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 week's episode, we'll talk with Michael Anton, author of the new book after the Flight 93 election,

the vote that saved America and what we still have to lose.

Brian Christian is with us, author of The Most Human, Human and a recent guest lecturer on the Hillsdale College campus.

Dr. Todd Mack, Professor of Spanish here at Hillsdale College and former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from a CCA at Hillsdale back in 1994, all with us on today's show.

Joining us now on the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour is Michael Anton, lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale

College's Alan P. Kirby Jr. Center in Washington, D.C., previously served in the Trump

administration and a brand new bookout after the Flight 93 election, the vote that saved

America and what we still have to lose. Michael, thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. So this, the new book

out consists of three essays, two previously published, one, won the Flight 93 election,

the other restatement on Flight 93, and then the new one, which is a pre-statement on Flight

93. What was the, what was the reason you go back and revisit the two essays, and of course, write the new essay, Michael?

Well, I mean, fundamentally, you might say the efficient cause was simply that a publisher, in this case Roger Kimball of Encounterbooks, came to me and asked me to do it.

He said, I love that essay.

I think it was very important and should be republished. And I said, okay, fine, if you're going to do that, then I'd like to republish the original rejoinder to my critics that I wrote about a week later, which I was quite proud of, which didn't really get that much attention because everybody just focused on the original essay. And then he said, Ed, of course, it's fine, but you're going to have to do something new to actually make it a book. And I said, okay, well, you know, a criticism that I got over time,

not so much in the beginning, was that there was no positive vision, that, yes, you scared

people into saying what would happen, you know, had Hillary Clinton won the presidency,

you scared enough

Republicans, obviously. But you didn't present a positive vision of what the country or what

things should look like. They said, well, okay, that's just for reasons of space, though. It's not

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