Bill Moyers columns

When Bill Moyers suggested to The Hero's Journey author Joseph Campbell that people are not on a journey to save the world but to save themselves, Campbell famously responded, “But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.” Census is an odd, poignant, vitalizing novel ...

Truth: Defined in Webster's Dictionary as “the real facts about something: the things that are true: the quality or state of being true: a statement or idea that is true or accepted as true.” The concept of truth is an important one, and I would wager (even though I'm not a betting woman) that we all consider it as ...

The program featured several clips from a recent documentary, Rikers: An American Jail, by Bill Moyers in which detainees describe the dangers, the humiliation and fears of being incarcerated there. Bill Moyers. Photo by Dana Maxon, courtesy Fordham Law. Moyers called Rikers “a microcosm of what's ...

My friend Bill Moyers famously recounts an observation that his former boss, President Lyndon Johnson, made about cynical Southern segregationist politicians. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket," Johnson said. "Hell ...

And then Bill Moyers likes to tell the story of one day at lunch with President Johnson. Bill was saying grace when Johnson bellowed, "Speak up, Bill, I can't hear a darn thing." And Bill looked up and said, "I wasn't addressing you, Mr. President." [Laughter] The fact is, if those of us in government and the ...

My husband — bless his heart — is my biggest fan. Lately he decided to put together a collection of political columns I have written over the years. He thinks that one such column — headlined “Democracy being sold to highest bidder” — written Feb 19, 2006, is still relevant. So do I — so he urged me to run ...

"The Power Of Myth," by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers. If you want to communicate effectively, you need to know how to tell a good story. People are naturally drawn to good story. The Power Of Myth is Moyers interviewing Campbell and taking a deep dive into why certain mythical structures have stood ...

Keyishian, who was dismissed from UB, and Mr. Hochfield, who remained on the faculty, were interviewed about the case in 1987 by Bill Moyers for his PBS series, “In Search of the Constitution.” ... He went on to edit an anthology, “Selected Writings of American Transcendentalists,” published in 1966.

Robin Lindley is a Seattle-based writer and attorney. He is features editor for the History News Network (hnn.us), and his work also has appeared in Writer's Chronicle, Crosscut, Documentary, NW Lawyer, Real Change, Huffington Post, Bill Moyers.com, Salon.com, and more. He has a special interest in the ...

Rarely do guests at funerals “buy” officiants' claims that we “gather together to celebrate the life of (blank).” You fill in the blank. We've all “been there, heard that.” Most are prone to think of funerals as marking ends rather than beginnings. Usually, grief engulfs us, dragging us far below the state of joy we'd ...

(Viking, $30.) The inner workings of the White House, with its war room intensity, never ceases to capture readers' attention. Zeitz delves here into Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, capturing both the atmosphere and the advisers (Bill Moyers and Jack Valenti, among others) who made Johnson's vision a ...

In an interview, American journalist and political commentator, Bill Moyers, interviewed Stephen Harper about his “Trump-Russia timeline.” This is a “450-page entry of Trump's relationship with Russia.” Harper should now be able to expand this study if he considers Trump's recent lies and exaggerations.

2 Comments. • on Dec 16, 2017 4:12 pm. I feel I have lost a good friend with the end of Bill Moyers' articles- wishing him the best! THOMAS E BENNETT • on Dec 16, 2017 5:46 pm. We'll miss you, a warrior of democrasy, justice, and investigative journalism. It was a pleasure meeting you.

Moyers spent most of his broadcast career on public television, whose audience is considerably smaller than that of the major networks. But his influence—through his documentaries, interviews, books, magazine articles, and speeches, with their ripple effects of his calls to conscience—has been great ...

If we look at the phases of stage six of successful social movements by Bill Moyers (see slide 8), we see that as a movement nears victory, the power holders appear to get in line with the public's solution while actually attacking it. If the movement recognizes what is happening, that this is a false solution and ...