The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

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The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour is a one-hour, weekly radio show/podcast advancing the efforts of Hillsdale College in radiating its knowledge and teaching to the world outside of campus. Listeners will hear the arguments and debates that make up the liberal arts education and will experience the learning and teaching that happens on campus. Hosted by Scot Bertram.

Recent Episodes
  • The Legacy of William F. Buckley
    Apr 18, 2025 – 49:02
  • The Ambition of American Art
    Apr 11, 2025 – 43:21
  • Classical Architecture and Human Flourishing
    Apr 4, 2025 – 39:43
  • Saving Hollywood From Itself
    Mar 28, 2025 – 01:01:11
  • How DEI Weakens the Military
    Mar 21, 2025 – 50:37
  • William F. Buckley Jr. and the American Character
    Mar 14, 2025 – 49:10
  • How Transparency Weakens the Deep State
    Mar 7, 2025 – 51:05
  • Digital Currency and the End of Freedom
    Feb 28, 2025 – 45:24
  • How DOGE is Reshaping the Administrative State
    Feb 21, 2025 – 41:55
  • The Dark Money Influence on the Federal Government
    Feb 14, 2025 – 50:22
  • Christianity and the American Political Tradition
    Feb 7, 2025 – 39:56
  • Why Israel’s Success Is America’s Success
    Jan 31, 2025 – 50:42
  • The Ugly Truth About Stakeholder Capitalism
    Jan 24, 2025 – 44:43
  • Larry P. Arnn: Three Reasons to Study Churchill
    Jan 17, 2025 – 46:51
  • How Orson Welles Terrified America
    Jan 10, 2025 – 41:55
  • The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour End-of-Year Extravaganza '24
    Dec 27, 2024 – 25:23
  • Adam Lovinger: The Evolution of the Deep State
    Dec 20, 2024 – 47:59
  • Kevin Roberts: Shifting Power Back to the People
    Dec 13, 2024 – 42:24
  • Sean McMeekin Traces the Evolution of Communism
    Dec 6, 2024 – 50:47
  • Giving Thanks at Hillsdale College
    Nov 27, 2024 – 19:03
  • Victor Davis Hanson: How Trump Won
    Nov 22, 2024 – 56:23
  • George Gilder: How Israel Enriches the U.S.
    Nov 15, 2024 – 49:25
  • Inside the Nixon and Reagan White Houses with Ken Khachigian
    Nov 8, 2024 – 48:01
  • Larry O'Connor on Media and the 2024 Election
    Nov 1, 2024 – 49:28
  • Michael Waltz: Leadership and the Green Berets
    Oct 25, 2024 – 45:41
  • The Genius of Rodgers and Hammerstein
    Oct 18, 2024 – 44:09
  • The Roots of America's Housing Crisis
    Oct 11, 2024 – 44:55
  • Gary Wolfram Explains Why Price Controls Don’t Work
    Oct 4, 2024 – 47:45
  • The Network Protecting the Biden Family
    Sep 27, 2024 – 51:49
  • Michael Walsh Exposes the Corporate Media
    Sep 20, 2024 – 46:06
  • Joel Pollak’s Roadmap For Trump's First 100 Days
    Sep 13, 2024 – 49:41
  • Victor Davis Hanson Decodes the Harris Campaign
    Sep 6, 2024 – 50:01
  • Todd Bensman Reports on the Border Crisis
    Aug 30, 2024 – 49:49
  • Ivan Pongracic Lived Through Communism
    Aug 23, 2024 – 44:55
  • America’s Most Consequential Political Conventions
    Aug 16, 2024 – 47:55
  • Victor Davis Hanson Recaps Donald Trump’s Political Comeback
    Aug 9, 2024 – 45:47
  • Megan Basham: How the Left Infiltrated America’s Churches
    Aug 2, 2024 – 44:52
  • Jennifer Strickland Reclaims Womanhood
    Jul 26, 2024 – 50:30
  • John J. Miller Wants More Conservatives In Journalism
    Jul 19, 2024 – 46:32
  • Randy Barnett Chronicles the History of Originalism
    Jul 12, 2024 – 44:48
  • Independence Day Special: The Constitution
    Jul 5, 2024 – 48:33
  • The Early Statesmanship of James Madison
    Jun 28, 2024 – 51:14
  • Mary Margaret Olohan Shares the Untold Stories of Detransitioners
    Jun 21, 2024 – 47:23
  • Wilfred McClay Chronicles How the Cold War Changed America
    Jun 14, 2024 – 50:00
  • The Life and Imagination of Ray Bradbury
    Jun 7, 2024 – 54:07
  • Christianity and the American Republic
    May 31, 2024 – 44:31
  • Mark Moyar Exposes Our Corrupt Bureaucracy
    May 24, 2024 – 50:03
  • Corey DeAngelis Wants to Fund Students, Not Systems
    May 17, 2024 – 53:08
  • Victor Davis Hanson Describes How Civilizations Perish
    May 10, 2024 – 46:11
  • Rediscover the Beauty of Classical Music
    May 3, 2024 – 43:42
Recent Reviews
  • FrostyRucks
    Right?!
