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 episode, we'll talk with Victor Davis Hanson,

distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

about a recent piece at American greatness. From Hillsdale's Education Department, Dan Copeland

tells us why children still should learn

cursive.

And General Robert B. Nutter, former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, will discuss the

topic of leadership with him.

We're joined now by Victor Davis Hanson, distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College and

senior fellow at the Hoover Institute.

You also read his work all over the place, including at American Greatness, which is where the piece we will be discussing today is located, AM greatness.com.

Victor, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having you.

So the piece is titled Our Bankrupt Nomenclatured.

Describe for people a little bit about what that title means.

That's a borrowed Russian word for the late days of the communist regime and the Soviet Union.

When there was about 1% of the population was official party members

and they were ministers, assistant ministers, generals, the people that ran the country.

And the negative implication of using that word is if you wanted something done, you didn't go to Marxist or communist bureaucracies, but you felt you had enough privilege that you could leverage the system and get things through an old-fashioned quid folklore or old boy network.

And it wasn't based necessarily on qualifications.

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