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Uncommon Knowledge

Uncommon Knowledge

Hoover Institution

103 episodesEN

Show overview

Uncommon Knowledge has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 103 episodes. That works out to roughly 110 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 56 min and 1h 10m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 8 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Hoover Institution.

Episodes
103
Running
2021–2026 · 5y
Median length
1h 2m
Cadence
Fortnightly

From the publisher

For more than two decades the Hoover Institution has been producing Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, a series hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson as an outlet for political leaders, scholars, journalists, and today’s big thinkers to share their views with the world.

Latest Episodes

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Governor Ron DeSantis and The Free State of Florida | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

May 5, 20261h 8m

Stephen Meyer, John Lennox, and James Tour: Three Scientists on the Origins of Everything | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Apr 20, 20261h 1m

Ben Shapiro and The Battle For The Soul of Conservatism | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Apr 8, 202658 min

How Israel Fights: Inside the Mossad with Zohar Palti | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Mar 23, 202650 min

“They’re Not Like Us”: Michael McFaul on Autocrats vs. Democrats and the Fight for the Twenty-First Century | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Mar 2, 20261h 12m

Basketball in the Last 60 Seconds: Ben Sasse on Mortality, Meaning, and the Future of America | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Feb 17, 202659 min

Thomas Sowell on School Choice and the Price Our Children Pay for Bad Ideas | Peter Robinson | Thomas Sowell | Hoover Institution

Jan 27, 20261h 11m

Why Does 2 + 2 = 4? What Math Teaches Us About Deep Reality | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Jan 15, 202657 min

Russian Soul, American Life: A Conversation with Ignat Solzhenitsyn | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Dec 16, 20251h 4m

Teaching Gorbachev Capitalism: Jerome Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Michael Boskin Discuss George Shultz, the Economist | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Dec 5, 20251h 2m

Why the Cold War Still Matters with John Lewis Gaddis | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Nov 19, 20251h 7m

Listening to the Law: How Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Does Her Job | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Nov 5, 20251h 12m

Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Oct 21, 20251h 5m

Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Stephen Kotkin: Three Historians Debate the Era of Trump

Oct 14, 20251h 19m

From Havana to Yale: Carlos Eire on Cuba, Becoming an American—and Miracles | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge

Oct 2, 20251h 4m

The Age of Depopulation With Nicholas Eberstadt | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge

Sep 12, 202555 min

From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: Two Historians on How America Fought and Won The Pacific in WWII | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge

Aug 15, 20251h 25m

The Light Withdrawn: Christopher Cox On How Woodrow Wilson Shaped—And Undermined—American Democracy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Aug 1, 202555 min

Inflation Is A Choice: Kevin Warsh on Fixing the Federal Reserve | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Jul 8, 20251h 1m

Justice Alito: Dobbs, A Color Blind Constitution, And The Balancing Of Power | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Jun 17, 20251h 4m
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