Episodes

  • A Reporter's Story of Overcoming Sexual Trauma and Exposing Injustice
    Apr 17 2026

    Guests: Jeremiah Regan, Anna Giaritelli, & Scott Jennings

    Host Scot Bertram talks with Jeremiah Regan, executive director of online learning at Hillsdale College, about Hillsdale’s upcoming documentary film Revolutionary America. Anna Giaritelli, homeland security reporter for the Washington Examiner, discusses her sexual assault, the efforts by the Washington D.C. Police Department to obscure crime statistics, and her new book, Under Assault: A Crime Reporters True Story of Overcoming Sexual Trauma and Exposing Injustice. And we play excerpts from a speech by Scott Jennings, senior political commentator at CNN, given at a recent Hillsdale National Leadership Seminar. He discusses working for CNN, defending Western Civilization, and his recent book, A Revolution of Common Sense: How Donald Trump Stormed Washington and Fought for Western Civilization.

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    49 mins
  • Religious Liberty: The First Freedom
    Apr 10 2026

    Guests: Kelly Shackelford & Kelly Scott Franklin

    Host Scot Bertram talks with Kelly Shackelford, president and CEO of First Liberty Institute, about the current state of religious liberty in the United States and his work on President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission. And Kelly Scott Franklin, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, returns for a new series on the poems of Emily Dickinson. This week, he focuses on "Death sets a Thing significant."

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    46 mins
  • Citizenship Starts in the Classroom
    Apr 3 2026

    Guests: Kathleen O'Toole & Mardi M. Billman

    Host Scot Bertram talks with Kathleen O'Toole, associate vice president for K-12 Education at Hillsdale College, about the importance of education in forming citizens and her essay "Citizenship Starts in the Classroom." And Mardi Billman, associate professor of chemistry at Hillsdale College, returns for another series on drama in scientific discovery. This week, she begins to discuss the discovery of fire.

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    39 mins
  • Journalism “The Chicago Way”
    Mar 27 2026

    Guests: John Kass & Matthew Mehan

    Host Scot Bertram talks with John Kass, an independent Chicago-based columnist and host of The Chicago Way podcast, about his legendary journalism career in Chicago and what the city’s mistakes can teach the rest of the country. And Matthew Mehan, associate dean and associate professor at the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C., discusses the importance of children in American political life and his report "The Higher Purpose of Children in American Society."

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    40 mins
  • Mary Katharine Ham and the New World of Media
    Mar 20 2026

    Guests: Mary Katharine Ham & Benjamin Beier

    Host Scot Bertram talks with Mary Katharine Ham, host of the Getting Hammered and Normally podcasts and writer at Fox News and OutKick, about her career in journalism and the changing landscape of media in America. And Benjamin Beier, chairman and associate professor of education at Hillsdale College, previews the new Hillsdale online course, Classical Logic and Rhetoric.

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    48 mins
  • Preparing for the Midterms with Mollie Hemingway
    Mar 13 2026

    Guests: Mollie Hemingway & Christina J. Lambert

    Host Scot Bertram talks with Mollie Hemingway, Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College and editor-in-chief at The Federalist, about the political issues that will affect the results of the upcoming midterm elections and her upcoming book Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution. And Christina J. Lambert, assistant professor of English at Hillsdale College, continues a series on the life and work of poet and playwright T. S. Eliot. This week, she discusses Eliot's The Waste Land.

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    46 mins
  • Why Democracy Needs the Rich
    Mar 6 2026

    Guests: John O. McGinnis, Maria Servold, & John Seiffertt

    Host Scot Bertram talks with John O. McGinnis, law professor at Northwestern University, about the important role that the wealthy play in our republic and his new book Why Democracy Needs the Rich. Maria Servold, assistant director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College, discusses the tension between student press freedom and institutional support from a college or university and her recent essay “The Complex World of Student Journalism.” And John Seiffertt, associate professor of computer science at Hillsdale College, explains the nature of Artificial Intelligence.

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    50 mins
  • How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold War
    Feb 27 2026

    Guests: John Bachman & Nathan Herring

    Host Scot Bertram talks with John Bachman, host of John Bachman Now on Newsmax, about Ronald Reagan's successful invasion of Grenada and his new book Turning Point: How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold War. And Nathan Herring, assistant professor of physics at Hillsdale College, discusses the life and accomplishments of physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

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    39 mins