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December 13, 2019|Amity Shlaes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Great Society, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Port Huron Statement, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Tom Hayden

Planning the Great Society

by Amity Shlaes|

Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?

August 1, 2013|Amity Shlaes, Charles C. Johnson, Coolidge, Immigration, Reagan

Why Coolidge Matters

by Ken Masugi|

coolidge sternI’m on my way to an event Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes organized in his hometown of Plymouth Notch, Vermont. In preparation I looked over Coolidge speeches and Amity’s indispensable book, discussed here. And I’ve just completed Charles C. Johnson’s Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President, foreword by Charles R. Kesler (New York: Encounter Books, 2013).

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March 10, 2013|Amity Shlaes, Calvin Coolidge, The Forgotten Man

Coolidge!

by Amity Shlaes|

Amity Shlaes comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss her new biography, Coolidge, that explores and analyzes the triumph of Calvin Coolidge. Much like the title of Shlaes' previous bestseller, The Forgotten Man, Coolidge recovers for the reader a president that our country seems to have forgotten. For many, Coolidge had to be left behind. The successes of his fiscal and regulatory policies and the judgments these policies make on America's New Deal and postwar open-ended spending and regulating tendencies are hard to reconcile. There is also the sober rectitude that Coolidge insisted should guide our lives in a modern…

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October 26, 2012|Amity Shlaes, Antonin Scalia, Calvin Coolidge, Hadley Arkes, Liberty Fund, Reading the Law, Religious Liberty, Richard Reinsch, Romney Tax Plan

Friday Roundup: October 26th

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

The cherry-picking Bruce Bartlett: Not that Law and Liberty is taking sides in the upcoming presidential election but bad analysis is bad analysis. David Henderson at Econ Log debunks Bartlett's takedown of the Romney tax plan in two posts: See here and here. Hadley Arkes at Right Reason asks "Is Religious Liberty a Natural Right (link no longer available)?" Victoria Toensing on the Lilly Ledbetter Act: "Mr. Obama brags that the 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act bestowed equal-pay rights for women. The act, he has said, "is a big step toward making sure every worker," male and female, "receives equal pay for…

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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