Uncommon Knowledge — audio edition
By Peter Robinson
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Podcast Description
Uncommon Knowledge is a production of the Hoover Institution, a public-policy research center devoted to the advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy — both domestic and foreign — as well as international affairs. Topics on Uncommon Knowledge range from the legalization of drugs to affirmative action to war to taxes to censorship on the Internet. Uncommon Knowledge is hosted by Hoover fellow Peter M. Robinson.
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John Stossel | Author and television host John Stossel discusses his new book No, They Can’t: Why Government Fails - But Individuals Succeed. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thomas Sowell | On the occasion of the publication of a new edition of his book Intellectuals and Society, Thomas Sowell returns to Uncommon Knowledge for a wide-ranging interview. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pat Buchanan on Suicide of a Superpower | Author and commentator Pat Buchanan discusses the disintegration of the United States as a superpower and a united nation. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Murray on Coming Apart | Longtime American Enterprise Institute fellow Charles Murray discusses his controversial new book, Coming Apart, about what American was, is, and will become. He also reveals his personal score on his now famous “bubble quiz.” Take the quiz here http://www.scribd.com/doc/77349055/Coming-Apart-by-Charles-Murray-Quiz | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Uncommon Knowledge Special Audio Edition: Senator Rick Santorum | Rick Santorum on why he's still in the race, the rights of the unborn, the Santorum tax plan, how Santorum plans to expand his appeal, the core differences between himself and Mitt Romney, and a up-to-the-minute state of the primary race from the candidate himself. | 3/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mitch McConnell | This week on Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell discusses why the glacial pace of deliberations and decisions in the Senate is a feature, not a bug. "Once it was clear the president was going to try to turn us into a Western European country as rapidly as he could, about the only strategy you have left when your opposition has a forty-seat majority in the House. . . . We knew we couldn't stop the agenda. But we thought we had a chance of creating a national debate about whether all of this excess was appropriate. And the key to having a debate, frankly and candidly, was to deny the president, if possible, the opportunity to have any of these things be considered bipartisan." | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Decision 2012: Above the fray with Michael Barone | This week, on Uncommon Knowledge, Michael Barone, American Enterprise Institute fellow, author, and senior political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, explains where the Republicans are headed, how Obama operates, and what’s at stake in the 2012 election. | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Condoleezza Rice | Condoleezza Rice, senior fellow on public policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University, discusses the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, her days as George Bush's national security adviser and secretary of state, and the current state of the world, including Israel, Iran, and China. “The real question is how internally the United States deals with our own difficulties so that we are strong enough and confident enough and optimistic enough to continue to lead.” | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Uncommon Knowledge special edition: Newt Gingrich | The 58th Speaker of the House and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich makes the case for his candidacy, explains why he's not a Washington insider, and describes his vision for his first term: gaining energy independence, ending the war on religion, balancing the budget, and repealing and replacing ObamaCare and why he is temperamentally suited for the highest office. | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Church and state, Newtzilla, social media, and the second favorite flavor | This week on Uncommon Knowledge columnist, scholar, and social media maven Jonah Goldberg discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, the unconstrained vision of the left, the problem with Romney, the reality of diversity, why vanilla is every one’s second favorite flavor, and offers some wise but unpalatable advice to conservative voters. | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Obamacare and the Supreme Court with Richard Epstein and John Yoo | Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and John Yoo, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley law school, examine the merits of various constitutional arguments for the Supreme Court’s striking down Obamacare. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Storm of War | This week on Uncommon Knowledge historian Andrew Roberts discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, his book The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. In the book, Roberts investigates what led up to the war, the historical factors responsible for Hitler's rise to power, Hitler's shortcomings as a military leader, Nazi Germany's defeat, and Allied contributions to the victory. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Government, Economic Growth, and Speculative Investing with Peter Thiel | In this Uncommon Knowledge interview from November 24, 2008, Thiel argues that a book published in France in 1968, Le Defi Americain (The American Challenge), has a lot to say to us in 2008, including why the United States has failed to rise to the heights predicted by its author, J. J. Servan-Schreiber. In explaining what’s wrong with the US economy, Thiel points out that, although we have benefited from growth that is both extensive (e.g., free trade) and intensive (e.g., technology), we have not featured enough of each. He asserts that the credit crisis of 2008 had nothing to do with the failings of the free market but rather is a by-product of government entanglement, nurtured by the motors of economic growth, working less well than expected. | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Delingpole: Great Britain, the Green Movement, and the End of the World | This week on Uncommon Knowledge columnist James Delingpole discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, the European Union, the Green movement, and socialized medicine. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Journalism with Gerard Baker & Andrew Ferguson | Gerard Baker is deputy editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones. From 2002 to 2004 he was the Chief U.S. Commentator and an Associate Editor for the Financial Times. A speechwriter for Pres. George H. W. Bush, Andrew Ferguson is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. His most recent book is Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course at Getting His Kids into College. | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Constitution with Paul Rahe | Paul Rahe holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage at Hillsdale College. He is the author most recently of Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Political Culture with Thomas Sowell | Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell, UCLA, and Amherst. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books. His most recent book is The Thomas Sowell Reader. | 10/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Larry Arnn and Our Founding Documents | Larry Arnn earned his graduate and doctorate in Government from the Claremont Graduate School. Dr. Arnn is the founder and former president of the Claremont Institute. He is the current president at Hillsdale College. | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Ryan on Health Care | Paul Ryan, a native of Janesville, Wisconsin, is the chairman of the House Budget Committee and representative of the 1st congressional district of Wisconsin since 1999. | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Libertarianism with Milton Friedman | Milton Friedman, recipient of the Nobel Prize for economic science in 1976, was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1977 to 2006. He passed away on Nov. 16, 2006. | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science & Religion with David Berlinski | Dr. David Berlinski is the author of 1,2,3: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics and The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions. | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Political Quotients with Tim Groseclose | Summary not specified | 8/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher | Charles Moore is a former editor at The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, and Spectator Magazine. He is the authorized biographer of Margaret Thatcher. | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 23 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Outstanding!
Had enough of the vacuous prattle of “the Sunday shows”?...
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Any thoughtful person will find a sumptuous meal here.
Well prepared and executed, Peter Robinson is excellent.
Guest list is superb – and truly “uncommon”.
Great as a podcast as re-listening is a “must”. “Thought provoking” is an understatement.
To wring the most from these presentations, hours of further study is recommended.
Only faults are that it is “too short” and only bi-weekly :)
Never a “disappointment (?!?)” yet after 3+ years of downloading – and saving.
NOT TO BE MISSED as only the most recent 10 episodes are here.
Simply nothing else like it…
A Gem of a program; spread the word!
Better than anything on TV (or radio)
Uncommon Knowledge is what TV interviews should be, and perhaps once were. I'm thrilled that UK is finally available in audio form.
Excellent and Enlightening
A great resource for fascinating and intellectually stimulating interviews.
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