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EDITORS' PICKS

  • Pure Pete Seeger
    In these clips from interviews with Bill Moyers, Seeger discusses dissent, environmentalism and his hope for a better world.
  • Maya Angelou on Facing Evil
    In this second of two programs celebrating the life and work of the late writer, Bill Moyers revisits a 1988 conference on evil.
  • Keeping Faith in Democracy
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson talks to Bill about what the title character of her new book Lila, says about the state of democracy in America.
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Li-Young Lee
    March 19, 2020
    "The Gift"
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Stanley Kunitz
    March 18, 2020
    "Touch Me"
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Lucille Clifton
    March 17, 2020
    "won't you celebrate with me"
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Naomi Shihab Nye
    March 16, 2020
    'My Grandmother in the Stars'
  • Editor's Desk
    Bill Moyers Responds: What Would Joseph Campbell Think?
    February 11, 2020
    | Bill Moyers

    A Facebook member responded to our recent post Bill Moyers and Steve Harper on Lawyers, Liars and Trump on Trial with a question: Bill Moyers responds: I don’t know what in particular Joseph Campbell would say about our situation today. But I can imagine him lamenting, as he did when we talked some 30 years ago, our failure “to admit within ourselves the carnivorous, lecherous fever that is endemic to human nature.” Malevolent greed was on the ...

  • Economy & Work
    Tony-Nominated 'Junk' Playwright Ayad Akhtar on How Wall Street Won
    December 18, 2017
    | Bill Moyers
    In his new play, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar recalls the greed of the '80s and how we became a republic of consumers.
  • Arts & Culture
    Annie Proulx's National Book Awards Speech Is Worth Reading
    November 20, 2017
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    The 82-year-old author accepted the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters with a noteworthy speech.
  • Environment
    Moyers and McKibben: Time Is Running Out for the Planet
    November 7, 2017
    | Bill Moyers
    Bill Moyers talks with Bill McKibben about his new novel Radio Free Vermont and the nonfiction ways to fight the system.
  • Democracy & Government
    Frederick Wiseman on 'Ex Libris — New York Public Library'
    October 12, 2017
    | Titi Yu
    In this fantastic documentary, the celebrated filmmaker takes us inside a critically important institution for our democracy.
  • History
    Orwell and Churchill on Resisting Authoritarianism
    September 27, 2017
    | Steven Rosenfeld
    Thomas Ricks' book is the latest offering history's lessons for our dangerous time.


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