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Uncommon Knowledge: 5 Questions For Stephen Kotkin
Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of nine works of history, including the first two volumes of his planned three-volume history of Russian power and Joseph Stalin, Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 and Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941. The premise of this show is simple: Peter Robinson poses five questions to Dr. Kotkin: what Xi Jinping, the president of China believes; what Vladimir Putin believes; whether nuclear weapons are a deterrent in the 21st century; the chances of another American renewal; and Kotkin’s rational basis for loving the United States. It’s a fascinating conversation that delves deep into one of the country’s brightest minds.
Recorded on January 14, 2022
Published in General
Bravo!! This is brilliant!! Steven Kotkin is absolutely brilliant and this interview is fantastic!!
Thanks so so much!!
TWO YEARS until Stalin Vol. 3?!?!?! I can’t wait that long!
Great interview though!
Bravo!!
Thank you for this wonderful interview with Steven Kotkin.
We are not in an existential fight even though it can feel that way particularly here in California.
I have spent more than 2 years consciously fighting to ignore the hyperbolic excesses of political commentators, political activists, and politicians. Instead I chat with my neighbors, co-workers, and people at the grocery store. We can live together and disagree without demonizing one another.
Yet, I fear it will not be easy in California.
Thank you Prof. Kotkin for helping me better understand the larger picture.
Fantastic interview. I will always listen to Professor Kotkin. @jamessalerno I am so impressed that you have read the Stalin volumes. I keep weighing picking them up and just getting started but the volume does intimidate me. Too little time, too many books.