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Not So Silent Cal - Conversations with Mark Bauerlein (4.29.21)

First Things Podcast

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Religion & Spirituality

4.6699 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Amity Shlaes joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss the Calvin Coolidge Foundation and her recent edition of “The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge.”

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Located in the foothills of Wyoming's spectacular wind river range, Wyoming Catholic College,

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an accredited four-year Great Books Institution, is built on the ancient Western tradition of the liberal arts and the freedom of the American West.

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The college offers its students an immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition,

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the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual

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heritage of the Catholic Church. Students experience the illumination of imagination and intellect

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through the great books and traditional disciplines, literature and philosophy, mathematics and

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theology, science and Latin, and an outdoor program second to none. The college celebrated an

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in-person graduation with its seniors last year

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and welcomed its largest freshman class ever this year. Learn more about the college's unique

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space in the world of American higher education at Wyoming Catholic.edu. We have with us today,

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Amity Schlaiz. She is a widely published columnist and commentator, author of one of the

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better known political biographies of recent times entitled The Forgotten Man, a New History of the

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Great Depression, and the second one is Coolidge. She chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge

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Presidential Foundation. She's the editor and introducer of a new edition of the autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, which is our main subject today.

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Welcome, Ms. Schles.

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Glad to be with you.

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First, the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation.

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What is that?

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What does the Coolidge Foundation do?

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The Coolidge Foundation is dedicated to the memory and principles of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, a very underrated president.

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If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. He has so much to offer America.

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So we are based in Plymouth, Notch, Vermont, which is where Coolidge came from, a beautiful,

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