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The Secrets of Statecraft

The Secrets of Statecraft

By: Hoover Institution
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Summary
Secrets of Statecraft​ is a bimonthly podcast hosted by Distinguished Visiting Fellow Andrew Roberts that explores the effect that the study of history has had on the careers and decision making of public figures. The podcast also features leading historians discussing the influence that the study of history had on their biographical subjects. The title is taken from Winston Churchill’s reply on Coronation Day 1953 to a young American who had asked him for life advice, to whom he said, “Study history, study history, for therein lie all the secrets of statecraft.”© The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University Political Science Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Natalie Livingstone on the Forgotten Women of Nuremberg | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
    3 Nov 2026

    Historian Natalie Livingstone joins Andrew Roberts to uncover the overlooked stories of the women at the Nuremberg trials. From a brilliant American lawyer denied the chance to present her own case, to a French Resistance survivor whose testimony confronted Nazi atrocities, these women helped shape the pursuit of justice. Drawing on her book The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice and her own family’s Holocaust history, Livingstone explores courage, complicity, and unexpected moments of hope—and why Nuremberg’s commitment to evidence and truth still matters today.

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    40 min
  • Can America Still Govern Itself? | Lanhee Chen | Hoover Institution
    20 Oct 2026

    Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen, a veteran of four presidential campaigns and the George W. Bush administration, joins Secrets of Statecraft to discuss why good policy so often fails politically. Drawing on his time as Mitt Romney’s chief policy advisor and his run for California State Controller, Chen discusses bipartisan healthcare reform, tax simplification, and the threat to Taiwan. He also criticizes California’s Prop 50 redistricting push, the muddled war in Iran, and Trump’s hold over the 2028 Republican nomination. He closes with reflections on California’s future and what might have been had Romney won the 2012 presidential election.

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    45 min
  • What Thucydides Can Teach Us About Politics And War | Hoover Institution
    29 Sep 2026

    Everyone quotes Thucydides—but are we getting him right? Historian Andrew Novo joins Andrew Roberts to explore what the chronicler of Athens and Sparta really tells us about war, democracy, ambition, and human nature. From the disastrous invasion of Sicily to today’s rivalry between America and China, they examine how leaders wield power, how democracies lose their way, and why history’s most memorable lines can teach the wrong lessons when stripped of context.

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    1 hr
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