5 Questions for Stephen Kotkin

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  • Recorded on January 14, 2022
    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.
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  • @praneetsinghbutran9477
    @praneetsinghbutran9477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +727

    Uncommon Knowledge is probably the only place left online where sane discussions still take place.
    And Peter Robinson excels with every guest!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @JDAbelRN
    @JDAbelRN ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I cannot express how much I admire Peter Robinson and all the extremely qualified and articulate guests he interviews. I especially appreciate the Hoover Institution at Stanford for increasing my knowledge of world politics, cultural aspects of the world's nations, and the historical aspects of the world in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century. The generosity of presenting these lectures on TH-cam to the public is a phenomenal legacy of the Hoover Institution. Thank you, so sincerely.

  • @ryanfitzpatrick6557
    @ryanfitzpatrick6557 2 ปีที่แล้ว +633

    Stephen Kotkin is a national treasure, and a phenomenal historian. He should be renowned more than he already is

  • @GameFap
    @GameFap 2 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    I'm a simple man. I see a Kotkin video, I click.

  • @andreaspahler1132
    @andreaspahler1132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Mr Robinson, please bring Stephen Kotkin back again soon - he is so good!

  • @CrossedSabresCOD
    @CrossedSabresCOD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +323

    This man is a gem. Every time he speaks, he lays out the context and then asks rhetorical questions, which makes his conclusions so much more powerful. You almost forget that he's also one of the greatest historians of Stalin and political power.

  • @kurtilein3
    @kurtilein3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    I like the format. A format i like even more is when two people just meet and talk about a series of topics but let each other take all the time needed to make their points properly. No time control, no time pressure, no interrupting. And the very best interviewers manage to do that in an interview format.

  • @thomashorn5829
    @thomashorn5829 2 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    Bravo to Kotkin on his optimism on the future of America. He raised my hope that we can actually get through the problems of division we face today.

  • @SW-lw6mt
    @SW-lw6mt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    How awesome it must be to have him as a teacher. Cogent, rational and calm, we need more of this in these turbulent times.

  • @JXY2019
    @JXY2019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Peter Robinson should be the one who questions presidential candidates

  • @minz4X
    @minz4X 2 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    My first time hearing Dr Stephen Kotkin and I'm so glad I found another great mind to learn from. Hope millions more people will get to watch/hear this. Thank you, Peter for such a wonderful interview!

  • @joannamoore4477
    @joannamoore4477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I have rewatched so much Kotkin . Finally so new stuff ❤️😍🥰

  • @piercepetree7989
    @piercepetree7989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Kotkin is the man!!! Can't get enough of him

  • @karenabel6218
    @karenabel6218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    Excellent interview. Thanks to Peter Robinson for the engaging program. Grateful that there still exists thoughtful, intelligent programming like this one.

  • @Rasectos
    @Rasectos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +337

    Finally Prof. Joe Pesci is back on the program.

    • @GameFap
      @GameFap 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He needs to do a reading of the "funny like a clown" scene one day

    • @baryntn41
      @baryntn41 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're not wrong.

    • @goldbrick2563
      @goldbrick2563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lmao

    • @qrious786
      @qrious786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Quite similar sound if not the looks though similar stature.

    • @wstevenson4913
      @wstevenson4913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You think I'm here to amuse you ?

  • @douglascampbell66
    @douglascampbell66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Thanks for the episode. I can listen to Stephen Kotkin for hours and hours.

  • @miguelbaca8086
    @miguelbaca8086 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Usually I find videos like this one or two years after they’ve been posted, but you’re telling me I’m here one hour after it was posted? That’s crazy!

  • @prommann1234
    @prommann1234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    8:50 I cannot help but notice, that I have kind of a similar feeling about CCP commisars at large private Chinese companies as I have about their American counterpart, the Chief Diversity,Equity and Inclusion Officer, a position with a similar function: a political commisar tasked to uphold ideological orthodoxy.

  • @fondofsauce
    @fondofsauce 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Peter is the best interviewer, in the history of such an endeavor.

  • @dralghuroba
    @dralghuroba 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    So I guess my Stephen Kotkin’s youtube loop that I get myself into every month or so just got one video longer.
    Amazing content.
    Keep it up Prof
    Peter you’re still the best interviewer

  • @chrishaidinyak4621
    @chrishaidinyak4621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank God our country has men like Stephen Kotkin.

