Jennifer Burns

📖🏆We are proud to announce that @Stanford historian @profburns has been awarded the 2025 Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize for her critically acclaimed biography, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. More here: reaganfoundation.org/reagan-institu…

in Charlotte, NC for the Policy History Conference, will be speaking at the plenary, "Does Political History Have a Future?"

my latest book review on conservatism's "original influencer" nytimes.com/2025/06/03/boo…

How could I resist doing a podcast with such a great name, Smith and Marx Walk Into a Bar, @smith_into also with an all star cast of academic interviewers @cinlamak,@Alnonoju, and Jennifer Jhun from across three countries and 10 time zones... enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

We are excited to announce the finalists for our 2025 Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize: "America's Cold Warrior" by @jamesgramwilson "Weapons In Space" by @aaronbateman22 "Buckley" by Sam Tanenhaus "Milton Friedman" by @profburns Learn more about our finalists, their outstanding scholarship, and the Age of Reagan Conference here: reaganfoundation.org/reagan-institu…

@wgmorrisjr @CenterEconomy great to hear from you!!

@profburns @CenterEconomy Jennifer - saw your piece in the NYTs today about tariffs. Well-crafted. Good to see a balanced piece about reasonable intentions derailed but flawed execution. Not sure patrimonialism and cronyism is the way to go! Be well. In peace, Bill Morris (Taft connection)

Back from a lecture on Milton Friedman at @CenterEconomy attended by many undergrads who attentively no screens no texting... impressive!

Have you heard of the Mar-a-Lago Accord? Here's my explanation: nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opi…

correction: my book was not based on "a private collection held within the Friedman family that contains private correspondence, lecture notes, typescripts and draft works, and much else besides." I used the Friedman papers at @HooverArchives at Stanford, a major research archive of 20th c history, with holdings on Russia, China, Iraq, North Korea, and ideologies of every stripe. I was pretty surprised to see the author was unaware of this collection, given its relevance to neoliberalism. It's important for all to know these papers and many more are not only open to all researchers, but that there are a variety of fellowships available to underwrite travel costs. And many are digitized, here is the searchable portion of Friedman's archive: miltonfriedman.hoover.org/collections

Review essay: Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis, by Lars Cornelissen buff.ly/vJnT5uX

@jlong1451 @CenterEconomy Thank you!!

Currently in chapter 14 of your book. One of the most interesting, informative, and educational books I’ve read. Sent a copy to my son. It’s really a history of economic thought in the US with Friedman in a central perspective. You have made the subject much more engrossing than one would expect on first picking it up.

PS I don't think we are all post-liberals now

@StanfordHistory @PatrickDeneen @NotreDame @StanfordEthics @HumanAtStanford This old-fashioned, non-recorded, non-streamed conversation between @PatrickDeneen and myself ended up standing room only with folks turned away at the door. Thanks to @StanfordEthics for putting this on and for all the Stanford students and community members who showed up!

Today (3/13): #StanfordHistory Prof Jennifer Burns @profburns engages Prof @PatrickDeneen (@NotreDame) about his work on liberalism, neoliberalism, postliberalism in cotemporary U.S. politics. Event is organized by @StanfordEthics. More: events.stanford.edu/event/we-are-a… @HumanAtStanford

EVENT: Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative Professor Jennifer Burns (@profburns) joins Professor Tom Simpson to discuss her latest book and the evolution of conservatism in America. 🇺🇲 📅 18 March, 17:30 Register ⬇️ ow.ly/WzAv50VfzH4

Heading to the UK, second stop, Oxford Blavatnick School for series Internatinal Perspectives on Conservatism bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/milton-…

Heading to the UK, first stop, London School of Economics lse.ac.uk/Economic-Histo…

It's my first ever trip to @Princeton and I've got a full day of meetings, podcasts, etc etc culminating in a talk at the Rabinowitz public policy school. Wish me luck!