How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold War
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Guests: John Bachman & Nathan Herring
Host Scot Bertram talks with John Bachman, host of John Bachman Now on Newsmax, about Ronald Reagan's successful invasion of Grenada and his new book Turning Point: How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold War. And Nathan Herring, assistant professor of physics at Hillsdale College, discusses the life and accomplishments of physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
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| 0:00.0 | from the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, |
| 0:10.8 | where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored. |
| 0:16.8 | This is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.2 | So you start to see the dominoes start to tumble. |
| 0:28.1 | It helped the Reagan administration kind of get the confidence to do operations like Urgent Fury. |
| 0:33.2 | And then, you know, obviously people started to take notice in some of those Eastern Bloc countries that America was back. |
| 0:40.0 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:42.1 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. |
| 0:45.2 | That was John Bachman. |
| 0:46.5 | He's the author of the new book, Turning Point, how Reagan liberated Grenada and won the Cold War. |
| 0:52.8 | We'll go in depth with John about his book on this |
| 0:54.8 | week's episode. Also coming up a bit later from Hillsdale's physics department, Nathan Herring. |
| 1:00.1 | We'll discuss the great physicist James Clerk Maxwell. First, we're joined by John Bachman. He is |
| 1:06.2 | an award-winning journalist and host of John Bachman now on Newsmax, also the author of the new book, |
| 1:13.1 | Turning Point, how Reagan liberated Grenada and won the Cold War. |
| 1:17.5 | John, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:19.1 | It's great to be with you, Scott. |
| 1:20.2 | You say in Turning Point that this, Grenada, why you're writing about it, in fact, |
| 1:26.2 | is that the battle for Grenada begins the fall of the Soviet Union. |
| 1:31.8 | How do those dominoes fall? |
| 1:33.7 | You know, this was really the first real major military conflict since Vietnam that involved all branches of the military. |
| 1:40.6 | And there had been this lingering fear of loss and, you know, the cloud that hung over |
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