- July 29, 1990 | A World of IdeasBill Moyers talks with Louis Kelso about capitalism.
- May 13, 1990 | A World of IdeasThe business ethics expert talks about the meaning of work, morality in the stock market and the quest for work-life balance.
- April 23, 1990 | Updated March 24, 2015 | A World of IdeasBill 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.
- July 30, 1989 | A Second LookAn unflinching account of the disintegration of family in the African-American community.
- June 18, 1989 | A Second LookBill Moyers speaks with three families about how they slipped through the safety net due to the Reagan Administration's budget cutbacks.
- November 9, 1988 | Updated April 1, 2015 | A World of IdeasThe teacher and expert on policy affecting Latino communities discusses the controversy surrounding bilingual education.
- October 26, 1988 | A World of IdeasThe 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.
- October 18, 1988 | A World of IdeasThe 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.
- October 12, 1988 | Updated March 30, 2015 | A World of IdeasThe 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.
- October 10, 1988 | A World of IdeasThe political philosopher talks about the the power of central government, privatization of government services, Reaganism, and the meaning of collective identity.