The Arab world with Hanson and Berkowitz

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Chapter 1
Hoover senior fellows Victor Davis Hanson and Peter Berkowitz discuss, with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, what sparked the historic popular conflagration that has swept the Arab world.
Chapter 2
Hoover senior fellows Victor Davis Hanson and Peter Berkowitz discuss possible outcomes for Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and other Middle East states entrenched in popular unrest.
Chapter 3
Hoover senior fellows Victor Davis Hanson and Peter Berkowitz discuss the role of social networking in the Arab unrest.
Chapter 4
Hoover senior fellows Victor Davis Hanson and Peter Berkowitz discuss Israel and the Arab revolution.
Chapter 5
Hoover senior fellows Victor Davis Hanson and Peter Berkowitz discuss the US policy response to the Arab upheaval.

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Politics and policy with Mitch Daniels

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Chapter 1
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels discusses, with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, how he got Indiana's finances under control.
Chapter 2
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels discusses the "new red menace" — US debt.
Chapter 3
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels discusses his tax policy.
Chapter 4
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels discusses his position on social issues.
Chapter 5
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels discusses his political aspirations.

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Appeasement with Bruce Thornton

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Bruce Thornton, author of The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama's America, discusses, with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, the ageless human impulse to appease one's aggressors.
Part 2
Bruce Thornton discusses the motivations of the appeasers who opened the door for Adolf Hitler.
Part 3
Bruce Thornton discusses the thinking of Neville Chamberlain, the great appeaser of the twentieth century.
Part 4
Bruce Thornton discusses losing the Vietnam War.
Part 5
Bruce Thornton discusses how appeasement continues to make us weak in the eyes of our terrorist enemies.

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The welfare state with William Voegeli

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William Voegeli, a visiting scholar at the Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College, discusses, with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, how the welfare state has grown exponentially between World War II and today.
Part 2
William Voegeli discusses the intellectual groundwork of the modern welfare state.
Part 3
William Voegeli discusses who really pays for the welfare state.
Part 4
William Voegeli discusses why per-capita welfare spending has soared in recent decades, despite the Reagan and Gingrich revolutions.
Part 5
William Voegeli discusses his position that conservatives must accept the welfare state if they are ever to resolve it.

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William Voegeli, a visiting scholar at the Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College, discusses, with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, how the welfare state has grown exponentially between World War II and today.

The Gipper Then and Now

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In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge "The Gipper Then and Now", Rob Long and Mark Steyn review clips of Ronald Reagan’s speeches and reflect on their relevance to the issues confronting America today.

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In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge "The Gipper Then and Now", Rob Long and Mark Steyn review clips of Ronald Reagan’s speeches and reflect on their relevance to the issues confronting America today.

Obama the radical with Stanley Kurtz

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Part 1
Author, journalist, and anthropologist Stanley Kurtz discusses, with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, his surprise at what he discovered in Obama's past.
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Stanley Kurtz describes Obama in his late teenage years as a "socialist, in the classic sense."
Part 3
Stanley Kurtz discusses the influence of Bill Ayers in the political development of Barack Obama.
Part 4
Stanley Kurtz discusses how Obama has, at every turn, disguised his socialist past.
Part 5
Stanley Kurtz discusses his assertion that "when it comes to Obama, the past matters more than the present."

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Author, journalist, and anthropologist Stanley Kurtz discusses, with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, his surprise at what he discovered in Obama's past.

The law with Epstein and Yoo

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Segment 1
Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, and John Yoo, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley law school, discuss, with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, whether Obamacare is unconstitutional.
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Richard Epstein and John Yoo discuss why the "encroachment" argument beats the "general welfare" argument in the case against Obamacare.
Segment 3
Richard Epstein and John Yoo discuss whether California's Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, is unconstitutional.
Segment 4
Richard Epstein and John Yoo discuss Bush v. Gore on its tenth anniversary.
Segment 5
Richard Epstein and John Yoo discuss the Supreme Court under John Roberts.

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