Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
This is a hybrid event
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, The 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.
Date: 18 March 2025, 17:30
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Speakers: Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Jennifer Burns (Stanford)
Organising department: Blavatnik School of Government
Organiser contact email address: events@bsg.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/milton-friedman-last-conservative
Cost: This event is free - please register at the above link
Audience: Public
Editor: Anna Ulshofer