The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Guests: John J. Miller, Jeremy Carl, & Dutton Kearney Host Scot Bertram talks with John J. Miller, Director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College, about the history and importance of conservative journalism and his recent article on the subject . Jeremy Carl, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, discusses the shifting racial regime in America and his new book The Unprotected...

Guests: Joseph Postell & Randy E. Barnett Host Scot Bertram talks with Joseph Postell, associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College, about the origins and development of political conventions. And Randy E. Barnett, Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University, chronicles his own development as a constitutional scholar and champion of Originalism and discusses...

Guests: Ronald J. Pestritto, Hadley P. Arkes, & David Azerrad Host Scot Bertram talks with Ronald J. Pestritto, dean of the Graduate School, professor of Politics, and Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution at Hillsdale College, about his lectures in Hillsdale's Constitution 101 Online Course . Hadley P. Arkes, Edward N. Ney professor of Jurisprudence and American Institu...

Guests: Matthew Spalding & Joy Pullmann Host Scot Bertram talks with Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College, about the life and impact of James Madison before his presidency .  And Joy Pullmann, executive editor at  The Federalist , reveals the efforts by activists to replace patriotism with loyalty...

Guests: Courtney Meyet, Mary Margaret Olohan, & Pat Sajak Host Scot Bertram talks with Courtney Meyet, Chairwoman and Associate Professor of Chemistry, about a recent discovery of helium gas in Minnesota. Mary Margaret Olohan, senior reporter for The Daily Signal , tells the often-ignored stories of young people who reverse "gender affirming" hormone treatments and shares details about her new...

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...

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, di...

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 betraya...

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...

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 vis...

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...

Guests: Hyperion Knight & Jeffrey A. Tucker   Host Scot Bertram talks with Hyperion Knight, concert pianist and Distinguished Fellow at Hillsdale College, about his upcoming Hillsdale College Online Course  The History of Classical Music: Pythagoras through Beethoven . And Jeffrey A. Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, discusses the life and legacy of Austrian economist...

Guests: Scott Atlas & John Daniel Davidson Host Scot Bertram talks with Scott W. Atlas, MD, Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and fellow at Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom , about the long-term impact of the COVID lockdowns and his co-authored report “ COVID Lessons Learned: A Retrospective After Four Years .”  And...

Guests: Wilfred McClay, Glenn Ellmers, & Dutton Kearney Host Scot Bertram talks with Wilfred McClay, the Victor Davis Hanson chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College, about America’s rapid changes during the 1920s and his book  Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story . Glenn Ellmers, Salvatori Research Fellow at the Claremont Institute, describes...

Guests: John J. Miller, John A. Burtka IV, & Andrew Russell Host Scot Bertram talks with John J. Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College and author of  Reading Around , about proposals around the country to institute taxpayer-funded "news voucher" systems to support local news reporting. John Burtka, president and chief executive officer of the Intercollegiate Studi...

Guests: Timothy Dolch, Todd Starnes, & Dwight Lindley Host Scot Bertram talks with Timothy Dolch, associate professor of physics at Hillsdale College, regarding what we should know about the upcoming total solar eclipse and how to access the DLITE radio probe  built by Hillsdale students. Todd Starnes, columnist and national radio host, lays out the efforts to undermine the United States and d...

Guests: Karol Markowicz & Richard Samuelson Host Scot Bertram talks with Karol Markowicz, columnist at the New York Post and host of The Karol Markowicz Show , about her recent visit to Israel and the what’s changed since the release of  Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation ,  a book she co-authored. And Richard Samuelson, associate professor of Gove...

Guests: Miles Smith, Paul Tice, & Jason Peters Host Scot Bertram talks with Miles Smith, assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College, about America’s steady loss of confidence and his article “ Decline is a Choice .” Paul Tice, Wall Street veteran and cultural commentator, explains the long-term dangers of ESG investing and his new book  The Race to Zero: How ESG Investing will Crater...

Guests: David Diener & Jeffrey E. Paul Host Scot Bertram talks with David Diener assistant professor of education at Hillsdale College, about the proper role of technology inside the classroom and what benefits might be achieved with a low-tech approach. And Jeffrey E. Paul, research professor in the Social Philosophy Center of the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virgin...

Guests: Victor Davis Hanson, Jay W. Richards, & Jeremiah Regan 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 America’s recent decline and his article “ A Culture in Collapse .” Jay W. Richards, director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion,...

Guests: Allen C. Guelzo, & Dutton B. Kearney Host Scot Bertram talks with Allen Guelzo, senior research scholar at the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University and one of America’s foremost experts on Abraham Lincoln, about his new book on Abraham Lincoln’s ideas and beliefs about democracy, titled  Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment . And Dutton Kearne...

Guests: Mollie Hemingway, Brandon J. Weichert, & Benedict Whalen Host Scot Bertram talks with Mollie Hemingway, senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College and editor-in-chief at  The Federalist , about challenges in our election system and the phenomenon of “Zuckerbucks.” Brandon J. Weichert, a geopolitical analyst and author, discusses the October 7th terror attack and his new book  The Sh...

Guests: Justin Jackson & Brad Wilcox Host Scot Bertram talks with Justin Jackson, chair and professor of English at Hillsdale College, about Hillsdale’s new online course on the Book of Exodus. And Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, discusses why marriage is an important aspect of living a healthy, successful life an...

Guests: Khalil Habib, Tracy Lee Simmons, & Andrew Russell Host Scot Bertram talks with Khalil Habib, associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College, about Alexis de Tocqueville’s  Democracy in America  and which of his observations about America ring true today. Author and journalist Tracy Lee Simmons discusses the decline of culture and his book  On Being Civilized: A Few Lines Amid the...

Guests: Paul Moreno, Amity Shlaes, & D.G. Hart Host Scot Bertram talks with Paul Moreno, the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History and professor of history at Hillsdale College, about the life and legacy of groundbreaking baseball player Jackie Robinson on the anniversary of his birth. Amity Shlaes, chair of the Coolidge Foundation and author of  Coolidge , explains pre...