Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C.C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldrums; the only difference was that JFK's new technology was space travel, and Coolidge's travel by airplane.

In a way, Calvin Coolidge is better than Reagan. His tax rates were lower, and he cut budgets.

The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.