Sep 14, 2026 · 33 min · 11 segments
Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the *Hillsdale Dialogues* to continue a series on *The Second World War*, Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War…
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Hugh HewittHost[upbeat music] Every week, Hillsdale College president Larry Arnn joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books, great men, and great ideas.
More episodes at podcast.hillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio.
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And everyone knows what they were doing, and I was on the air for eight hours that day with Dwayne and Adam.
And I don't know where Dr. Arnn was, that's president of Hillsdale College, but I asked him today to help us commemorate 9/11 by listening to a Winston Churchill speech from 9/11, 1940.
I learned of the 9/11, uh, attacks when Sir Martin Gilbert stuck his head in my office in Hillsdale and told me that there'd been an attack on the United States.
And, uh, I spent that day with him and about the campus trying to figure out if we were all about to get killed.
That's also the, the, by the way, the day that I hired him to come to work for Hillsdale College.
among the greatest historians of the 20th century, and maybe the 21st, and his official biography of Churchill, on which Dr. Arnn worked for many a year, is the definitive book.
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[upbeat music] Every week, Hillsdale College president Larry Arnn joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books, great men, and great ideas.
More episodes at podcast.hillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio.
[upbeat music]
And everyone knows what they were doing, and I was on the air for eight hours that day with Dwayne and Adam.
And I don't know where Dr. Arnn was, that's president of Hillsdale College, but I asked him today to help us commemorate 9/11 by listening to a Winston Churchill speech from 9/11, 1940.
I learned of the 9/11, uh, attacks when Sir Martin Gilbert stuck his head in my office in Hillsdale and told me that there'd been an attack on the United States.
And, uh, I spent that day with him and about the campus trying to figure out if we were all about to get killed.
That's also the, the, by the way, the day that I hired him to come to work for Hillsdale College.
among the greatest historians of the 20th century, and maybe the 21st, and his official biography of Churchill, on which Dr. Arnn worked for many a year, is the definitive book.