    So disappointed that Patricia R. Bart, an associate professor of English at Hillsdale College cannot even begin nor get through a segment without constant overuse of the verbal tic and “uhm” replacement, “Right?!” This is an English professor who cannot even engage in basic elementary effective communication! Please stop with “Right?!”- the invasive cultural rubbish of the ENGLISH language! Do better!
  • CES1604
    Podcast
    I throughly enjoy the show and the topics that are urgently relevant to our day please continue marching on
  • The_T_K
    Sound quality.
    Do you understand the concept?
  • Blchitt
    Educational
    Highly informative on subjects affecting our country. Heartily recommend listening to this podcast.
  • Hopphead
    New favorite
    Interesting guests
  • Scorpion8996
    Chaplain Scott Byerly
    Very interesting guests with great moral and spiritual courage
  • SharperEyes
    Radio Free Hillsdale is solid
    Good information source, with guests and topics mainly of interest to conservatives. Most guests are politically or culturally important. They also bring a guest with strong liberal arts info, to cover a specific topic that you may have studied sometime but it is great to get a reminding review. Little or no chit chat here—I am uninterested in that. Instead, there is emphasis on presenting facts on the issues, then the guest’s opinions or predictions.
  • Chloepups2
    Still a light in darkness
    Grandparents went here and mother went here. Thank you for all you do
  • JVJ1975
    Great stuff.
    This podcast is one example of what “Higher Education” is supposed to be. Exemplary interviewer. Thank you Hillsdale.
  • Keeping It Real NC
    Inspiring And Enlightening
    Each episode features four guests, usually profs as the college, speaking on four topics. It's a fantastic potpouri, and I always came away intellectually and emotionally refreshed. Great job, Hillsdale!
  • ShorePort
    Echo sentiment of a prior review
    I too wish I knew about Hillsdale in the 80s I would have went. Dr Spaulding gives a superb overview on the USA’s Birthday.
  • n4bpp
    Great
    Wish I could have attended Hillsdale. Great program and well done.
  • Plumedenom
    Yes Dr Arnn this show should have been done long ago.
    With only two eppisodes I can already tell that this is going to be a wealth of information. Hopefully these shows will grow in time length if not in frequency. Perhaps this can and will be up to the task of topping another wealth of information show some of the key players in this show were previously involved in. If 'history' proves to be correct and is in itself a reccuring topic matter on these shows I see big things for this little pirate radio counterculture show. Keep it up and just incase you cant take a subtly hint let me apply it with a sledge hammer. As often as possible Arnn should be drug, as early in the morning as possible, into the studio in his fuzzy bunny slippers and bathrobe and give us history in both subject lessons and interweaved in his witty rejoinders and keen insights. The man has studdied Churchill so much I am surprised he doesnt do shows from a bath tub! Maybe even have a guest brought into the studio but this one should be invited only when the outside temperature is fit for neither man nor beast.
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