Myron Magnet Takes Us Behind the Antiracist Racket
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Guests: Kyle Murnen, Myron Magnet, & Benedict Whalen
Host Scot Bertram talks with Kyle Murnen, director of Online Learning at Hillsdale College, about the brand-new podcast from the Online Learning team: The Hillsdale College Online Courses Podcast. Myron Magnet, historian and author of Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution, explains the history and goals of the "Antiracist" movement in his new article "The Antiracist Racket." And Benedict Whalen, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, continues his series on the works of Christopher Marlowe with Doctor Faustus.
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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. |
| 0:25.5 | If your workforce, for example, does not match the demographics of the surrounding area, that is sufficient evidence that you have discriminated, even though the courts cannot show any intent |
| 0:40.2 | to discriminate. And what happened at that point is that government began to stamp out civil |
| 0:48.0 | society. This is your host Scott Bertram, and that's Myron Magnet, author and writer in many locations, including the Claremont |
| 0:56.1 | Review of Books. We talked with him in depth about a recent essay, The Anti-Racist Rackett. That's coming |
| 1:02.4 | up in just a bit. First on today's program, we chat with Kyle Mernan. He is director of online |
| 1:07.2 | learning here at Hillsdale College. Kyle, thanks so much for joining us. It's great to be here, |
| 1:11.1 | Scott. Thank you. Here today with an exciting announcement about a new podcast offered by Hillsdale |
| 1:17.1 | College, the Hillsdale College Online Courses podcast, and people might be able to figure out from the title |
| 1:23.1 | that this has to do with our online courses. So before we talk about the podcast, I wanted to talk about the online courses themselves, |
| 1:29.5 | because we've talked to you many times about many of our online courses as they're released. |
| 1:33.9 | But I haven't talked about the before, the philosophy. |
| 1:37.2 | What is the philosophy behind our online courses? |
| 1:40.7 | Why were they launched in the first place? |
| 1:42.9 | So the whole idea behind Hillsdale College, |
| 1:45.7 | the reason we were founded back in 1844 was to diffuse sound learning throughout the country, |
| 1:50.2 | right, and to help provide education necessary for civil and religious liberty. And Dr. Arn saw an |
| 1:55.2 | opportunity back in 2011 to be able to expand that mission, right, to be able use the internet, |
| 2:02.9 | use our means online to take the core education of Hillsdale College and make it available to everyone that wants to learn. |
| 2:07.1 | And it's been a great opportunity to be able to be a part of that. |
| 2:10.3 | And the idea is that everyone should know something about the Constitution. |
| 2:13.8 | Everyone should be working on their character. |
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