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Is War Ever Worth It?

Is War Ever Worth It?

FromTo The Best Of Our Knowledge


Is War Ever Worth It?

FromTo The Best Of Our Knowledge

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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Sep 11, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

For all the commentary, the sorrow and rage, all the second-guessing about everything that followed, it’s still hard to fathom what happened on 9/11. Photographer James Nachtwey was in New York that day, and he took some of the iconic photos of the Twin Towers as they crumbled. "I’ve actually never gotten over it," he says. On the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, Nachtwey reflects on his life as a war photographer, and we consider the deep history of war itself. We also examine a very difficult question: Is war ever worth it?

Original Air Date: September 11, 2021

Guests: 

James Nachtwey — David Shields — Leymah Gbowee — Margaret MacMillan

Interviews In This Hour: 

Remembering 9/11 Through The Lens Of A Photojournalist — War is Beautiful? — Humans Have Gotten Nicer and Better at Making War — Is War Inevitable?
Released:
Sep 11, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (50)

To The Best Of Our Knowledge is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning public radio show that dives headlong into the deeper end of ideas. We have conversations with novelists and poets, scientists and software engineers, journalists and historians, filmmakers and philosophers, artists and activists — people with big ideas and a passion to share them. For more from the TTBOOK team, visit us at ttbook.org.