Zinn & Others

Choosing the News: Who Sets the Agenda
Howard Zinn, Bill Schaap, Joanne Ball, Alexander Cockburn, Karl Mayer, William Styron, Terry Shaw, Wilbert Tatum
The Social, Economic and Political Costs of Anti-Communism
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn, David Montgomery, Carl Bernstein & Jack O’Dell speak at the Institute for Media Analysis conference. Recorded at Harvard.
In Conversation
Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn
This extraordinary event, recorded in Santa Fe right after Roy’s “Globalization & Terrorism” lecture, brings together for the first time, America’s great radical historian with one of India’s and the world’s most brilliant writers and social critics. Zinn interviews Roy on a variety of topics ranging from her battle with the Supreme Court of India […]
Talking It Up
Howard Zinn, Dave Zirin
Recorded during the 100th anniversary celebration of The Progressive. Zinn wrote a column for the magazine and Zirin is a current columnist. “There’s no sports writer like Dave Zirin,” Zinn declares. And he’s right. A rollicking funny and simultaneously insightful session where Zirin asks the questions and Zinn provides the answers. Zinn calls Obama “a […]
An Evening with Zinn & Terkel
Howard Zinn, Studs Terkel
A fun, informative and inspirational program with two of America’s greatest raconteurs and keepers of the past. These enduring and endearing figures talk about breaking segregation in the South, individual and social change, hierarchy of values, media, propaganda, history and memory, etc. The introduction is by Alice Walker, noted poet and novelist, and former student […]
Debate on Just War
Howard Zinn, Jeff Jacoby
2 CDs Howard Zinn is joined by Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, Tracey Stark of Emerson College, and Denis Atwater of Suffolk University in a lively discussion of just war. Stark reviews the basic theories of just war and says the invasion of Iraq does not meet the general criteria. Atwater denounces Zinn as someone who “lives in a […]
Debate on the CIA
Howard Zinn, Richard Haass
Recorded at the JFK Presidential Library.
Voices of a People’s History
Howard Zinn
2 CDs Traditional history is dominated by generals, presidents, and other so-called important people. When we read in standard texts about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, we learn King Philip wept. Oral historian Studs Terkel asks, “Were there no other tears?” Historians have difficulty matching the eloquence of those who experienced events firsthand such […]
Stop the Death Penalty!
Howard Zinn
The U.S. ranks number one in capital punishment. More and more states are imposing the death penalty. Politicians line up calling for more and more executions. Yet, evidence shows that the death penalty is racist, targets the poor, kills innocent people and fails to deter crime. Recorded at Harvard.
Reform or Revolution
Howard Zinn, William Buckley
3 CDs This amazing “must have” set features radical historian Howard Zinn and William F. Buckley, one of the icons of the Right, in a debate on Vietnam, the morality of war, economic inequality, crime and punishment, and a vast range of other issues. It is a rare opportunity to hear two such eloquent and […]
Iraq Under Siege
Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove
Iraq is under siege. A decade-long sanctions regime has caused massive suffering and hundreds of thousands of deaths. While Saddam Hussein and his cohorts live in luxury, the once-burgeoning middle class is wiped out. In addition, U.S & U.K. planes routinely bomb the country. An international movement is calling for the lifting of sanctions.
Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
Anthony Arnove, Amy Goodman, Howard Zinn
Four decades ago the Vietnam War led to millions of deaths throughout Indochina. 58,000 Americans were killed. The war generated enormous opposition in the U.S. Today the U.S. is in another war of aggression in Iraq. Mirroring the Vietnam happy talk of lights at ends of tunnels, General Peter Pace, the head of the Joint […]

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