[VIDEO] REWIND: Author Tom Wolfe on Uncommon Knowledge
Posted: May 16, 2018 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe, Uncommon Knowledge, video Leave a comment
Author Tom Wolfe discusses the ideas and inspirations for Back to Blood, a story of decadence and the new America. In the book , Wolfe paints a story of a decaying culture enduring constant uncertainty. Heroes are spurned and abused, and values are dissolving; the message seems to be to stick with the good values.
[VIDEO] Ayaan Hirsi Ali on ‘Uncommon Knowledge’: Islam, The West & Dawa
Posted: August 8, 2017 Filed under: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Reading Room, Religion, Think Tank, War Room | Tags: Amaney Jamal, Asra Nomani, Assata Shakur, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Carmen Perez, Democratic Party (United States), Islam, Islamism, Jihadism, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Contain It, Uncommon Knowledge Leave a commentAyaan Hirsi Ali joins me to discuss her new book, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Contain It and her views on the challenges facing Western civilization in regards to political Islam. She argues that Islam needs to be separated into two different parts, one part of religion and the other part, political philosophy. She concedes that many aspects of the religious part of Islam are peaceful but argues that the political side is much more concerning due to its focus on Dawa, which means “to plead or to call non-Muslims to Islam.” This call to convert people to Islam is what she argues was a driving force behind the spread of Islam throughout history.
Earlier this year Ayaan Hirsi Ali was called before Congress to testify on her book. She discusses her testimony and that although she was invited by a Democrat senator to speak “about the ideology of radical Islam,” the Democrats present didn’t ask her a single question because they were likely uncomfortable with what she had to say about Islam. She argues … (read more)
Source: National Review
[VIDEO] REWIND: Uncommon Knowledge with Justice Antonin Scalia
Posted: April 7, 2017 Filed under: History, Law & Justice, Think Tank | Tags: Justice Antonin Scalia, Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS, Stanford Law School, Uncommon Knowledge, video Leave a commentSupreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia visits Uncommon Knowledge for a wide ranging interview including the living constitution, Roe v. Wade, Congress’ relationship to the court, and to discuss his new book Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts.
To listen to an mp3 of the interview go here.
[VIDEO] REWIND: Thomas Sowell on the Worst President Ever
Posted: February 18, 2017 Filed under: Economics, Education, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Thomas Sowell, Uncommon Knowledge, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Thomas Sowell on the Vulgar Pride of Intellectuals
Posted: November 30, 2016 Filed under: Economics, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Academia, Arthur C. Brooks, Artificial Intelligence, Barack Obama, Benito Mussolini, Bruno Latour, Intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, Thomas Sowell, Uncommon Knowledge, United States, video 1 Comment
Peter Robinson talks to economist Thomas Sowell about his book “Intellectuals and Society.” Robinson and Sowell discuss the fact that intellectuals play a disproportionate role in society, as evidenced by linguist Noam Chomsky‘s influence on liberal politics. Is a fancy education a high speed rail ticket to fallacy? Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Thomas Sowell Brings the World into Focus through an Economics Lens
Posted: November 28, 2016 Filed under: Economics, Health and Social Issues, History, Think Tank | Tags: Academy (English school), African Americans, Americans, Arthur C. Brooks, Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, Hillary Clinton, President of the United States, Thomas Sowell, Uncommon Knowledge, United States Leave a comment
In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson interviews Hoover fellow and author Thomas Sowell, on 
his 5th edition of Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy.
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In this interview, Sowell brings the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives. Sowell draws on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history.
[VIDEO] 2012 Post-Election Time Capsule: Jonah Goldberg and John O’Sullivan at the End of the World, on Uncommon Knowledge
Posted: January 31, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook, Think Tank, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, John O'Sullivan, Jonah Goldberg, Margaret Thatcher, Mitt Romney, National Review, Peter Robinson, Uncommon Knowledge, YouTube Leave a comment
From Uncommon Knowledge, days after the 2012 election, discussing the GOP’s future, interviewer Peter Robinson begins with the question: Are we, or are we not, doomed?
I meant to only watch a few minutes of this, but got sucked in and watched the whole thing.
It’s as relevant now as the day it was recorded. Goldberg and O’Sullivan are relaxed, reflective, unusually lucid (while Peter Robinson makes a valiant effort to keep up) insightful, and in good spirits, considering it was only days after during a disastrous national election. Perhaps it’s the location? It was conducted on National Review‘s Post-Election Cruise, aboard The New Amsterdam, in the Caribbean, December 4th 2012. So, that helps.
A Jonah money quote:
“…it’s been a 100 year project of American progressives, to diminish and delegitimize the authority and the sovereignty of the family, to clear away the mediating institutions in society [until] all is left is the individual and the Sate…as Woodrow Wilson put it, ‘the point of progressivism is to have the individual marry his interests to the State…’”
45 minutes long, it’s engaging stuff. It’s especially relevant, on the eve of the upcoming mid-term elections.
Many of you know Jonah from NRO’s The Corner, and appearances as a guest political analyst on Fox News. He’s an AEI scholar and NRO’s founding editor. Jonah Goldberg‘s book “The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas” is available at Amazon.
National Review‘s editor-at-large John O’Sullivan served in the 1980s as special advisor and speechwriter to Margaret Thatcher, looks like he should be wearing a tie, and not enjoying himself so much. He is the author of “The President, the Pope, And the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World“, also available at Amazon.
