Uncommon Knowledge
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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The Light Withdrawn: Christopher Cox On How Woodrow Wilson Shaped—And Undermined—American Democracy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution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
The Signal in the Noise: Speaker Mike Johnson on Elon, the Big Beautiful Bill, and “Our Chance to Save Our Country” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jun 6, 202545 min
Dr. Jay Goes to Washington: Reforming Science from the Inside at NIH | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
May 28, 20251h 10m
Christopher Buckley: “Steaming to Bamboola” and Other Journeys
Apr 30, 20251h 1m
Thomas Sowell: Facts Against Rhetoric, Capitalism, Culture—and, Yes, the Tariffs | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Apr 15, 20251h 1m
Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower
Apr 1, 20251h 3m
Conflict: Niall Ferguson on Ukraine, Taiwan, and His War of Words with V. P. Vance
Mar 18, 20251h 4m
The Great Partnership: How George Shultz Helped Ronald Reagan Win The Cold War
Feb 21, 202559 min
Five Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Advice for the New Administration (and the Rest of Us)
Jan 28, 20251h 23m
Marc Andreessen: It’s Morning Again In America
Jan 14, 20251h 14m
The Extinction of Experience: Christine Rosen on the Impact of Technology on Society
Jan 7, 202549 min
Part II: Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech
Dec 6, 202440 min
This Is BIG: Podhoretz, Ferguson, and Olsen Discuss the Meaning of the Election and What’s Next
Nov 26, 20241h 17m
A Hero Speaks: Natan Sharansky on the US and Israel At This Hour
Nov 21, 202432 min
Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Nov 18, 202447 min
The Three Historians: Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Nov 6, 202459 min
Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice on America’s Foreign Policy Challenges | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Oct 18, 202451 min
H.R. McMaster on Why the Trump Administration Was “At War with Ourselves” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Sep 3, 202457 min
Are We Alone? Fine-Tuning the Universe, with Barnes, Keating, and Richards | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Aug 20, 20241h 12m
Beyond Evolution: Unraveling the Origins of Life with Stephen Meyer and James Tour | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Aug 5, 20241h 4m
The Magician’s Twin, with David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, and James Orr | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jul 16, 20241h 11m
Doing “The Best Things First,” with Bjorn Lomborg | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jun 25, 202443 min
A Dangerous Moment, with Douglas Murray | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jun 4, 202458 min
“The End of Everything,” with Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
May 15, 20241h 5m
Paul Wolfowitz on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and a Life in Foreign Policy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
May 1, 20241h 1m
The Rise of the Machines: John Etchemendy and Fei-Fei Li on Our AI Future | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Apr 16, 20241h 0m
Andrew Roberts on “Conflict: The Evolution of War from 1945 to Ukraine” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Apr 2, 20241h 3m
Why Bitcoin Will Take Over The World: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Mar 19, 20241h 5m
Growing Up Segregated: Three Witnesses To The Struggle For Civil Rights, Part 2 | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson, Condoleezza Rice, Mary Bush, and Freeman Hrabowski| Hoover Institution
Feb 23, 202456 min
Birmingham, 1963: Three Witnesses to the Struggle for Civil Rights | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson, Condoleezza Rice, Mary Bush, and Freeman Hrabowski| Hoover Institution
Feb 7, 20241h 2m
Uncommon Knowledge Archive: Oppenheimer’s Edward Teller and Sid Drell on ICBM Defense Systems | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jan 30, 202428 min