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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2019-2021, he served as the Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the...
The New Progressivism: Same as the Old Progressivism?
To understand the sometimes glaring gaps between candidate Obama’s promises and President Obama’s policies, it is useful to appreciate an old tension in American progressivism. . . .
He's No Ronald Reagan
On July 29, 1981, barely six months into his presidency and in the face of an economic crisis of historic proportions, Ronald Reagan succeeded in persuading both houses of Congress to pass dramatic tax cuts that set the stage for nearly three decades of vigorous economic growth...
Our Brave New World
Be careful when one uses the superlative case—best, most, -est, etc.—or evokes end-of-the-world imagery...
Make Ticker Tape Parades Great Again: A Conversation With Peter Thiel
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In this wide-ranging conversation, Thiel discusses his politics, his campaign, and the scourge of totalitarian conformism in the United States and abroad; the problem with “following the science”; where President Biden deserves the blame and where he doesn’t; and why cryptocurrency may just save the world.
Architects of Ruin
With Architects of Ruin, Peter Schweizer again delivers a knockout punch of a book that is the must read of the season for conservatives and should be a main topic of conversation for conservative media. . . .
Matters Of Policy & Politics: The Problem Was Not The President
President Ronald Reagan’s relevancy in this day and age.
Housing with Thomas Sowell: Chapter 4 of 5
Thomas Sowell details the pitfalls of New Deal thinking...
How Obama Can Win Back The Public
The President should take a page from Francois Mitterand. . . .
The Historical Benefits Of Trade
Douglas Irwin, professor of economics at Dartmouth College, explains and defends free trade.
Sowing The Seeds Of Growth
Understanding the Federal Budget and Moving toward Economic Prosperity.
Whom Do You Trust?
Everyone seems to need a narrative of good against evil -- even people who don't believe in God or in Satan. . . .
Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society: Chapter 1 of 5
Thomas Sowell introduces his new book, Intellectuals and Society, and expounds on what he calls “the fatal misstep of intellectuals.” . . .
Economics with John Taylor: Chapter 1 of 5
Economist John Taylor discusses the causes of today’s financial crisis — which he labels the most “unusual” crisis since the Great Depression...
Rahe Of Sunshine
Paul Rahe, a professor at Hillsdale College, believes the country is going to hell in a hand basket. . . .
Wall Street bailouts: Business as usual
Economics professor Allan Meltzer once said, "Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin."...
Medical Analysis By Milton Friedman
President Obama, the press, all the Democrats and a fair number of the Republicans in Congress share the same assumption about health care...
A Modern-Day George III?
At the "tea party protests" that took place on Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets and asserted an outrageous claim...
The Roots Of Liberalism
A near quadrupling of the federal deficit in 2009 alone. The nationalization of the Detroit automakers...
How To Fail At Almost Everything With Scott Adams
Scott Adams on Life, Business, Talent Stacks, and Trump.
It Could Have Been Worse: Kim Strassel and Ross Douthat Review 2021
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It’s the last show of the year for Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, and as is our tradition (for the last two years, anyhow), we’ve invited two of our favorite journalists —Ross Douthat of the New York Times and Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal— to look back, discuss, and analyze the year that was. We delve, discuss, and predict politics, the law, COVID, the future of Roe v. Wade, and much more.