Hoover Institution - Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

The world with Václav Klaus
(Taped on November 06, 2009) In retelling his experience of living through the Velvet Revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the lifting of the Iron Curtain, Czech Republic president Václav Klaus offers his views on what students today need to understand about life under communism.

The Iran problem with Hanson and Baer
(Taped on October 20, 2009) Does Iran possess the ability to produce nuclear weapons? Both Bob Baer and Victor Hanson agree that it does. On the questions that flow from this assertion, agreement is more difficult to find.

Health Care Reform with David Brady and Daniel Kessler
(Taped on October 06, 2009) Brady and Kessler combine the insights of a political scientist with those of an economist and offer unique observations into the political forces and policies at play in the current health care debate.

Uncommon Knowledge™ is now an exclusive on the web, giving viewers immediate access to some of the videos and all of the transcripts from the Uncommon Knowledge television series (1997 – 2005) as well as the current Webcasts (2006 – present). The series features Hoover fellow Peter Robinson interviewing political leaders, distinguished scholars, and leading journalists.

1. The world with Václav Klaus
2. The Iran problem with Hanson and Baer
3. ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER: A Conversation with Robert Bork
4. Health Care Reform with David Brady and Daniel Kessler
5. ALEXANDER THE GREAT: Alexander Hamilton
6. GEN X FILES
7. TAKE IT TO THE LIMITS: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism
8. The World According to Andrew Klavan
9. A SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM? Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
10. Housing with Thomas Sowell