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Uncommon Knowledge

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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…

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The Counter Revolution: Victor Davis Hanson on the Fall and Rise of Trump (Part 2/2) 2026-11-02 · 48m
The Counter Revolution: Victor Davis Hanson on the Fall and Rise of Trump (Part 1/2) 2026-10-19 · 39m
The Billionaire Tax, The Busted Federal Budget, and the Future of the American Experiment 2026-10-05 · 59m
Why Churchill Still Matters: Andrew Roberts on Great Men in History 2026-09-08 · 64m
The Lapsed Atheist: Charles Murray Makes the Case for God 2026-08-17 · 67m
Make IPOs Great Again: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins on Ending Regulation by Enforcement 2026-07-21 · 64m
The Declaration of Independence and the Fight For America’s Future with Victor Davis Hanson 2026-06-29 · 82m
Frank Dikötter and the True History of Communist China 2026-06-15 · 73m
Five More Questions With Stephen Kotkin: Can America Still Lead The World? 2026-05-29 · 77m
Palmer Luckey Wants America to Win | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2026-05-20 · 54m
Governor Ron DeSantis and The Free State of Florida | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2026-05-05 · 68m
Stephen Meyer, John Lennox, and James Tour: Three Scientists on the Origins of Everything | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2026-04-20 · 61m
Ben Shapiro and The Battle For The Soul of Conservatism | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2026-04-08 · 58m
How Israel Fights: Inside the Mossad with Zohar Palti | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2026-03-23 · 51m
“They’re Not Like Us”: Michael McFaul on Autocrats vs. Democrats and the Fight for the Twenty-First Century | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2026-03-02 · 72m
Basketball in the Last 60 Seconds: Ben Sasse on Mortality, Meaning, and the Future of America | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2026-02-17 · 60m
Thomas Sowell on School Choice and the Price Our Children Pay for Bad Ideas | Peter Robinson | Thomas Sowell | Hoover Institution 2026-01-27 · 72m
Why Does 2 + 2 = 4? What Math Teaches Us About Deep Reality | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2026-01-15 · 57m
Russian Soul, American Life: A Conversation with Ignat Solzhenitsyn | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2025-12-16 · 64m
Teaching Gorbachev Capitalism: Jerome Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Michael Boskin Discuss George Shultz, the Economist | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2025-12-05 · 63m
Why the Cold War Still Matters with John Lewis Gaddis | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2025-11-19 · 68m
Listening to the Law: How Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Does Her Job | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2025-11-05 · 72m
Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2025-10-21 · 65m
Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Stephen Kotkin: Three Historians Debate the Era of Trump 2025-10-14 · 80m
From Havana to Yale: Carlos Eire on Cuba, Becoming an American—and Miracles | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge 2025-10-02 · 65m
From Havana to Yale: Carlos Eire on Cuba, Becoming an American—and Miracles | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge 2025-09-29 · 65m
The Age of Depopulation With Nicholas Eberstadt | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge 2025-09-12 · 55m
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: Two Historians on How America Fought and Won The Pacific in WWII | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge 2025-08-15 · 86m
The Light Withdrawn: Christopher Cox On How Woodrow Wilson Shaped—And Undermined—American Democracy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2025-08-01 · 55m
Inflation Is A Choice: Kevin Warsh on Fixing the Federal Reserve | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2025-07-08 · 62m
Justice Alito: Dobbs, A Color Blind Constitution, And The Balancing Of Power | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2025-06-17 · 64m
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 2025-06-06 · 46m
Dr. Jay Goes to Washington: Reforming Science from the Inside at NIH | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2025-05-28 · 70m
Christopher Buckley: “Steaming to Bamboola” and Other Journeys 2025-04-30 · 62m
Thomas Sowell: Facts Against Rhetoric, Capitalism, Culture—and, Yes, the Tariffs | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2025-04-15 · 61m
Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower 2025-04-01 · 64m
Conflict: Niall Ferguson on Ukraine, Taiwan, and His War of Words with V. P. Vance 2025-03-18 · 65m
The Great Partnership: How George Shultz Helped Ronald Reagan Win The Cold War 2025-02-21 · 60m
Five Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Advice for the New Administration (and the Rest of Us) 2025-01-28 · 83m
Marc Andreessen: It’s Morning Again In America 2025-01-14 · 74m
The Extinction of Experience: Christine Rosen on the Impact of Technology on Society 2025-01-07 · 50m
Part II: Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech 2024-12-06 · 41m
This Is BIG: Podhoretz, Ferguson, and Olsen Discuss the Meaning of the Election and What’s Next 2024-11-26 · 78m
A Hero Speaks: Natan Sharansky on the US and Israel At This Hour 2024-11-21 · 32m
Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-11-18 · 47m
The Three Historians: Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-11-06 · 59m
Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice on America’s Foreign Policy Challenges | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-10-18 · 51m
H.R. McMaster on Why the Trump Administration Was “At War with Ourselves” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-09-03 · 57m
Are We Alone? Fine-Tuning the Universe, with Barnes, Keating, and Richards | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-08-20 · 73m
Beyond Evolution: Unraveling the Origins of Life with Stephen Meyer and James Tour | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-08-05 · 64m
