Podcast appearances and mentions of Wilfred M Mcclay

Dr. Wilfred M. McClay who holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College is our special guest in this Episode. Why is the study of history today more important than ever before, and is the radical left trying to rewrite it to erase our collective memory of our nation's past achievements? Listen to the answers to these questions and more, as Dr. Wendy Patrick and co-host Larry Dershem have a sit-down interview with the honorable Dr. McClay. Find out why Hillsdale College is being lauded by many as the best liberal arts college in the United States, and how you can take advantage of nearly 40 free courses online to explosively grow your knowledge base. https://www.hillsdale.edu/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you ever wonder what's on Carole's nightstand? In this episode, Carole Joy Seid shares a wealth of book recommendations for building your family library, including Church History resources, American History books, and a collection of captivating picture books. She highlights the children's church history books by Luke H Davis, a comprehensive book on American History by Wilfred M McClay, and a variety of engaging picture books on inspiring true stories. Get ready to expand your family's home library with these enriching and educational books.RESOURCESLooking for the books mentioned in this episode? Find the full list on our websiteBuild Your Family's Library: Grab our FREE book list hereGet our FREE ebook: 5 Essential Parts of a Great Education.Attend one of our upcoming seminars in 2024!Click HERE for more information about consulting with Carole Joy Seid!CONNECTCarole Joy Seid of Homeschool Made Simple | Website | 2024 Seminars | Instagram | Facebook | PinterestGain fresh vision for homeschooling!Join us for a seminar this year in the Minneapolis, Nashville or Dallas areas. Or join us on our live webinar, June 1, 2024.Sign up HERE on our websiteHelp us share the message of homeschool made simple with others by leaving a rating and review. Thank you for helping us get the word out!Follow along on Instagram here!

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION“The dogma of…skepticism about truth-claims—a routine feature of humanities instruction these days…is part of the atmosphere of our times. One does not need college to inculcate it; one needs college to disabuse young people from it.”~Prof. Wilfred M. McClay, contemporary historian “If the truth is what sets us free, then why not walk in it at all times? With wisdom and love, of course, but also with the reality that truth is where freedom begins.”~Jackie Hill Perry, writer and hip-hop artist “Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.” “Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”~G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer and literary critic “True freedom is to be one's true self, but my true self is made for loving, and loving is self-giving. So in order to be myself, I have to deny myself and give myself. In order, then, to be free, I have to give up my freedom. In order, then, to live, I have to die to my self-centeredness. In order to find myself, I've got to lose it.”~John Stott (1921-2011), English Anglican priest and theologian  “Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.”~George MacDonald (1824-1905), Scottish minister and writer “And isn't that what freedom is supposed to be? The ability to not do as I please, but the power to do what is pleasing.”~Jackie Hill Perry, writer and hip-hop artist “The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.”~C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), literary scholar at Oxford and Cambridge “To see the Law by Christ fulfilled, and hear his pardoning voice,changes a slave into a child, and duty into a choice.”~William Cowper (1731-1800), English poetSERMON PASSAGEGalatians 3:23-4:7 (ESV) Galatians 3 23 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.Galatians 41 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, 2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. 3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

Executive Editor James Panero sits down with Visiting Critic Wilfred M. McClay to discuss “The burden of the humanities,” the fifth annual Circle Lecture of The New Criterion. The full text of the speech will be available in the November 2023 issue. For more information about the Circle of The New Criterion, visit newcriterion.com/circle.

Wilfred M. McClay, the Victor Davis Hanson Chair of Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College, joins Spencer to discuss the virtues and the public perception of the Midwest. Professor McClay illuminates the "reservoir of idealism" hidden away in the Midwest's often unexplored but fascinating history. Plus: a deep dive into why the Midwest is so misunderstood.  

Wilfred M. McClay joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss American history and national identity.

