Hillsdale Dialogues 07-23-21: American Heritage: The Tragedy of John C. Calhoun
Hillsdale Dialogues
Hillsdale College
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🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On the new episode of the Larry Arn Show, he'll still college president Larry Arn sits down |
| 0:06.7 | with historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson for a one-on-one conversation. |
| 0:11.4 | One of the things I think we've got to do is go back to smaller government less regulation. |
| 0:16.9 | But to do that, you just can't say that. That means, okay, Victor, how do you do it? |
| 0:21.6 | Well, you have to elect the House and the Senate and the White House, and then you have to be |
| 0:28.0 | on the same page. That's very difficult to do. It's very rare when a party can do that, |
| 0:33.2 | but that's what the only solution, unless you believe that you can do it spiritually or culturally |
| 0:39.4 | or socially by changing the hearts and minds of people. Listen to this exclusive interview with |
| 0:44.2 | Victor Davis Hanson right now, only available on the Larry Arn Show. Find it on the Hillsdale College |
| 0:50.6 | Podcast Network at podcast.hillsdale.edu or wherever you get your audio, and subscribe to |
| 0:57.9 | receive new episodes delivered right to your device. That's podcast.hillsdale.edu. |
| 1:21.0 | Morning, Gloria America. Bulls are high. Canada, that music means it's the last radio hour of the |
| 1:37.4 | week. It's time for the Hillsdale Dialogue. This week with Dr. Larry Arn, President of Hillsdale |
| 1:42.5 | College, all things Hillsdale are found at hillsdale.edu. If you've been listening, we did four different |
| 1:49.7 | Hillsdale Dialogues on Tocqueville, who wrote in the 1830s. That brings us up to the career of a man, |
| 1:56.1 | I think it's just evil. Larry Arn will recognize his brilliance in some respect, but I just think |
| 2:02.4 | he threw America off course, John Calhoun. If you were listening on the 5th of July, you heard Joseph |
| 2:08.5 | Fellas talk about the cause and how at the end of the revolution, both Jefferson and Washington |
| 2:14.2 | thought slavery was headed for extinction, for withering away, for an entombment. If anyone |
| 2:21.4 | is responsible mostly for its resurrection, it's John Calhoun. Larry Arn, good morning. How are you? |
| 2:27.6 | I'm good. How are you doing? I'm good. I did have this interesting conversation with Professor |
| 2:33.3 | Joseph Ellison's new book, The Cause Could Have Written By You. A synthesis of political thought |
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