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David Friedman
Milton Friedman's son took a doctorate in physics and taught economics and law without a course for credit in either. In 1973 he wrote a plain-spoken case for a society without a state. In June the president of Argentina called his visit historic. His sums on medieval Iceland, the stateless society whose civil war he found no deadlier than American murder, hold as he did them in 1979, though the comparison printed in his book has aged. On climate change he says nobody knows whether the effects of warming will, on balance, be bad or good. His own guess is that they will be good.
Over the Labor Day weekend of 1969, St. Louis hosted two conventions at once. One was the World Science Fiction Convention. The other was the national convention of Young Americans for Freedom, the conservative youth group, which that …
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