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  • Arts & Culture
    What Would Joseph Campbell Say About Donald Trump?
    August 19, 2016
    | Joan Konner
    The executive producer of The Power of Myth reflects on Campbell's teachings and how they apply to the hero's journey that Trump claims he's on as he tries to win the White House.
  • Moyers & Campbell: 'The Message of the Myth’
    August 9, 2012 | Moyers & Company
    Listen in as Bill Moyers and mythologist Joseph Campbell discuss how religions and mythologies need to change with time.
  • War & Peace
    Desperate Measures: An Interview With Palestinian Militant Marwan Zaloum
    March 22, 2002 | NOW
    One month before his assassination, NOW talked with Marwan Zaloum, who personally selected and trained suicide bombers to carry out attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.
  • The Mythology of 'Star Wars' with George Lucas
    June 18, 1999
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    The filmmaker discusses his efforts to tell old myths in new ways, the role of faith in his own life, and the influence of his mentor, Joseph Campbell.
  • Poets & Writers
    Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen
    April 15, 1991 | Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen
    noted philosopher Sam Keen shares with Bill Moyers the importance of "personal storytelling" — a way of looking back at life to make sense of where you are today.
  • Society
    Martha Nussbaum: Applying the Lessons of Ancient Greece
    November 16, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    A professor of philosophy and classics at Brown, Nussbaum discusses what it takes to lead a moral life (sometimes mostly luck), and what we can learn from the ancient Greeks on virtue and tragedy.
  • Society
    Northrop Frye: Understanding the Differences Between Canada and the United States
    October 28, 1988 | Updated March 31, 2015 | A World of Ideas
    The literary critic on our common and uncommon mythologies, cultural differences, and Canada’s struggle to establish a separate identity beyond being America’s neighbor.
  • Ep. 5: The Power of Myth - 'Love and the Goddess'
    June 25, 1988 | Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
    Joseph Campbell traces the beginning of love, as we think of it today, to twelfth-century troubadours.
  • Ep. 4: The Power of Myth - 'Sacrifice and Bliss'
    June 24, 1988 | Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
    Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss where heroism can be witnessed in modern society.
  • Ep. 3: The Power of Myth -- 'The First Storytellers'
    June 23, 1988 | Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
    Joseph Campbell explains how ancient myths bring humans to understand and accept birth, growth and death.


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