Bill Moyers

Time Is Running Out for the Planet

I’ve spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate New York. They’re quite alike in many ways. And quite wonderful. It’s important that even in an urbanized and suburbanized country, we continue to take rural America seriously. And the thing that makes Vermont in particular so special, and I hope this book captures some of it, is the basic underlying civility of its political life. That’s rooted in the town meeting.

November 10, 2017

Society

Battlefield Earth

The environment is in trouble and the religious right doesn’t care. It’s time to act as if the future depends on us – because it does.

December 7, 2004

Society

The Rapture Index and the US election

These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the l9th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative millions of people believe to be literally true.

November 2, 2004

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