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Uncommon Knowledge · 2025-01-28 · 83 min · 10,298 words

Five Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Advice for the New Administration (and the Rest of Us)

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Whenever this remarkable historian and I get together. The rules are always the same. I get to ask. Five questions. Any five questions I want to do.

And to be honest, I'm not entirely sure myself. Stephen Cotkin. On uncommon knowledge. No. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson.

A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution here at Stanford, Stephen Cotkin represents one of the nation's most accomplished historians. And one of its most fascinating analysts. the author of half a dozen major works of history, Dr. Kotkin is now at work on the third and final volume of his definitive biography.

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