Hoover Institution Video Interviews & Talks

Peter Robinson opens the show by asking General Jim Mattis, former secretary of defense, to explain the word "chaos" from the title of his new book, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead.

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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali joins Peter Robinson to discuss her new book, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Contain It, and her views on the challenges facing Western civilization in regards to political Islam.

Is blockchain the technology of the future? George Gilder, author of Life After Google, argues that bitcoin and blockchain technology is revolutionizing the Internet.

"Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, creator of great power, and destroyer of tens of millions of lives …" Thus begins this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, which dives into the biography of Joseph Stalin.

Is the dedication to diversity undermining American culture? In her book The Diversity Delusion, Heather Mac Donald argues that the focus on race and gender diversity is harming society.

What is "false black power?" According to Jason Riley, author of False Black Power?, it is political clout, whereas true black power is human capital and culture.

Shelby Steele, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and author of Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country , joins Peter Robinson to discuss race relations in the United States.

In the latest episode from Uncommon Knowledge, Sir Roger Scruton, a formally trained political philosopher, talks about his life and the events he's witnessed that led him to conservatism.

Islam historian Bernard Lewis and Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz discuss the history and future of the Middle East.