Uncommon Knowledge: Justice Antonin Scalia

Law and Justice with Antonin Scalia: Justice Antonin Scalia talks about Roe v. Wade — and other high profile cases of the past 50 years.

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Thatcher & More with Claire Berlinski

Since earning a doctorate in international relations from Oxford, author and journalist Claire Berlinski has lived and worked in Britain, Thailand, Laos, and France; she now lives in Istanbul. Her most recent book is There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters.

39:11 05/19/2011

Sebastian Junger

From this close-in vantage point, Junger discusses the universal themes at play in the experience of all soldiers, ancient and modern, who experience combat: fear, killing, and love, that “intoxicating” bond formed by the men who wage battle together.

38:00 05/19/2011

Justice Antonin Scalia

Law and Justice with Antonin Scalia: Justice Antonin Scalia talks about Roe v. Wade — and other high profile cases of the past 50 years.

37:24 05/19/2011

The Gipper Then and Now - Mark Steyn & Rob Long

Reviewing clips of Ronald Reagan’s speeches, Long and Steyn reflect on Reagan’s relevance to issues confronting America today. Speaking of Reagan’s “The Last Stand on Earth” address, Steyn remarks on “how easily you can pick up the argument [made in 1964 about the threat of Soviet communism] and drop it right down into the current circumstances [the threat of Islamic extremism].”

38:01 05/19/2011

TAKE IT TO THE LIMITS: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism

What are the elements of the libertarian movement and how does one of its most illustrious proponents, Milton Friedman, apply its tenets to issues facing the United States today? Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science, was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1977 to 2006, discusses, on February 10, 1999, how he balances the libertarians' desire for a small, less intrusive government with environmental, public safety, food and drug administration, and other issues.

25:34 05/19/2011

"The End of The World As We Know It" with Mark Steyn

Responding to critics who have called his America Alone “alarmist,” Steyn defends the tone and central premise of his book. “This book is about…the larger forces at play in the developed world that have left Europe too enfeebled to resist its remorseless transformation into Eurabia and that call into question the future of much of the rest of the world, including the United States, Canada, and beyond.”

38:19 05/19/2011

Thomas Sowell - Basic Economics

Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is a revised and updated edition of his classic volume, Basic Economics.

33:31 05/19/2011

William Voegeli—The American Welfare State

A visiting scholar at the Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College, William Voegeli is a senior editor of the Claremont Review of Books and the author of Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State.

37:53 03/09/2011

Victor Hanson and Peter Berkowitz - Revolution in the Arab World

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian, professor of classics, and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which are Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, which Professor Hanson edited, and The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern, a volume of his essays.

37:25 05/19/2011

Bruce Thornton - The Wages of Appeasement

Bruce Thornton is a professor of classics and humanities at California State University, Fresno, and a national fellow at the Hoover Institution. His latest book is The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich and Obama’s America.

32:24 05/19/2011

Stanley Kurtz - Radical-In-Chief

An author, journalist, and social anthropologist (PhD Harvard), Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a contributing editor to National Review Online. His latest book is Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism.

37:28 05/19/2011

Richard Epstein and John Yoo - Order in the Court

Two of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars discuss contemporary constitutional issues—and the Supreme Court that will decide them. Is Obamacare unconstitutional? Epstein and Yoo explain why the “encroachment” argument beats the “general welfare” argument in the case against Obamacare. Is California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional? And how does today’s Supreme Court measure up?

38:23 05/19/2011

Matt Ridley—The Rational Optimist

A former science and technology editor for The Economist magazine, Matt Ridley is a journalist and best-selling author whose books include Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. His most recent book is The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves.

33:35 05/19/2011

John Podhoretz - The Purposes of Political Combat

The editor of Commentary magazine and the film critic for The Weekly Standard, John Podhoretz served as a speechwriter in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. He is the author of Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies.

35:12 05/19/2011

Thomas Sowell - Dismantling America

Peter Robinson Interviews Thomas Sowell. You can also find an excerpt of Sowell's new book in the "Voices" section of the website.

36:42 05/19/2011

Donald Rumsfeld—Known and Unknown

Donald Rumsfeld, the thirteenth and twenty-first US secretary of defense, currently chairs the Rumsfeld Foundation. His memoir Known and Unknown was recently released.

40:36 05/20/2011

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