David Bernhardt Takes Us Inside the Administrative State
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Guests: Adam Carrington, David Bernhardt, & Matthew Young
Host Scot Bertram talks with Adam Carrington, Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, about a recent essay shining a spotlight on our forgotten founding document, the Northwest Ordinance. David Bernhardt, former United States Secretary of the Interior, takes us inside the highest levels of government with his new book You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State. And Matthew Young, Dean of Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Hillsdale, returns for another preview of his recent online course as we discuss the periodic table.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:25.3 | I actually fundamentally believe that one of the biggest drivers of change is picking qualified people who can promote your agenda and tell the bureaucracy within the White House to get out of the way. Get on the same page. |
| 0:37.9 | It's the policy makers. |
| 0:39.1 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:41.4 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:47.3 | That was David Bernhardt, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior. |
| 0:51.5 | His new book, You Report to Me, Accountability for the Failing Administrative |
| 0:55.8 | State. We'll talk to him in depth about that in just a little bit. First, we're joined by Dr. |
| 1:01.7 | Adam Carrington, Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College. Find him on Twitter at |
| 1:06.6 | Carrington AM. Dr. Carrington, thanks for joining us. Glad to be here. Talking today about a piece you wrote for the Washington Examiner, |
| 1:15.0 | celebrate our forgotten founding document, and this is the Northwest Ordinance. How did the |
| 1:22.1 | Northwest Ordinance come to be? It was passed twice, actually, first by the Confederation Congress in the summer of 1787. |
| 1:33.0 | When I say Confederation Congress, the Congress that was the government under the Articles |
| 1:38.4 | of Confederation. |
| 1:39.4 | So if anyone asked what did the Articles of Confederation ever do. This would be the most important lasting thing |
| 1:47.2 | they did. Did it in the summer of 87. Interestingly, while the Constitutional Convention was |
| 1:52.3 | writing the new Constitution, which is basically our current Constitution. And then it was |
| 1:57.8 | repassed by Congress in 1789 with few minor changes and that that became the basis of the document going forward. |
| 2:06.8 | It was probably written by Rufus King and Nathan Dane, Nathan Dane being a important legal scholar of the early republic and then Rufus King, one of the founders that |
| 2:20.3 | himself was an important part of the ratification of the Constitution itself. So that was the |
| 2:29.1 | way at least came to be. It was passed by in both those instances at those times. Why was the Northwest |
| 2:36.0 | ordinance needed or necessary? What problems or issues did an attempt to address? |
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