James Rosen on Antonin Scalia's Rise to Greatness
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Guests: Miles Smith IV, James Rosen, & Paul Hosmer
Host Scot Bertram talks with Miles Smith IV, Assistant Professor of History at Hillsdale College, about his recent essay at RealClearHistory, "Civil War Changed U.S. in Untold Ways". James Rosen, Chief White House Correspondent at Newsmax, takes us through some of the fascinating stories in his new book, Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986. And Paul Hosmer, Chairman and Associate Professor of Physics at Hillsdale, tells us about the place of physics in a liberal arts education.
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| 0:00.0 | from the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, |
| 0:13.4 | and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing |
| 0:20.6 | the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.5 | President Reagan just liked Scalia better. |
| 0:27.9 | Scalia was nine years younger. |
| 0:29.6 | He had a kind of more affable and outgoing personality. |
| 0:32.8 | The photo contact sheets of the White House photographer's office, they show the Gipper and Scalia, two wits, |
| 0:38.8 | really just cracking each other up. This is your host, Scott Bertram. And that's James Rosen, |
| 0:44.3 | author of the new book, Scalia, Rise to Greatness, 1936 to 1986. We talk in-depth with James |
| 0:51.7 | about his look at the life of Andidan Scalia in just a little bit. |
| 0:55.6 | First, we're joined by Dr. Miles Smith. He is assistant professor of history at Hillsdale |
| 1:01.1 | College, recently writing a piece at Real Clear History.com. Magnitude of Civil War Undervalued is the |
| 1:09.4 | title. Dr. Smith, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me, Scott. So in some ways it seems unthinkable that the Civil War would be undervalued as you put in the headline. In what way do you mean? Casualties, short-term, long-term impact, how we remember it? How do you think we sort of don't appreciate the Civil War? |
| 1:29.5 | We don't understand the impact of the casualty numbers in our lifetimes and in our grandparents' lifetimes. |
| 1:36.5 | There was never an event like that. World War II doesn't even come close. We don't understand, I think, the impact of how the war itself changed, how we understand government, |
| 1:47.2 | how we view the relationship of the individual to the nation. |
| 1:51.8 | The Civil War, Robert Penn Warren, who the famous author, won three Pulitzer Prizes, |
| 1:58.4 | called it the central event of the American imagination. |
| 2:00.8 | And so I think there's something to that. It changed everything. won three Pulitzer Prizes, called it the central event of the American imagination. |
| 2:05.0 | And so I think there's something to that. It changed everything. |
| 2:11.1 | A good thing to think about is before the war, we said the United States are. And after the war, we say the United States is. So even the way we kind of view what the United States as a |
| 2:16.7 | republic is and does, it's |
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