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The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Glenn Ellmers Reveals The Roots Our Broken Politics

The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Hillsdale College

Education

4.8650 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Guests: Adam Carrington, Glenn Ellmers, & Paulina Volosov

Host Scot Bertram talks with Adam Carrington, Associate Professor of Politics and William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College, on the repercussions of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. Glenn Ellmers, Salvatori Research Fellow in the American Founding at the Claremont Institute, discusses the roots of political unrest and his new book The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy. And Paulina Volosov, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Hillsdale College, explains how mathematicians study the brain.

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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.

0:25.2

The way the left behaves seems bewildering to normal people.

0:29.4

And I argue that there are deep, longstanding philosophical trends that are coming out and conflicting with each other to help us understand a little bit

0:38.9

about why our politics is so crazy and what's happening to our country.

0:42.3

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

0:45.0

Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.

0:50.9

That was Glenn Elmer's author of the new book, The Narrow Passage, Plato, Foucault, and

0:56.2

The Possibility of Political Philosophy. We'll talk at length with Gwen a little bit later on in

1:01.3

today's program. First, we're joined by Dr. Adam Carrington, Associate Professor of Politics, William

1:07.0

and Patricia Lamoth Chair in the U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College.

1:11.9

Dr. Carrington, thanks for joining us.

1:13.7

Thank you.

1:14.5

Another conversation as we look back on the important decisions from the most recent Supreme Court term.

1:20.9

This one, 303 creative, and it seems like there's a case each term that is wildly misinterpreted by the media,

1:30.1

and thus many Americans also misinterpret a case.

1:34.2

Last year was Kennedy and Bremerton.

1:36.8

This was the case of the coach who was praying on the football field after games.

1:41.9

This term, it appears to be this 303 creative case. So we are

1:45.4

largely told that this decision means that businesses can post signs and say, we will not serve

1:53.0

LGBTQ customers. Is that true? That is definitely not true. The court was more talking about not who you serve, but what kind of services you supply

2:07.3

and whether those involve questions of free, of what of a message that you're communicating

2:13.8

of does is speech involved.

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