Uncommon Knowledge
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. Guests have included a host of famous figures, including Paul Ryan, Henry Kissinger, Antonin Scalia, Rupert Murdoch, Newt Gingrich, and Christo
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“Today part two of my conversation with Victor Davis Hansen about his new book Counter Revolution the fall and rise of Donald Trump. And the MAGA movement”
“if you read these Art of the Deal books. Yeah. I I read I read a Eight of them. Art of the deal, art of the comeback”
“And I mentioned that. And alluding to the first book I wrote about it. The case for Trump”
“See in particular his definitive work, The Western Way of War. Infantry battle in classical Greece”
“His latest The Counter-Revolution. The fall and rise of Donald Trump. And the MAGA movement”
“He may be best known for his twenty eighteen volume, Churchill. Walking with destiny”
“He writes a nineteen forty nine classic. The Mediterranean world in the age of Philip the Second”
“Your first book is nineteen ninety one, The Holy Fox, a biography of Lord Halifax”
“And your second book is the nineteen ninety four volume Eminent Churchillians”
“The River War, for example, there's a there's a a paragraph about uh about essentially Islamism”
“after he read Road to Serfdom. Um he he read Hayek in nineteen forty five”
“Your next book? Is Napoleon and his Marshals. Uh it's being published in America in November”
“Dr. Murray is the author of a number of books. including his classic work on welfare, losing ground”
“Doctor Murray's latest book. Taking religion. Seriously”
“Coming apart the state of white America”
“C S Lewis's mere Christianity. Played a big role. And I went out and bought bear Christianity”
“a book. by the Richard Balcom, who I mentioned earlier called Jesus and the eyewitnesses”
“Remember that was the name of his atheist boyfriend. Mother Teresa. Anyway of Th aggressive atheism was on the rise. And it's not anymore. Instead you have in the New York Times op ed page uh Ross Dalfitt, a devout Catholic, who it was not shy about mentioning that uh until recently had David Brooks, who's become converted to Christianity. You have over at the Atlantic, you had Arthur Brooks, a devout Catholic, who uh would you you have a lot more people who are visible now who are Ope”
“He loves All that Rome stood for, he's watching across the Mediterranean, From North Africa. And he sits w down and writes this long meditation. On what is ephemeral and what is eternal and it's called the city of God”
“including his classic study of the Peloponnesian War. A war like no other”
“his history of the second world war, which is titled The Second World Wars”
“And his book on contemporary America, The Dying Citizen”
“like John de Crevacourt, Letters from an American Farmer”
“Moscu was you know the spirit of laws he and so that was very influential on on our founders”
“One was Cicero's philosophical works Devi Publica, where he outlined different types of government”
“and then they would have read Plutarch's Live Probably in Latin. that had been translated”
“And now Professor Dick Cotter has published a book that represents a kind of Prequel. A history of the communists rise to power. Red dawn over China. How communism conquered A quarter of humanity”
“This is the 1935 work Red Star Over China. by the American journalist Edgar Snow”
“And here we have Henry Kissinger, he co-wrote this book with Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google”
“Stephen Meyer's most recent book, The Return of the God Hypothesis”
“John Lennox's most recent book, God, AI, and the End of History”
“Sir Roger Penrose is one of the most brilliant mathematicians in the world ... And he has an analogy in his book where he says, if you want a universe with the second law of thermodynamics ... the creator's aim must be accurate to one part in ten to the power ten to the power 123”
“here's Isaac Newton in the general scolian that concludes the Principia”
“When I was in Cambridge, I saw the window a book, Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell”
“the most recent of which is Lions and Scavengers, The True Story of America and Her Critics”
“I've been recommending that everybody read the Federalist Papers for for years”
“the first two that I mentioned, after the Bible, are the Federalist Papers and and Democracy in America”
“the first two that I mentioned, after the Bible, are the Federalist Papers and and Democracy in America”
“Professor McFall's most recent book, Autocrats vs. Democrats, China, Russia, America, and the new global disorder”
“it was the end of history, that's what Frank Fukuyama wrote that famous essay”
“And you know where that whole uh that paragraph comes from? It comes from George Schultz's memoirs. I'm pretty sure it's chapter 29 or 27, one of the two. It's called Re-engaging the Soviets”
“He wrote a great book about strategy of denial or something like that”
“So what you're saying this is from your book The Vanishing American Adult”
“There's a bit in the Bible. Actually, it's the shortest verse in the entire Bible, so you already know where I'm going with this”
“You sent around a couple days before Christmas, you sent to some friends a poem called Ring Out Wild Bells. It comes from Tennyson's much longer work in Memoriam”
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