Free To Choose Media Podcast
Free To Choose Media
The Free To Choose Media Podcast takes some of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century and brings them right to your streaming device. Hear the ideas of Milton Friedman, along with several other Nobel Laureates, as they conduct speeches and hold conversations about the very freedoms we are still fighting for today. Come back each week to see why these truly are not just ideas for our time, but ideas for all time.
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Dec 2, 2021 • 0sec
Episode 152 – The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 3 (Podcast)
In today’s podcast, when President Kennedy was confronted by the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, he formed an executive committee to assist him in deciding on a course of action. Twenty years later, Professor Richard Neustadt interviewed General Maxwell Taylor to reflect on Taylor’s key role on that committee and in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Here is “The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 3.”
Nov 18, 2021 • 0sec
Episode 151 – The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 2, Part II (Podcast)
In today’s podcast, we present part two of a panel moderated by Richard Neustadt with four members of President John F. Kennedy’s executive committee–Robert S. McNamara, George W. Ball, McGeorge Bundy, and U. Alexis Johnson–as they reconvene twenty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis to reflect on the lessons learned. Here is “The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 2, Part II.” Listen now.
Nov 11, 2021 • 0sec
Episode 150 – Free To Choose 1980 – Who Protects the Worker? – Discussion (Podcast)
In today’s podcast, Milton Friedman is joined by other guests at the University of Chicago. They discuss some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of “Who Protects the Worker?,” part of volume eight of the ten-part public television series “Free To Choose.” Listen now.
Nov 4, 2021 • 0sec
Episode 149 – Free To Choose 1980 – Who Protects the Worker? (Podcast)
Unions and government both try to protect workers but it usually comes at the expense of other workers. Both end up restricting freedom. Milton Friedman explains how the competition of employers for the talents of workers leads to the highest wages and best working conditions. Today’s podcast is “Who Protects the Worker?” Listen now.
Oct 28, 2021 • 0sec
Episode 148 – The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 2, Part I (Podcast)
In today’s podcast, twenty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Richard Neustadt moderates a panel of four members of President John F. Kennedy’s executive committee–Robert S. McNamara, George W. Ball, McGeorge Bundy, and U. Alexis Johnson–as they reconvene to reflect on the lessons learned. Here is “The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 2, Part I.” Listen now.
Oct 21, 2021 • 0sec
Episode 147 – Free To Choose 1980 – Who Protects the Consumer? – Discussion (Podcast)
In today’s podcast, Milton Friedman is joined by other guests at the University of Chicago. They discuss some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of “Who Protects the Consumer?,” part of volume seven of the ten-part public television series “Free To Choose.” Listen now.
Oct 14, 2021 • 0sec
Episode 146 – Free To Choose 1980 – Who Protects the Consumer? (Podcast)
Various government agencies have been created on the claim that they will protect the consumer. These agencies restrict freedom, stifle innovation, and become agents for the industries or groups they are intended to regulate. Friedman explains how the free market and competition are the best protection for consumer interests. Today’s podcast is “Who Protects the Consumer?” Listen now.
Oct 7, 2021 • 0sec
Episode 145 – The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 1 (Podcast)
In today’s podcast, when President Kennedy was confronted by the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, he formed an executive committee to assist him in deciding on a course of action. Twenty years later, four members of that committee reflect on the lessons learned. Here is “The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 1.” Listen now.
Sep 30, 2021 • 0sec
Episode 144 – Free To Choose 1990 –The Failure of Socialism – Discussion (Podcast)
In today’s podcast, Milton Friedman is joined by guests Dr. Gordon Tullock of the University of Arizona and Dr. Henry Levin of Stanford University for an updated discussion of some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of “The Failure of Socialism,” part of a 1990 update to the ten-part public television series “Free To Choose.” Listen now.
Sep 23, 2021 • 0sec
Episode 143 – Free To Choose 1980 – What’s Wrong With Our Schools? – Discussion (Podcast)
In today’s podcast, Milton Friedman is joined by other distinguished guests at the University of Chicago. They discuss some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of “What’s Wrong With Our Schools,” part of volume six of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. Listen now.
