Classical Architecture and Human Flourishing
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Guests: Miles Smith IV & Justin Shubow
Host Scot Bertram talks with Miles Smith, assistant professor of History at Hillsdale College, about a recent essay he wrote on the historical role of the press in American politics. And Justin Shubow, president of the National Civic Art Society, lays out the roots of modern architecture and explains the importance of classical art and architecture in public spaces.
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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 |
| 0:23.5 | across the country. A beautiful building can enliven our day, inspire us, ennoble of the United States, |
| 0:31.6 | make us feel like this is a world built for beings like us. And in the same way, beautiful public art can also inspire and, you know, become the sorts of images that are iconic, you know, symbols of the United States. |
| 0:48.5 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:50.7 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:56.9 | That was Justin Shubo, president of the National Civic Art Society. We'll talk with Justin a little bit later on in today's |
| 1:04.1 | program about the classical tradition in public art and architecture and why it's important. First, we're joined by Dr. Miles Smith. He is |
| 1:13.7 | assistant professor of history here at Hillsdale College. Dr. Smith, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:18.3 | Thank you, Scott. We are discussing today in essay you wrote for Law and Liberty. People can find |
| 1:24.0 | it at lawliberty.org, America's free press tradition. |
| 1:29.2 | You start with an anecdote from recent times about the press in the UK. |
| 1:33.3 | How would you describe the distinction between how the U.S. government and European counterparts handle relations with the press? |
| 1:41.3 | So there is no First Amendment in the United Kingdom. |
| 1:44.9 | There's no First Amendment most of the countries that are NATO allies. |
| 1:49.3 | And so what it is to be a free press is somewhat different in the United States. |
| 1:53.7 | The difference is that in the United States, the government is sort of on the same playing field with all other speakers. It means that the government's not |
| 2:03.4 | the referee of what's free. The government doesn't get to sort of decide what information is true. |
| 2:08.8 | The government is a player on the court, if you will, with all the other institutions of the press |
| 2:16.6 | and all the other institutions of speech. |
| 2:18.4 | And the only way to think about what makes the government different is it happens to be carrying |
| 2:22.3 | a gun. |
| 2:23.4 | Let's go back to the very early days of the country. |
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