Churchill’s The Second World War, Part Seventeen
Hillsdale Dialogues
Hillsdale College
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 33 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: 19 January 2026
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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. |
| 0:21.5 | Hillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio. |
| 0:28.8 | Morning, Lori, and evening, Grace, America. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Q. Hewitt. |
| 0:32.0 | That music means the Hillsdale Dialogue is upon |
| 0:34.4 | as the last radio hour of the week. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm joined by Dr. Larry Arne, president of Hillsdale College, and today we are doing part |
| 0:41.5 | 16 in our series on this volume of Winston Churchill's six volume, World War II history, |
| 0:48.4 | the one called The Gathering Storm. |
| 0:50.7 | Dr. Arnly introduced you and me to the audience last week, the new audience, and all the |
| 0:54.4 | affiliates we picked up. A word before we dive into chapter 19 and 20 of this book, which |
| 1:01.4 | concludes book one of the first volume. Why are we spending so much time on Winston Churchill's |
| 1:07.9 | memoirs? Well, they're great. |
| 1:12.5 | Churchill himself is, in my opinion, the greatest statesman in our time. |
| 1:17.9 | And what's different about our time from previous eras of human history is that we live in a time |
| 1:25.8 | dominated by technology, by government forms that intensify |
| 1:32.6 | because of that. |
| 1:34.3 | And the most extreme form is called totalitarianism. |
| 1:37.9 | That's tyranny scientifically armed. |
| 1:40.9 | Tyranny is an ancient phenomenon as long as there have been people, there have been |
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