Season 5 Episode 7: Sven Beckert; Capitalism: A Global History
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Professor Sven Beckert for a compelling discussion of his book Capitalism: A Glo...
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20 of 55 episodesSeason 5 Episode 6: Steven Nadler
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and philosopher Professor Steven Nadler for a thought-provoking discussion of Baruch Spinoza a...
Season 5 Episode 5: Sam Dalrymple - Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Sam Dalrymple for a fascinating discussion of his book Shattered Lands: Five Par...
Season 5, Episode 4 - Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and tax policy expert Professor Dorothy A. Brown for a thought-provoking discussion of her boo...
Season 5 Episode 3: Rana Mitter, Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Professor Rana Mitter, for a compelling discussion of his book Forgotten Ally: C...
Season 5 Episode 2: James W. Douglass: Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs for a compelling conversation on Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcol...
Season 5 Episode 1: Michael Carley, Stalin's Great Game : War and Neutrality, 1939-1941
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Michael J. Carley , retired Professeur at the Université de Montréal, for a disc...
Season 4, Episode 12: Yakov M. Rabkin, Israel in Palestine: Jewish Rejection of Zionism
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Yakov M. Rabkin , historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Montreal, for a wi...
Season 4, Episode 11: James Romm, Plato and the Tyrant
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor James Romm , classicist and historian at Bard College, for a captivating discuss...
Season 4, Episode 10: Ilan Pappè, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic & A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Prof. Ilan Pappè , historian at Exeter University, UK, for an in-depth conversation on one...
Season 4, Episode 9: Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and futurist Ray Kurzweil for a compelling conversation on the accelerating pace of technologi...
Season 4, Episode 8: Prof. Lauren Benton, They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and American historian Lauren Benton for a discussion on the hidden histories of empires and t...
Season 4, Episode 7: Richard Overy, Why War?
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian, Professor Richard Overy for an insightful conversation on one of humanity’s mos...
Season 4, Episode 6: Jon Wolfsthal; Federation of American Scientists, Doomsday Clock
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and global security expert Jon Wolfsthal to unravel the stark reality behind the Doomsday Cloc...
Season 4, Episode 5: Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Eugene Rogan , professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Oxford, as they del...
Season 4, Episode 4: Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and award-winning journalist Annie Jacobsen as they discuss Jacobsen’s chilling and rigorous d...
Season 4, Episode 3: Prof. Glenn Diesen, The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Glenn Diesen as they discuss Professor Diesen’s new book, The Ukraine...
Season 4, Episode 2: Dennis Fritz, Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and retired Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz, a former Pentagon insider, a...
Season 4, Episode 1: Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Aaron Good as they discuss Good’s book, American Exception: Empire and...
Season 3, Episode 12: Christina Gerhardt, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean; With Special Guest, Simona Marinescu
Send us Fan Mail Join Professors Jeffrey Sachs, Christina Gerhardt and UN Senior Advisor on Small Island Developing States, Simona Marinescu...