“A conservative movement, by its very nature, is bound to be a defender of established privilege and to lean on the power of government for the protection of privilege.”32 In Friedman’s vision, anyone could be a benefactor to men of ideas, but in practice only the wealthy were positioned to do so. In this and many other ways that Friedman would rarely acknowledge, the rich are a good deal freer than the poor: philanthropy is not a level playing field, and free speech is not free.
