Free To Choose Media Podcast
222 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsThe 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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Episode 171 – How Scientists and Non-Scientists Look at Science (Podcast)
July 14, 2022 08:30 - 83.2 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “How Scientists and Non-Scientists Look at Science.” 1996 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Dr. Douglas Osheroff and science writer David Salisbury discuss the different views scientists and non-scientists have about science. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 170 – Conversation with Philip Anderson (Podcast)
June 30, 2022 08:30 - 72.9 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Conversation with Philip Anderson.” 1977 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Dr. Philip W. Anderson and California Institute of Technology Professor of Humanities Dan Kevles share fascinating and lively conversation. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 169 – Property and Freedom, Part 2 (Podcast)
June 16, 2022 08:30 - 29.1 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Property and Freedom, Part 2.” Recorded in 2000, Dr. James D. Gwartney, Chief Economist of the Joint Economic Committee, and Richard Pipes, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, continue the discussion about property rights, ownership, and responsibilities. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 168 – Property and Freedom, Part 1 (Podcast)
June 02, 2022 12:30 - 29.4 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Property and Freedom, Part 1.” Recorded in 1993, Ronald W. Jones, Xerox Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, and Richard Pipes, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, discuss property rights, ownership, and responsibilities. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 167 – Understanding Ancient North America (Podcast)
May 19, 2022 12:55 - 42.8 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Understanding Ancient North America.” Recorded in 1992, James Adovasio, Director of Anthropology & Archaeology at Mercyhurst College and Paul Zolbrod, Fredrick F. Seely Professor of English at Allegheny College ask “Can physical archaeology and the oral traditions of existing Native Americans be brought together in the search for better understanding of past cultures? Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Po...
Episode 166 – Conversation with Jonathan Hughes (Podcast)
May 05, 2022 13:06 - 55 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Conversation with Jonathan Hughes.” Recorded in 1987, Jonathan Hughes discusses American economic history, why the U.S. prospered in the past, and how to continue that success. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 165 – Teaching Science Fiction (Podcast)
April 21, 2022 08:30 - 30.2 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Teaching Science Fiction.” Recorded in 1999, Patrice Caldwell, Director of Institutional Renewal at Eastern New Mexico University, and celebrated science fiction author Jack Williamson discuss teaching science fiction. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 164 – Women and Management Styles (Podcast)
April 07, 2022 08:30 - 44.8 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Women and Management Styles.” Recorded in 1993, Judy B. Rosener, Professor of Management at UC Irvine and Virginia I. Postrel, Editor at Reason Magazine, discuss the results of Rosener’s research on the management styles of women. Rosener and Postrel debate whether the corporate culture properly values the unique perspective women bring to the workplace. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 163 – Science and Society (Podcast)
March 24, 2022 08:30 - 43.1 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Science and Society.” Recorded in 1999, Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and Nicolaas Bloembergen, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and 1981 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, discuss how science affects society and vice versa. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 162 – Trauma and Meaning (Podcast)
March 10, 2022 08:30 - 34.8 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Trauma and Meaning.” Recorded in 1993, UC Irvine Professor Roxanne Cohen Silver and Case Western Professor Roy F. Baumeister examine the ways in which victims are affected by the traumas which befall them. It is suggested that trauma’s real impact is not primarily the event itself, but the degree to which the victim’s beliefs are challenged by the trauma. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 161 – Democracy and Rent Seeking (Podcast)
February 24, 2022 08:30 - 28.6 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Democracy and Rent Seeking.” Recorded in 1992, Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan and Prof. Gordon Tullock discuss events in the public choice arena since the publication of their groundbreaking 1962 book, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 160 – His Thoughts: Glenn Loury (Podcast)
February 10, 2022 08:00 - 51.2 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “His Thoughts: Glenn Loury.” Glenn Loury was raised on the south side of Chicago in a predominantly black neighborhood. He discusses his opposition to affirmative action, his concern about many actions by black community leaders, and the appreciation of black achievement in the face of discrimination. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 159 – Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools (Podcast)
February 03, 2022 08:30 - 50.1 MBToday’s podcast is titled, “Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools”. This program traces Walter Williams’ rise from a child of the Philadelphia housing projects to become one of America’s most important authors and commentators and features the events of the 1960’s when Walter Williams realized “black people cannot make great progress until they understand the economic system.” It was then that he concluded that what America needed was to heed the words and the ideas of the Constitution. Listen now...
