The UK Libertarian

It’s been a while since I posted a classic Friedman video; I enjoy this one because it shows a typical lefty student getting owned and looking like he’s about to cry:

It’s awesome to see that before the days of the Internet there were people out there who knew their shit and were making things like this. I first encountered Walter Williams when I watched Friedman’s Free to Choose series but I never realised he’d made a full half hour documentary about how government programs (with [...]

Probably the greatest short piece of writing on the subject of free-market capitalism I’ve ever read. I know a lot of you will have already seen Leonard Read’s short story, but for those who haven’t I present it here–an absolute treat of prose and probably the single easiest way to convert sympathetic ears to our [...]

I’m going through a phase of watching David Friedman speeches; dude is awesome! Until just this moment I wasn’t even aware that he is Milton Friedman’s son! I am truly a terrible libertarian and deserve to be punched. I’m also ashamed to say that until today I wasn’t really aware of how economists used the term “market [...]

New John Stossel episode is here, and he’s talking about Milton’s Friedman’s seminal “Free to choose” TV series and book. Although Friedman wasn’t the most principled libertarian, he was always an exceptional speaker and most of what he said was great stuff. Parts 4 & 5 become incredibly frustrating when “professor” Barber shows up to [...]

Watching Schwarzenegger articulate what freedom means some 20 years ago is yet another reminder that politics corrupts everything. Just like Rand Paul, it doesn’t matter if the person “gets” freedom, or economics, once they get into the political process and want to actually win they become compromised, limp and ineffective. Is California today a state [...]