Every week, Hillsdale College President Larry Arne joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books,

great men, and great ideas. This is Hillsdale Dialogues, part of the Hillsdale College

Podcast Network. More episodes at podcast.orgast.hillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio.

Morning, glory, and evening in Grace America.

That music means we're into the Hillsdale Dialogue, all things Hillsdale found at

Hillsdale.edu, all prior Hillsdale dialogues, more than

800 of them, at Hugh for Hillsdale.com. At the end of the program, I'll tell you about how they're

getting ready for our 250th birthday as well. But I'm pleased to welcome back Professor Khalil Habib,

who spent the last two weeks with us doing it classic Hewitt fashion, sort of

back asswords. We started with the history plays in the middle of Shakespeare. Now I asked

him, okay, we have Steelers fans and they're hopelessly confused. They saw a lion in winter

when they were 20. And 50 years later, they can't figure this out.

So we're going back to John the first, and then we're going to go forward.

But we're going to begin by doing Shakespeare 101 and why he did the history play.

Professor, welcome back.

Big hit last week and the week before.

Actually had a lot of good emails.

People enjoy sort of learning about what they didn't get in college.

Do you find that with your students that they're kind of amazed by Shakespeare?

Yeah, they are. And, you know, when I announced that I was going to teach a taught King John before,

and students who are familiar with Shakespeare, think, King Who? And what play is this?

These plays are sadly neglected, and I think unjustly. So even if you're familiar with Shakespeare thinking who? What play is this? These plays are sadly neglected,

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