Five More Questions With Stephen Kotkin: Can America Still Lead The World?

单集文稿 ...

• 00:00

  Historian, author, and one of the most requested guests on this program, Stephen Kotkin, on Uncommon Knowledge Now.

• 00:19

  Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.

• 00:20

  I'm Peter Robinson.

• 00:21

  The historian and author Stephen Kotkin is now completing

• 00:24

  the third and final volume of his definitive biography of Joseph Stalin.

• 00:30

  A professor emeritus at Princeton, Dr. Kotkin is now a fellow here at the Hoover Institution.

• 00:36

  We've done a number of programs entitled "Five Questions with Stephen Kotkin,"

• 00:41

  and they have proven among our most popular programs.

• 00:44

  Today, five more questions with Stephen Kotkin.

• 00:50

  Stephen, number one, Iran.

• 00:52

  I'll just give you two quotations and see what you do with them.

• 00:55

  By the way, as we sit here, I should note that as we record this show...

• 00:59

  President Trump, the Trump administration, is negotiating with Iran.

• 01:03

  The outcome of the negotiation as we sit here is completely unclear.

• 01:06

  Two quotations.

• 01:08

  Here's the editorial board of the New York Times writing recently:

• 01:11

  "While President Trump seems eager for negotiated truce, Iran's leaders do not. Somehow,

• 01:18

  the weaker nation is in the stronger negotiating position." Here's the second quotation.

• 01:25

  This is Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this very month of May: "As President Trump has said,

• 01:31

  and as the facts clearly bear out, the United States holds all the cards." Close quote.

• 全部文稿