How DEI Weakens the Military
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Guests: Charles N. Steele, Will Thibeau, & Derek Stauff
Host Scot Bertram talks with Charles N. Steele, director of the Center for Commerce and Freedom and Herman A. and Suzanne S. Dettwiler Chair in Economics at Hillsdale College, about Understanding Capitalism, the latest online course from Hillsdale College. Will Thibeau, director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute Center for the American Way of Life, lays out how DEI initiatives weaken the American military as described in a recent report. And Derek Stauff, associate professor of music at Hillsdale College, gives some simple tips on how to better appreciate classical music.
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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. |
| 0:24.8 | There also comes with it the natural prescriptions of policy that demands more racially and sexually diverse populations. |
| 0:34.6 | Majority groups are discriminated against in order to meet diversity outcomes, goals, and |
| 0:43.3 | quotas of any kind. |
| 0:45.6 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:47.8 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. |
| 0:51.1 | That was Will Tebow, director of the American Military Project at the Claremont |
| 0:55.8 | Institute Center for the American Way of Life. We'll talk in depth with him later about his recent |
| 1:01.0 | report on the fatal impact of DEI on U.S. military readiness. First, we're joined by Dr. Charles |
| 1:08.8 | Steele, he is Director of the Center for Commerce and Freedom, |
| 1:12.6 | Associate Professor of Economics, and Herman A. and Suzanne S. Detweiler, chair in economics at Hillsdale |
| 1:19.4 | College. Dr. Steele, thanks for joining us. Well, thank you, Scott. Happy to be here. |
| 1:23.6 | Also, your teacher for the new Hillsdale College online course, |
| 1:28.7 | Understanding Capitalism, and you can find all that information at Hillsdale.edu slash new course, |
| 1:37.7 | N-E-W-C-O-U-R-S-E, Hillsdale.org-E-Hillsdale.edu slash new course for understanding capitalism. And we want to give people |
| 1:47.8 | an overview of the course that encouraged them to sign up today, Dr. Steele. So let's start with |
| 1:53.4 | the big question. Is capitalism simply just rule by capitalists? How should we understand it? |
| 2:00.7 | Well, that's a great, great lead in. No, it's not. But maybe it would be useful to say what capitalism is. |
| 2:07.6 | Capitalism is an economic system. It's not ruled by any particular people. It is an economic system. |
| 2:14.7 | And the primary prerequisites or the conditions the conditions for it are number one private property |
| 2:21.2 | rights individual rights in the Lockean sense that would cover a person's each person has a right to his |
| 2:28.2 | or her own self as well as to his or her own labor and the fruits of that labor when they work |
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