Culture

The ways in which a society behaves — how we acquire knowledge and beliefs and disseminate them through tradition, ritual, education and study — has always been a focus of Bill Moyers and his team. Their thoughtful approach to exploring American culture has been illustrated in a number of series and specials through the years, and continues to be on Moyers & Company.

EXPLORE Culture

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December 28, 2012 | Moyers & Company

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz straddles two cultures while telling the story of America’s past and future. Continue reading

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December 20, 2012

As the Senate debates a new assault weapons ban, it might be wise to watch Bill’s essay, urging us to remember the victims, to reject doubling down on guns, and to work toward moral solutions. Continue reading

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December 18, 2012 | Book Club

See how the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao answered your great questions. Continue reading

Shop owner Tamara Doherty, paces outside her store just down the road from Sandy Hook Elementary School, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. The massacre of 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised more basic questions about why the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, would have been driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
December 16, 2012 | News & Notes

There have been an estimated 31 school shootings in the United States since Columbine in 1999. We will hear all these and other statistics in the days ahead and in a week or so they will fade until the next time. Unless this time we stand up and say no. Continue reading

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December 7, 2012 | Group Think

Corporate media giants not only own the networks and local stations; but they also the pipeline — the cable and the Internet signals that deliver most of America’s content. MORE

Students from the Progress Village Christian Academy get their first chance to play on a new playground built by volunteers in in Tampa, Fla. (Brian Blanco / AP Images for Rebuilding Together)
November 28, 2012 | Q&A
What can we learn about Congress on the playground? Can our representatives work together — or do they need a giant time out?
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November 26, 2012 | Money & Politics

In this Moyers Moment from 2007, political theorist Benjamin Barber describes the holiday tradition of getting consumers to buy things they don’t want or need. Continue reading

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November 19, 2012 | News & Notes
The Round House is Erdrich's fourteenth novel, and it was selected for the award from a high-profile group of finalists, including Junot Díaz and Dave Eggers. Erdrich's novel takes a look at injustice on Native American reservations.
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November 16, 2012

Bill asks Naomi Klein why she calls herself a radical and what it was in her background that made her into one. Continue reading

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October 20, 2012 | Smart Charts
Covering the candidates' positions on the issues that matter is one thing, but what about the issues that don't.
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