In Appreciation of Stickiness and the Midwest with Jon Lauck

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Often lampooned as boring, bland, and less important than other regions in the country, might it be that the Midwest actually has its own regional identity and a story worth telling? Jon Lauck, a professor at the University of South Dakota thinks so. In this episode Kevin talks to Jon about his excellent new book The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900. They explore what made the region from Ohio to the Dakotas different from New England and from the South and why the old virtues of the Midwest might just be worth pursuing today.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro and Sponsor

1:45 Guest: Jon Lauck

7:11 Midwest Definitions and Stereotypes

26:06 What is the Midwest's Future?

38:12 Sponsor 2: Scriptura

39:12 Midwest Cultural Characteristics

48:26 Reforms and Race Relations in the Midwest

53:02 The Land Grant Act and Universities

57:00 Teaching Men to Behave

1:00:45 Is It Bad to be Sticky?

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations. Welcome to Life and Books and Everything. I'm Kevin D. Young and glad to have you joining with us. I'm going to introduce our guest in just a moment.
0:22.7	As always, I want to thank our sponsor Crossway for sponsoring LBE and a book to highlight for today, which just came out.
0:32.5	I have it. I'm reading it. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm excited for this book edited by Andrew Walker, who teaches at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
0:40.3	Andrew's a good friend of mine.
0:41.3	This book is Social Conservatism, conservatism for the common good, a Protestant engagement with Robert P. George.
0:50.3	So maybe our listeners, I hope, are familiar with Robert or Robbie George, who's a Catholic,
0:56.3	conservative at Princeton and has done a lot to speak and think about natural law.
1:03.9	And Andrew, an evangelical, a Baptist, has a friendship with Robbie and then has written, edited
1:10.3	this book with a number of evangelicals
1:13.1	who are working and assessing Ra Georgia's work. So it's a really fascinating book. Encourage
1:20.1	you to look at it. Crossway published it. It just came out interacting with George's new natural
1:25.3	law theory, how to collaborate across ideological lines.
1:29.1	I'm a Protestant, Andrew's a Protestant, and Professor George is a Catholic, but there's
1:33.9	common ground on a number of these things. So pick up a copy of social conservatism for the
1:38.8	common good. Whoever books are sold or visit crossway.org slash plus, find out how you can get
1:43.5	30% off.
1:45.8	My guest today is John Lauch, who is the editor-in-chief of the Middle West Review, teaches
1:53.4	history and political science at the University of South Dakota.
1:57.9	And I'm really excited to talk about his book, which I put on my 22
2:03.3	top 10 books of the year list. I love this book. It's called The Good Country,
2:10.4	A History of the American Midwest, 18 to 1900. And let me just say, if you're listening to
2:15.0	this right now, and you're not from the Midwest,
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