Ilya Somin
“This excellent biography of Milton Friedman…The book reveals that Friedman is an old-fashioned, classical liberal,nota conservative. But that’s just a slight gripe with the subtitle. The book is reminding us what the case for capitalism is…In the book, Jennifer Burns illustrates that Milton...
In 1980, Milton Friedman presented his vision of how the free market might bring about world peace in a 10-hour PBS broadcast series calledFree to Choose. In aclipfrom the show (several versions are available on YouTube alone, totaling over 200,000 views, not counting multiple tribute videos...
The second volume of the biography of the educator, orator, political activist and writer Hubert H. Harrison is a significant contribution to the study of the roots of the Black radical tradition that emerged in the early 20thcentury. Jeffrey B. Perry’s meticulously researched “Hubert Harrison:...
In contrast to Bert Lahr’s new toned-down style,Milton Berle’soutlandish antics over at the Imperial Theatre had Gibbs wondering what the comedian’s vaudeville-style showSalutawas all about, if it was about anything. Whatever it was, it worked—Berle would enjoy a comedy career spanning ei...
According to the James Kaplan biography Irving Berlin,“The show had a successful tryout at Philadelphia’s Forrest Theatre in early September, although opening night was marred by an ugly incident all too in tune with the times: the stars Clifton Webb, Marilyn Miller, and Helen Broderick ...
Once the Kissinger biography is over, I assume Ferguson will want to return to his specialty, economic history. And what better topic than an exploration of mid-twentieth century Keynesianism. Ferguson can make use of this new research that was featured in Nature, explaining Keynes’s don’t-...
In recent years more influential among economists has been the monetarist interpretation of Milton Friedman, which did include a full-scale monetary history of what he calls the "Great Contraction." Friedman concentrated on the failures before 1933, and in his memoirs said the relief programs were...
volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, he began his political career in the Labour party, became the Conservative Party’s spokesman for Treasury affairs in the House of Lords, and was eventually forced out of the Conservative Party for his opposition to NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999...
Gary Friedman // Getty Images 1959: Chatty Cathy If you were born this year and enjoyed the gift of gab, you may have earned the nickname Chatty Cathy in honor of Mattel’s talking doll.She was discontinued in 1964,but has since been reissued twicefor collectors who may have missed out ...