Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
Episodes
Season 4, Episode 12: Yakov M. Rabkin, Israel in Palestine: Jewish Rejection of Zionism
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Yakov M. Rabkin, historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Montreal, for a wide-ranging and...
Season 4, Episode 11: James Romm, Plato and the Tyrant
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor James Romm, classicist and historian at Bard College, for a captivating discussion on one of ...
Season 4, Episode 10: Ilan Pappè, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic & A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Prof. Ilan Pappè, historian at Exeter University, UK, for an in-depth conversation on one of the most ...
Season 4, Episode 9: Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and futurist Ray Kurzweil for a compelling conversation on the accelerating pace of technological change an...
Season 4, Episode 8: Prof. Lauren Benton, They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and American historian Lauren Benton for a discussion on the hidden histories of empires and the lasting im...
Season 4, Episode 7: Richard Overy, Why War?
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian, Professor Richard Overy for an insightful conversation on one of humanity’s most unsettlin...
Season 4, Episode 6: Jon Wolfsthal; Federation of American Scientists, Doomsday Clock
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and global security expert Jon Wolfsthal to unravel the stark reality behind the Doomsday Clock - now set a...
Season 4, Episode 5: Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Eugene Rogan, professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Oxford, as they delve into the co...
Season 4, Episode 4: Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and award-winning journalist Annie Jacobsen as they discuss Jacobsen’s chilling and rigorous depiction of...
Season 4, Episode 3: Prof. Glenn Diesen, The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Glenn Diesen as they discuss Professor Diesen’s new book, The Ukraine War & t...
Season 4, Episode 2: Dennis Fritz, Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and retired Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz, a former Pentagon insider, as they explor...
Season 4, Episode 1: Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Aaron Good as they discuss Good’s book, American Exception: Empire and the Deep S...
Season 3, Episode 12: Christina Gerhardt, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean; With Special Guest, Simona Marinescu
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professors Jeffrey Sachs, Christina Gerhardt and UN Senior Advisor on Small Island Developing States, Simona Marinescu as they disc...
Season 3, Episode 11: Dr. Alfred de Zayas, Building a Just World Order
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Alfred de Zayas as they discuss de Zayas’s book, Building a Just World Order which delves into th...
Season 3, Episode 10: Jean Dong, Chinese Statecraft in a Changing World
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textPlease join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and China expert, Jean Dong as they discuss Dong’s fascinating book, Chinese Statecraft in a Chang...
Season 3, Episode 9: Monika Wiesak, America's Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Monika Wiesak as they discuss one of America's most iconic leaders in, America's Last Preside...
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
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs in his conversation with authors James and Tom Risen on their important, new book The Last Honest Man, a gr...
Season 3, Episode 7: Bryan W. Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Bryan Van Norden as they discuss Prof. Van Norden’s book, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Ma...
Season 3, Episode 6: Richard E. Rubenstein, Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professors Jeffrey Sachs and an expert on religious conflict, Richard E. Rubenstein as they discuss Rubenstein’s book, Aristotle&...
Season 3, Episode 5: Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political and media analyst Norman Solomon as they discuss Solomon’s important new book, War Made Inv...
Season 3, Episode 4: Dr. David Daokui Li, China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and economist David Daokui Li as they discuss Professor Li’s brilliant new book, China's World View:...
Season 3, Episode 3: Jessica Rawson, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Jessica Rawson, one of the world’s most eminent scholars of China, as they discuss Rawson’s book, L...
Season 3, Episode 2: Lindsey A. O'Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke as they discuss O’Rourke’s remarkable book, Covert Regime Ch...
Season 3, Episode 1: John Mearsheimer, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist John Mearsheimer as they discuss Professor Mearsheimer’s latest book, How States ...
Season 2, Episode 14: Francisco Rodriguez, The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and economist Francisco Rodriguez as they discuss Professor Rodriguez’s newest publication, The Human Con...
Season 2, Episode 13: Richard Layard & Jan-Emmanuel De Neve: Wellbeing, Science and Policy
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and two of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing, Lord Richard Layard and Professo...
Season 2, Episode 12: Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Bruce Cumings, renowned historian and expert in East-Asian history, to discuss Cuming’s b...
Season 2, Episode 11: Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and bestselling science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, to discuss Robinson’s recent books The Minis...
Season 2, Episode 10: Chris Coyne: In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Chris Coyne, economist and author of In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire an...
Season 2, Episode 9: Glenn Denning, Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Glenn Denning, a world-leading specialist in agricultural and food policy to discuss Denning’...
Season 2, Episode 8: Orlando Figes: The Story of Russia
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Orlando Figes, historian and author of The Crimean War (2012) and his new book, The Story of Russia (2...
Season 2, Episode 7: SPECIAL EDITION: The COVID-19 Lancet Commission Report
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this special episode, join Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa, and Professor K. Srinath Reddy for their discussion...
Season 2, Episode 6: Christopher Blattman, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Christopher Blattman, to explore the dynamics of war and peace as they discuss Blattman’s, ...
Season 2, Episode 5: Anil Seth, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and neuroscientist Anil Seth, author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness to explore the hard probl...
Season 2, Episode 4: Peter H. Lindert, Making Social Spending Work
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Peter H. Lindert, economic historian and author of Making Social Spending Work in which Lindert examine...
Season 2, Episode 3: Casey Michel: American Kleptocracy
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Casey Michel, journalist and author of “American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Grea...
Season 2, Episode 2: Heather Cox Richardson: How the South Won the Civil War
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Heather Cox Richardson, renowned historian and author of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, De...
Season 2, Episode 1: Keisha Blain, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJohn Professor Jeffrey Sachs and award-winning historian, Dr. Keisha Blain, as they discuss her latest book, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou...
Episode 10: Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJohn Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Corey Robin, political theorist and author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to D...
Episode 9: Eric Foner, The Second Founding
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Eric Foner, as they discuss Foner's latest novel, The Second Fo...
Episode 8: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not “a Nation of Immigrants”
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJohn Professor Jeffrey Sachs and highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz,...
Episode 7: Rick Perlstein, Reaganland, America's Right Turn 1976-1980
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rick Perlstein for their discussion of Reaganland. Together they discuss the "Southerni...
Episode 6: Patricia Sullivan, Justice Rising
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this month's episode of the Book Club, Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Patricia Sullivan, a leading civil rights historian, place Ro...
Episode 5: Robert Lustig, Metabolical
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and New York Times-bestselling author Dr. Robert Lustig for their discussion of Metabolical: The Lure and t...
Episode 4: Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode, Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks with Dr. Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value an...
Episode 3: Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rashid Khalidi as they discuss Khalidi's book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: ...
Episode 2: Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textProf. Sachs speaks with historian Richard Rothstein about his groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, The Color of Law...
Episode 1: Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWelcome to the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs! In this first episode, world-renowned economist and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey S...