Five More Questions With Stephen Kotkin: Can America Still Lead The World?
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Historian, author, and one of the most requested guests on this program, Stephen Kotkin on Uncommon Knowledge Now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. The historian and author Stephen Kotkin is now completing the third and final volume of his definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, a professor emeritus at Princeton.
Dr. Kotkin is now a fellow here at the Hoover Institution. We've done a number of programs entitled Five Questions with Stephen Cotkin, and they have proven among our most popular programs. Today, Five More Questions with Stephen Kotkin.
Stephen, number one, Iran. I'll just give you two quotations and see what you do with them. By the way, as we sit here, I should note that as we record this show, President Trump, the Trump administration, is negotiating with Iran, the outcome of the negotiation as we sit here is completely unclear. Two quotations. Here's the editorial board of the New York Times writing recently.
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