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Uncommon Knowledge — 106 episodes
Make IPOs Great Again: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins on Ending Regulation by Enforcement
The Declaration of Independence and the Fight For America’s Future with Victor Davis Hanson
Frank Dikötter and the True History of Communist China
Five More Questions With Stephen Kotkin: Can America Still Lead The World?
Palmer Luckey Wants America to Win | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Governor Ron DeSantis and The Free State of Florida | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Stephen Meyer, John Lennox, and James Tour: Three Scientists on the Origins of Everything | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Ben Shapiro and The Battle For The Soul of Conservatism | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
How Israel Fights: Inside the Mossad with Zohar Palti | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
“They’re Not Like Us”: Michael McFaul on Autocrats vs. Democrats and the Fight for the Twenty-First Century | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Basketball in the Last 60 Seconds: Ben Sasse on Mortality, Meaning, and the Future of America | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Thomas Sowell on School Choice and the Price Our Children Pay for Bad Ideas | Peter Robinson | Thomas Sowell | Hoover Institution
Why Does 2 + 2 = 4? What Math Teaches Us About Deep Reality | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Russian Soul, American Life: A Conversation with Ignat Solzhenitsyn | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Teaching Gorbachev Capitalism: Jerome Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Michael Boskin Discuss George Shultz, the Economist | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Why the Cold War Still Matters with John Lewis Gaddis | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Listening to the Law: How Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Does Her Job | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Stephen Kotkin: Three Historians Debate the Era of Trump
From Havana to Yale: Carlos Eire on Cuba, Becoming an American—and Miracles | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge
The Age of Depopulation With Nicholas Eberstadt | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: Two Historians on How America Fought and Won The Pacific in WWII | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge
The Light Withdrawn: Christopher Cox On How Woodrow Wilson Shaped—And Undermined—American Democracy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Inflation Is A Choice: Kevin Warsh on Fixing the Federal Reserve | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Justice Alito: Dobbs, A Color Blind Constitution, And The Balancing Of Power | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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
Dr. Jay Goes to Washington: Reforming Science from the Inside at NIH | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Christopher Buckley: “Steaming to Bamboola” and Other Journeys
Thomas Sowell: Facts Against Rhetoric, Capitalism, Culture—and, Yes, the Tariffs | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower
Conflict: Niall Ferguson on Ukraine, Taiwan, and His War of Words with V. P. Vance
The Great Partnership: How George Shultz Helped Ronald Reagan Win The Cold War
Five Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Advice for the New Administration (and the Rest of Us)
Marc Andreessen: It’s Morning Again In America
The Extinction of Experience: Christine Rosen on the Impact of Technology on Society
Part II: Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech
This Is BIG: Podhoretz, Ferguson, and Olsen Discuss the Meaning of the Election and What’s Next
A Hero Speaks: Natan Sharansky on the US and Israel At This Hour
Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The Three Historians: Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice on America’s Foreign Policy Challenges | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
H.R. McMaster on Why the Trump Administration Was “At War with Ourselves” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Are We Alone? Fine-Tuning the Universe, with Barnes, Keating, and Richards | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Beyond Evolution: Unraveling the Origins of Life with Stephen Meyer and James Tour | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The Magician’s Twin, with David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, and James Orr | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Doing “The Best Things First,” with Bjorn Lomborg | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
A Dangerous Moment, with Douglas Murray | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
“The End of Everything,” with Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Paul Wolfowitz on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and a Life in Foreign Policy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The Rise of the Machines: John Etchemendy and Fei-Fei Li on Our AI Future | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Andrew Roberts on “Conflict: The Evolution of War from 1945 to Ukraine” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Why Bitcoin Will Take Over The World: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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
Birmingham, 1963: Three Witnesses to the Struggle for Civil Rights | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson, Condoleezza Rice, Mary Bush, and Freeman Hrabowski| Hoover Institution
Uncommon Knowledge Archive: Oppenheimer’s Edward Teller and Sid Drell on ICBM Defense Systems | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
“The Treason Of The Intellectuals,” With Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Donald Trump and The Supreme Court | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson, Richard Epstein, and John Yoo | Hoover Institution
100% Cotton: The Senator from Arkansas On Issues Domestic And Foreign | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The Most Dangerous Moment: A Debate on America’s Role in the Pacific | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Breaking China: Congressman Mike Gallagher on Asian Geopolitics and Beyond | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Pay and Play: Andrew Luck & Condoleezza Rice on the Changing Landscape of College Sports | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The World According to China with Elizabeth Economy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
More “Social Justice Fallacies,” With Thomas Sowell | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Consequences Matter: Thomas Sowell on “Social Justice Fallacies” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Hot Or Not: Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science And Methodology | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Hadley and Rice on “Hand-Off”: Foreign Policy Decisions in the 9/11 Era | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Five More Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Prigozhin Mutiny Edition | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Victor Davis Hanson, Part II: The Contrarian Agrarian | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
A Classicist Farmer: The Life and Times of Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The Man Who Talked Back: Jay Bhattacharya On the Fight against COVID Lockdowns | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson and Jay Bhattacharya | Hoover Institution
Cold War II: Niall Ferguson on The Emerging Conflict With China | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson and Niall Ferguson | Hoover Institution
Lone Gunman: The Man Who Knew Lee Harvey Oswald| Peter Robinson and Paul Gregory | Hoover Institution
Courage and Conviction: Will Inboden on “the Peacemaker,” Part II | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, And The World On The Brink | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Dropping Money From Helicopters: Economist John Cochrane On Inflation | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
A Historian Of The Future: Five More Questions For Stephen Kotkin | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Does God Exist? A Conversation with Tom Holland, Stephen Meyer, and Douglas Murray | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
“Bibi: My Story,” Benjamin Netanyahu On His Life And Times | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Hello, Cleveland: Troy Senik on Man of Iron | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The Ethos of Economics with John Cogan and Kevin Warsh | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Peter Thiel, Leader Of The Rebel Alliance | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Senator Rob Portman: The Exit Interview | Hoover Institution
Condoleezza Rice on Footballs: Domestic, International, College, and Professional
The Heat Is On: Bjorn Lomborg on the Summer’s Record Heat
The De-Population Bomb
The Antislavery Activist That Time Forgot: Historian Walter Stahr On Salmon P. Chase
The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin’s Gulag
Do Not Defund: Roland Fryer and Rafael Mangual on Crime and Policing in the 21st Century
Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America
Nationalize or Not?: Matthew Continetti and Chris DeMuth Debate the Future of Conservatism
Yoram Hazony Rediscovers Conservatism
More Than “One Damn Thing,” with Bill Barr
Harvey Mansfield Counts His Blessings
The Importance of Being Ethical, with Jordan Peterson
Are We Dumb about Intelligence? Amy Zegart on the Capabilities of American Intel Gathering
Bari Weiss on Post-Mainstream Media Life and Her Battles in the Culture Wars
5 More Questions For Stephen Kotkin: Ukraine Edition
5 Questions For Stephen Kotkin
Judging The Justices: Epstein And Yoo On The New Originalist Supreme Court
The Last King of America: Andrew Roberts on King George III
It Could Have Been Worse: Kim Strassel and Ross Douthat Review 2021
Make Ticker Tape Parades Great Again: A Conversation With Peter Thiel
Glenn Loury’s Journey From Chicago’s South Side to The Ivy League And Beyond
Boardwalk Empire: Chris Christie’s Unfinished Political Journey
Victor Davis Hanson Diagnoses The Dying Citizen