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The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

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The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour is a one-hour, weekly radio show/podcast advancing the efforts of Hillsdale College in radiating its knowledge and teaching to the world outside of campus. Listeners will hear the arguments and debates that make up the liberal arts education and will experience the learning and teaching that happens on campus. Hosted by Scot Bertram.

Latest episodes

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The Case for Cheerful Conservatism

Guest: Roger Kimball Host Scot Bertram talks with Roger Kimball, editor and publisher of The New Criterion and president and publisher of Encounter Books, about finding

Oct 23
21 min

A Rebirth of American Education

Guest: Matthew Mehan Host Scot Bertram talks with Matthew Mehan, associate dean and associate professor at the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale Coll

Oct 20
24 min

The Vanishing Black Family

Guest: Delano Squires Host Scot Bertram talks with Delano Squires, director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing at The Heritage Foundation, abou

Oct 16
27 min

Is America a Culture or a Creed?

Guest: Glenn Ellmers Host Scot Bertram talks with Glenn Ellmers, Salvatori research fellow at Claremont Institute, about the ongoing creed-versus-culture debate on the

Oct 13
20 min

The History of an American Icon

Guest: D.G. Hart Host Scot Bertram talks with D.G. Hart, professor of history at Hillsdale College, about the history of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, America’s tra

Oct 9
20 min

The Great English Poet Edmund Spenser

Guest: Patrick Timmis Host Scot Bertram talks with Patrick Timmis, assistant professor of English at Hillsdale College, about the life and accomplishments of English po

Oct 6
21 min

Lawfare and the Tyranny of the Deep State

Guest: Robert Livingston Host Scot Bertram talks with Robert Livingston, former U.S. representative from Louisiana, about efforts by the Biden White House to punish pol

Oct 2
21 min

The Life and Work of Ludwig Boltzmann

Guest: Nathan Herring Host Scot Bertram talks with Nathan Herring, associate professor of physics at Hillsdale College, about the life and accomplishments of physicist

Sep 29
15 min

Mollie Hemingway on the Midterms and Artificial Intelligence

Guest: Mollie Hemingway Host Scot Bertram talks with Mollie Hemingway, senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College and editor-in-chief at The Federalist, about the up

Sep 25
28 min

America's 100 Years' War With Communism

Guests: Bradley Thayer and Jeremiah Regan Host Scot Bertram talks with Bradley Thayer, American Freedom Alliance fellow and founding member of the Committee on the Pres

Sep 18
41 min

Victor Davis Hanson on The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump

Guest: Victor Davis Hanson Host Scot Bertram talks with Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow in military history at the Hoover Institution and Distinguished Fellow in His

Sep 11
39 min

Make American History National Again

Guests: Matthew Spalding and J. A. Jackson Host Scot Bertram talks with Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations and dean of the Van Andel Graduate Sch

Sep 4
58 min

Recovering From the Biden Era

Guests: Todd Starnes and Julio Suarez Host Scot Bertram talks with Todd Starnes, conservative columnist, commentator, writer, and radio host, about the accomplishments

Aug 28
41 min

Appreciating Homer's Iliad

Guests: Stephen Smith and Sam Lair Host Scot Bertram talks with Stephen Smith, dean of humanities and Professor of English at Hillsdale College, to preview his brand-ne

Aug 21
43 min

How the Left Captures Institutions

Guests: Seth Barron and Elizabeth Fredericks Host Scot Bertram talks with Seth Barron, editorial board member at the New York Post, who explains how the Left is moving

Aug 14
45 min

Launching a Second Scientific Revolution

Guests: Jay Bhattacharya and Mark Edward Lender Host Scot Bertram plays excerpts from a lecture by Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health of th

Aug 7
43 min

Exposing China's Murderous Organ Harvesting Industry

Guests: Jan Jekielek and Kelly Scott Franklin Host Scot Bertram talks with Jan Jekielek, senior editor at The Epoch Times and host of American Thought Leaders, about Ch

Jul 31
45 min

Life in the Reagan Administration

Guests: Donald P. Hodel and Stephanie Lauback Host Scot Bertram talks with Donald P. Hodel, former secretary of energy and former secretary of the interior in the Reaga

Jul 24
49 min

Appreciating Homer's Odyssey

Guests: Benedict Whalen and Carson Holloway Host Scot Bertram talks with Benedict Whalen, chairman and associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, to preview h

Jul 17
45 min

Suicidal Empathy and the West

Guests: Gad Saad and Stephen Smith Host Scot Bertram talks with Gad Saad, professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and host of The Saad Truth podcast, about the po

Jul 10
49 min

Chart trend

Position in the Education chart (US), last 90 days.

#81
all-time peak
15
days in the top 100 since Nov 2024

Chart positions

Where The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Oct 25, 2026).

#168 ▲ 7 Education US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

This show, and many other errs from Hillsdale, can’t get through a sentence without the constant overuse of the verbal tics, “Right?” and Ummm. Perhaps it flows from President Arndt. This has made many of the podcast shows unlistenable. These are supposed to be educated scholars, but they sound like unprepared high schoolers. It is insulting, lazy, and unprofessional. We expect more from Hillsdale. So, PLEASE set and demonstrate higher standards!

FrostyRucks · Feb 2026

Good information source, with guests and topics mainly of interest to conservatives. Most guests are politically or culturally important. They also bring a guest with strong liberal arts info, to cover a specific topic that you may have studied sometime but it is great to get a reminding review. Little or no chit chat here—I am uninterested in that. Instead, there is emphasis on presenting facts on the issues, then the guest’s opinions or predictions.

SharperEyes · Apr 2021

Each episode features four guests, usually profs as the college, speaking on four topics. It's a fantastic potpouri, and I always came away intellectually and emotionally refreshed. Great job, Hillsdale!

Keeping It Real NC · Aug 2019

Highly informative on subjects affecting our country. Heartily recommend listening to this podcast.

Macho Bob · Oct 2024

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