Episode 158 – Turmoil and Triumph: The George Shultz Years – Swords into Plowshares (Podcast)
January 20, 2022 13:35 - 50.6 MBToday’s podcast is “Swords into Plowshares,” episode three of the three-part public television documentary Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years. In this final episode, Shultz and Reagan meet with Gorbachev again in Iceland to determine the future of a nuclear world. In 1989, Shultz leaves the State Department and returns to the world of ideas as a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He continues his search for peace and security as a passionate advocate for nuclear ...
Episode 157 – Turmoil and Triumph: The George Shultz Years – To Start the World Again (Podcast)
January 13, 2022 13:18 - 50.4 MBToday’s podcast is “To Start the World Again,” episode two of the three-part public television documentary Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years. In episode two, George Shultz accompanies Reagan on a trip to Japan, but as they arrive back Philippine dissident Ninoy Aquino is assassinated and things are thrown into turmoil. Reagan is taken with the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. And George Shultz seeks an end to the Cold War. Listen now.
Episode 156 – Turmoil and Triumph: The George Shultz Years – A Call to Service (Podcast)
January 06, 2022 13:35 - 50.1 MBToday’s podcast is “A Call to Service,” episode one of the three-part public television documentary Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years. Episode one examines George Shultz’s early life, his service as a U.S. Marine, his academic career as a free market economist and his early cabinet posts under President Nixon. Shultz’s experiences give him extensive international contacts and diplomacy skills, critical experience for what lay ahead. Listen now.
Episode 155 – Free To Choose 1980 – How to Stay Free (Podcast)
December 23, 2021 13:38 - 52 MBDemocracies have only recently been considered desirable. Historically, it had been feared democracies always self destruct when citizens, forgetting that you cannot remove want and misery through legislation, insist on government actions that physically and morally bankrupt their nation. Milton Friedman explains why the United States has so far avoided this outcome and how we can continue to do so. Today’s podcast is “How to Stay Free.” Listen now.
Episode 154 – Free To Choose 1980 – How to Cure Inflation – Discussion (Podcast)
December 16, 2021 14:03 - 26.3 MBIn 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 “How to Cure Inflation,” part of volume nine of the ten-part public television series “Free To Choose.” Listen now.
Episode 153 – Free To Choose 1980 – How to Cure Inflation (Podcast)
December 09, 2021 13:39 - 25.5 MBInflation results when the amount of money printed increases faster than the creation of new goods and services. Money is a ”token” of the wealth of a nation. If more tokens than new wealth are created, it takes more tokens to buy the same goods. Milton Friedman explains why politicians like inflation, and why wage and price controls are not solutions to the problem. Today’s podcast is “How to Cure Inflation.”
Episode 152 – The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 3 (Podcast)
December 02, 2021 13:39 - 42.8 MBIn 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.”
Episode 151 – The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 2, Part II (Podcast)
November 18, 2021 13:38 - 51 MBIn 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.
Episode 150 – Free To Choose 1980 – Who Protects the Worker? – Discussion (Podcast)
November 11, 2021 14:02 - 26.1 MBIn 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.
Episode 149 – Free To Choose 1980 – Who Protects the Worker? (Podcast)
November 04, 2021 12:49 - 25.4 MBUnions 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.
Episode 148 – The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 2, Part I (Podcast)
October 28, 2021 13:03 - 46.1 MBIn 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.
Episode 147 – Free To Choose 1980 – Who Protects the Consumer? – Discussion (Podcast)
October 21, 2021 12:42 - 26 MBIn 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.
Episode 146 – Free To Choose 1980 – Who Protects the Consumer? (Podcast)
October 14, 2021 12:47 - 25.5 MBVarious 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.
Episode 145 – The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Phase 1 (Podcast)
October 07, 2021 12:33 - 54.9 MBIn 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.
Episode 144 – Free To Choose 1990 –The Failure of Socialism – Discussion (Podcast)
September 30, 2021 14:23 - 17.5 MBIn 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.
Episode 143 – Free To Choose 1980 – What’s Wrong With Our Schools? – Discussion (Podcast)
September 23, 2021 13:07 - 26.6 MBIn 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.
