In this episode, Amity Shlaes and I walk through the 1920s and ’30s. Were the ’20s a champagne bubble bound to pop? Did the New Deal make the Great Depression worse?
Amity is the author of four New York Times bestselling books—including a biography of Calvin Coolidge—and the chair of the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. Her book The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression won the Hayek Prize and was also turned into a graphic novel. She is a former member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.
Amity and I discuss whether young scholars and writers need to go to graduate school, and how President Coolidge became a lawyer without attending law school. Amity advises aspiring journalists to learn a trade (and explains why journalism is not a trade). And she describes a dissertation topic some entrepreneurial scholar should take up, on bank architecture and economic policy.
Listen through to the end to hear us discuss The Coolidge Scholarship, a full-tuition merit-based scholarship to any university in the United States.
