker-drama/71653429007/

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Uh-oh. Cancel culture is back.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/steve-bannons-cfo-skewers-vivek-ramaswamy-declares-any-maga-influencer-still-platforming-him-part-of-the-problem/

Steve Bannon's outfit is demanding that the rest of MAGA-world 'cancel' Vivek.

[charliehall]

The MAGA world has ALWAYS been okay with cancel culture as long as they are the ones doing the canceling.

[Chumby]

ESPN

Lucic, 35, did not speak at his arraignment Tuesday morning. A plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf, and a pretrial hearing was set for Jan. 19. As a condition of his bail, Lucic was prohibited from abusing his wife and from consuming alcohol.

No shit.

[charliehall]

Milton Friedman supported universal health insurance. So did Friedrich Hayek.

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