Episode 142 – Free To Choose 1980 – What’s Wrong With Our Schools? (Podcast)
September 16, 2021 13:31 - 24.3 MBToday’s podcast is “What’s Wrong With Our Schools,” volume six of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. Parental choice in children’s education is consistent with a free society. Centralized government control has adversely affected quality of education. Milton Friedman advocates vouchers to solve the problem. Listen now.
Episode 141 – Africa’s Agricultural Crisis (Podcast)
September 09, 2021 12:41 - 29.3 MBIn today’s podcast, the now late Dr. Norman Borlaug, Dr. Robert Chandler, Jr., and Dr. Nyle Brady, all of whom had devoted their professional lives to the task of feeding the hungry, identify the many causes of Africa’s current agricultural crisis. Here is “Africa’s Agricultural Crisis.” Listen now.
Episode 140 – Free To Choose 1990 – Created Equal – Discussion (Podcast)
September 02, 2021 13:06 - 18.4 MBIn today’s podcast, Milton Friedman is joined by guests Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution and Michael Kinsley of The New Republic for an updated discussion of some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of “Created Equal,” part of volume five of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. Listen now.
Episode 139 – Free To Choose 1980 – Created Equal – Discussion (Podcast)
August 26, 2021 12:45 - 26.2 MBIn 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 “Created Equal,” part of volume five of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. Listen now.
Episode 138 – Free To Choose 1980 – Created Equal (Podcast)
August 19, 2021 12:54 - 25.7 MBThe Declaration of Independence says, ”all men are created equal.” Milton Friedman explains that this does not mean all persons should or will have equal talents or income. Equal opportunity to better oneself and the right to personally benefit from the gains realized are consistent with freedom. Taking from some to give to others destroys freedom and removes the incentive for creating new wealth. Today’s podcast is “Created Equal,” volume five of the ten-part public television series Free To...
Episode 137 – Neurobiology (Podcast)
August 12, 2021 13:01 - 51.2 MBIn today’s podcast, laboratory chief of biochemical genetics at the National Heart Institute, the now late Dr. Marshall Nirenberg, and chief of the laboratory of molecular biology at the National Institute of Disorders & Stroke, Dr. Ron McKay, discuss neurobiology and the science behind it. Here is “Neurobiology.” Listen now.
Episode 136 – Free To Choose 1980 – From Cradle to Grave – Discussion (Podcast)
July 29, 2021 12:40 - 26.1 MBToday’s podcast is the discussion segment from “From Cradle to Grave,” part of volume four of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. Milton Friedman is joined by other distinguished guests, including Thomas Sowell, at the University of Chicago to discuss some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of “From Cradle to Grave.” Listen now.
Episode 135 – Free To Choose 1980 – From Cradle to Grave (Podcast)
July 22, 2021 12:48 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBThe welfare state arises from the attempt to do good with other people’s money. Such attempts always fail because nobody spends someone else’s money as carefully as their own. Those spending the money use force to collect it and to ensure those receiving it use it for the ”right” purposes. Good intentions are corrupted by bad means. In today’s podcast, “From Cradle to Grave,” Friedman visits the U.S. and Britain to explore these topics. Today’s podcast is “From Cradle to Grave,” volume four o...
Episode 134 – The Dilemma of Forgiveness (Podcast)
July 15, 2021 13:25 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBIn today’s podcast, social psychologist Roy Baumeister and psychologist of religion & spirituality Julie Exline discuss forgiveness. What is forgiveness? What are the costs and drawbacks of it? What are the positives? Dive into this deep discussion with Roy and Julie. Here is “The Dilemma of Forgiveness.” Listen now.
Episode 133 – Free To Choose 1980 – Anatomy of Crisis – Discussion (Podcast)
July 08, 2021 12:23 - 26.2 MBIn 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 “Anatomy of Crisis,” part of volume three of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. Listen now.
Episode 132 – Free To Choose 1980 – Anatomy of Crisis (Podcast)
July 01, 2021 19:18 - 25.5 MBThe Great Depression has been popularly viewed as a failure of capitalism. The stock market crash, the collapse of the Bank of United States, and the loss of personal savings were visible symbols supporting this belief. In today’s podcast, Friedman explains the real cause was the unseen failure of government policy and action. Yet this crisis resulting from government failure leads to decades of government expansion. Today’s podcast is “Anatomy of Crisis,” volume three of the ten-part public ...
