Mark Moyar Exposes Our Corrupt Bureaucracy
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Guests: Mark Moyar & Jason Peters
Host Scot Bertram talks with Mark Moyar, the William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College, who provides an insider’s view of the federal bureaucracy’s corruption and its failures to protect employees from retaliation, as detailed in his new book, Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency. And Jason Peters, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, continues a series on the life and work of farmer-poet Wendell Berry. This time, Peters summarizes Berry's views on technology and gives insight on his essay titled "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer."
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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. |
| 0:25.1 | The biggest reason I wrote this was to point out systemic issues that have to be fixed. |
| 0:30.9 | This whole Inspector General system, I think, has to be destroyed and rebuilt because right now it basically serves the interests of the agencies. |
| 0:39.2 | It has to be separated from those agencies so that it's not just doing the bidding of the agency |
| 0:44.7 | leaders. |
| 0:45.1 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:47.5 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:53.8 | And that was Dr. Mark Moyer. He is the William |
| 0:56.2 | P. Harris Chair of Military History here at Hillsdale College and his brand new book is just out. |
| 1:02.7 | Masters of Corruption, how the federal bureaucracy sabotage the Trump presidency, the book based |
| 1:09.0 | on his experiences as a political appointee in the Trump |
| 1:12.5 | administration. Dr. Moyer, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks. It's great to be here. It is a |
| 1:18.4 | fantastic book, one that reads like a suspense novel, but the facts are all too true, as you'll tell |
| 1:26.3 | us throughout our conversation today. This involves |
| 1:29.5 | your time serving, as we mentioned, during the Trump administration at the U.S. Agency for |
| 1:34.3 | International Development. And before we get to that, the process of how you landed there is how |
| 1:39.8 | the book begins. And you explain that as President Trump took office and these positions were being |
| 1:46.3 | filled, that some of the people in charge of selecting political appointees purposefully rejected |
| 1:52.9 | candidates deemed to be supportive of Trump. The opposite of what people who voted for Donald Trump |
| 1:58.4 | likely expected. How does that happen under the watch of someone |
| 2:02.3 | like President Trump? Yes, that's a great question. Trump was not really expecting to win, |
| 2:08.0 | as we know, and so the administration wasn't fully prepared to pick people, and they selected |
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