Jennifer Burns: belief

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…How else did David Friedman, Milton’s son, influence him? As far as I can tell, David was an important connection for Milton Friedman to the student libertarian movement that coalesced, really, around ending the draft. David was involved in conservative student organizations at Harvard and then at Chicago, where he was a graduate student. Friedman always had a connection to those communities. There are some times, I forget exactly where, but I’ve seen some libertarian material from the ’70s where David convinced Friedman to do an interview or call in to a conference. For libertarians in the late ’60s and ’70s, Friedman was a bit of a court intellectual. He was too statist for their tastes, but he stayed engaged with them. I think David was the conduit. David, at that point, was much more of an anarcho-capitalist than his father. I think he helped the elder Friedman keep his pulse on what was happening with a younger and more radical student movement. What was Milton’s courtship of Rose Friedman like?…

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