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.

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.

In this 1988 interview, the author discusses how the best writers are a nuisance to society, always preferring the uncomfortable truth to the comfortable lie.

The physician and philosopher on pain, ease of suffering, and what it means to end a life.

On this episode of World of Ideas, Bill Moyers talks with the physician-philosopher about the questions science can't answer, including the idea of soul.

The liberal religious leader talks about why even the faithful should cultivate doubts, how to question our virtues, and what we'd learn from an evening with Jerry Falwell.

The renowned ethicist talks about breaking and keeping the public trust.

One of America’s best-known historians talks about how modern politicians differ from those of the American Revolution.

Author Chinua Achebe talks with Bill about the challenges of forging cultural identity in postcolonial Africa.

In this episode, Bellah talks to Bill Moyers about the relationship of religion to politics and society.