Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

Professor Jennifer Burns from Stanford University joins Professor Tom Simpson as part of the series International Perspectives on Conservatism to discuss her most recent book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (2023), and the evolution of conservatism in America.

Jennifer Burns is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is the author of Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) and Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford, 2009). Jennifer has contributed opinion pieces and analysis to The New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Dissent and has discussed her work in terms accessible to a non-specialist audience on interview programs and television shows such as BBC Radio 4 and The Colbert Report.