 HEADLINE: The Claims of Memory by Wilfred M. McClay  “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” What he is basically saying in this article is, why did they rip all the statues of our history down?  Those of Lee, Jefferson, Washington - they were embarrassed by it. They are erasing the memories of the past and they are writing a NEW NARRATIVE. They make a new fabricated history, then they repeat it as if it were factual. The 1619 Project - '    HEADLINE: Women Deserve Men Who Oppose Abortion by Clement Harrold The catastrophic moral and spiritual failure of men—especially Christian men—who have stood on the sidelines for so long.  “No uterus, no opinion,” they condescendingly inform us, all the while apparently oblivious to the fact that it is their perverse worldview which gave rise to the society of weak men which they so despise. Out of a fear of “toxic masculinity,” they perpetuate a system in which something far more insidious begins to ferment. We put faith in people like Sean Hannity - this is why the Conservative movement is DOA. It was a panel of MALE judges that started this abortion wheel in motion. Sex without consequences is what everyone wants and that is why abortion still stands today.

On this 77th edition of Ask Charlie Anything, Charlie is taking the questions you email him at Freedom@Charliekirk.com including: We finally know who killed Ashlie Babbitt and do we know if the killing was justified based upon standard police engagement protocols? Is it okay to be critical of Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan while still supporting ending America's endless war? Is there hope for turning around America? And is it worth removing Joe Biden from office when we're stuck with Kamala Harris as his replacement?  Also catch Charlie's book of the week from Thinkr.org/charlie  And listen for the Hillsdale exclusive highlight from "Land of Hope" featuring Dr. Wilfred M. McClay. Take the course for free at CharlieforHillsdale.com  Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the fourth and final installment of Charlie's four-part series with Hillsdale College, Great American Story: A Land of Hope with Dr. Wilfred McClay, one of the nations foremost historians on America's founding and the Constitution, Charlie and Dr. McClay discuss the amazing endurance of the United States Constitution into the modern era and how the advent of the so-called "expert class" is leading us into a post-constitutional era, which we all must fervently push back against. Get ready for an in-depth dive into what makes the United States Constitution the greatest political document ever created and why it's worth saving.  Visit CharlieForHillsdale.com to take the free online class and get started on your way to becoming an expert on America's founding. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this, the 3rd of a 4 part discussion with Dr. Wilfred M. McClay, Charlie and Dr. McClay discuss the legacy of perhaps America's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln.   How did the Missouri Compromise and the "fire bell in the night" challenge the 16th U.S. President? How could the issue of slavery possibly continue without resolution until the Civil War? How was the Mexican American War crucial in laying out the precursors to the American Civil War? And finally, how did Lincoln preserve and defend the rule of law and the Constitution itself? All of this and more is covered on todays' special Hillsdale College partnership episode of The Charlie Kirk Show. Take the entire course for yourself by visiting CharlieforHillsdale.com   For more information, please visit CharlieForHillsdale.com to sign up for your free Hillsdale course.  Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Part 2 of this four part series with Hillsdale College, Great American Story: A Land of Hope with Dr. Wilfred McClay, one of the nations foremost historians on America's founding and the Constitution, Charlie and Dr. McClay Discuss the genius of the Constitution. How did the Founders move from a declaration to a regime? What was the main battle between the Federalists and the Antifederalist? How did the Founders confront the problem of slavery and is the Constitution a slavery or anti-slavery document? Get ready for an in-depth dive into what makes the United States Constitution the greatest political document ever created. Visit CharlieForHillsdale.com to take the free online class and get started on your way to becoming an expert on America's founding.    Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this, the first of a four part series with Hillsdale College, Great American Story: A Land of Hope with Dr. Wilfred M. McClay, one of the nation's foremost historians on America's founding and the Constitution, Charlie and Dr. McClay discuss the vast significance of "the West," the European "unsettlement" and the superiority of English colonization for freedom and economic growth across the world. McClay, who is also the current occupant of the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma, outlines the genesis of the American Revolution all the way up to the emergence of the Declaration of Independence.   Visit CharlieforHillsdale.com and enroll in this free online course from Hillsdale College and begin studying our great American story today.  Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For President’s Day, Newt reflects on the founding of the United States and on what every American should understand about one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the exciting, perilous, and immensely consequential story of their own country. Newt’s guest is Wilfred M. McClay, the author of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Attention high school teachers of American history! Listen up, homeschooling parents of adolescents. General readers in need of a comprehensive history of the United States, have I got the book for you. Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story by Wilfred M. McClay is a beautifully organized, approachable, moving chronicle of the American nation from just before the Age of Exploration all the way down to the advent of the Trump administration. It is reader-friendly without being at all dumbed down. This nonideological, brisk narrative is winning plaudits from both the left and the right for its adherence to the facts and its fairmindedness. It's a darned good read. Land of Hope is an entertaining but substantive primer on the basic events and developments in American history. In a time of furor and rancor over the origins of the nation, this is the book we all need. From the religious events in Europe that led to the settlement of the vast American continent to engaging explanations of the British blunders that led to the American Revolution to the antebellum political scene and the political and military repercussions of clashes such as the Battle of Antietam and the tragedy of Reconstruction—that's all here. So are key moments and milestones such as the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. The book introduces the young to what is ancient history for them—the Nixon and Reagan administrations, say. The book is jam-packed with every sort of history at play in its lively pages: military, social, cultural and literary, technological and so on. An especially illuminating aspect of the book for everyone in every corner of the country is the way it presents the growth of the United States as a geographical entity and examines how the landscape shaped the nation and the many regional identities within it and when and how we became a union, state by state. The maps alone are worth the price of the book. We are in the hands of a master historian. Take up his invitation by all means. You'll be glad you did. Let's hear what Professor McClay has to say about the book. Give a listen. Hope J. Leman is a grants researcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Attention high school teachers of American history! Listen up, homeschooling parents of adolescents. General readers in need of a comprehensive history of the United States, have I got the book for you. Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story by Wilfred M. McClay is a beautifully organized, approachable, moving chronicle of the American nation from just before the Age of Exploration all the way down to the advent of the Trump administration. It is reader-friendly without being at all dumbed down. This nonideological, brisk narrative is winning plaudits from both the left and the right for its adherence to the facts and its fairmindedness. It’s a darned good read. Land of Hope is an entertaining but substantive primer on the basic events and developments in American history. In a time of furor and rancor over the origins of the nation, this is the book we all need. From the religious events in Europe that led to the settlement of the vast American continent to engaging explanations of the British blunders that led to the American Revolution to the antebellum political scene and the political and military repercussions of clashes such as the Battle of Antietam and the tragedy of Reconstruction—that’s all here. So are key moments and milestones such as the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. The book introduces the young to what is ancient history for them—the Nixon and Reagan administrations, say. The book is jam-packed with every sort of history at play in its lively pages: military, social, cultural and literary, technological and so on. An especially illuminating aspect of the book for everyone in every corner of the country is the way it presents the growth of the United States as a geographical entity and examines how the landscape shaped the nation and the many regional identities within it and when and how we became a union, state by state. The maps alone are worth the price of the book. We are in the hands of a master historian. Take up his invitation by all means. You’ll be glad you did. Let’s hear what Professor McClay has to say about the book. Give a listen. Hope J. Leman is a grants researcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Attention high school teachers of American history! Listen up, homeschooling parents of adolescents. General readers in need of a comprehensive history of the United States, have I got the book for you. Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story by Wilfred M. McClay is a beautifully organized, approachable, moving chronicle of the American nation from just before the Age of Exploration all the way down to the advent of the Trump administration. It is reader-friendly without being at all dumbed down. This nonideological, brisk narrative is winning plaudits from both the left and the right for its adherence to the facts and its fairmindedness. It’s a darned good read. Land of Hope is an entertaining but substantive primer on the basic events and developments in American history. In a time of furor and rancor over the origins of the nation, this is the book we all need. From the religious events in Europe that led to the settlement of the vast American continent to engaging explanations of the British blunders that led to the American Revolution to the antebellum political scene and the political and military repercussions of clashes such as the Battle of Antietam and the tragedy of Reconstruction—that’s all here. So are key moments and milestones such as the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. The book introduces the young to what is ancient history for them—the Nixon and Reagan administrations, say. The book is jam-packed with every sort of history at play in its lively pages: military, social, cultural and literary, technological and so on. An especially illuminating aspect of the book for everyone in every corner of the country is the way it presents the growth of the United States as a geographical entity and examines how the landscape shaped the nation and the many regional identities within it and when and how we became a union, state by state. The maps alone are worth the price of the book. We are in the hands of a master historian. Take up his invitation by all means. You’ll be glad you did. Let’s hear what Professor McClay has to say about the book. Give a listen. Hope J. Leman is a grants researcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Zwerneman recently had the great honor of interviewing Wilfred M. McClay, renowned historian and the Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma. Professor McClay’s narrative textbook, Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, and the accompanying Teacher’s Guide are some of the very best resources available today for teachers of American History.

