“Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them.” John Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, was a man who supported the idea of self-government in a time of growing government intervention. At Hillsdale, where “through education...
Despite Calvin Coolidge’s reputation for opposing progressive policy, he was actually sympathetic to it, Thomas Tacoma argued at his public lecture last Thursday. Tacoma is Hillsdale College’s first student to earn a Ph.D. in the Van Andel program, who also graduated from the college. In his dissertation, which was the first in the graduate program...