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Jun 2021
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Robert Norton, Arthur Herman, & D.G. Har...

HILLSDALE COLLEGE
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TOPICS: The hidden costs of electric cars, the life of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, & Protestantism in America

Host Scot Bertram talks with Robert Norton, Vice President and General Counsel of Hillsdale College and former Assistant General Counsel at Mercedes/Chrysler, about the hidden costs of electric vehicles. Arthur Herman, historian and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, discusses the life of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, And D.G. Hart, Distinguished Associate Professor of History at Hillsdale, tells us what Americanization has done to Protestantism.

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