Milton Friedman: Winning Debates from the Grave

Naomi Klein is a sort of hilarious far-left pundit whose most recent book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, argues that cruel Milton Friedman free-market types use major disasters to advance a nefarious free-market agenda. I call her hilarious because, though she gets pretty good press, her ideas are so outlandish that no one of real importance takes her terribly seriously, so she’s sort of fun to have around as an example of wacky liberal ideas taken to their laughable extreme. (For a good rundown of her most recent book’s awesome parade of demonstrably false nuttiness, see Tyler Cowen’s NYSun review.)

All this is to say that I find it pretty amusing to see her lose a mashed-up debate to a dead guy: