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.

Political force by itself can never establish a truth.

And so what people need to do is think about what's going on and read up on it, and read the past and know the history of the country and teach it to their children.

This is your host, Scott Bertram, and that's Dr. Larry Arne, president of Hillsdale College

and chairman of the 1776 Commission.

We hear at length from Dr. Arne, from Dr. Matthew Spalding, and Dr. Carol Swain, here in the first

two segments of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

As you might know, the 1776 Commission issued the 1776 report in January of 2021.

Two days later, the report and the commission were abolished by executive order by President Biden.

Despite that, the 1776 Commission has now met in Washington, D.C. at the Hillsdale

College, Washington, D.C. campus. After the meeting, Dr. Matthew Spalding, the executive

director of the 1776 commission, Dr. Carol Swain, the vice chair of the commission, and

Dr. Arne, the chairman of the commission, met to recap that meeting and to update America,

met to recap that meeting and to update America on what's next for the commission.

We hear first from Dr. Arne and Dr. Swain with their reflections on the conversation of the day.

The commissioners are all people appointed because they have a lifelong interest in the meaning of the United States of America.

We're very keen to see that we mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of the Declaration of

the Declaration of Independence in 2016, nobly, in a way to revive understanding of it. Of course,

that's in great disrepute today among most of the intellectual classes.

And we think that's mistaken. It's a disastrous mistake. And it's a free country.

There's no law that we can't carry on and meet and talk.

This meeting today is taking place at a time when

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