Conference on Ronald Reagan at Hillsdale College
I have a secret to impart. Peter Robinson is coming to Hillsdale College and giving a lecture entitled “At the Beginning: Reagan’s Time for Choosing Speech.”
You see: this year marks the centenary of the Gipper’s birth and the thirtieth anniversary of his inauguration, and the college got the jump on Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the like, which have been for some unknown reason slow in honoring the former President, and it is dedicating its first Center for Constructive Alternatives conference to the great man and his legacy.
On the docket along with Peter are Craig Shirley, author of Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America; Ronald Radosh, author of Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left; Phil Gramm, former U. S. Senator from Texas; Steven Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989; and Eliot Abrams.
The conference will be held from 2-5 October. All of the talks are open to the public, but the seating is limited. I am told that we will be swamped. So, to guarantee yourself a seat you will have to get there early. Keep all of this under your collective hat.
Incidentally, I am not sure how easy it is to get on the list to be invited to our conferences and to the associated meals: we do four a year. But if you live nearby or don't mind traveling to exotic places, you might want to contact those in charge at CCA@hillsdale.edu and ask to be put on the list of future invitees. As you can see from this webpage, in the course of this year, we will be looking at religion in America, at Adam Smith, and at science fiction films in the 1950s.
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Aug '10
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Paul A. Rahe
the college got the jump on Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the like, which have been for some unknown reason slow in honoring the former President
FWIW, the University of Southern California held a two-day GipperCon of its own in February.
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anon_academic
Paul A. Rahe
the college got the jump on Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the like, which have been for some unknown reason slow in honoring the former President
FWIW, the University of Southern California held a two-day GipperCon of its own in February. · Aug 17 at 4:20pm
Good for them.
May '10
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I have "curriculum envy,"
Jun '10
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Who is going to get the C-SPAN cameras there?
Apr '11
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For those who didn't already know, the Hillsdale campus features large sculptures of both Reagan and Thatcher. Absolutely thrilling to see.
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No one will do so -- but Hillsdale videotapes everything, and these can, I believe, be purchased. Some of them, if I am right, can be viewed online.
May '10
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I believe Hillsdale is about 1.5 hours drive away from Ann Arbor (my home). I think I may be able to come over for Peter's talk.
That SF film talk sounds tempting too. Did you notice?--you're creating an opening for some die-hard Keynesian chauvinist to make a joke about how the Adam Smith talk and the 1950's Science Fiction talk are redundant. I am not that person, however.
Jun '10
Re: Conference on Ronald Reagan at Hillsdale College
Paul A. Rahe
No one will do so -- but Hillsdale videotapes everything, and these can, I believe, be purchased. Some of them, if I am right, can be viewed online. · Aug 17 at 6:44pm
For all Ricochet members, here is the Hillsdale College YouTube Channel here.
Jun '11
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Time for Choosing is fun to watch over and over again. I think this might be Reagan's best paragraph in a speech that was not written by Peter Robinson.
"Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to." And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
Wow.
Also, I suggest the Imprimis podcast. It doesn't update enough, but every update is incisive and great to listen to.
Aug '11
Re: Conference on Ronald Reagan at Hillsdale College
Paul A. Rahe
No one will do so -- but Hillsdale videotapes everything, and these can, I believe, be purchased. Some of them, if I am right, can be viewed online. · Aug 17 at 6:44pm
I certainly hope that Hillsdale does make the presentations available online. I have highly enjoyed traveling to Regent University for their annual Reagan Symposium and have been grateful to see that they make all the presentations available online afterwards.
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This is desperately needed at Dartmouth.
May '10
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Are there any other Ricochetoises in Michigan? Maybe we could use this event as an excuse for a meet-up. Let me know.