Beginning in January of 2013 Hugh Hewitt, http://www.hughhewitt.com began a life changing weekly broadcast discussing great works and great ideas. In truth this discussion began over a decade ago with a New Years eve broadcast with Dr. Larry Arnn the President of Hillsdale College, http://www.hillsdale.edu.
Over the course of the past now year and a half our guide our sherpa Dr. Larry Arnn and his staff have been flogged with questions and discussion on many of the great works and specifically the great works that made Western Civilization what it is today.
If you are a serious individual who truly cares about civil liberties, who cares about civilization, who cares about politics, who cares about ideas, this is a wonderful roadmap regardless of your political or religious beliefs it is important to understand not just your own ideas, but just how we arrived at where we are today. This is a cliffs notes edition of it all, it is taught by some of the most knowledgeable and wise teachers in our nation. It is worth your attention.
If you are interested in listening to the broadcast you are in luck. The entire series has been made available as a podcast, and there are transcripts provided by Hugh Hewitt’s producer as well.
Official Page: https://online.hillsdale.edu/hillsdaledialogues
Podcast Link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hillsdaledialogues also available via https://soundcloud.com/hillsdale-college/sets/hillsdale-dialogues
Transcripts are also available via Hugh Hewitt’s Blog, but note they are intermingled with many other interviews he has conducted. http://www.hughhewitt.com/category/transcripts/
The outline to date:
Homer
The Bible
Herodotus
Thucydides
Margaret Thatcher (out of order)
Thucydides
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Lincoln (out of order)
Plutarch
Lysander
Sulla
Cicero
Marcus Aurelius
Early Christianity
Jewish History
Churchill and American Presidency (again out of order)
The Two broadcasts that started it all “The History of Ideas” Parts 1-6
Religious Liberty
Augustine
Medieval Europe
Thomas Aquinas
Dante
The Renaissance
Machiavelli
The Reformation
