Why Israel’s Success Is America’s Success
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Guests: Jeremiah Regan, Victoria Coates, & Eric Hutchinson
Host Scot Bertram talks with Jeremiah Regan, executive director of online learning at Hillsdale College, about Hillsdale’s upcoming “Totalitarian Novels” online course. Victoria Coates, vice president of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, outlines the benefits of the American-Israeli relationship and discusses her new book,The Battle for the Jewish State: How Israel―And America―Can Win. And Eric Hutchinson, associate professor of classics and director of the Collegiate Scholars Program at Hillsdale, summarizes the relationship between Augustine and the classics.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.1 | You know, as we move into 2025, despite the many dangers that we face, there are reasons to be very, very hopeful, not just for Israel, but for the United States as well. |
| 0:36.3 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:38.7 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:45.1 | That was Victoria Coates, author of the new book, The Battle for the Jewish State, |
| 0:49.4 | How Israel and America Can Win. |
| 0:52.1 | We'll talk with Victoria in depth about that book a little bit later on in |
| 0:55.9 | today's program. First, we're joined by Dr. Jeremiah Regan. He is executive director of online learning |
| 1:01.9 | here at Hillsdale College. Dr. Regan, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me, Scott. |
| 1:06.2 | We are always excited to launch a new online course, and this one is no exception. |
| 1:12.7 | Totalitarian Novels is available now at Hillsdale.edu slash new course. You can sign up there. |
| 1:20.9 | We'll tell you more about that in a minute. Why totalitarian novels? It sounds big and scary. |
| 1:26.9 | So why do we want to do it in what books do we discuss in this course? It sounds big and scary. So why do we want to do it? And what books do we |
| 1:29.1 | discuss in this course? It is big and scary, but it's also a lot of fun. The course |
| 1:34.1 | examines 1984, Brave New World, Darkness at Noone, and That Hidious Strength. So we've got |
| 1:40.9 | four of them in there. And they all show a little bit of a different |
| 1:44.9 | perspective on totalitarianism. But what our students will come away with at the end of the |
| 1:49.7 | course is a view that there is hope in courage and in the providence of our Lord. |
| 1:56.1 | So who's the teacher for this one? What's the format? Hillsdale College President, Dr. Larry Arne, presents a lecture and an analysis of each book, |
| 2:04.5 | and then he sits down with students from his class, Hillsdale College undergraduates, |
| 2:08.5 | who took this class with him in person, and discusses major themes, important passages, |
| 2:13.9 | and because it's Dr. Arne, has a little fun at their expense. |
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