Kevin Slack on The American Left Since the 1920s
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Guests: Kevin Slack, Joel Kotkin, & Timothy McDonnell
Host Scot Bertram talks with Kevin Slack, Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, to preview his brand-new online course, "The American Left: From Liberalism to Despotism". Joel Kotkin, a fellow in urban studies at Chapman University, takes us inside his latest book, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. And Timothy McDonnell, Director of Sacred Music at Hillsdale, tells us what sacred music is and how it's used at the College.
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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 |
| 0:22.7 | to listeners across the country. |
| 0:24.9 | The danger of this kleptocracy, right, this union, this great awakening that occurs around |
| 0:29.1 | 2015, the great danger is that it destroys our concept of citizenship. |
| 0:33.0 | This is your host Scott Bertram, and that's Dr. Kevin Slack, Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and your |
| 0:40.8 | teacher for Hillsdale's new online course, the American Left, from liberalism to despotism. |
| 0:47.2 | We'll preview that course today with Dr. Slack. It's available now at online.hillsdale.edu. Dr. Slack, thanks so much for joining us. It's good now at online.hillsdale.edu. |
| 0:54.7 | Dr. Slack, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 0:56.9 | It's good to be here. |
| 0:58.1 | This course is based at least somewhat, if not largely, on an upcoming book of yours, |
| 1:04.5 | which is called War on the American Republic, how liberalism became despotism. |
| 1:09.0 | We're going to have you back in a couple of weeks to have |
| 1:11.6 | an in-depth conversation on the book. Today we talk more about the online course. And I've heard |
| 1:17.2 | you say that people ask you often, what happened to my country? When people ask you that, |
| 1:25.0 | how do you interpret that question? What do you think that they mean? |
| 1:29.2 | I think it's basic things like how is it that what we call health today is the very opposite of health. |
| 1:35.6 | I mean, it's literally sickness. You know, for example, our assistant secretary of health and the nation's first so-called female admiral is a biological male who had his own |
| 1:45.5 | penis removed. And what world is that healthy? Or they see the federal government endorse the most |
| 1:51.9 | divisive racial tribalism, blaming all the country's problems on white supremacy. And that |
| 1:56.4 | includes the recent murder of a black man by five black cops. So despite the decades-old teaching of equality under the law, we now tell whites to apologize for their skin color, even to the point of being told not to apply for jobs. |
| 2:09.6 | Each week, a new study comes out questioning the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines that were mandated by the federal agencies, the same ones that exempted the pharmaceutical |
| 2:18.4 | companies from lawsuits for adverse events. Top researchers have argued the virus was produced by |
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