  • @meinking22
    @meinking22 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Fantastic interview! Dr. Kotkin's statements about fourth generational warfare were especially pertinent and his national pride is inspirational. Thank you for sharing

  • @mark91345
    @mark91345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Boy, is it nice to have a person-to-person interview. And what a pleasure to have Stephen Kotkin!

  • @Tadicuslegion78
    @Tadicuslegion78 2 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Just sitting here patiently waiting for Stalin Volume 3

    • @tomconservative1074
      @tomconservative1074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When does it come out?

    • @Sam-ej6pk
      @Sam-ej6pk 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      2 years to go

    • @shoofly529
      @shoofly529 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too!!

    • @user-mv6he6gl8m
      @user-mv6he6gl8m 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Two more years -ish. Hmm, uncle Joe is turning in the mausoleum.

    • @quentinnewark2745
      @quentinnewark2745 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It has a subtitle now, and publishing date!!!

  • @yvanguez2077
    @yvanguez2077 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Happy of your coming back Peter. You bring a refreshing source of wisdom in our new MAD environment .

  • @EddierThanThou
    @EddierThanThou 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I always enjoy a sit down with Kotkin. Thanks to you both.

  • @dipdipgoose5399
    @dipdipgoose5399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Stephen Kotkin - What a brilliant, brilliant man! Could listen to him everyday and twice on a Sunday.

  • @danielstavroff1535
    @danielstavroff1535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I couldn't wait to click my notification message to watch this.
    Thank you Hoover Institution!

  • @narkelnaru2710
    @narkelnaru2710 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank God for Stephen Kotkin. He's the only person I can listen to on the Hoover Institution's TH-cam channel.

  • @yessir8089
    @yessir8089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    So happy to see a new video with prof. Kotkin ! Thank you Uncommon knowledge.

  • @scienceisgod1
    @scienceisgod1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Wow! There really are a few smart and reasonable people still left in this world. Glad I found them.

  • @lukecockburn1140
    @lukecockburn1140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Amazin! To hear from Stephen kotkin been waiting & checking regularly for a while

  • @craigharryman4500
    @craigharryman4500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    An hour well spent. Bravo.

  • @eoinoconnell185
    @eoinoconnell185 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Third time watching this (in full) and always catch words of wisdom from Kotkin that I missed previously.

  • @yuxinshen7740
    @yuxinshen7740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    His answers to Qs 1 and 2 are very insightful. The rest is just American exceptionalism.

  • @philipford6183
    @philipford6183 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Just wanted to to say thank you for this. Stephen Kotkin is such an interesting speaker.

  • @tvintx9741
    @tvintx9741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Absolutely phenomenal interview!

  • @loreyao1515
    @loreyao1515 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Absolutely fascinating. I learned so much!

  • @surenderbhutani3470
    @surenderbhutani3470 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    An excellent dialogue. Prof Kotkin is an outstanding scholar on Russia. Prof Surender Bhutani Warsaw (Poland)

  • @isabellaliu8409
    @isabellaliu8409 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I love uncommon knowledge podcast!

    • @isabellaliu8409
      @isabellaliu8409 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agreed that’s why these evil countries look for political agents destroying not only the system, trying to change the constitution, being arrogant to rule of law, but also divide you from i within by provoking racism and spreading extreme far left ideology and deepening race conflicts. American as one should not vote for this kind of politicians!

  • @temijinkahn511
    @temijinkahn511 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    would be interesting to have a follow up interview to talk about the current state of Russia with the war in Ukraine.

  • @namehimhuman5500
    @namehimhuman5500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Greetings from Russia! I watch every Kotkin video I see, his insights are incredible.

  • @davidbowick7830
    @davidbowick7830 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    "Stephen, you're the best show in town." You guys are good together. Great information too!

  • @defective6811
    @defective6811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Ive loved all of the material I've seen from the Hoover Institution thus far, but this conversation inspires me to feel responsible for the future of freedom and democracy. It inspires me to put in the work to empower myself and those within my reach to actuate a difference, rather than dream of one.

  • @joethegeographer
    @joethegeographer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dr. Kotkin's 1st volume of his Stalin biography is excellent! I'm working through the 2nd volume, equally good so far; both demonstrate that Dr. Kotkin is very well read in the appropriate topics.

