The Road to the American Revolution, Part Six

Hillsdale Dialogues

Hillsdale College

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week: The philosophical grounding of the Constitution, George Washington's military experience, and the concept of "Fabian Tactics." Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations and dean of Hillsdale in D.C.’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues.

Release date: 3 October 2025

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0:00.0	Every week, Hillsdale College President Larry Arne joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books,
0:11.1	great men, and great ideas. This is Hillsdale Dialogues, part of the Hillsdale College
0:18.1	Podcast Network. More episodes at podcast.
0:21.5	gillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio.
0:31.8	Morning, Lauren, Even Grace, America.
0:33.6	I'm Hugh Hewitt.
0:34.4	I have no additional updates on the shutdown.
0:36.9	So morning, Lori, and evening, grace, and I hope you enjoy your weekend, but you know what that music means.
0:42.0	It means that it is time for the Hillsdale Dialogue this week with Dr. Matt Spalding,
0:46.6	who is the head of the graduate school on statesmanship at Hillsdale College's Caribbean campus inside of Washington, D.C.
0:54.0	And I also found out this week is the author of the forthcoming book, The Making of the
0:59.7	American Mind.
1:00.8	Now, this could not be more timely, given we're about to have our 250th birthday party on July
1:06.1	4th, and that Dean Spalding and I have been doing a series on 1775 and 1776.
1:13.6	But Matthew, you didn't tell me about the making of the American mind.
1:17.4	It doesn't come out for a month or so, but people can pre-order it.
1:20.5	How long you've been at work on this?
1:23.9	It's what's based on my teaching, which goes back several decades.
1:26.9	You can imagine that.
1:28.1	But it's probably been about a year or so.
1:31.5	Our facility has been closed.
1:33.4	We're doing renovations.
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