Christian college professors Matt Parks and David Corbin explore the ideas behind today's headlines.Part 1 (starts at 1:08): Headlines - We discuss the recent efforts to remove, destroy, and deface monuments and memorials remembering key figures from American history. Links: Wilfred M. McClay at First Things; Rich Lowry at National Review; David Marcus at The Federalist. Part 2 (18:06): Required Reading - Professor Corbin assigns Fourth of July addresses from John Quincy Adams (July 4, 1821), Frederick Douglass (“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852), Abraham Lincoln (“Special Message to Congress” on July 4, 1861), Calvin Coolidge (July 5, 1926), and Ronald Reagan (July 4, 1986). We talk about the principles of the Declaration of Independence and their ongoing significance for the American Republic.   Part 3 (48:05): Open the Grade Book - Some have argued recently that the United States needs a new national anthem. We grade “The Star-Spangled Banner” and three possible replacements, including “America the Beautiful,” John Lennon’s “Imagine” (as suggested by one “Star-Spangled Banner” critic), and a surprise entry from Prof. Corbin.   Part 4 (56:09): Tocqueville's Crystal Ball - Matt won last week’s challenge on the state of the presidential race. This week: will Joey Chestnut win the Coney Island hot dog eating contest again - and if so, how many hot dogs will he eat? Opening and closing music is from the beginning of "Happy Life" by Ryan Andersen from his 2018 album, Americana volume 1. Available here. Licensed by Creative Commons.Matt Parks is an Associate Professor of Politics at The King’s College in New York City. David Corbin is a Professor of Politics and the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Providence Christian College in Pasadena, California. All views expressed in this podcast are their own.

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 12:51): ────────────────── Princeton University Removes Woodrow Wilson’s Name from School of Public and International Affairs PRINCETON UNIVERSITY President Eisgruber’s message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school and Wilson College Student Letter to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Administration PART 2 (12:52 - 24:3): ────────────────── Memory, Monuments, Morality, and Mayhem: The Burden of Reckoning with Historical Symbols NEW YORK TIMES (RICK ROJAS) Mississippi Lawmakers Vote to Retire State Flag Rooted in the Confederacy PART 3 (24:4 - 32:26): ────────────────── The Christian Responsibility to Tell History Truthfully — What We Owe Each Other in Christ FIRST THINGS (WILFRED M. MCCLAY) Of Statues and Symbolic Murder THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Report on Slavery and Racism in the History of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, Kyle Murnen, and Dr. Wilfred M. McClay join Hugh Hewitt to discuss Dr. McClay's new textbook "The Land of Hope" and the great American story it tells.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

