Our senior writer reflects on the transformative British band's first visit to America.

In these clips from interviews with Bill Moyers, Seeger discusses dissent, environmentalism and his hope for a better world.

In a speech delivered last year in Australia, the journalist and creator of The Wire said America is "utterly schizophrenic" when it comes to our society, economy and politics.

Thomas Picketty's book is expected to set off a firestorm in our economic discourse.

Our senior writer remembers what the folksinger's music meant to him.

Two characters from Herman Melville's novels foretold the dangerous future of American empire.

Mythologist Joseph Campbell talks about how our connection to the universe adds perspective to our lives.

Bill talks to Philip Levine, a recent US poet laureate, who explores how his years working on Detroit's assembly lines inspired his poetry.

Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms, and to Philip Levine, who explores how his years working on Detroit's assembly lines inspired his poetry.

A former American poet laureate shares his poetry on life in working class Detroit.