You can view his TV special based on the book at the end of this playlist in three parts.
And here he is being interviewed on Uncommon Knowledge.
For more, see the Stossel section at the Guides and Knowledge collection.
Stossel’s only real “mistakes” come out when you get down to the nitty gritty and his minarchism begins to stick out. I find him to be a genuine truth-seeker, and he doesn’t have a problem going where the evidence leads. I honestly think he just hasn’t dedicated enough time and study to go much deeper than where he is. But where he is is deep enough to where it’s tough to find much to argue with in his programming.
It’s just that he’s basically never gotten beyond Friedman (Milton, of course) and the David Boaz-kind of libertarianism. He’s quoted and called on Hayek many different times that I can recall, but then again, he wasn’t exactly Mr. Anti-statism either.
The worst I’ve heard is when Stossel literally said “thank god for the EPA”. His position was essentially that he thought it was nice and good to have environmental regulations. It was during a q&a session, and someone challenged him on it, and it was pretty clear he was open to other ideas, and almost came right out and pled ignorance (as in, he hadn’t thought of anything better.)
Again, I think it’s just a function of him simply not putting much more time into going any deeper than he already has. Plus he’s pretty busy as it is, just trying to spread the word of free-er markets he’s already spreading.
But he has a healthy respect and admiration for Ron Paul, so I gotta feel like that’s done a good deal to at least push him farther in the right direction and perhaps at least pique him to positions he may not have considered before, such as ending the Fed.
I don’t think you’ll find anything incredibly bad or wrong in his material until you get to the really tough questions and he simply falls back on government as all minarchists eventually do.