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.

Inflation, war, a lot of these ills are very hard to explain to people who were not there.

I do think that no one under the age of, say, 50 has any memory at all of inflation in this country.

This is your host, Scott Bertram, and that's Christopher Caldwell,

senior federal at the Claremont Institute and Colonist at Compact Mag,

where you find his new essay, inflation is no accident.

We'll talk in-depth with Christopher about that a little bit later on in

today's program. We're joined now by Dr. Dan Copeland. He is dean of the Graduate School of Classical

Education. You're at Hillsdale College. Dr. Copeland, thanks for joining us. Yeah, thank you, Scott.

That's a new title. Yes, it is. New business cards and new sign on the door. The Graduate

School of Classical Education, there's a new master's program in education here business cards and new sign on the door. The graduate school of classical education,

there's a new master's program in education here at Hillsdale College. We want to talk specifically

about what that means for the college and what it means for students. First, though, for people

who are not in higher education, what do we even mean when we say it's a master's program? What does that

look like? What does it mean? Yeah, so you know, Hillsdale College has been known as an

undergraduate institution for a very long time and we've and and we think we're pretty good at

doing that kind of work. And and so Hillsdale expanded graduate programs, primarily through the statesmanship program

first, about a decade ago, and then, you know, the politics program in Washington, D.C. And so

this is the third graduate program here at Hillsdale College. And so a graduate program is a program

for graduates. So it's primarily targeted for people who have completed an undergraduate experience.

And a typical undergraduate experience is four years where students are asked to study a wide variety of subjects and to get this kind of broad liberal education in the humanities, in the sciences, in the social sciences.

And then, you know, they're given the opportunity to explore a particular field to a particular

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