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.

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"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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Dennis Fritz, Deadly Betrayal: The truth about why the United States invaded Iraq


Season Four

Season 4: Episode 1

Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State

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Season 4: Episode 4

Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History

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Season 4: Episode 2

Dennis Fritz, Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why The United States Invaded Iraq

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Season 4: Episode 5

Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A scenario

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Season 4: Episode 3

Glenn Diesen, The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order

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Season Three

Season 3: Episode 1

John J. Mearsheimer & Sebastian Rosato, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy

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Season 3: Episode 4

David Daokui Li, China’s World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict

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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

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Season 3: Episode 5

Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Tool of its Military Machine

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Season 3: Episode 8

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 11

Alfred de Zayas, Building a Just World Order

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Season 3: Episode 3

Jessica Rawson, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

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Season 3: Episode 6

Richard E Rubenstein, Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages

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Season 3: Episode 9

Monika Wiesak, America’s Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy

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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

Keisha N. Blain, Until I Am Free

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Season 2: Episode 4

Peter H. Lindert, Making Social Spending Work

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Season 2: Episode 7

Special Episode: The Lancet Commission Report on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic

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Season 2: Episode 10

Christopher Coyne, In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire & the Paths to Peace

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Season 2: Episode 13

Lord Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Wellbeing: Science and Policy

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Season 2: Episode 2

Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War

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Season 2: Episode 5

Season 2: Episode 8

Orlando Figes, The Story of Russia

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Season 2: Episode 11

Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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Season 2: Episode 14

Francisco Rodriguez, The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions

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Season 2: Episode 3

Casey Michel, American Kleptocracy

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Season 2: Episode 6

Chris Blattman, Why We Fight

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Season 2: Episode 9

Glenn Denning, Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet

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Season 2: Episode 12

Bruce Cumings, The Korean War

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Season One

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Season 1: Episode 1

Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon

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Season 1: Episode 4

Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy

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Season 1: Episode 7

Season 1: Episode 10

Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind

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Season 1: Episode 2

Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law

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Season 1: Episode 5

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Season 1: Episode 8

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not “a Nation of Immigrants”

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Season 1: Episode 3

Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

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Season 1: Episode 6

Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising

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Season 1: Episode 9

Eric Foner, The Second Founding

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