The Magician’s Twin, with David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, and James Orr | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-07-16 · 72m
Doing “The Best Things First,” with Bjorn Lomborg | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-06-25 · 44m
A Dangerous Moment, with Douglas Murray | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-06-04 · 59m
“The End of Everything,” with Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-05-15 · 66m
Paul Wolfowitz on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and a Life in Foreign Policy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-05-01 · 62m
The Rise of the Machines: John Etchemendy and Fei-Fei Li on Our AI Future | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-04-16 · 60m
Andrew Roberts on “Conflict: The Evolution of War from 1945 to Ukraine” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-04-02 · 64m
Why Bitcoin Will Take Over The World: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-03-19 · 65m
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 2024-02-23 · 57m
Birmingham, 1963: Three Witnesses to the Struggle for Civil Rights | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson, Condoleezza Rice, Mary Bush, and Freeman Hrabowski| Hoover Institution 2024-02-07 · 62m
Uncommon Knowledge Archive: Oppenheimer’s Edward Teller and Sid Drell on ICBM Defense Systems | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-01-30 · 28m
“The Treason Of The Intellectuals,” With Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2024-01-23 · 48m
Donald Trump and The Supreme Court | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson, Richard Epstein, and John Yoo | Hoover Institution 2024-01-17 · 54m
100% Cotton: The Senator from Arkansas On Issues Domestic And Foreign | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-12-19 · 58m
The Most Dangerous Moment: A Debate on America’s Role in the Pacific | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-12-05 · 70m
Breaking China: Congressman Mike Gallagher on Asian Geopolitics and Beyond | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-11-17 · 60m
Pay and Play: Andrew Luck & Condoleezza Rice on the Changing Landscape of College Sports | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-11-08 · 60m
The World According to China with Elizabeth Economy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-10-23 · 49m
More “Social Justice Fallacies,” With Thomas Sowell | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-09-29 · 38m
Consequences Matter: Thomas Sowell on “Social Justice Fallacies” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-09-15 · 43m
Hot Or Not: Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science And Methodology | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-08-22 · 55m
Hadley and Rice on “Hand-Off”: Foreign Policy Decisions in the 9/11 Era | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-07-31 · 65m
Five More Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Prigozhin Mutiny Edition | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-07-13 · 51m
Victor Davis Hanson, Part II: The Contrarian Agrarian | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-06-27 · 70m
A Classicist Farmer: The Life and Times of Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-06-12 · 67m
The Man Who Talked Back: Jay Bhattacharya On the Fight against COVID Lockdowns | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson and Jay Bhattacharya | Hoover Institution 2023-05-18 · 50m
Cold War II: Niall Ferguson on The Emerging Conflict With China | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson and Niall Ferguson | Hoover Institution 2023-05-01 · 62m
Lone Gunman: The Man Who Knew Lee Harvey Oswald| Peter Robinson and Paul Gregory | Hoover Institution 2023-04-13 · 52m
Courage and Conviction: Will Inboden on “the Peacemaker,” Part II | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-03-31 · 62m
The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, And The World On The Brink | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-03-16 · 58m
Dropping Money From Helicopters: Economist John Cochrane On Inflation | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-02-28 · 77m
A Historian Of The Future: Five More Questions For Stephen Kotkin | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-02-14 · 90m
By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-02-01 · 84m
Does God Exist? A Conversation with Tom Holland, Stephen Meyer, and Douglas Murray | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2023-01-10 · 67m
“Bibi: My Story,” Benjamin Netanyahu On His Life And Times | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2022-12-09 · 74m
Hello, Cleveland: Troy Senik on Man of Iron | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2022-12-06 · 71m
The Ethos of Economics with John Cogan and Kevin Warsh | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2022-11-29 · 73m
Peter Thiel, Leader Of The Rebel Alliance | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution 2022-11-09 · 48m
Senator Rob Portman: The Exit Interview | Hoover Institution 2022-11-03 · 79m
Condoleezza Rice on Footballs: Domestic, International, College, and Professional 2022-10-11 · 60m
The Heat Is On: Bjorn Lomborg on the Summer’s Record Heat 2022-09-23 · 65m
The De-Population Bomb 2022-09-15 · 66m
The Antislavery Activist That Time Forgot: Historian Walter Stahr On Salmon P. Chase 2022-09-01 · 59m
The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin’s Gulag 2022-08-24 · 42m
Do Not Defund: Roland Fryer and Rafael Mangual on Crime and Policing in the 21st Century 2022-08-03 · 57m
Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America 2022-07-25 · 59m
Nationalize or Not?: Matthew Continetti and Chris DeMuth Debate the Future of Conservatism 2022-07-13 · 72m
Yoram Hazony Rediscovers Conservatism 2022-06-23 · 71m
More Than “One Damn Thing,” with Bill Barr 2022-06-08 · 79m
Harvey Mansfield Counts His Blessings 2022-05-24 · 53m
The Importance of Being Ethical, with Jordan Peterson 2022-04-29 · 63m
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