The Life and Imagination of Ray Bradbury

The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Hillsdale College

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4.8 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Guests: Richard Samuelson, Jonathan Eller, & D.G. Hart

Host Scot Bertram talks with Richard Samuelson, Associate Professor of Government at Hillsdale College's Washington, D.C., campus, about the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Jonathan Eller, chancellor's professor of English at Indiana University's School of Liberal Arts and author of a three-volume biography on Ray Bradbury, discusses Bradbury’s life and legacy in writing. And D.G. Hart, associate professor of history at Hillsdale College, completes a short series on the life and works of journalist and cultural critic H.L. Mencken. This week, Hart focuses on Menken's political views.

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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 across the country.
0:25.2	In terms of science fiction, it's just as far away from anything believable or plausible you could have, but it holds our imagination.
0:34.3	This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.
0:42.3	That was Jonathan Eller, perhaps the world's leading scholar on Ray Bradbury, an author of a three-book biography on the man.
0:50.3	We talked with Jonathan in depth about Bradbury and the art Biography a little bit later on in today's program.
0:57.6	First, we're joined by Dr. Richard Samuelson, Associate Professor of Government at Hillsdale College's Washington, D.C. campus.
1:05.1	Dr. Samuelson, thanks so much for joining us.
1:07.2	Well, thanks for having me.
1:08.0	Talking today about the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, December 16th, 1773, so just before the calendar flipped to 2024, but we're close enough for it to count.
1:23.3	The Boston Tea Party, Dr. Samuelson, Let's start with the lead-up to this event.
1:31.2	What are the triggers that precipitated this famous event?
1:40.5	Well, the longer-term trigger is Britain's continuing efforts to tax the colonists from Britain,
1:42.6	as opposed to via the local legislatures.
1:45.2	Remember, the only colonies in the Americas was legislatures were the British colonies, and they were used to taxing themselves. So starting
1:50.0	at the end of the seven years war or French Indian War in the early 1760s, the British tried
1:55.5	to tax the Americans, either via duties on trade, which were for the first time explicitly to raise revenue,
2:02.6	as opposed to, say, make French sugar more expensive, sugar for French islands,
2:06.8	which was seen as a regulation that was acceptable.
2:09.4	But they said, no, we just want money from you, so we're going to put a duty on all sugar.
2:13.5	And then there's a Stamp Act, the Townsend Acts on lead, paper, paint, and tea.
2:18.0	So there's a series of taxes in various forms that kept being repealed.
2:24.0	And each time, the British left one bit open in order to save face.
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