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Uncommon Knowledge — 100 episodes

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The Counter Revolution: Victor Davis Hanson on the Fall and Rise of Trump (Part 1/2)

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The Billionaire Tax, The Busted Federal Budget, and the Future of the American Experiment

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Why Churchill Still Matters: Andrew Roberts on Great Men in History

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The Lapsed Atheist: Charles Murray Makes the Case for God

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Make IPOs Great Again: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins on Ending Regulation by Enforcement

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The Declaration of Independence and the Fight For America’s Future with Victor Davis Hanson

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Frank Dikötter and the True History of Communist China

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Five More Questions With Stephen Kotkin: Can America Still Lead The World?

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Palmer Luckey Wants America to Win | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Governor Ron DeSantis and The Free State of Florida | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Stephen Meyer, John Lennox, and James Tour: Three Scientists on the Origins of Everything | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Ben Shapiro and The Battle For The Soul of Conservatism | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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How Israel Fights: Inside the Mossad with Zohar Palti | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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“They’re Not Like Us”: Michael McFaul on Autocrats vs. Democrats and the Fight for the Twenty-First Century | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Basketball in the Last 60 Seconds: Ben Sasse on Mortality, Meaning, and the Future of America | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Thomas Sowell on School Choice and the Price Our Children Pay for Bad Ideas | Peter Robinson | Thomas Sowell | Hoover Institution

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Why Does 2 + 2 = 4? What Math Teaches Us About Deep Reality | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Russian Soul, American Life: A Conversation with Ignat Solzhenitsyn | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Teaching Gorbachev Capitalism: Jerome Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Michael Boskin Discuss George Shultz, the Economist | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Why the Cold War Still Matters with John Lewis Gaddis | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Listening to the Law: How Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Does Her Job | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Stephen Kotkin: Three Historians Debate the Era of Trump

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From Havana to Yale: Carlos Eire on Cuba, Becoming an American—and Miracles | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge

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The Age of Depopulation With Nicholas Eberstadt | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge

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From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: Two Historians on How America Fought and Won The Pacific in WWII | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge

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The Light Withdrawn: Christopher Cox On How Woodrow Wilson Shaped—And Undermined—American Democracy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Inflation Is A Choice: Kevin Warsh on Fixing the Federal Reserve | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Justice Alito: Dobbs, A Color Blind Constitution, And The Balancing Of Power | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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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

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Dr. Jay Goes to Washington: Reforming Science from the Inside at NIH | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Christopher Buckley: “Steaming to Bamboola” and Other Journeys

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Thomas Sowell: Facts Against Rhetoric, Capitalism, Culture—and, Yes, the Tariffs | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower

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Conflict: Niall Ferguson on Ukraine, Taiwan, and His War of Words with V. P. Vance

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The Great Partnership: How George Shultz Helped Ronald Reagan Win The Cold War

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

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Marc Andreessen: It’s Morning Again In America

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The Extinction of Experience: Christine Rosen on the Impact of Technology on Society

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Part II: Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech

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This Is BIG: Podhoretz, Ferguson, and Olsen Discuss the Meaning of the Election and What’s Next

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A Hero Speaks: Natan Sharansky on the US and Israel At This Hour

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Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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The Three Historians: Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Which Way, America? Condoleezza Rice on America’s Foreign Policy Challenges | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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H.R. McMaster on Why the Trump Administration Was “At War with Ourselves” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Are We Alone? Fine-Tuning the Universe, with Barnes, Keating, and Richards | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Beyond Evolution: Unraveling the Origins of Life with Stephen Meyer and James Tour | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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The Magician’s Twin, with David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, and James Orr | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Doing “The Best Things First,” with Bjorn Lomborg | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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A Dangerous Moment, with Douglas Murray | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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“The End of Everything,” with Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Paul Wolfowitz on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and a Life in Foreign Policy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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The Rise of the Machines: John Etchemendy and Fei-Fei Li on Our AI Future | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Andrew Roberts on “Conflict: The Evolution of War from 1945 to Ukraine” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Why Bitcoin Will Take Over The World: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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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

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Birmingham, 1963: Three Witnesses to the Struggle for Civil Rights | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson, Condoleezza Rice, Mary Bush, and Freeman Hrabowski| Hoover Institution

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Uncommon Knowledge Archive: Oppenheimer’s Edward Teller and Sid Drell on ICBM Defense Systems | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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“The Treason Of The Intellectuals,” With Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Donald Trump and The Supreme Court | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson, Richard Epstein, and John Yoo | Hoover Institution

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100% Cotton: The Senator from Arkansas On Issues Domestic And Foreign | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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The Most Dangerous Moment: A Debate on America’s Role in the Pacific | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Breaking China: Congressman Mike Gallagher on Asian Geopolitics and Beyond | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Pay and Play: Andrew Luck & Condoleezza Rice on the Changing Landscape of College Sports | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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The World According to China with Elizabeth Economy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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More “Social Justice Fallacies,” With Thomas Sowell | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Consequences Matter: Thomas Sowell on “Social Justice Fallacies” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Hot Or Not: Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science And Methodology | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Hadley and Rice on “Hand-Off”: Foreign Policy Decisions in the 9/11 Era | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Five More Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Prigozhin Mutiny Edition | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Victor Davis Hanson, Part II: The Contrarian Agrarian | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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A Classicist Farmer: The Life and Times of Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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The Man Who Talked Back: Jay Bhattacharya On the Fight against COVID Lockdowns | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson and Jay Bhattacharya | Hoover Institution

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Cold War II: Niall Ferguson on The Emerging Conflict With China | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson and Niall Ferguson | Hoover Institution

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Lone Gunman: The Man Who Knew Lee Harvey Oswald| Peter Robinson and Paul Gregory | Hoover Institution

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Courage and Conviction: Will Inboden on “the Peacemaker,” Part II | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, And The World On The Brink | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Dropping Money From Helicopters: Economist John Cochrane On Inflation | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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A Historian Of The Future: Five More Questions For Stephen Kotkin | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Does God Exist? A Conversation with Tom Holland, Stephen Meyer, and Douglas Murray | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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“Bibi: My Story,” Benjamin Netanyahu On His Life And Times | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Hello, Cleveland: Troy Senik on Man of Iron | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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The Ethos of Economics with John Cogan and Kevin Warsh | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Peter Thiel, Leader Of The Rebel Alliance | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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Senator Rob Portman: The Exit Interview | Hoover Institution

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Condoleezza Rice on Footballs: Domestic, International, College, and Professional

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The Heat Is On: Bjorn Lomborg on the Summer’s Record Heat

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The De-Population Bomb

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The Antislavery Activist That Time Forgot: Historian Walter Stahr On Salmon P. Chase

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The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin’s Gulag

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Do Not Defund: Roland Fryer and Rafael Mangual on Crime and Policing in the 21st Century

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Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America

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Nationalize or Not?: Matthew Continetti and Chris DeMuth Debate the Future of Conservatism

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Yoram Hazony Rediscovers Conservatism

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More Than “One Damn Thing,” with Bill Barr

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Harvey Mansfield Counts His Blessings

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The Importance of Being Ethical, with Jordan Peterson

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Are We Dumb about Intelligence? Amy Zegart on the Capabilities of American Intel Gathering