# Americans Are More United Than We Think Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693/americans-are-more-united-than-we-think Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693/americans-are-more-united-than-we-think.md Podcast: [The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693) Published: 2026-01-09T05:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour/americans-are-more-united-than-we-think Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0c7e618e-d306-498b-89ea-af55014957fe/c846b5d6-dbda-4db3-80c3-af5700e2f321/853855f6-1aaf-4e2c-ab5f-b3cb0039df02/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=26b8df01-5a52-4102-bb8e-af5700e2f33d Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693/episodes/americans-are-more-united-than-we-think Duration seconds: 2697 ## Resource Guests: John J. Miller & Jonathan Butcher Host Scot Bertram talks with John J. Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College, about  his recent essay  on why journalism suffers when journalists lack curiosity. And Jonathan Butcher, acting director at the Center for Education Policy and Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, discusses how Americans are far more united than the media portrays and dives into his new book  The Polarization Myth: America's Surprising Consensus on Race, Schools, and Sex . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693/episodes/americans-are-more-united-than-we-think/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693/americans-are-more-united-than-we-think.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.