  • @plankro8
    @plankro8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This was great, as usual Steven is captivating and deliciously well informed, thanks guys I love youse young punks!

  • @jameslippincott7440
    @jameslippincott7440 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for uploading!

  • @randomcommenteronyoutube1055
    @randomcommenteronyoutube1055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Stephen Kotkin, you are an American legend. Thank you for everything you do.

  • @PresterMike
    @PresterMike 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love to see you back Mr Robinson! Thank you for all that you do. Great talk as always

  • @--Dani
    @--Dani 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Always enjoy Peter Robinson, great interviews, put him and Dr. Stephen Kotkin together and amazing insights come, not to mention his unparalleled books. Thanks Hoover, cant believe things like this are free, have to also give a mention to VD Hanson as well.👍

  • @DPMConnacht
    @DPMConnacht ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great discussion. I'd have loved to have had a teacher like Professor Kotkin.
    He kind of missed out on the Russian invasion of Ukraine though. As of now Russia run into a lot of trouble. Putin's partial conscription/mobilization isn't going well in Russia and his military is retreating in eastern Ukraine.

  • @akp167
    @akp167 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I have been waiting for Joe Pesci to comment on all of this for months

  • @frankgentile7750
    @frankgentile7750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was an amazing interview
    Thank you so much for interviewing Stephen Kotkin .

  • @simongraham2516
    @simongraham2516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Finally, this conversation was overdue. Been searching for Stephen Kotkin interviews and podcasts for months but nothing new.

  • @MrEnjoyBeats
    @MrEnjoyBeats 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The table interview setting is great. For some reason I just can't listen to an online interview, the voices aren't as clear, it feels distant, you name it. It's great to have Peter Robinson sitting again at the table with the guest.

  • @drewjackson9723
    @drewjackson9723 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I just now found out that this is the Peter Robinson that wrote the speech for Reagan. I’m so much more impressed with this guy now.

    • @gc2696
      @gc2696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Check out his own account of how he got to write the Berlin Wall speech.
      👏🏻👏🏻✌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

    • @fretnottrustingod5053
      @fretnottrustingod5053 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He wrote the "tear down this wall" speech.

    • @blimolhm2790
      @blimolhm2790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      this show has so many great episodes to watch

    • @angieatwork1053
      @angieatwork1053 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really?! Which speech of Reagon was written by Robinson? Would love to find out. Thanks in advance!

  • @falldog9
    @falldog9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you for making this content. Two incredible minds.

  • @alexball7407
    @alexball7407 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    absolutely superb dialogue, let us hope these people are making, or advising in, foreign policy decisions

  • @freeheeler09
    @freeheeler09 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great interview!

  • @yuanhaochue2889
    @yuanhaochue2889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I must agree that this Guest is a realistic historian with apt historical n modern geopolitical perspectives.. ... even more he us so patient n polite to narrate his logics with such confidence n stature..
    Thank u for bringing him in ...

  • @dongaetano3687
    @dongaetano3687 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Finished the interview. Brilliant from start to finish. thanks much.

  • @hogusantos8511
    @hogusantos8511 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for your analysis, sir.

  • @looklao
    @looklao 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I would like to see the debate between Mr. Stephen Kotkin and Mr. kishore Muhabani on the world’s views. Specially on the west and China.

  • @osraneslipy
    @osraneslipy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is the best analysis of what we are dealing with today that I have ever seen. Many thanks for making this discussion possible and publicly available.

  • @jonikelly3905
    @jonikelly3905 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant conversation, thank you!!

  • @TheLewisLegend
    @TheLewisLegend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have been waiting for a new Stephen looking update!

  • @janemackenzie6061
    @janemackenzie6061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Another excellent, intriguing, rational, illuminating conversation, Peter and Stephen! I could only wish the people who need to heed the relevance of what you discussed could absorb and act upon the truths revealed. There was so much to digest that demands attention at this intersection of ideologies, policies and agendas, but most of all personalities and contrasts, moods and methodologies! The challenge is in the how to go about steering the great ship, America, away from the shoals and into the deep clear channel of nonobstructive positive thinking and effective collaborative action. Perhaps the natural attrition that appears to be taking place around the corner and the fallout/benefits from replacements will offer a satisfactory degree of compromise in principles, morals and values better aligned to steer the ship(s) of State. Steer onward, Patriots!! Thank you for enlightening us with your wisdom, knowledge, and excellent reflections this day!!🌍🌎🌏🚜🚛🚚🛻🚙🚘🇨🇦🇺🇲🏆🏆🏅🏅

  • @noname123412
    @noname123412 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thank you for the fascinating interview

  • @armenalexanian
    @armenalexanian ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If I were elected President I would immediately recruit Professor Kotkin to be my most senior advisor. Failure to employ his wisdom is a matter of national security.

