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.

It's basically the administrators and the teachers' unions shaking us down for money.

That's why they closed down schools for two years.

It would only open it if they got their $80 billion.

And that's what they do with this idea of equity, which is we need more in order to get

equal outcomes.

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

And that's Luke Rosiac, author of the new book, Race to the Bottom, uncovering the

Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education.

We'll talk at length with Luke about the book in just a little bit on today's

program. First up on today's show, Dr. Ken Calvert, Professor of Ancient History at Hillsdale

College, and also one of your professors, one of your teachers for a new Hillsdale College

online course. Dr. Calvert, thanks for joining us. Thank you, Scott. Happy to be here.

We're excited to have you back, and even more so because it coincides with the launch of another

great Hillsdale online course. Right.

This one's available now. You can go to online.hillsdale.edu to find the rise and fall

of the Roman Republic. Now, your job title tells us this is ancient

history. So why should we or our listeners be interested in the Roman Republic?

Right. Well, there are so many reasons I could give you. And of course, the first one being that

as human beings were linked to the past. And so kind of the modern idea of rejecting the ancient past as relevant is really a very sad tragedy in our culture right now.

So we need to look at the past.

And particularly at those moments that truly shaped us.

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