This Week in D.C.: Stoisits U.S. Legislative Update for TX

The 58th Speaker of the House and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich makes the case for his candidacy, explains why he's not a Washington insider, and describes his vision for his first term: gaining energy independence, ending the war on religion, balancing the budget, and repealing and replacing ObamaCare and why he is temperamentally suite […]

Church and state, Newtzilla, social media, and the second favorite flavor

This week on Uncommon Knowledge columnist, scholar, and social media maven Jonah Goldberg discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, the unconstrained vision of the left, the problem with Romney, the reality of diversity, why vanilla is every one’s second favorite flavor, and offers some wise but unpalatable advice to conservative voters. (Playin […]

Obamacare and the Supreme Court with Richard Epstein and John Yoo

Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and John Yoo, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley law school, examine the merits of various constitutional arguments for the Supreme Court’s striking down Obamacare. (Playing ti […]

The Storm of War

This week on Uncommon Knowledge historian Andrew Roberts discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, his book The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. In the book, Roberts investigates what led up to the war, the historical factors responsible for Hitler's rise to power, Hitler's shortcomings as a military leader, Nazi Ge […]

Government, Economic Growth, and Speculative Investing with Peter Thiel

In this Uncommon Knowledge interview from November 24, 2008, Thiel argues that a book published in France in 1968, Le Defi Americain (The American Challenge), has a lot to say to us in 2008, including why the United States has failed to rise to the heights predicted by its author, J. J. Servan-Schreiber. In explaining what’s wrong with the US economy, Thiel […]

Did you know…

___________________________________________ ...that the cost of tea including the dreaded tax was actually lower than the price previously paid by the colonists because of a deal England made with the East India Company?

It was the PRINCIPLE that mattered! No taxation without representation.

...that a $100 million reduction in Obama's budget is the equivalent of someone earning $50,000 saving less than $2?

Some fiscal restraint, isn't it? ___________________________________________

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