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Activism
  • Environmentalist Lester Brown
    September 30, 1990 | A World of Ideas
    One of the founders of the modern environmental movement sits down with Bill Moyers to discuss a wide range of topics including nuclear power, soil erosion, deforestation and world health.
  • Gus Tyler on Labor
    September 2, 1990 | A World of Ideas
    The leader of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union reflects on his long life in the American labor movement and the role of labor in the new global economy with Bill Moyers
  • 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.
  • Author and Scholar Cornel West on His Work
    April 1, 1990
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    West talks about his varied career.
  • Society
    One River, One Country
    September 3, 1989 | A Second Look
    Bill Moyers examines the issues of immigration, economics and the special relationship that has developed between the U.S. and Mexico.
  • Isaac Asimov on His Faith in the Power of Human Reason (Part One)
    October 17, 1988
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    In this classic interview, Isaac Asimov explains that he is not an enemy of religion, how scientists are among the most moral people he knows and the urgent need to check population growth.
  • John Searle
    September 28, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    Philosopher John Searle takes a detailed and passionate look back on the student activism of the 1960s.
  • Society
    Anne Wortham: Race Relations and "Authenticity of the Self" (Part Two)
    September 22, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    Harvard professor, author, sociologist and civil rights commentator Anne Wortham on “social determinism” and her fears about Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision.
  • Society
    Anne Wortham: Race Relations and "Authenticity of the Self" (Part One)
    September 21, 1988 | Updated March 25, 2015 | A World of Ideas
    Harvard professor, author, sociologist and civil rights commentator Anne Wortham on “social determinism” and her fears about Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision.
  • Arts & Culture
    Filmmaker David Puttnam (Part Two)
    September 16, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    Part two of Bill's conversation with the British filmmaker about popular movies, their power to change society, and moviemakers and their values.


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