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Back to SearchHello, Cleveland: Troy Senik on Man of Iron | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Episode 383
Grover Cleveland was both the 22nd and the 24th president of the United States, the only man to win nonconsecutive terms in the Oval Office. In his n…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Ethos of Economics with John Cogan and Kevin Warsh | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Episode 382
John Cogan and Kevin Warsh are both Senior Fellows at the Hoover Institution who have spent the careers in and out of government trying to make it mo…
3 years, 7 months ago
Peter Thiel, Leader Of The Rebel Alliance | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Episode 381
With his many varied interests in technology, politics, and culture, Peter Thiel has often been described as a Renaissance man. So perhaps it was onl…
3 years, 8 months ago
Senator Rob Portman: The Exit Interview | Hoover Institution
Episode 380
Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) has served in the US Senate since January 2011. Before that, he served as director of the Office of Management and Budge…
3 years, 8 months ago
Condoleezza Rice on Footballs: Domestic, International, College, and Professional
Episode 379
Current Hoover Institution director and former secretary of state and national security advisor to President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice is the …
3 years, 9 months ago
The Heat Is On: Bjorn Lomborg on the Summer’s Record Heat
Episode 378
The summer of 2022 saw record temperatures recorded all over the world. Bjorn Lomborg acknowledges that climate change is here, it’s real, and humans…
3 years, 10 months ago
The De-Population Bomb
Episode 377
In 1970, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich published a famous book, The Population Bomb, in which he described a disastrous future for humanity: “The b…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Antislavery Activist That Time Forgot: Historian Walter Stahr On Salmon P. Chase
Episode 376
Historical biographer Walter Stahr has given us definitive biographies of William H. Seward and Edwin Stanton, two of the ablest and most influential…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin’s Gulag
Episode 375
Dartmouth College anthropology professor Sergei Kan was born in the Soviet Union just a few months after the death of Stalin. He came to the United S…
3 years, 10 months ago
Do Not Defund: Roland Fryer and Rafael Mangual on Crime and Policing in the 21st Century
Episode 374
Roland Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University. Fryer's research combines economic theory, empirical evidence, and randomized experim…
3 years, 11 months ago