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Cruelty and contempt are never forgotten. In child rearing, and in politics. Reform is necessary. Cruelty is not. Contempt and cruelty---in any area -- will never be forgiven and will cost reformers, and their constituents, down the generations.

Attn policy wonks: give some extra meaning to your holiday by judging America's best high school debaters  at Plymouth Notch, Vermont July 2-4. Their topic: the protectionist Jones Act. Beginner judges welcome! coolidgefoundation.org/debate/coolidg…

Memorial: "And my soul spread out her wings, Flew through silent lands, As if she were flying home." --Eichendorff The "As if..." ...

Charles Cooke on Normalcy, the slogan of the 1920 Harding/Coolidge campaign. It's an awkward word, but the slogan can yield powerful policy. nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/…

The Gregg offers a good review of Phil Gramm's book --- Triumph of Economic Freedom wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

A valued source of revenue -- tolls from the Panama Canal. (In case you ever wondered why politicians liked the Canal) Source: Annual Report 1929

“lunatic fringe”…Republican Party talks to itself, 1924 iteration…Statesman Elihu Root to Pres Coolidge…Root is listing big questions before Party…

The counterintuitive, brilliant, Fred Smith ....a Coolidge Foundation tribute... coolidgereview.com

Encourage yourselves, students, to enter this JONES ACT contest. Multiple prizes. coolidgereview.com/essay-contest

When did personal finance replace econ and business reporting? Personal finance favors low-level moralizing. "You should put $$ in a Roth IRA. Certain restrictions may apply...". But personal finance doesn't ask: why are taxes so high I need a Roth IRA?

What a kind review by Jesse Allen of my graphic novel! Just pointed out to me. cleavermagazine.com/the-forgotten-…

Department of "In Case You Were Wondering": Here's Coolidge Foundation primer on the budget of the Coolidge era. The interesting part is the scale of defense spending in those "isolationist" years. coolidgeandthebudget.com

Further: here's personal finance and econ policy opinion combined in a hybrid. Ok... nytimes.com/wirecutter/rev…

Thank you Charles Fain Lehman and MI for bringing Silent Cal into your podcast. The ultimate president. city-journal.org/multimedia/sco…

What better way to spend the Fourth than debating our history and economy? Cal Coolidge would have approved…Join us next summer…debate (high school) or judge…

Organized labor slowed production during World War II. Learning from Arthur Herman's "Freedom's Forge."

Underrated historians: Albro Martin Forrest McDonald Arthur Herman

1920s Budgets, Year by Year coolidgeandthebudget.com/spending-by-ca…