Bill Moyers Commentaries
In the 1980s, Bill Moyers was the principal analyst on the CBS Evening News. Here are a few notable essays he produced during that period.
December 14, 1981 | Bill Moyers CommentariesBill Moyers considers the Soviet Union's oppression of the Polish Workers Movement.
December 28, 1984 | Bill Moyers CommentariesBill Moyers reflects on The Nutcracker's power of enchantment, and laments society's blurring of the lines between childhood and adulthood.
January 14, 1985 | Bill Moyers CommentariesAs he waits in line to return a broken humidifier, Bill Moyers contemplates how the big bureaucracies of the private sector have fostered a nation of faulty machinery.
August 21, 1985 | Bill Moyers CommentariesBill Moyers reflects on Jerry Falwell's criticism of the Nobel Peace prize-winning Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
August 4, 1986 | Bill Moyers CommentariesBill Moyers considers William Rehnquist as Supreme Court Chief Justice, including his pro-segregation history.
August 6, 1986 | Bill Moyers CommentariesMoyers considers legalized, controlled drug use as an alternative to criminalization.
August 7, 1986 | Bill Moyers CommentariesBill Moyers holds the president, Congress and all of us to blame for the escalating national debt.
August 11, 1986 | Bill Moyers CommentariesMoyers points out the Reagan Administration's contrasting policies toward the ruling Sandinistas of Nicaragua and the government of South Africa.
October 6, 1986 | Bill Moyers CommentariesMoyers takes a look at the White House's "disinformation campaign," and how lying undermines democracy.
