Buckley vs. Alinsky

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Robert Bennett · April 2, 2011 at 6:58am

This video is absolutely fascinating, and I never knew it existed. You can find the transcript here. Buckley was having so much fun with Alinsky.

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For that matter, there's the entire series of Milton Friedman lectures that developed into the Free to Choose series. Bits and pieces of them are available on youtube, but the full 19 hours worth of lectures and Q&A sessions is only available for sale from the Free to Choose Network ...for $300. This would be a killer bit of content to license. Here is just one of the gems from this series, in which a college student gets his mind blown by Milton Friedman in five agonizing minutes. · _{Apr 1 at 7:48am}

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I wouldn't doubt that those lectures are worth the $300 price tag, though it does mean Friedman's razor-sharp insights reach fewer people. BUT... the original 1980 'Free to Choose' series that, as you say, was born from the lectures, is available online for free: http://www.freetochoose.tv/. It also has updated episodes from 1990. If you can get past how dated it looks (and skip the clumsy, Schwarzenegger-ed intro of the '90 version — start ep. 1 at 6:40), it's still well worth watching — and sharing!