Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

By Jeffrey Sachs

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 Dec 20, 2024

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Join world-renowned economist and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs for lively conversations with the authors of scintillating, inspiring and remarkably important books about history, social justice, and the challenges of building a decent world. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org. The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, an initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Produced by Karena Joslin. Audio editing by Matt Rocker, theme song composed by Matt Rocker, performed by Dave Eggar. A kontentreal production.


Episode Date
Season 4, Episode 12: Yakov M. Rabkin, Israel in Palestine: Jewish Rejection of Zionism
Sep 30, 2025
Season 4, Episode 11: James Romm, Plato and the Tyrant
Jul 08, 2025
Season 4, Episode 10: Ilan Pappè, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic & A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Jun 03, 2025
Season 4, Episode 9: Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
May 06, 2025
Season 4, Episode 8: Prof. Lauren Benton, They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
Apr 08, 2025
Season 4, Episode 7: Richard Overy, Why War?
Mar 04, 2025
Season 4, Episode 6: Jon Wolfsthal; Federation of American Scientists, Doomsday Clock
Feb 18, 2025
Season 4, Episode 5: Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History
Feb 04, 2025
Season 4, Episode 4: Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
Jan 21, 2025
Season 4, Episode 3: Prof. Glenn Diesen, The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order
Jan 07, 2025
Season 4, Episode 2: Dennis Fritz, Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq
Dec 03, 2024
Season 4, Episode 1: Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Nov 12, 2024
Season 3, Episode 12: Christina Gerhardt, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean; With Special Guest, Simona Marinescu
Oct 01, 2024
Season 3, Episode 11: Dr. Alfred de Zayas, Building a Just World Order
Sep 03, 2024
Season 3, Episode 10: Jean Dong, Chinese Statecraft in a Changing World
Aug 06, 2024
Season 3, Episode 9: Monika Wiesak, America's Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy
Jul 02, 2024
Season 3, Episode 8: James & Tom Risen, The Last Honest Man: the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedy's - and one Senator's Fight to Save Democracy
Jun 04, 2024
Season 3, Episode 7: Bryan W. Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
May 07, 2024
Season 3, Episode 6: Richard E. Rubenstein, Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Apr 02, 2024
Season 3, Episode 5: Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
Mar 05, 2024
Season 3, Episode 4: Dr. David Daokui Li, China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict
Feb 06, 2024
Season 3, Episode 3: Jessica Rawson, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
Jan 02, 2024
Season 3, Episode 2: Lindsey A. O'Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War
Dec 05, 2023
Season 3, Episode 1: John Mearsheimer, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
Nov 07, 2023
Season 2, Episode 14: Francisco Rodriguez, The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions
Aug 22, 2023
Season 2, Episode 13: Richard Layard & Jan-Emmanuel De Neve: Wellbeing, Science and Policy
Jun 13, 2023
Season 2, Episode 12: Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History
May 23, 2023
Season 2, Episode 11: Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
Mar 10, 2023
Season 2, Episode 10: Chris Coyne: In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
Feb 01, 2023
Season 2, Episode 9: Glenn Denning, Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet
Jan 03, 2023
Season 2, Episode 8: Orlando Figes: The Story of Russia
Nov 29, 2022
Season 2, Episode 7: SPECIAL EDITION: The COVID-19 Lancet Commission Report
Sep 15, 2022
Season 2, Episode 6: Christopher Blattman, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
Jun 07, 2022
Season 2, Episode 5: Anil Seth, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
May 03, 2022
Season 2, Episode 4: Peter H. Lindert, Making Social Spending Work
Apr 05, 2022
Season 2, Episode 3: Casey Michel: American Kleptocracy
Mar 01, 2022
Season 2, Episode 2: Heather Cox Richardson: How the South Won the Civil War
Feb 01, 2022
Season 2, Episode 1: Keisha Blain, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Jan 04, 2022
Episode 10: Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
Dec 07, 2021
Episode 9: Eric Foner, The Second Founding
Nov 02, 2021
Episode 8: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not “a Nation of Immigrants”
Oct 05, 2021
Episode 7: Rick Perlstein, Reaganland, America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Sep 07, 2021
Episode 6: Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising
Aug 03, 2021
Episode 5: Robert Lustig, Metabolical
Jul 06, 2021
Episode 4: Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy
Jun 01, 2021
Episode 3: Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
May 04, 2021
Episode 2: Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
Apr 06, 2021
Episode 1: Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon
Mar 01, 2021