  • @veliatorrez6523
    @veliatorrez6523 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This was great wish I could get the written word of this interview on paper so I could read it. Never know if u tube will keep it. Very educational for me.

  • @jimgregory6185
    @jimgregory6185 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great discussion. Thank you. 😊

  • @mathieuguillet4036
    @mathieuguillet4036 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great conversation! Thank you.

  • @xDooksx
    @xDooksx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    We are blessed to have this information available to us. Thanks Hoover institute.

  • @ouimetco
    @ouimetco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Really appreciate Peter Robinson.

  • @Fahdalrabeayah
    @Fahdalrabeayah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I watched it three times
    What an amazing interview
    Thanxxxxx

  • @janiekcarney5482
    @janiekcarney5482 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These conversations are wonderful.

  • @markhamburger5587
    @markhamburger5587 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "It was foreseeable. It happened before..." Kotkin is so right!

  • @wujasmarecki
    @wujasmarecki 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Briliant. Thank you very much!

  • @Daveposting
    @Daveposting 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love kotkin am very excited for his next book

  • @jacklucas7265
    @jacklucas7265 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Brilliant!

  • @thomasmazzola4760
    @thomasmazzola4760 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant discussion. Thank you!!

  • @tomshea8229
    @tomshea8229 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you so much. Education, knowledge is power.

  • @sisterwrath1773
    @sisterwrath1773 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great interview!!! Loved Mr. Kotkin's answers!!!But what a well of knowledge!!!
    Thank you!

  • @acarbonari
    @acarbonari 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you!

  • @roubika1922
    @roubika1922 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent clarification of the current situation in the world . Highly informative
    Most appreciated with thanks

  • @DJDarkrobe
    @DJDarkrobe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great interview, thanks for doing this and having not only great thought out questions but great perspectives on today's current events.

  • @stavrosvenizelos610
    @stavrosvenizelos610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Watching this extremely interesting interview after February 24th, one has to admit that no one, not even Mr. Kotkin, could guess that Russia would eventually invade Ukraine

  • @Philosophia-sc5yi
    @Philosophia-sc5yi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Such a great historian and interviewer.

  • @valleyairsolutions3026
    @valleyairsolutions3026 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Fucking guy is brilliantly simple we need 1000 more just like him right now

  • @selocan469
    @selocan469 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Uncommon Knowledge and Peter Robinson, he is doing a great job. I watched multiple session with very fine guests. Peter Robinson is a great host, he read material about or event written by the quest, knows the guest, askes fine questions and most importantly listens. Though it was a delight to watch those until now, this one took the cake. It was exquisite to watch this interview with Stephen Kotkin. I believe it was so for Peter Robinson as well since I did not see him that silent and listening to such extent before

  • @acceptingWhatIS
    @acceptingWhatIS 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    utterly brilliant - thank you!

  • @tarek9513
    @tarek9513 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Explained simply with such accuracy.

  • @wolkenpower
    @wolkenpower 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dr. Kotkin, please work faster and finish the 3rd volume, some of us have been waiting anxiously for years. This is emotional abuse.

  • @Cartersvillain
    @Cartersvillain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Waiting to see Peter on JRE already

  • @justinhebert5155
    @justinhebert5155 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is a brilliant interview, thank you so much for producing this program. I have learned so much from it over the last several years.

  • @granttao7504
    @granttao7504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Dear Professor Kothin: but actually, It is not that China fears US but the opposite now.

  • @michaelgrossmann6902
    @michaelgrossmann6902 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Stephen!

  • @mayaparker6323
    @mayaparker6323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Both excellent !! Thank you !!
    Very interesting !!! Thank you both very much !!

  • @jingqian7205
    @jingqian7205 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Equality of opportunity! Thank you for the remarkable interview!

  • @JC-vo5dt
    @JC-vo5dt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, sirs!