Worldview

08/06/2025

Listen to these testimonials on this solemn anniversary

62 years ago today, Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk was the 24 year-old navigator aboard the Enola Gay for the Hiroshima mission. Captain Paul Tibbets told him that the bomb they were about to drop would probably shorten or end the war. Although he believes that dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasak...

10/04/2019

"The world faces serious problems, but the thing that gives me hope is you," Jerome tells Worldview's listeners on WBEZ. "It's going to take some doing, but together we'll get to that better world our hearts know is possible."

As Worldview wraps up its last noontime broadcast, Jerome thanks the show's listeners for being part of an informed local/global community.

10/04/2019

As Worldview ends its last noontime broadcast on WBEZ, producers Julian Hayda and Steve Bynum, alongside longtime culture contributor Nari Safavi, reflect on their time making the show happen every day.

On the show's last noontime broadcast, Worldview's producers discuss what putting the show together every day was like, and what it meant to them.

10/03/2019

In an interview Dalit leader B.R. Ambedkar conducted with BBC Radio in 1955, he spelled out his differences with Gandhi on the issue of caste. Hear more in our full interview with historian Vijay Prashad on the legacy of Gandhi here: https://www.wbez.org/shows/worldview/reexamining-gandhis-legacy-on-nonviolence-partition-and-caste-150-years-after-his-birth/3e060316-cc7d-4f65-a26f-552e4aee5ca8

10/02/2019

Author Naomi Klein joined today's show to unpack the connections between economic and climate justice and talk about her new book "On Fire: The (Burning Case for the ." If you missed it, listen in here and catch her at Naomi Klein at the Music Box tonight at 7pm at a talk presented by Volumes Bookcafe.

Author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, 'On Fire: The (Burning) Case For A Green New Deal.'

10/02/2019

NOW: Author and activist Naomi Klein joins the show to discuss her new book, "On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal". She'll also be at the Naomi Klein at the Music Box event tonight.

In this extract from her latest book On Fire, the No Logo author looks at why capitalism and politics have got in the way of addressing the climate crisis

10/02/2019

Tomorrow marks the 150th anniversary of Mahatma 's birth. We discuss what the world can learn from his legacy today with historian Vijay Prashad.

Tomorrow marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Historian Vijay Prashad unpacks his legacy and what the world can learn from it today.

10/01/2019

NOW: Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of Mahatma 's birth. Historian Vijay Prashad joins us to discuss Gandhi's legacy in a rapidly changing , as well as what the rest of the world can learn from his philosophy of nonviolent resistance.

No one who studies Gandhi should defend his views on race and caste, but that doesn't make him less of an important figure.