Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand | Conversations with Tyler

[@willosee]

Tyler you continue to remind me as how good an interviewer you are.

[@robhaythorne4464]

Really enjoyed this. Now I have two more books to look forward to reading.

[@anthonypate8657]

Great interview

[@driss7014]

Unusually simple questions from Tyler, like normal interview instead of typical 'conversations...' vibe

[@riccileggio]

The Fountainhead is Rand's best novel as novel (i e., without regard to whatever one might hold for politics). Its a very good novel whose high technical merits for storytelling have been eclipsed by Rand's personality and her outsized position as postwar gadfly. Whatever her politics, she could write!

[@patricksullivan4329]

When I first heard her speak of Milton's collaboration with women, I thought of Shakespeare. Another outstanding male genius who had clearly known some exceptionally intelligent women. Judging by the quality of the intellects of his female characters, that is.

[@tuckerbugeater]

simp

[@brucetillerson3329]

Gòod interview

[@radiozelaza]

Roy indeed changed his mind, that is he retracted his endorsement of anarchism, good for him but too bad he died too quickly to actually put his thoughts into writing. as for being Jewish and rejecting anarchism, most anarcho-capitalists are of Jewish background, including Rothbard, Block, David Friedman and Bryan Caplan - and somehow it does not influence their endorsement of a system under which discrimination in private estates is a normal course of the day, as well as a danger from armed private militias. Although i.e. Block disagrees vehemently with Rothbard on the subject of Israel and proper response to Palestinian terrorism.

[@scottsent8120]

Would someone please teach this Stanford professor that _phenomena_ is the plural form of _phenomenon_ ?

[@patricksullivan4329]

Yes, I've noticed her misuse of the word too. But everything else I've heard from her is first rate intellectual history.

[@tuckerbugeater]

I'm glad she solved all our problems. If only we had feminism during the enlightenment. @@patricksullivan4329

[@panushjo]

Did she really say that he would have been just a good economist without women? lol.