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.

I'm a big believer that people have it backwards. I spend my life trying to figure out what God wants for me, not what I want God to do for me.

Most people, God is a celestial butler. Here's my wishless God. Please fulfill it. And if you

don't, I'm not sure I'll believe in you. This is your host, Scott Bertram. And that's Dennis Prager,

national radio talk to host, founder of Prager Hugh, and author of the brand new book,

The Rational Bible, Deuteronomy. We'll talk at length with Dennis Prager coming up in just a little bit.

First, today we talk with Dr. Bradley Watson.

He is Associate Professor of Government at the Van Andal Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale in D.C.

Previously a professor of politics at St. Vincent College in Pennsylvania,

where he was also co-director of the Center for Political and Economic Thought.

And he's written to piece. You can find at Spectator.org, what happened at St. Vincent College

demonstrates the moral collapse of higher education. Dr. Watson, thanks so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me, Scott. You are a former tenured professor at St. Vincent College,

which is why you write about what's happening there.

And now with us here at Hillsdale, before we get to this event that eventually led to your exit,

tell us a bit about your experiences at St. Vincent College as a tenured professor

and director of the Center for Political and Economic Thought

before this April 2020 lecture.

Yeah, sure.

It was a very congenial place to be for most of my tenure there.

In fact, I was there since 1999, just resigning this past summer.

St. Vincent is the oldest Benedictine College in the country, and it is, you know, many other

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