Are defense workers' jobs the price for peace?

Bill Moyers talked with Mike Rose, a decades-long advocate for those on the margins of LA. After attending a poor neighborhood school where no one expected him to succeed, Rose because the associate director of the UCLA writing program.

On World of Ideas, the professor, writer and John D. Rockefeller descendent talks faith and democracy.

The director of the Los Angeles Festival talks with Bill about his controversial theater work.

The brilliant young theater directory discusses music and the future of Los Angeles and its art world.

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison on the lack of discourse about race in literary criticism and the silent history of black characters in books.

The writer talks about subjects that inspire both her life and writing with Bill Moyers in this classic 1990 conversation.

In the second part of this 1990 interview with Bill Moyers, author Maxine Hong Kingston explains how she blends tales of tradition and her own American experience in her writing.

In part one of this 1990 interview with Bill Moyers, acclaimed author Maxine Hong Kingston explains how she blends tales of tradition and her own American experience in her writing.

Patricia Churchland brings together philosophy and neuroscience to deepen our understanding what goes on inside our heads.