City Journal editor Brian Anderson joins Vanessa Mendoza, executive vice president of the Manhattan Institute, for our second annual discussion of Brian's summer and vacation reading list. Summer is upon us, and the City Journal editors are ready for some vacation. We asked Brian to tell us what books he's taking with him to the beach this year and why. Check out Brian's summer reading list, in the order discussed: The Conservative Sensibility, by George Will Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age, Remi Brague Infinite Baseball, by Alve Noë The Awfully Big Adventure of Michael Jackson in the Afterlife, by Paul Morley Orange World and Other Stories, by Karen Russell Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, Nassim Nicolas Taleb The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, Alan Brinkley Also discussed in the episode: Swaplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, by Karen Russell Seeing Things Politically: Interviews with Benedicte Delorme-Montini, by Pierre Manent Killing Commendatore, Haruki Murakami MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom, by Tony Robbins Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, by Wilfred M. McClay

Lo and behold, I opened up this morning's Wall Street Journal to see a weekend interview with this week's guest, historian Wilfred M. McClay of the University of Oklahoma, about his brand new book Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story. In the course of our conversation, we cover not only what's wrong (but also partly right) about Howard Zinn, but how Bill got the audacious idea... Source

America remains one of the most religious countries in the developed world. The United States has no established church; yet, some argue that it is the very absence of an official state religion that has allowed faith to flourish and grow in America. Complementing the flourishing of Judaism and Christianity in the United States is a distinct form of civil religion that permeates American institutions, symbols, and culture. Upon what sources does this civic faith draw? How should Jews and Christians view and participate in it? And is it strong enough to persist in our increasingly secular age? These are the questions Professor Wilfred M. McClay addresses in his essay “The Soul of a Nation,” published in the Public Interest in the spring of 2004. McClay explores the idea of civil religion, tracing its history from Plato and Rousseau to Massachusetts’s Puritan settlers to President Bush’s freedom agenda. He details its uses and abuses in America and worries about a future where civil religion is missing from public life. In this podcast, Professor McClay sits down with Jonathan Silver to revisit this essay. They discuss the role of civil religion in the period after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the ways the Hebrew Bible shapes civic religion in the United States, and the dangers of the progressive impulse to shed America’s history and hollow out the nation’s soul. At a time when visceral partisanship is running high, McClay shows us how a renewed civil religion can help bring unity and a sense of shared citizenship to a divided country. Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble as well as “Baruch Habah,” performed by the choir of Congregation Shearith Israel, and “Further Down the Path” by Big Score Audio.

Norann, Bernard, and Peter bat around a recent article by Wilfred M. McClay, "The Strange Persistence of Guilt" and a related column by New York Times columnist David Brooks. Also, what will they be doing and what will they be listening to during Holy Week. Here are some of the links and references from this episode: -The Strange Persistence of Guilt by David Brooks: http://nyti.ms/2oK1iDZ -The Strange Persistence of Guilt by Wilfred M. McClay: http://bit.ly/2nMgKxR Rate us and leave us a comment on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out the Bruderhof's website at www.bruderhof.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/thebruderhof Facebook: facebook.com/TheBruderhof Instagram: www.instagram.com/bruderhofcommunities Contact: contact@bruderhof.com

This special issue of Audition features interviews with five cultural historians, each reflecting on how assumptions of the meaning of "the human person" has shaped some aspect of the American experience. They are all interested in how particular understandings of human nature have influenced American history, and how the distinctive shape of American history has shaped understanding of the meaning of human nature and the contours of human flourishing.Each of these thinkers contributed an essay to the anthology Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past (Eerdmans). In conversation with Ken Myers on this podcast, Wilfred M. McClay (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) discusses the differences between the terms "self" and "person." Eric Miller (Geneva College) recounts how Christopher Lasch's insightful books and essays exposed dehumanizing patterns in American cultural life. Eugene McCarraher (Villanova University) explains how many early 20th-centuury thinkers saw modern business corporations as proponents of a more communal shape to public life. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (Syracuse University) raises some probing questions about how television shapes moral understanding in children. Christopher Shannon (Christendom College) compares how medical institutions interpret the meaning of suffering with the Christian tradition's interpretation (aided by the writing of Ivan Illich).Each of these guests has been featured on a past issue of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal; when heard together, the resonance implied among their diverse concerns become more evident.