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.combe.hillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio.

Morning, glory, and evening, Grace, America.

I'm Hugh Hewitt. That music means the first Hillsdale dialogue of 2006 is underway. Every week at this hour, I'm joined by

the president of Hillsdale College, Dr. Larry Arne, or one of his colleagues, to talk about either

important events that are breaking news in front of us or old and important books of the past.

We are presently in a series, if you're new to the studio and the station, a series

on this book, Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm, Volume 1 of his War Memoirs, which

we will return to next week, Part 16. But as it is the first show of the new year, I want to

welcome Dr. Arne and begin by saying, happy new year. I hope everything is good

at Hillsdale College, Dr. Arn. Kids are coming back next week, and probably we're going to survive that. Well, they've been through that for, this will be the 26th return since you joined Hillsdale in 2000, I believe. Larry, I want to let you know that there are two new affiliates of particular interest, I think, to you at the beginning of the year. One of them is in Michigan,

WMKT. Larry, I want to let you know that there are two new affiliates of particular interest, I think, to you at the beginning of the year.

One of them is in Michigan, WMKT, up in Charlevoix or Potowski, Michigan, Triple Talk 102.3, 103, and 102.3, 1270 a.m.

And then the home of naval aviation, Pensacola, Florida, News Radio, Pensacola,

92.3 WNRP. So both in your home state, way up north, and way down south, and across other

affiliates that joined the week before, for their benefit. I can tell them go to hillsdale.

edu. But can you just succinctly state for them what the mission of your college has been and

remains since you took over as president in 2000 and long ago when it was founded?

1844, people who were in the cause of Abraham Lincoln, abolitionists, Christians had a big part in the Civil War, and they founded the college for freedom, faith, learning, and character in a very beautiful document that we read at the beginning of every board meeting at Hillsdale College.

It's a lovely thing, and the college is fun, difficult.

If you decide to come there, it'll be hell,

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