Episode 131 – PRC Forum: Ed Feulner (Podcast)
June 24, 2021 12:41 - 55.4 MBIn today’s podcast, Ed Feulner, founder and former president of The Heritage Foundation, discusses the facts and fictions of government growth. He also talks about why advocates of ideas can’t stop fighting, even when the ideas are accepted. Originally recorded in 1987, here is “PRC Forum: Ed Feulner.” Listen now.
Episode 130 – Free To Choose 1990 – The Tyranny of Control – Discussion (Podcast)
June 17, 2021 12:25 - 15.9 MBIn today’s podcast, Milton Friedman is joined by guests Michael Walker of the Fraser Institute and Steven Cohen of the University of California at Berkeley for an updated discussion of some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of “The Tyranny of Control,” part of volume two of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. Listen now.
Episode 129 – Free To Choose 1980 – The Tyranny of Control – Discussion (Podcast)
June 10, 2021 12:56 - 26 MBIn 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 “The Tyranny of Control,” part of volume two of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. Listen now.
Episode 128 – Free To Choose 1980 – The Tyranny of Control (Podcast)
June 03, 2021 12:48 - 25.5 MBGovernment planning and detailed control of economic activity lessen productive innovation and consumer choice. Good, better, best, are replaced by ”approved” or ”authorized.” Economist Milton Friedman visits India, Japan, and the United States to show how “established” industries or methods seek government protection or subsidization in their attempts to stop or limit product improvements which they don’t control. Today’s podcast is “The Tyranny of Control,” volume two of the ten-part public...
Episode 127 – A Conversation with Charles Spahr (Podcast)
May 27, 2021 12:28 - 52.2 MBCharles Spahr, retired Chief Executive Officer of Sohio, tells of his progress through the ranks to become the leader of a major corporation and gives the inside story of how he directed the building of the Alaskan pipeline. Listen now to today’s podcast, “A Conversation with Charles Spahr.”
Episode 126 – Free To Choose 1990 – The Power of the Market – Discussion (Podcast)
May 20, 2021 12:55 - 13.9 MBIn today’s podcast, Milton Friedman is joined by guests David Brooks of The Wall Street Journal and James Galbraith from the University of Texas for an updated discussion of some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of “The Power of the Market,” part of volume one of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. Listen now.
Episode 125 – Free To Choose 1980 – The Power of the Market – Discussion
May 13, 2021 13:06 - 28 minutes - 26 MBIn today’s podcast, Milton Friedman is joined by other distinguished guests in the Harper Library at The University of Chicago. They discuss some of the ideas presented in the documentary segment of “The Power of the Market,” part of volume one of the ten-part public television series Free To Choose. Listen now.
Episode 124 – Free To Choose 1980 – The Power of the Market (Podcast)
May 06, 2021 12:12 - 25.7 MBAmerica’s freedom and prosperity derive from the combination of the idea of human liberty in America’s Declaration of Independence and the idea of economic freedom in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Economist Milton Friedman visits Hong Kong, the United States, and Scotland to explain how markets and voluntary exchanges organize activity and enable people to improve their lives. Today’s podcast is “The Power of the Market,” volume one of the ten-part public television series “Free To Choose.”...
Episode 123 – The Real Adam Smith: Ideas That Changed the World (Podcast)
April 29, 2021 12:21 - 51.5 MBToday’s podcast is from our 2016 public television documentary film, Ideas That Changed the Word, the second of a two-part series, The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg. Adam Smith was a moral philosopher, a bold voice of the Scottish Enlightenment, the world’s first economist, and author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations. But in today’s society, has the global economic system become so big and so complex that morality and human empathy are no ...
Episode 122 – The Real Adam Smith: Morality and Markets (Podcast)
April 22, 2021 16:53 - 51.5 MBAdam Smith was a moral philosopher, a bold voice of the Scottish Enlightenment, the world’s first economist, and author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations. But in todays’ seemingly ruthless competitive environment, where the stakes are high, can ethical and honest businesses still prosper? How are Smith’s ideas about markets and morality relevant today? Today’s podcast is from our public television documentary film, Morality and Markets, the first of a two-part series...