Uncommon Knowledge

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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.

Episode Date
The Rise of the Machines: John Etchemendy and Fei-Fei Li on Our AI Future | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Apr 16, 2024
Andrew Roberts on “Conflict: The Evolution of War from 1945 to Ukraine” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Apr 02, 2024
Why Bitcoin Will Take Over The World: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Mar 19, 2024
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
Feb 23, 2024
Birmingham, 1963: Three Witnesses to the Struggle for Civil Rights | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson, Condoleezza Rice, Mary Bush, and Freeman Hrabowski| Hoover Institution
Feb 07, 2024
Uncommon Knowledge Archive: Oppenheimer’s Edward Teller and Sid Drell on ICBM Defense Systems | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jan 30, 2024
“The Treason Of The Intellectuals,” With Niall Ferguson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jan 23, 2024
Donald Trump and The Supreme Court | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson, Richard Epstein, and John Yoo | Hoover Institution
Jan 17, 2024
100% Cotton: The Senator from Arkansas On Issues Domestic And Foreign | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Dec 19, 2023
The Most Dangerous Moment: A Debate on America’s Role in the Pacific | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Dec 05, 2023
Breaking China: Congressman Mike Gallagher on Asian Geopolitics and Beyond | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Nov 17, 2023
The Long Game: Andrew Luck & Condoleezza Rice on the Future of College Sports | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Nov 08, 2023
The World According to China with Elizabeth Economy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Oct 23, 2023
More “Social Justice Fallacies,” With Thomas Sowell | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Sep 29, 2023
Consequences Matter: Thomas Sowell on “Social Justice Fallacies” | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Sep 15, 2023
Hot Or Not: Steven Koonin Questions Conventional Climate Science And Methodology | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Aug 22, 2023
Hadley and Rice on “Hand-Off”: Foreign Policy Decisions in the 9/11 Era | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jul 31, 2023
Five More Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Prigozhin Mutiny Edition | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jul 13, 2023
Victor Davis Hanson, Part II: The Contrarian Agrarian | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jun 27, 2023
A Classicist Farmer: The Life and Times of Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jun 12, 2023
The Man Who Talked Back: Jay Bhattacharya On the Fight against COVID Lockdowns | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson and Jay Bhattacharya | Hoover Institution
May 18, 2023
Cold War II: Niall Ferguson on The Emerging Conflict With China | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson and Niall Ferguson | Hoover Institution
May 01, 2023
Lone Gunman: The Man Who Knew Lee Harvey Oswald| Peter Robinson and Paul Gregory | Hoover Institution
Apr 13, 2023
Courage and Conviction: Will Inboden on “the Peacemaker,” Part II | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Mar 31, 2023
The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, And The World On The Brink | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Mar 16, 2023
Dropping Money From Helicopters: Economist John Cochrane On Inflation | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Feb 28, 2023
A Historian Of The Future: Five More Questions For Stephen Kotkin | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Feb 14, 2023
By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Feb 01, 2023
Does God Exist? A Conversation with Tom Holland, Stephen Meyer, and Douglas Murray | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Jan 10, 2023
“Bibi: My Story,” Benjamin Netanyahu On His Life And Times | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Dec 09, 2022
Hello, Cleveland: Troy Senik on Man of Iron | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Dec 06, 2022
The Ethos of Economics with John Cogan and Kevin Warsh | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Nov 29, 2022
Peter Thiel, Leader Of The Rebel Alliance | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Nov 09, 2022
Senator Rob Portman: The Exit Interview | Hoover Institution
Nov 03, 2022
Condoleezza Rice on Footballs: Domestic, International, College, and Professional
Oct 11, 2022
The Heat Is On: Bjorn Lomborg on the Summer’s Record Heat
Sep 23, 2022
The De-Population Bomb
Sep 15, 2022
The Antislavery Activist That Time Forgot: Historian Walter Stahr On Salmon P. Chase
Sep 01, 2022
The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin’s Gulag
Aug 24, 2022
