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Jim Craven's baseless and vulgar charge against Milton Friedman brings to 
mind that Friedman's advocacy of freedom, noninflationary monetary policy, 
and limited government has indeed been associated with efforts to censor. 
But Friedman was never the censor; he was the one censored. 
 
Before Chile, in 1974, members of the Students for a Democratic Society 
tried to shout Friedman down as he gave a talk at the Oriental Institute in 
Chicago. After Anthony Lewis's _New York Times_ article (October 2, 1975) 
accusing him of contributing to repression of Chile's poor, a "Committee 
Against Friedman/Harberger Collaboration With the Chilean Junta" was formed 
at Chicago. The group's posters on the University of Chicago campus called 
for members of the community to "drive Friedman off campus through protest 
and exposure." 
 
After the announcement of Friedman's Nobel Prize there were protests, and 
the Friedmans were given special protection during their stay in Stockholm 
for the ceremonies. Other efforts by demonstrators to silence him followed 
after the Friedmans returned to the U.S. 
 
If censorship is measured by the effort made to silence a person, which 
economists have been subject to more censorship than Milton Friedman? 
 
Dan Hammond 
Department of Economics 
Wake Forest University 
 
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