Join former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, historian David Kennedy and a diverse group of Americans to explore whether a unifying set of beliefs, an American creed, can prove more powerful than the issues that divide us.
Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron have painted a truly depressing picture of a future in which faked video and audio cannot be distinguished from the real thing. And I think they are right to be depressed about it, though I want to discuss a possible technological solution that they did not address.
It’s no secret that Americans are strongly divided these days on everything from guns to immigration to health care. The new PBS special “American Creed,” a Citizen Film and WTTW Chicago co-production, looks at the ideals that unite us through a series of stories about Americans reaching across ideological divides.
As February sweeps television comes to an end, PBS airs one final special, American Creed, featuring Condoleezza Rice and historian David M. Kennedy, colleagues at Stanford and friends despite some political differences.
Alexander Dugin is a far-right Russian theorist who might be dismissed as a crackpot if his ideas for a fascist empire weren’t required reading for Russia’s military high command.
The first wave of Iranian migration to the United States happened decades before the 1979 Revolution; many came to the U.S. as student sojourners looking to receive an American education. Many also used the opportunity to protest and distribute information about the Shah’s political policies, social conditions in Iran, and the lived realities of American imperialism. It is from this engagement that expressions of resistance among Iranians in the United States expanded to encompass a diverse array of political leanings.
When the human experience is simplistically divided into two worlds, then things increasingly do not easily fit. Specifically, what happens when the number of victims begins to outnumber the pool of oppressors? At that point can the oppressed become victims of the oppressed?
I think of most of my close friendships and how I can remember a particular conversation that started them, where one of us said something and the other responded in a way that showed that he had truly gotten it, not just intellectually but, often, emotionally. Russ Roberts mentions his wife.
