NEWSLETTER - for Friday, November 9, 2007“I don't think that real civilization ever occurs because of anything that a nation state does. It occurs because of movements within the nation state that are led by sometimes one individual or a series of individuals.” - Thomas Cahill
This week on BILL MOYERS JOURNAL (KCET - TV)
Bill Moyers interviews best-selling author and historian Thomas Cahill in a far ranging interview that takes viewers from the Coliseum in Rome to death row in Texas and examines what our attitudes toward cruelty can tell us about who we are as Americans. “We are the only democracy that is still
executing. We're it. There's nobody else,” says Cahill, who is best known for his THE HINGES OF HISTORY series of books, which includes the widely read HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION. Cahill says his books ask how we became the people we are: “It's human cruelty that is evil….We're not willing to acknowledge that this is inside of us. It's there,” he says. ”I'm really interested in…what's good about us.”BILL MOYERS JOURNAL looks back at an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
A Bill Moyers essay on Pakistan.
Weigh in with your thoughts on capital punishment.
A Moyers Flashback. Video from Bill Moyers' interview with historian Henry Steele Commager about the Presidency, impeachment, and the constitution, on the the eve of Nixon's resignation.
Watch and discuss a Web-only interview with Dominique Green, who spent 12 years on death row before being executed.
Each week, video, transcripts, and further resources and investigations from BILL MOYERS JOURNAL are available online at www.pbs.org/moyers.
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