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Inequality
  • Economy & Work
    Louis Kelso and the Capitalist Manifesto
    July 29, 1990 | A World of Ideas
    Bill Moyers talks with Louis Kelso about capitalism.
  • Economy & Work
    Joanne Ciulla: Ethics in Business
    May 13, 1990 | A World of Ideas
    The business ethics expert talks about the meaning of work, morality in the stock market and the quest for work-life balance.
  • Inequality
    Mike Rose: A Conversation on Poverty and Education in Los Angeles
    April 23, 1990 | Updated March 24, 2015 | A World of Ideas
    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.
  • Society
    The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America
    July 30, 1989 | A Second Look
    An unflinching account of the disintegration of family in the African-American community.
  • Economy & Work
    People Like Us
    June 18, 1989 | A Second Look
    Bill Moyers speaks with three families about how they slipped through the safety net due to the Reagan Administration's budget cutbacks.
  • Society
    Arturo Madrid: Challenging Hispanic Stereotypes
    November 9, 1988 | Updated April 1, 2015 | A World of Ideas
    The teacher and expert on policy affecting Latino communities discusses the controversy surrounding bilingual education.
  • Inequality
    William Julius Wilson: Solving Black Inner-City Poverty
    October 26, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    The author and sociologist discusses how most inner-city blacks stay poor not because they are black, but because they live in the wasteland of the inner city.
  • Society
    Catherine Bateson: Gender and the Mixed Workplace
    October 18, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    The anthropologist discusses gender roles in modern society and what happens when men and women socialized for different spheres have to adapt to sharing a workplace.
  • Society
    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot: Problems and Promise of School Today
    October 12, 1988 | Updated March 30, 2015 | A World of Ideas
    The writer and professor discusses philosophies of education, what makes some schools good and some teachers memorable, and her mother's extraordinary journey to a career as a child psychoanalyst.
  • Democracy & Government
    Sheldon Wolin: The State of Democracy
    October 10, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    The political philosopher talks about the the power of central government, privatization of government services, Reaganism, and the meaning of collective identity.


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