Journalist, pundit, and scholar, Michael Barone is the senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, a frequent commentator on Fox News, and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Barone is also the principal author and editor of a book that has been published every two years for the past four decades: the indispensable Almanac of American Politics. In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Barone discusses forty years of American politics. (43:10) Video transcript

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• start video from beginning Michael Barone, the principal author and editor of The Almanac of American Politics (est. 1971), discusses, with Hoover fellow Peter Robinson, the genesis and evolution of that indispensable volume.
• start segment 2 at 9:50 Michael Barone explains why economic conservatism has triumphed in the United States since the 1970s.
• start segment 3 at 16:15 Michael Barone discusses cultural shifts that have occurred in the United States since the 1960s.
• start segment 4 at 26:56 Michael Barone discusses how political attitudes toward war have dramatically changed in recent decades.
• start segment 5 at 35:15 Michael Barone discusses whether the United States has arrived at another major political inflection point.