How did Pakistan’s free elections in 1970 lead to a genocidal military crackdown against East Pakistan in 1971? And how did that result in the creation of an independent Bangladesh? And why was the United States involved? Professor Gary J. Bass explains the terrible events, which he chronicled in his book The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide.
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Catherine Nixey, author of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. More
“This episode, my first behind the microphone, won’t be a conversation, but it will be a duet. I’ll be sharing the microphone some with Lewis Lapham.” More
Lewis H. Lapham talks to Erica Benner, author of Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick. More
