Book Club
with Jeffrey Sachs
the Podcast
A global forum on the most relevant topics for humanity
Join Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs for monthly interviews with renowned authors about their groundbreaking work in history, social justice, sustainable development, and more.
"They're stories about justice; they’re stories about rationality and irrationality; they’re stories about cruelty and heroism; they’re stories that tell us about our past so that we have a better way forward, a way forward for the future we want.”
- Professor Jeffrey Sachs
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Upcoming Podcast Conversations
Bryan W. Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
Season Three
Season 3: Episode 1
John J. Mearsheimer & Sebastian Rosato, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
Season 3: Episode 4
David Daokui Li, China’s World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict
Season 3: Episode 7
Bryan Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
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Season 3, Episode 10
Jean Dong, Chinese Statecraft in a Changing World: Demystifying Enduring Traditions and Dynamic Constraints
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Season 3: Episode 2
Lindsey A. O’Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War
Season 3: Episode 5
Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Tool of its Military Machine
Season 3: Episode 8
Monika Wiesak, America’s Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy
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Season 3, Episode 11
Alfred de Zayas, Building a Just World Order
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Season 3: Episode 3
Season 3: Episode 6
Richard E Rubenstein, Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Season 3: Episode 9
James and Tom Risen, The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys- And One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy
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Season 3, Episode 12
Christina Gerhardt, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
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Season Two
Season 2: Episode 1
Season 2: Episode 4
Season 2: Episode 7
Special Episode: The Lancet Commission Report on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic
Season 2: Episode 10
Christopher Coyne, In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire & the Paths to Peace
Season 2: Episode 13
Lord Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Wellbeing: Science and Policy
Season 2: Episode 2
Season 2: Episode 5
Season 2: Episode 8
Season 2: Episode 11
Season 2: Episode 14
Francisco Rodriguez, The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions
Season 2: Episode 3
Season 2: Episode 6
Season 2: Episode 9
Glenn Denning, Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet
Season 2: Episode 12
Season One
Season 1: Episode 1
Season 1: Episode 4
Season 1: Episode 7
Season 1: Episode 10
Season 1: Episode 2
Season 1: Episode 5
Season 1: Episode 8
Season 1: Episode 3
Season 1: Episode 6
Season 1: Episode 9
Our Selections
Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Robert Lustig, Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White
Rick Perlstein, Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not "a Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
Keisha N. Blain, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Casey Michel, American Kleptocracy
Peter H. Lindert, Making Social Spending Work
Anil Seth, Being You
Chris Blattman, Why We Fight
…and more!