Episodes

  • Daniel Samet on the Realpolitik Behind US-Israeli Relations | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
    Apr 18 2025

    A new book, U.S. Defense Policy toward Israel: A Cold War History, takes on the revisionists over what happened in the Cold War.

    Recorded on April 16, 205.

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    52 mins
  • Motorcycles and Meritocracies with Governor Mitch Daniels | Secrets of Statecraft | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
    Apr 2 2025

    Mitch Daniels is the former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, the former Governor of Indiana, and the former President of Purdue University. He discusses his life, his influences, and his passion for hogs (of the Harley-Davidson variety).

    Recorded on March 21, 2025.

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    47 mins
  • General Lord Dannatt on the Korean War | Secrets of Statecraft | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
    Mar 25 2025

    The former head of the British Army, Richard Dannatt, discusses an important war that is often forgotten.

    Recorded on February 6, 2025.

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    48 mins
  • Jon Meacham on What Makes a Great President | Secrets of Statecraft | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
    Feb 4 2025

    America’s foremost presidential historian examines the motivations and careers of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George H. W. Bush.

    Recorded on January 24, 2025.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Threat to the West | Secrets of Statecraft | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
    Jan 22 2025

    The bravest of all the free speech campaigners, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, speaks out eloquently on tribalism, Islam, immigration, Trump, her conversion to Christianity, and what it’s like being married to a quite well-known historian.

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    51 mins
  • Churchill’s Vicar on Earth | Secrets of Statecraft | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
    Jan 8 2025

    Richard Langworth is the senior fellow at the Hillsdale Churchill Project at Hillsdale College, Michigan, and knows more about Winston Churchill than any person living (including me, annoyingly).

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    49 mins
  • The World View of General James Mattis | Secrets of Statecraft | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
    Dec 6 2024

    A global tour d'horizon with the former Marine Corps commander and Secretary of Defense General Jim Mattis.

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    54 mins
  • Radek Sikorski Unleashed | Secrets of Statecraft | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
    Nov 20 2024

    The Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski is characteristically blunt about his former friend Viktor Orban, the chances of nuclear war in Ukraine, and his enemy Vladimir Putin.

    Recorded on October 26, 2024.

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    42 mins