Bill Moyers Journal (2007-2010); Historian Thomas Cahill; Conversation with Archbishop Tutu; Pakistan in Peril

November 9, 2007

Bill Moyers talks with best-selling author and historian Thomas Cahill in a far ranging interview that takes viewers from the Colloseum in Rome to death row in Texas. Moyers and Cahill discuss what our attitude toward cruelty can tell us about who we are as Americans. "We are the only democracy that is still executing. We're it. There's nobody else," says Cahill, who is best known for THE HINGES OF HISTORY series of books, which includes the widely read HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION. Cahill says his books ask how we became the people we are: "It's human cruelty that is evil...We're not willing to acknowledge that this is inside of us. It's there," he says. "I'm really interested in what's good about us." The JOURNAL looks back at an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. And a Bill Moyers essay on Pakistan. BILL MOYERS JOURNAL -- Award-winning public affairs journalist Bill Moyers hosts this weekly series filled with fresh and original voices. Each hour-long broadcast features analysis of current issues and interviews with prominent figures from the worlds of arts and entertainment, religion, science, politics and the media.