![]() ![]() ![]() Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky on the new $45 billion aid package enacted at the end of last year. Unless the United States intervenes on behalf of democracy and peace in Europe, Europe is a mess and will drag us in sooner or later anyway. We saw it in the First World War and we saw it in the Second World War. I'm gonna take a moment or two to set this up and then just step back. A lesson of history, as this layman understands it, and then a few quotations. It's great to be back and it's great to be here full-time. Last year, Stephen Kotkin left Princeton to become a full-time fellow here at the Hoover Institution, which among its many other benefits for your friends and admirers is that it should make scheduling these interviews much easier. Professor Kotkin is now completing his third and final volume, "Stalin: Totalitarian Superpower". Professor Kotkin is the author of nine works of history, including the first two volumes of his biography of Joseph Stalin, "Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928" and "Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941". Stephen Kotkin grew up in New York City, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, and then taught history for more than three decades at Princeton. Peter Robinson: The study of history may be fascinating, it may even be ennobling, but does it do any good? Can history tell us how we need to conduct ourselves today? Five more questions for historian Stephen Kotkin "Uncommon Knowledge" now. ![]() To view the full transcript of this episode, read below: ![]()
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