Uncommon Knowledge
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Feb 26, 2026
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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 to share their views with the world.
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How Israel Fights: Inside the Mossad with Zohar Palti | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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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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Mar 02, 2026 |
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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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Feb 17, 2026 |
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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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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Why Does 2 + 2 = 4? What Math Teaches Us About Deep Reality | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Russian Soul, American Life: A Conversation with Ignat Solzhenitsyn | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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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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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Why the Cold War Still Matters with John Lewis Gaddis | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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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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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Stephen Kotkin: Three Historians Debate the Era of Trump
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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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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Oct 02, 2025 |
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The Age of Depopulation With Nicholas Eberstadt | Peter Robinson | Uncommon Knowledge
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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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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Aug 15, 2025 |
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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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Aug 01, 2025 |
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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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Jul 08, 2025 |
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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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Jun 17, 2025 |
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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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Jun 06, 2025 |
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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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May 28, 2025 |
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Christopher Buckley: “Steaming to Bamboola” and Other Journeys
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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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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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Conflict: Niall Ferguson on Ukraine, Taiwan, and His War of Words with V. P. Vance
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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The Great Partnership: How George Shultz Helped Ronald Reagan Win The Cold War
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Five Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Advice for the New Administration (and the Rest of Us)
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Marc Andreessen: It’s Morning Again In America
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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The Extinction of Experience: Christine Rosen on the Impact of Technology on Society
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Part II: Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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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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Nov 26, 2024 |
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A Hero Speaks: Natan Sharansky on the US and Israel At This Hour
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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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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Nov 06, 2024 |
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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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Oct 18, 2024 |
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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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Sep 03, 2024 |
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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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Aug 20, 2024 |
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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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Aug 05, 2024 |
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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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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Doing “The Best Things First,” with Bjorn Lomborg | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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A Dangerous Moment, with Douglas Murray | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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“The End of Everything,” with Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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May 15, 2024 |
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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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May 01, 2024 |
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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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Apr 16, 2024 |
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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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Apr 02, 2024 |
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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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Mar 19, 2024 |
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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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Feb 23, 2024 |
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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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Feb 07, 2024 |
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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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Jan 30, 2024 |
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“The Treason Of The Intellectuals,” With Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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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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Jan 17, 2024 |
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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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Dec 19, 2023 |
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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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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Breaking China: Congressman Mike Gallagher on Asian Geopolitics and Beyond | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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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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Nov 08, 2023 |
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The World According to China with Elizabeth Economy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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More “Social Justice Fallacies,” With Thomas Sowell | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Consequences Matter: Thomas Sowell on “Social Justice Fallacies” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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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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Aug 22, 2023 |
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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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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Five More Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Prigozhin Mutiny Edition | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Victor Davis Hanson, Part II: The Contrarian Agrarian | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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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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Jun 12, 2023 |
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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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May 18, 2023 |
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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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May 01, 2023 |
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Lone Gunman: The Man Who Knew Lee Harvey Oswald| Peter Robinson and Paul Gregory | Hoover Institution
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Courage and Conviction: Will Inboden on “the Peacemaker,” Part II | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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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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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Dropping Money From Helicopters: Economist John Cochrane On Inflation | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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A Historian Of The Future: Five More Questions For Stephen Kotkin | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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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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Jan 10, 2023 |
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“Bibi: My Story,” Benjamin Netanyahu On His Life And Times | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Hello, Cleveland: Troy Senik on Man of Iron | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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The Ethos of Economics with John Cogan and Kevin Warsh | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Peter Thiel, Leader Of The Rebel Alliance | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Senator Rob Portman: The Exit Interview | Hoover Institution
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Condoleezza Rice on Footballs: Domestic, International, College, and Professional
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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The Heat Is On: Bjorn Lomborg on the Summer’s Record Heat
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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The De-Population Bomb
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The Antislavery Activist That Time Forgot: Historian Walter Stahr On Salmon P. Chase
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin’s Gulag
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Do Not Defund: Roland Fryer and Rafael Mangual on Crime and Policing in the 21st Century
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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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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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Nationalize or Not?: Matthew Continetti and Chris DeMuth Debate the Future of Conservatism
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Yoram Hazony Rediscovers Conservatism
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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More Than “One Damn Thing,” with Bill Barr
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Harvey Mansfield Counts His Blessings
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May 24, 2022 |
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The Importance of Being Ethical, with Jordan Peterson
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Are We Dumb about Intelligence? Amy Zegart on the Capabilities of American Intel Gathering
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Bari Weiss on Post-Mainstream Media Life and Her Battles in the Culture Wars
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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5 More Questions For Stephen Kotkin: Ukraine Edition
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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5 Questions For Stephen Kotkin
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Judging The Justices: Epstein And Yoo On The New Originalist Supreme Court
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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The Last King of America: Andrew Roberts on King George III
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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It Could Have Been Worse: Kim Strassel and Ross Douthat Review 2021
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Make Ticker Tape Parades Great Again: A Conversation With Peter Thiel
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Glenn Loury’s Journey From Chicago’s South Side to The Ivy League And Beyond
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Boardwalk Empire: Chris Christie’s Unfinished Political Journey
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Victor Davis Hanson Diagnoses The Dying Citizen
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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What Happened: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya On 19 Months Of COVID
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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A Lost War: A Conversation with Victor Davis Hanson and H. R. McMaster on Afghanistan’s Past, Present, and Future
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Sep 20, 2021 |