In a September 4 put up titled “The Remoted Milton Friedman,” I quoted two paragraphs from Michael Hirsh, Capital Offense: How America’s Sensible Males Turned America’s Future Over to Wall Road. I gained’t quote the entire passage once more.
Right here’s a passage that struck me as unusual, given what a heat and welcoming individual Milton was:
For many of these years of the Chilly Warfare, he remained the chief of a maverick insurgency, remoted and condemned even on the Chicago campus because the Nineteen Sixties counterculture grew. There have been occasions when nobody would eat with him within the college eating room. (Italics added.)
My commentary was on one thing else, however, nonetheless, I ought to have famous that this passage struck me as unusual.
A very long time pal, Christopher Jehn (we’ve been mates since assembly one another at Richard Thaler’s home in 1977), despatched me the next electronic mail and has given me permission to cite him:
I wound up studying your Sept. 4 put up on Friedman’s “isolation.” Your put up and particularly the quote from Hirsh didn’t ring true. Certainly Hirsh (and his references) sounds nearly delusional. Recall I used to be a graduate pupil at Chicago from 1965 to 1970. I don’t bear in mind any dialogue, none, amongst grad college students or between us and college, in line with this story. Odd.
It is odd. I ponder the place Hirsh bought his data.
