Political Activism | Conversations with History


Tariq Ali, Journalist, Novelist, Playwright, Publisher, Film-maker, Social Critic	Pakistan	Sep 26 2008
Tariq Ali, Editor New Left Review	Islam, Empire, and the Left	May 8 2003
Perry Anderson, Editor, New Left Review and Professor of History and Sociology, UCLA	Reflections on the Left from the Left	Apr 27 2001
John Barratt, Director of the South African Institute of International Affairs, and Professor of International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand	The Present Situation in South Africa	Sep 6 1985
Gert Bastian & Petra Kelly, Retired General and Member of the Bundestag	The European Peace Movement	Oct 23 1984
Kenneth Boulding, University Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Colorado	National Security Through Stable Peace	Mar 16 1987
Elise Boulding, Peace Activist and Professor Emerita of Sociology, Dartmouth College	Peace Movements, Peace Research, and the Peace Process	Apr 1 1986
Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org	A Life of Service	Apr 17 2006
Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), NYU University Professor of the Social Science	Social Science and the Public Good	May 9 2009
Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology and City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley	Identity and Change in the Network Society	May 9 2001
Noam Chomsky, Linguist and Political Activist	Activism, Anarchism, and Power	Mar 22 2002
William K. Coblentz, Attorney and Civic Leader	What Made California Great	Jan 21 2010
Norman Cousins, Former Editor of The Saturday Review	The Quest for Peace	Sep 12 1984
Sir Ralf Dahrendorf, Warden, St. Anthony's College, Oxford University	Reflections from a Life in Science and Politics	Apr 4 1989
Ronald V. Dellums, former Congressman	Legislating for the People	Feb 10 2000
Ronald V. Dellums, Former U.S. Representative, Ninth Congressional District, California:	Legislating for the People	Feb 10 2000
Oronto Douglas, Environmental Activist and Human Rights Attorney	Environmental Justice	May 4 2001
Tom Engelhardt, Editor and Writer	Taking Back the Word	Apr 23 2004
Shari Eppel, Human Rights Activist	Healing Community Trauma: Exhumation and Ritual in Zimbabwe	Apr 23 2001
S. David Freeman, Chairman of the Board, California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority	Energy, Conservation, and the Public Interest	Sep 29 2003
Akbar Ganji, Journalist and Human Rights Activis	Islam and Democracy	Aug 10 2006
Anita Gradin, Swedish Legislator and Diplomat; former European Commissioner	Securing the Rights of Women	Feb 28 2001
Roya Hakakian, Writer, Journalist, Film-Maker, and Author	Identity, Freedom, and Revolution	Mar 9 2009
George C. Halvorson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Permanente	Reforming American Health Care	Jun 10 2010
Michael Hardt, Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University	Empire	Mar 12 2004
Eva Harris, Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley	Making Science Accessible	Mar 15 2001
Ahmed Kathrada, Counselor to the President of South Africa	Alongside Nelson Mandela: Reminiscences of a Former Political Prisoner Under Apartheid	Nov 8 1996
Julius G. Kiano, Director of the Kenya Broadcast Corporation and former Kenyan cabinet minister	Kenyan Independence: The Early Years	Sep 14 1989
Neil Kinnock, Member of British Parliament and former Head of the Labour Party of Great Britain	The Work of Politics	Mar 9 1994
Harry Kreisler, Conversations Host and Executive Producer	Political Awakenings	Apr 29 2010
Robert Jay Lifton, Psychiatrist and Author	Evil, the Self, and Survival	Nov 2 1999
Norman Myers, Environmental Scientist and Activist	The Journey of an Environmental Scientist	Nov 11 1998
Giorgio Napolitano, President, Communist Group in the Italian Chamber of Deputies; Member, Political Bureau of the Italian Communist Party	The International Communist Movement	May 3 1982
Gilles Peress, Photographer Magnum Photos	Images, Reality, and the Curse of History	Apr 10 1997
Norman Podhoretz, Author and Editor	The Battle over Ideas	Apr 6 1999
Olli Rehn, Research Director, University of Finland	Finland in a Changing World	Feb 26 2003
Ruth Rosen, Historian and Columnist:	The Women's Movement in Historical Perspective	Dec 5 2001
Albie Sachs, Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa	Suffering, Survival, and Transformation	Feb 2 1998
Barry Scheck, Professor of Law, Yeshiva University, and Co-Director of the Innocence Project	DNA and the Criminal Justice System	Jul 25 2003
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley	Studying the Human Condition: Habits of a Militant Anthropologist	Dec 14 1999
John R. Searle, Mills Professor of Philosophy	Philosophy and the Habits of Critical Thinking	Sep 22 1999
Tom Segev, Author	The Life and Work of Simon Wiesenthal	Nov 12 2010
John Shattuck, Chief Executive Officer, Kennedy Library Foundation	Inching Forward: Human Rights Policy in the Clinton Administration	Jan 13 2004
Laurence R. Simon, Professor of International Development, Brandeis University	Global Poverty, Development, and Social Change	Nov 7 2008
Neil J. Smelser, University Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California Berkeley	Reflections on the University of California: From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University.	Mar 18 2010
Wole Soyinka, 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature	Writing and Political Activism	Apr 16 1998
E.P. Thompson, Historian and Leader of the European Nuclear Disarmament movement	Nuclear Weapons, the Arms Race, and the Peace Movement	Aug 1 1983
Joseph Tussman, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley	Education and Citizenship	Jan 13 2000
Jane Wales, CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California	Foreign Policy and Citizen Participation	Feb 17 2004
J. Clifford Wallace , Judge, Ninth Circuit Court	Judges and the Rule of Law	Mar 11 2009
Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law Harvard University	Law, Politics, and the Coming Collapse of the Middle Class	Mar 8 2007
Wei Jingsheng, Human Rights Activist:	The Political Education of a Chinese Dissident	Nov 18 1998
Howard Zinn, Historian and Activist	Radical History	Apr 20 2001