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Live blogging from the Klein event at the U of C

These statements are paraphrased from the Oct. 1st Naomi Klein event.

Hummers bring out Klien’s “nasty side.”

Her feelings on Hummers have changed recently with the increase of the price of gas.

There are many reasons to oppose the MFI–it’s… [Read the rest]

Friedman on Chile

Although Swedish writer Johan Norberg has done an excellent job of discrediting the idea that Milton Friedman and his scholarship were responsible for Chilean violence, both in print and video, we can also see what Friedman… [Read the rest]

Friedman debates Naomi Klein

Milton Friedman Debates Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

Courtesy of Copious Dissent

Naomi Klein to speak against Friedman

group of University of Chicago faculty, along with the Platypus Society, are hosting polemicist Naomi Klein to speak out against the Friedman Institute.  Klein is well-suited to this task.  Her new book, Shock Doctrine, falsely condemns Friedman as, among… [Read the rest]