Bill Moyers In Conversation

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New for 2016! This audio-only podcast from BillMoyers.com offers compelling and vital conversation about life and the state of American democracy, featuring some of the best thinkers of our time. A range of scholars, artists, activists, scientists, philosophers and newsmakers bring context, insight and meaning to important topics, like the 2016 Election. Subscribe to the podcast for an audio version of this Web-only series.

Episódios

  • The Pope, Poverty and Poetry

    27/12/2013 Duração: 52min

    Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms, and to Philip Levine, who explores how his years working on Detroit's assembly lines inspired his poetry.

  • Incarceration Nation

    20/12/2013 Duração: 52min

    Bill Moyers speaks with activist Michelle Alexander about the key to unlocking our dehumanizing system of incarceration, and shares a clip from a film about an ex-convict who helps women get back on their feet after prison.

  • Gunfighter Nation

    13/12/2013 Duração: 52min

    As the anniversary of the Newtown tragedy approaches, Bill speaks with cultural historian Richard Slotkin about violence in America. Plus, a Moyers essay on our gun culture.

  • Encore: America’s Gilded Capital

    06/12/2013 Duração: 51min

    Bill talks with New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich about This Town, his book on how money rules Washington, DC.

  • Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism

    22/11/2013 Duração: 52min

    This week on Moyers & Company, scholar Henry Giroux connects the dots between our politics and "casino capitalism," Bill previews a new documentary and a tribute to writer Doris Lessing.

  • The Path of Positive Resistance

    15/11/2013 Duração: 52min

    Two Green Shadow Cabinet members talk about their fight against dysfunctional government policies. Plus, a preview of Following the Ninth, a new film about Beethoven's masterpiece and viewer mail.

  • How Dollarocracy is Destroying America

    08/11/2013 Duração: 52min

    Bill examines two major threats to democracy: the money and media election complex destroying our politics and the extraordinary surveillance invading our privacy.

  • The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know About

    01/11/2013 Duração: 52min

    Secrets… The innocent lives lost in drone wars and the trade deal Washington and big business are trying to hide.

  • Saving Democracy is Up to Citizen Activists

    25/10/2013 Duração: 52min

    Historian Peter Dreier talks about outraged citizens fighting corruption and financial columnist Gretchen Morgenson on why JPMorgan may be getting off easily.

  • America’s Political Breakdown

    18/10/2013 Duração: 52min

    Economics commentator Martin Wolf views the debt ceiling as the legislative equivalent of a nuclear bomb the US has aimed at itself. Bill also speaks with media scholar Sherry Turkle about the impact of computers on culture and society.

  • Citizens United — The Sequel

    11/10/2013 Duração: 52min

    What's the potential fallout from McCutcheon v. FEC, the campaign finance case currently before the Supreme Court.

  • Wendell Berry, Poet & Prophet

    04/10/2013 Duração: 52min

    In a rare television interview, environmental legend and writer Wendell Berry leaves his Kentucky farm for an inspiring conversation.

  • Saving the Earth from Ourselves

    27/09/2013 Duração: 51min

    Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo discusses the politics of climate change and the urgency of environmental activism. Plus, a Bill Moyers essay on a recent speech by the pope decrying the global economy for what it's doing to the jobless.

  • ‘Inequality for All’

    20/09/2013 Duração: 52min

    Bill Moyers talks with Robert Reich about the film Inequality for All. Opening in theaters across the country next week, it aims to be a game-changer in our national discussion of income inequality.

  • The Collision of Sports and Politics

    13/09/2013 Duração: 52min

    Dave Zirin, The Nation magazine’s first ever sports writer, joins Bill to discuss the collision of sports with politics and why it’s newsworthy. Also: An essay from Bill on a potential military strike in Syria.

  • What Are We Doing in Syria?

    06/09/2013 Duração: 52min

    Guest host Phil Donahue examines the deadly civil war in Syria and the consequences of another American intervention in the Middle East. Our guests include NPR Middle East correspondent Deborah Amos and historian and analyst Andrew Bacevich.

  • America’s Gilded Capital

    23/08/2013 Duração: 52min

    Bill talks with author and New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich about his latest book, This Town, in which he writes that money rules D.C., and status is determined by who you know and what they can do for you.

  • How People Power Generates Change

    15/08/2013 Duração: 52min

    Activists Marshall Ganz, Rachel LaForest and Madeline Janis share how organized people can successfully fight organized money.

  • Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines

    01/08/2013 Duração: 52min

    Bill reports on striking extremes of wealth and poverty in California’s Silicon Valley, and writer Sherman Alexie discusses the influence of his Native American heritage.

  • Fighting for Farmworkers

    19/07/2013 Duração: 52min

    Baldemar Velásquez discusses the struggle to ensure fairness for American farmworkers, and Tom Diaz describes how self-defense and concealed-carry laws makes us more vulnerable to gun violence.

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