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Guests: Wilfred McClay, Scott Walter, & Jordan Hintz

Host Scot Bertram talks with Wilfred McClay, the Victor Davis Hanson chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College, about major events during the Cold War as featured in the “All Thoughts and Things Were Split” chapter in his book Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story. Scott Walter, president of Capital Research Center, describes the vast network of dark money operations influencing American politics and his new book Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America. And Jordan Hintz, head coach of the Hillsdale College Shotgun Sports Team, updates us on the squad’s recent success at the national level.

 
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Guests: Richard Samuelson, Jonathan Eller, & D.G. Hart  

Host Scot Bertram talks with Richard Samuelson, Associate Professor of Government at Hillsdale College's Washington, D.C., campus, about the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Jonathan Eller, chancellor's professor of English at Indiana University's School of Liberal Arts and author of a three-volume biography on Ray Bradbury, discusses Bradbury’s life and legacy in writing. And D.G. Hart, associate professor of history at Hillsdale College, completes a short series on the life and works of journalist and cultural critic H.L. Mencken. This week, Hart focuses on Menken's political views.
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Guests: Miles Smith IV & Batya Ungar-Sargon  

Host Scot Bertram talks with Miles Smith IV, assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College, about the relationship between church and state in the early American Republic and his new book Religion & Republic: Christian America From the Founding to the Civil War. And Batya Ungar-Sargon, opinions editor at Newsweek, catalogues the betrayal of America’s working class and discusses her new book Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.
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Guests: Mark Moyar & Jason Peters

Host Scot Bertram talks with Mark Moyar, the William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College, who provides an insider’s view of the federal bureaucracy’s corruption and its failures to protect employees from retaliation, as detailed in his new book, Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency. And Jason Peters, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, continues a series on the life and work of farmer-poet Wendell Berry. This time, Peters summarizes Berry's views on technology and gives insight on his essay titled "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer."
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Guests: Kathleen O'Toole, Corey A. DeAngelis & Kelly Scott Franklin

Host Scot Bertram talks with Kathleen O'Toole, Assistant Provost for K-12 Education at Hillsdale College, about the difficulties classical schools face in finding locations for their schools and her article "The Hidden Barrier to School Choice." Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at The American Federation for Children and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, explains the roots of the parent-led movement to reform our education system and discusses his new book The Parent Revolution. And Kelly Scott Franklin, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, returns for his series of Great Moments in the Great Books. This time, he dives into the etymology sections of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
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Guests: Victor Davis Hanson & Mark F. McClay

Host Scot Bertram talks with Victor Davis Hanson, the Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, about civilizations that were completely destroyed by war and his new book The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation. And Mark McClay, assistant professor of Classics at Hillsdale College, discusses the religious rites of the ancient cult of Bacchus and his book The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition.
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