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Robinson is the host of Uncommon Knowledge, a political podcast at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The show has featured guests like Thomas Sowell, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Henry Kissinger, and it delves into topics such as public policy, history, geopolitics, and economics.
Uncommon Knowledge is a current affairs show hosted by Peter Robinson and produced by the Hoover Institution, where Peter Robinson is a fellow. It currently is funded by several foundations and organizations. Uploads of the program regularly appear online on websites such as National Review Online and YouTube.
In 2021, McDowell and co-author Matthew Vetter had their book Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality published by Routledge. [2] Writing in Composition Studies, Vanessa Osborne wrote, "McDowell and Vetter's book exhibits a deep knowledge of the workings, contradictions, and flaws that underlie Wikipedia" while suggesting that "Educators may finish the book hopeful that Wikipedia will ...
In 1994, Lewis published a book about her life entitled Uncommon Knowledge in which she stated that Gable was her father; Young refused to speak with her for three years after the book was published. Loretta Young died on August 12, 2000, at age 87; her autobiography, published posthumously, confirmed that Gable was indeed Lewis's father.
Avon Books was the first publisher to see the manuscript and they bought it, signing McDowell to a two-book contract. This deal allowed McDowell to quit his secretarial job and focus on writing full time. In an interview with Douglas Winter in his book Faces of Fear, McDowell said, "I like being published in paperback. That's important to me."
McDowell was born in 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama, [3] and graduated from T.R. Miller High in Brewton, Alabama. [citation needed] He received a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard College, and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University in 1978, based on a dissertation entitled "American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825–1865".
Dec. 2—Proposed rules pushed by Gov. Kay Ivey that would place various restrictions on "inappropriate" books for children, including where public libraries shelve them, amount to censorship ...
McDowell was born in Boksburg, South Africa and completed a B.A. at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.In 1963, he moved to New College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where he earned another B.A. in 1965 and an M.A. in 1969. [10]