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Free To Choose Network Building support for personal, economic, and political freedom with entertaining media.

Free To Choose® Network is a global media 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that brought you Milton Friedman’s original 1980 10-part television series, Free To Choose. It continues to use accessible and entertaining media to build popular support for capitalism as well as personal and political freedom.

Today’s podcast is titled “Should America Build a Missile Defense System?”Recorded in 2001, Dennis McCuistion, former Cl...
11/06/2025

Today’s podcast is titled “Should America Build a Missile Defense System?”

Recorded in 2001, Dennis McCuistion, former Clinical Professor of Corporate Governance and Executive Director of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance at the University of Texas at Dallas, U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, Ivan Eland, Deputy Director of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, Stephen Young, and former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and Chairman of High Frontier, Henry F. Cooper discuss whether the United States should build a national missile defense system.

Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates for the Free To Choose Media Podcast. https://blog.freetochoosenetwork.org/podcast/episode-253-should-america-build-a-missile-defense-system-podcast/

Free To Choose Network is proud to sponsor the sixth MIT Great Debate, where teams will tackle the resolution: "American...
11/06/2025

Free To Choose Network is proud to sponsor the sixth MIT Great Debate, where teams will tackle the resolution: "American Universities are too dependent on international students."

Join us Thursday, November 6, at 7:00 PM ET for 90 minutes of civil, reasoned debate on this timely higher education issue. Watch via livestream on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNwBHWnCGLI

11/05/2025

Military bases aren't just about national security—they're economic lifelines for communities across America. When defense decisions get made in Washington, local jobs and livelihoods hang in the balance.

The True Cost of Defense is now showing on public television and our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsCwDf_rlcE

11/03/2025

When money printing increases demand everywhere, nobody realizes it at first. Business feels great. Then costs catch up 5-6 months later.

This delay is the hidden mechanism of inflation—and exactly why it can't be cured without a temporary recession. The damage is already done before anyone notices.

11/01/2025

What does it really cost to maintain America's position as a global superpower? The answer goes far beyond any budget line.

From Travis Mills rebuilding his life after losing four limbs in Afghanistan to small towns whose survival depends on nearby military bases, The True Cost of Defense reveals the human price of America's military might.

Watch now on public television or stream on the PBS Video App. Also, available on our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsCwDf_rlcE

11/01/2025

Schools that were about to lose nearly all their students made more progress in two years than they had in the previous 30.

What changed? Competition arrived.

Milton Friedman knew that competition doesn't assume private is better than public—it simply requires both to actually satisfy their customers.

10/31/2025

The numbers tell one story: $800+ billion spent on defense annually. But behind every dollar is a human story—veterans rebuilding their lives, recruiters working Friday night football games, and communities whose very existence depends on nearby bases.

Tomorrow, discover what America's military supremacy really costs when The True Cost of Defense premieres on public television and the PBS Video App and on our YouTube channel.

Today, we celebrate what would have been Bob Chitester's 88th birthday. In 1980, Bob co-founded Free To Choose Network w...
10/30/2025

Today, we celebrate what would have been Bob Chitester's 88th birthday. In 1980, Bob co-founded Free To Choose Network with Milton and Rose Friedman, creating the platform that brought Milton's revolutionary economic ideas to millions of people worldwide.

Bob understood that great ideas need great storytelling. His vision helped transform complex economic principles into compelling television that changed how people think about freedom, markets, and human flourishing. From the original Free To Choose series to the countless documentaries that followed, Bob's commitment to education and his belief in the power of free markets continue to inspire new generations.

His legacy lives on in every story we tell about the power of choice.

10/29/2025

Happy National Internet Day!

The internet wasn't created by a government committee sitting around a conference table plotting humanity's digital future. It emerged from frustrated computer scientists who were tired of walking between terminals just to use different machines.

Sometimes the most revolutionary innovations come not from grand plans, but from people solving everyday annoyances. Watch Johan Norberg explore how the internet really came to be in this episode of New and Improved.

What "everyday annoyance" do you think might spark the next great innovation?

10/28/2025

Defense isn't just about dollars and equipment. It's about the people who dedicate their lives to protecting our freedom, the workers who build what they need, and the families who support them through it all.

Watch the full trailer for The True Cost of Defense and mark your calendars—the complete documentary premieres November 1st. https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/programs/true_cost_of_defense/

10/27/2025

Milton Friedman on inflation's irony: Everyone's against it—until you ask if they've benefited.

“When most people say they want to stop inflation, what they mean is that they want the prices of the things they buy to go down and the prices of the things they sell to go up. But since what one man sells is what another man buys, that’s a neat trick if you can do it.”

So nobody's really serious about stopping inflation—at least not in the early stages.

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