Larry O'Connor on Media and the 2024 Election
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Guests: Mark Moyar, Larry O'Connor, & Kevin Gerstle
Host Scot Bertram talks with Mark Moyar, the William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College, about his recent essay on the left-wing capture of higher education. Larry O’Connor, host of O’Connor and Company on WMAL-FM in Washington, D.C., recounts his move from the world of professional theater to talk radio and provides a survey of the effect of new media on the 2024 election. And Kevin Gerstle, associate professor of mathematics at Hillsdale College, describes the relationship between mathematics and cryptography.
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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. |
| 0:25.2 | If you're creating content that is relevant to the people that you're trying to reach, you're going to do well. |
| 0:32.2 | You really are. I'm maybe naive about that, but so far I think that things are working in such a way that that has been proven out. |
| 0:39.1 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale |
| 0:45.6 | College Podcast Network. That was Larry O'Connor, host of O'Connor and company at News Talk 105.9 |
| 0:53.8 | FM in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:56.2 | We'll talk with Larry a little bit later on in today's program about his path into media and radio and audio and the future of journalism. |
| 1:05.2 | First, we're joined by Dr. Mark Moyer. He is William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College, also author |
| 1:12.5 | of the recent book, Masters of Corruption. Mark, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:18.1 | It's great to be with you. Talking today about an essay you wrote and was published at the |
| 1:22.8 | Chronicle of Higher Education, focused on conservatives in higher education. And you begin by thinking back to your |
| 1:31.2 | time on college campus, which is pretty close to my time on a college campus, 1994, 1996, |
| 1:37.9 | the mid-90s. How would you describe your experience and the experience maybe for many conservatives |
| 1:43.8 | on college and university |
| 1:45.8 | campuses back that time 30 years ago or so. Yes, well, at the time, it seemed like |
| 1:51.6 | things were pretty bleak. We had only a few conservative professors at Harvard where I was |
| 1:57.5 | an undergraduate. And, but when you look at it in comparison with today, it actually was quite a bit better because |
| 2:06.1 | you at least had a few conservative faculty. |
| 2:08.1 | Now they're pretty much gone in most places. |
| 2:11.1 | And back then, conservatives were still more or less free to speak their minds. |
| 2:16.5 | You knew there was some cost to you, |
| 2:21.4 | perhaps, for speaking out, but a lot of conservatives did. Now, conservatives at the student |
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