Sam Faddis on the Rise and Fall of the CIA
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Guests: Adam Carrington, Sam Faddis & Mickey Mattox
Host Scot Bertram talks with Adam Carrington, William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the U.S. Constitution and associate politics professor at Hillsdale College, about the history of the 17th Amendment and his article "How the 17th Amendment Ruined Federalism." Sam Faddis, author of Beyond Repair: The Decline And Fall Of The CIA, dives into the history of the CIA and how the once respectable organization has lost its way. And Mickey Mattox, Flack Family Foundation Chair and professor of theology at Hillsdale College, explains the legacy of Martin Luther as a reformer.
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | Maybe we assess with moderate confidence it might have come out of the lab. |
| 0:30.9 | What does that mean? |
| 0:31.6 | Well, that means you didn't have any sources in the lab in 2019, and apparently in 2023 you still don't have any sources in the lab and that's your |
| 0:41.6 | whole reason for existing so that's pretty damning this is your host scott bertram and that's |
| 0:49.3 | sam thadus he's author of beyond repair for the decline and fall of the cia on Hillsdale's campus recently to give a lecture, the rise and fall of the CIA. |
| 0:59.1 | We'll talk in depth about that topic a little later on in today's program. |
| 1:03.2 | First, we're joined by Dr. Adam Carrington, Associate Professor of Politics, William and Patricia Lamoth Chair in the U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College. |
| 1:12.5 | Dr. Carrington, thanks for joining us. Good to be here. You also see him writing in many places |
| 1:17.2 | that Chicago Tribune and elsewhere, including occasionally National Review. And that's where we find |
| 1:22.7 | this piece, how the 17th Amendment ruined federalism. So people might have some of the amendments memorized. |
| 1:30.5 | What's the 17th all about? So the 17th changed the way that we select United States senators. |
| 1:37.4 | Senators until the early 1900s when this amendment was passed had been chosen by state legislatures. So interesting, |
| 1:47.0 | Lincoln-Douglas debates. The people weren't voting for Lincoln or Douglas when they were |
| 1:51.8 | debating to be the Senate. They were, Lincoln and Douglas were saying, vote for our party for the state |
| 1:57.6 | legislature, so they will vote for us. That was changed to what the system |
| 2:02.5 | is now by the 17th Amendment, whereby the people of the state directly vote for senators. |
| 2:08.7 | So you went from state legislative selection to that direct vote by the people. |
| 2:13.1 | What were the arguments at the time? For what reasons did advocates push for this change some 110 years ago? |
| 2:20.6 | Two related. One was to make us more democratic, the argument that we are a government that is |
| 2:30.6 | ultimately of the people, that it's from and by the people, as Lincoln famously said, |
| 2:37.1 | and therefore doesn't it make more sense for the people to directly choose their representative |
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