Journalists

Lewis H. Lapham: An Editor's Odyssey

Leon Wieseltier
2006

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harper's Editor Emeritus Lewis Lapham for a discussion of his career and the history of Harper's Magazine. Lapham compares print to electronic media, analyzes the corruption of language by politics,and reflects on the incompatibility of democracy and empire. He concludes with a devastating critique of the Bush administration and its impeachable offenses.

KEYWORDS: Journals

Lawrence Wright: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright
2006

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright for a discussion of his new book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Included in the conversation are profiles of Mohammed Qutb, Osama Bin Ladin, and Dr. Ayman al-Zawarhiri. key figures in the radical jihadist movement that became Al Qaeda. Wright also reflects on the career of FBI agent John O'Neill who led the FBI search for terrorists within the United States and was killed` in the destruction of the Twin Towers.

KEYWORDS: Pulitzer Prize, Al Qaeda.

Khaled Ahmed: Pakistan and Islamic Fundamentalism

Khaled Ahmed
2002

On this edition of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler is joined by guest Khaled Ahmed, one of the best known political analysts writing in the Pakistani press, to discuss Pakistan and Islamic Fundamentalism.

KEYWORDS: Pakistan, South Asia.

William Pfaff: The End of the Cold War

William Pfaff
1990

UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler welcomes author and columnist William Pfaff for a discussion of U.S. foreign policy, U.S.- European relations and the end of the Cold War. Pfaff reflects on his intellectual odyssey and comments on the role of the press in shaping U.S.opinion toward world politics.

KEYWORDS: American Century.

Victor S. Navasky: Journals of Opinion and the Work of Democracy

Victor S. Navasky
2005

Conversations Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Victor Navasky, Publisher and former Editor of The Nation, for a discussion of the role of opinion journals in democracies. Navasky reflects on his life as a journalist, editor, and publisher.

KEYWORDS: Kennedy, Journals, Democracy, Censorship.

Timothy Garton Ash: Intellectual Odyssey

Timothy Gordon Ash
1996

On this episode of Conversations with History, host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian and journalist Timothy Garton Ash who reflects on writing, the fall of communism, and the future shape of Europe.

KEYWORDS: Germany, Communism, Elberg Lecturers.

Thomas Goltz: Chechnya

Thomas Goltz
2003

Thomas Goltz, writer of Chechnya Diary, discusses his experience as a war correspondent in Chechnya.

Josef Joffe: Power and Culture in International Affairs

Josef Joffe
2000

UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler talks with Die Zeit editor Josef Joffe about his formative experiences and the role of culture in international affairs.

KEYWORDS: Germany.

Josef Joffe: Power and Culture in International Affairs Part 2

Josef Joffe
2000

UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler continues his conversation with Die Zeit editor, Josef Joffe. In this episode, they discuss the U.S. role in the world.

KEYWORDS: Germany.

Steve Coll: The Rise of Al Qaeda

Steve Coll
2005

Conversations Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Steve Coll, Pulitzer prize winning author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden for a discussion of how the superpower conflict in the last stages of the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy before and after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the political dynamics of South Asia created the setting in which Islamic terrorism took root and flourished.

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