From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

On this episode, we'll talk with Molly Hemingway, senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College,

about the preparation is now underway for hearings over a new Supreme Court justice.

Daniel Copeland from Hillsdale's Education Department

answers the question, what is the moral imagination? And Paul Ray from Hillsdale's history

department tells us all about his new book, Sparta's Second Attic War. We're joined now by

Molly Hemingway, senior editor at the Federalist, a senior journalism fellow here at Hillsdale College, also Fox News contributor.

You could also find her book, Justice on Trial, the Capitol Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court.

It's in hardback now in paperback September 29th, which is not bad timing at all.

Molly, thanks for joining us.

That's great to be here with you.

We do not know the president's choice for nominee for the Supreme Court as of yet.

We could find out this weekend.

We could find out on Monday.

The one thing we do know, as he has promised it will be a woman, and there are some fantastic

candidates who are out there.

What's the calculus you think the president is taking into account as it begins to

deliberate and decide who it might be? Well, this administration is very different from all

previous Republican administrations in that it began thinking about Supreme Court picks before

they were even elected. So usually what happens when there's an opening is at that point,

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