Akrovatis Podcasts

Podcast: Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs ​ ▼

Episodes:

• Season 5 Episode 7: Sven Beckert; Capitalism: A Global History​ (Oct 6th)
• Season 5 Episode 6: Steven Nadler ​ (Sep 15th)
• Season 5 Episode 5: Sam Dalrymple - Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia​ (Jul 7th)
• Season 5, Episode 4 - Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It​ (Jun 9th)
• Season 5 Episode 3: Rana Mitter, Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 ​ (May 5th)
• Season 5 Episode 2: James W. Douglass: Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK​ (Mar 10th)
• Season 5 Episode 1: Michael Carley, Stalin's Great Game : War and Neutrality, 1939-1941​ (Jan 6th)
• Season 4, Episode 12: Yakov M. Rabkin, Israel in Palestine: Jewish Rejection of Zionism​ (Sep 30th, 2025)
• Season 4, Episode 11: James Romm, Plato and the Tyrant​ (Jul 8th, 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 3rd, 2025)
• Season 4, Episode 9: Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI​ (May 6th, 2025)
• Season 4, Episode 8: Prof. Lauren Benton, They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence​ (Apr 8th, 2025)
• Season 4, Episode 7: Richard Overy, Why War?​ (Mar 4th, 2025)
• Season 4, Episode 6: Jon Wolfsthal; Federation of American Scientists, Doomsday Clock​ (Feb 18th, 2025)
• Season 4, Episode 5: Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History​ (Feb 4th, 2025)
• Season 4, Episode 4: Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario​ (Jan 21st, 2025)
• Season 4, Episode 3: Prof. Glenn Diesen, The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order​ (Jan 7th, 2025)
• Season 4, Episode 2: Dennis Fritz, Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq​ (Dec 3rd, 2024)
• Season 4, Episode 1: Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State​ (Nov 12th, 2024)
• Season 3, Episode 12: Christina Gerhardt, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean; With Special Guest, Simona Marinescu ​ (Oct 1st, 2024)
• Season 3, Episode 11: Dr. Alfred de Zayas, Building a Just World Order​ (Sep 3rd, 2024)
• Season 3, Episode 10: Jean Dong, Chinese Statecraft in a Changing World​ (Aug 6th, 2024)
• Season 3, Episode 9: Monika Wiesak, America's Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy​ (Jul 2nd, 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 4th, 2024)
• Season 3, Episode 7: Bryan W. Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto​ (May 7th, 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 2nd, 2024)
• Season 3, Episode 5: Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine​ (Mar 5th, 2024)
• Season 3, Episode 4: Dr. David Daokui Li, China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict ​ (Feb 6th, 2024)
• Season 3, Episode 3: Jessica Rawson, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China​ (Jan 2nd, 2024)
• Season 3, Episode 2: Lindsey A. O'Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War​ (Dec 5th, 2023)
• Season 3, Episode 1: John Mearsheimer, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy​ (Nov 7th, 2023)
• Season 2, Episode 14: Francisco Rodriguez, The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions​ (Aug 22nd, 2023)
• Season 2, Episode 13: Richard Layard & Jan-Emmanuel De Neve: Wellbeing, Science and Policy​ (Jun 13th, 2023)
• Season 2, Episode 12: Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History​ (May 23rd, 2023)
• Season 2, Episode 11: Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future​ (Mar 10th, 2023)
• Season 2, Episode 10: Chris Coyne: In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace​ (Feb 1st, 2023)
• Season 2, Episode 9: Glenn Denning, Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet​ (Jan 3rd, 2023)
• Season 2, Episode 8: Orlando Figes: The Story of Russia​ (Nov 29th, 2022)
• Season 2, Episode 7: SPECIAL EDITION: The COVID-19 Lancet Commission Report​ (Sep 15th, 2022)
• Season 2, Episode 6: Christopher Blattman, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace​ (Jun 7th, 2022)
• Season 2, Episode 5: Anil Seth, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness​ (May 3rd, 2022)
• Season 2, Episode 4: Peter H. Lindert, Making Social Spending Work ​ (Apr 5th, 2022)
• Season 2, Episode 3: Casey Michel: American Kleptocracy​ (Mar 1st, 2022)
• Season 2, Episode 2: Heather Cox Richardson: How the South Won the Civil War​ (Feb 1st, 2022)
• Season 2, Episode 1: Keisha Blain, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America​ (Jan 4th, 2022)
• Episode 10: Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump​ (Dec 7th, 2021)
• Episode 9: Eric Foner, The Second Founding​ (Nov 2nd, 2021)
• Episode 8: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not “a Nation of Immigrants”​ (Oct 5th, 2021)
• Episode 7: Rick Perlstein, Reaganland, America's Right Turn 1976-1980​ (Sep 7th, 2021)
• Episode 6: Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising​ (Aug 3rd, 2021)
• Episode 5: Robert Lustig, Metabolical​ (Jul 6th, 2021)
• Episode 4: Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy​ (Jun 1st, 2021)
• Episode 3: Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine​ (May 4th, 2021)
• Episode 2: Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law​ (Apr 6th, 2021)
• Episode 1: Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon​ (Mar 1st, 2021)