Uncommon Knowledge
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The Lapsed Atheist: Charles Murray Makes the Case for God
Aug 17, 20261h 6m
Make IPOs Great Again: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins on Ending Regulation by Enforcement
Jul 21, 20261h 4m
The Declaration of Independence and the Fight For America’s Future with Victor Davis Hanson
Jun 29, 20261h 21m
Frank Dikötter and the True History of Communist China
Jun 15, 20261h 13m
Five More Questions With Stephen Kotkin: Can America Still Lead The World?
May 29, 20261h 17m
Palmer Luckey Wants America to Win | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
May 20, 202653 min
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