Amity Shlaes Asks, “What Would Coolidge Do?”
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Guests: Paul Moreno, Amity Shlaes, & D.G. Hart
Host Scot Bertram talks with Paul Moreno, the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History and professor of history at Hillsdale College, about the life and legacy of groundbreaking baseball player Jackie Robinson on the anniversary of his birth. Amity Shlaes, chair of the Coolidge Foundation and author of Coolidge, explains president Calvin Coolidge's legacy and how he navigated challenges like ours today. And D.G. Hart, associate professor of history at Hillsdale College, continues a series on the work of H. L. Mencken. This time, he focuses on Mencken’s dedication to the principle of free speech.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.1 | You don't need a lot of new laws to get social justice in America. |
| 0:29.1 | We need to honor, essentially, the laws we already have. |
| 0:32.9 | If all men are equal, that it's final. |
| 0:35.5 | It's restful. |
| 0:36.5 | About the declaration, there is something that is exceedingly restful. |
| 0:41.9 | So he brought Americans back to the memory that the foundation of our country had all we |
| 0:48.4 | need for a good life. |
| 0:49.7 | Perhaps newer laws are superfluous. |
| 0:52.2 | Very interesting. |
| 0:54.0 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the |
| 0:56.7 | Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College podcast network. That was Amity Slay's, |
| 1:03.2 | chair of the Coolidge Foundation and author of Coolidge, Forgotten Man. We'll talk a bit about |
| 1:08.5 | Calvin Coolidge with her later on in today's program. |
| 1:12.1 | First, we're joined by Dr. Paul Marino, William and Bernice Grucoctcher in Constitutional |
| 1:17.2 | History, Professor of History, Dean of Social Sciences, and for our purposes today, a big-time |
| 1:23.3 | baseball fan. |
| 1:25.0 | It is the middle of winter. |
| 1:26.9 | We could use a jolt of summer. Also, this past week, |
| 1:30.4 | January 31st, way back in 1919, Jackie Robinson was born. I thought we'd talk with Dr. |
| 1:37.6 | Marino about Jackie Robinson, his life, his career, breaking the color barrier in baseball. |
| 1:43.4 | Go back a little bit. Jackie Robinson before baseball, |
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