Back The Fate of the Earth: Jonathan Schell and His Legacy

LOA Live with Robert Jay Lifton, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and Martin J. Sherwin

AUGUST 6, 2020 — To mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day, renowned psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton and Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation, discuss the writer and friend who put his remarkable literary gifts in the service of disarmament, nonviolence, international cooperation, and the irresistible power of democracy. Moderated by Martin J. Sherwin, editor of the LOA collection Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth, The Abolition, The Unconquerable World.

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Presented in partnership with The Nation, Type Media Center, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Friends of the Earth, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The New Press, Arms Control Association, and Global Zero.

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