Do Not Defund: Roland Fryer and Rafael Mangual on Crime and Policing in the 21st Century
Aug 03, 2022
Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America
Jul 25, 2022
Nationalize or Not?: Matthew Continetti and Chris DeMuth Debate the Future of Conservatism
Jul 13, 2022
Yoram Hazony Rediscovers Conservatism
Jun 23, 2022
More Than “One Damn Thing,” with Bill Barr
Jun 08, 2022
Harvey Mansfield Counts His Blessings
May 24, 2022
The Importance of Being Ethical, with Jordan Peterson
Apr 29, 2022
Are We Dumb about Intelligence? Amy Zegart on the Capabilities of American Intel Gathering
Mar 30, 2022
Bari Weiss on Post-Mainstream Media Life and Her Battles in the Culture Wars
Mar 15, 2022
5 More Questions For Stephen Kotkin: Ukraine Edition
Mar 04, 2022
5 Questions For Stephen Kotkin
Feb 04, 2022
Judging The Justices: Epstein And Yoo On The New Originalist Supreme Court
Jan 26, 2022
The Last King of America: Andrew Roberts on King George III
Jan 11, 2022
It Could Have Been Worse: Kim Strassel and Ross Douthat Review 2021
Dec 16, 2021
Make Ticker Tape Parades Great Again: A Conversation With Peter Thiel
Dec 14, 2021
Glenn Loury’s Journey From Chicago’s South Side to The Ivy League And Beyond
Nov 23, 2021
Boardwalk Empire: Chris Christie’s Unfinished Political Journey
Nov 12, 2021
Victor Davis Hanson Diagnoses The Dying Citizen
Nov 03, 2021
What Happened: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya On 19 Months Of COVID
Oct 22, 2021
A Lost War: A Conversation with Victor Davis Hanson and H. R. McMaster on Afghanistan’s Past, Present, and Future
Sep 20, 2021
Joe Felter On Countering China In Their Own Backyard
Aug 04, 2021
China, Big Tech, and Cyber Defense: The World According to Zegart
Jul 14, 2021
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Prey: A Panel Discussion on Europe, Islam, and Women’s Rights
Jul 02, 2021
“Tear Down This Wall” At 34
Jun 17, 2021
The Trump Economy and the Cost of the Lockdown
Jun 14, 2021
Maverick: Jason Riley On The Life And Times Of Thomas Sowell
May 26, 2021
Doom: Niall Ferguson On The Politics And Policies Of The Pandemic
May 04, 2021
Cold War II—Just How Dangerous Is China?
Apr 13, 2021
Stephen Meyer on Intelligent Design and The Return of the God Hypothesis
Apr 07, 2021
Reclaiming Freedom in the UK, with Laurence Fox
Mar 26, 2021
Keeping Your Cool on the Climate Debate with Bjorn Lomborg
Mar 10, 2021
Prey: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Relationship between Immigration and Sexual Assaults in Europe
Feb 23, 2021
The Impeachment of a Former President, with Richard Epstein, Andrew McCarthy, and John Yoo
Feb 09, 2021
Remembering Roger Scruton, With UK Minister Michael Gove
Jan 26, 2021
The Lord And Lady Thatcher
Jan 12, 2021
A Look Back At 2020, A Year We Won’t Miss
Dec 12, 2020
Douglas Murray and His Continuing Fight against the "Madness of Crowds”
Dec 02, 2020
Endowed By The Creator: Ayaan Hirsi Ali And Peter Berkowitz On Our Unalienable Rights
Oct 28, 2020
Freefall: Larry Kudlow On Managing The US Economy In A Pandemic
Oct 08, 2020
An Empty SCOTUS Seat: Epstein & Yoo on Ginsburg, Barrett, the Hearings, and the Future of the Court
Sep 28, 2020
H. R. McMaster: The Policy “Battlegrounds” He Has Won, Lost, And Continues To Fight
Sep 22, 2020
Condoleezza Rice: Director of the Hoover Institution
Sep 11, 2020
Faith, Character, Destiny, and Redemption: Jimmy Lai’s Continuing Fight For Hong Kong’s Freedom
Sep 06, 2020
Defending the “Defender in Chief”: John Yoo on Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power
Aug 04, 2020
Bjorn Lomborg Declares “False Alarm” on Climate Hysteria
Jul 28, 2020
An Economist Looks at 90: Tom Sowell on Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Jul 02, 2020
The Case against Revolution with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Jun 30, 2020
The Doctor Is In: Scott Atlas and the Efficacy of Lockdowns, Social Distancing, and Closings
Jun 23, 2020
Jimmy Lai: The Last, Best Hope for Saving Democracy in Hong Kong
Jun 09, 2020
Mitch Daniels: Plain Talk from the President of Purdue
Jun 05, 2020
Ross Douthat’s Decadent Society
Jun 02, 2020
How Innovation Works, with Matt Ridley
May 19, 2020
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: His new MLB COVID-19 Study and the Dilemma of the Lockdown
May 11, 2020
The Importance of Institutions, with Yuval Levin
May 08, 2020
What’s So Funny about Corona, Politics, the Media, and the Culture? A Conversation with Andrew Ferguson and P. J. O’Rourke
May 02, 2020
Victor Davis Hanson on Coronavirus, California, and the Classical World
Apr 24, 2020
The Trade-Offs on Tariffs and International Trade, with Professor Douglas Irwin
Apr 22, 2020
The Fight against COVID-19: An Update from Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Apr 18, 2020
Kicking and Screaming: WSJ’s Kim Strassel on the Media vs. Trump
Apr 14, 2020
Trump, China, and the Geopolitics of a Crisis
Apr 07, 2020
Questioning Conventional Wisdom in the COVID-19 Crisis, with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Mar 31, 2020