Guests: Korey Maas, Larry Correia, & John Grant
Host Scot Bertram talks with Korey Maas, Associate Professor of History at Hillsdale College, about the long history of religious liberty. Author Larry Correia joins us to discuss his latest book, In Defense of the Second Amendment. And John Grant, Associate Professor and Chairman of Politics at Hillsdale, returns for another installment in his series of the life and work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Larry Correia Defends the Second Amendment

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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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Victor Davis Hanson Describes How Civilizations Perish

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 Ludwig von Mises and tells us what advice von Mises might have for our current times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rediscover the Beauty of Classical Music

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 John Daniel Davidson, senior editor at The Federalist, discusses the rise of anti-Christian forces in the United States and his book Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Scott Atlas Holds the Medical Establishment Accountable

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 the life and work of Charles R. Kesler and a collection of essays he co-edited on the subject titled Leisure With Dignity: Essays in Celebration of Charles R. Kesler. And Dutton Kearney, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, continues a series on the work of James Joyce. On this episode, Kearney discusses Joyce’s short story collection Dubliners. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wilfred McClay Surveys the 1920s

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 Studies Institute, describes the lost art of training statesmen and discusses his new edited collection of historical essays on statesmanship, Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill. And Andrew Russell, associate professor of biology at Hillsdale College, continues a conversation on biofilms and his work on the applications of the compound zingerone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Larry Correia Defends the Second Amendment

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