American Consequences - August 2021

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of the Free to Choose series and your wise suggestion that parking kids in front of a screen is a better way of penetrating their minds than hitting them over the head with musty old books. (Sad though that may be to say.) I’m in touch with the Free To Choose Network, and I will pass along your notion that this is one case where we should make an exception to the “no free lunch” rule. By the way, the FTC Network has an excellent documentary on Thomas Sowell available. I think you (and most American Consequences readers) will greatly enjoy it. Thank you again for your thoughtful Inbox comment. Hello PJ, Milton Friedman also wrote a book called M oney Mischief . You might point some of your readers to chapter 8, The Cause and Cure of Inflation which starts on page 189. Keep up the great work! You often provide the goal post when it is sometimes lost in the clouds. – Richard H. P.J. O’Rourke Reply: Richard, shame on me. I confess to never having read Money Mischief , but I shall do so promptly. And I hope other readers will as well. Thank you for the kind goalpost analogy. I hope I get closer to it in

Not too long ago, I re-watched it when it was still free to Prime members and reminded myself where I’d heard Friedman say something. Generally the segments begin with a presentation by Friedman and end with a discussion group. (The last episode substituted an interview for the discussion group.) Unfortunately Free to Choose on streaming (like all lunches according to another Friedman book title) is no longer free. I think I watched all of it, although not necessarily in order. Thomas Sowell is in one discussion group looking much much younger than he was even at that time and talking with the passion of a leftist radical, except that the content of what he said was more that of a libertarian one. The segment on education was especially well done, showing experiments in educational alternatives and the financial challenges they faced. If you want to reach young people, streaming might be better than books, at least for a start. – Phil D. P.J. O’Rourke Reply: Phil, a vivid memory of 1980 makes you a youngster in my eyes. I can’t remember what I had for lunch today. Thank you for your eloquent description

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