Churchill’s The Second World War, Part Four

Hillsdale Dialogues

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War, Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes.

Release date: 5 September 2025

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0:00.0	Every week, Hillsdale College President Larry Arne joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books,
0:11.1	great men, and great ideas. This is Hillsdale Dialogues, part of the Hillsdale College
0:18.1	Podcast Network. More episodes at podcast.com.hillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio.
0:30.0	Morning, glory, and evening, Grace, America.
0:32.3	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
0:33.1	That music means that it does every Friday.
0:35.7	The last radio hour of the week, the last broadcast hour of the week, is the Hillsdale
0:40.5	dialogue.
0:41.8	All things Hillsdale can be found at Hillsdale.edu, all of our dialogues, hundreds of them,
0:46.7	at Hugh for Hillsdale.com.
0:48.6	And my guest is, as most times, Dr. Larry Arne, president of Hillsdale College.
0:53.1	And we are back deep into this book,
0:56.0	The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill, the first volume in his sixth volume history of World War II.
1:02.0	Dr. Arn, I hope you are well. I hope school has gotten off to a good start, and we are off to a good start
1:07.0	on this. But we're in Chapter 3, Lurking Dangerers. When you begin a school year, are you looking around for lurking dangers or are you just
1:13.4	enjoying yourself?
1:15.7	No, well, I'm in Washington right now.
1:18.6	I had to leave, but I refuse to travel in the first 10 days of school because
1:24.1	Hillsdale College is happier than Disneyland.
1:27.6	We have my life those weeks are planning the year with the staff, talking to the
1:33.6	freshman about the honor code, and then the seniors, the first of four capstone lectures.
1:40.1	And the start difference between a freshman and a senior is very obvious and fun.
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