Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy
‘Worldview’ gets analysis on U.S. policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan from Andrew Bacevich, professor emeritus of international relations and history at Boston University.
‘Worldview’ gets analysis on U.S. policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan from Andrew Bacevich, professor emeritus of international relations and history at Boston University.
Join host Jerome McDonnell from the WBEZ terrace for ‘Worldview’s’ Super-Sized Eclipse Special.
Adler Planetarium astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz shares her experience watching the total eclipse in Carbondale, Illinois.
All cultures, including our own, have intimate connections with the sun, the moon, the stars, and other celestial phenomena observed in the night sky. These connections appear in mythologies and religions, as well as in human settlement and subsistence. They are as old as culture itself and change through time just as cultures adapt to new circumstances through time. Cultural astronomer Lee Minnerly, a former archives assistant at Adler Planetarium’s Webster Institute for the History of Astronomy and lecturer at the Newberry Library, joins us to discuss several cultural meanings of the eclipse.
Former WBEZ host and self-professed geek Aaron Freeman traveled to Carbondale to see this year’s solar eclipse from the path of totality.
Worldview’s Jerome McDonnell talks to two listeners about their international experiences viewing solar eclipses.
Celine Woznica of Oak Park joins Worldview to tell the story of her first eclipse.
Recently declassified U.S. State Department documents reveal a complicit nexus of oil interests, the U.K and U.S. governments in the August 19, 1953 coup d’etat that unseated Iran’s Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and his democratically-elected government. The CIA officially acknowledged its role in August of 2013. We’ll discuss the events of 1953 and its aftermath with three experts: Ervand Abrahamian, John Limbert, and Mateo Farzaneh. Ervand Abrahamian is a distinguished professor of history at Baruch College and author of the book The Coup. His other works include Tortured Confessions, Khomeinism, and Iran Between Two Revolutions. John Limbert, distinguished professor of International Affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy, is author of the book Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History. Ambassador Limbert holds the State Department’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Award, as well as the Award for Valor as he was held hostage for 444 days in the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Most recently, he served as U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Iran during the Obama administration. Mateo Farzaneh is an associate professor of history and inaugural principal of The Mossadegh Initiative at Northeastern Illinois University-Chicago. His book, The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani, won the National History Honor Society’s Best First Book Award in 2016.This segment was produced by Steve Bynum.
We take a cinematic look back to Chicago’s racist past with filmmaker Tom Palazzolo.
We speak with human rights lawyer Sherizaan Minwall about how the war has affected justice systems in Iraq