From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan,

where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored,

this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

And so this is what China is doing. This is part and parcel of the Thousand Talent Program, which is China's overt attempt to basically ensnare as much talent from the United States and Europe and Canada as possible. Bring them

over to China to do their research, to share their data with China so that China can keep up

with America in the high-tech sectors and then leapfrog us eventually. And that is precisely what's

going on. This is your host, Scott Bertram, and welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of

the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. That was Brandon Weikert, geopolitical analyst and author of the new

book, Biohacked, China's Race to Control Life. We'll talk with Brandon a little bit later on in the

program in depth about biohacked.

First, we're joined by Dr. Ken Calvert.

He is Professor of Ancient History at Hillsdale College and also your teacher for the new Hillsdale

online course, ancient Christianity.

You can find it at online.hillsdale.edu.

Dr. Calvert, thanks for joining us.

Thank you, Scott.

Great to be here.

So what should people expect from this new course, ancient Christianity?

It's a fun course, actually.

It provides a little bit of insight into the Jewish context of Christianity, the Roman context of Christianity, and the Greek context of Christianity. Sometimes

we don't often think about how diverse and complicated these cultures were and the time in which

Jesus was born. And so I try to place our understanding of ancient Christianity within that

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