The Cold War with John O'Sullivan in conversation with Peter Robinson. This program is part of the Hoover Institution's interview series, Uncommon Knowledge.John O'Sullivan explores three competing explanations for the causes of the Cold War and the three fundamental explanations for its end. Along the way, he offers in the Soviet Union a cogent analysis of the roles played by Mikhail Gorbachev and by Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II in the West.