Lecture: "After the Wars of Terror: The US 'Light Footprint' in the Post-9/11 World," Smolny Institute, St Petersburg, Russia. Introduced by Artemy Magun, Professor of Democratic Theory. 

Mark Danner discusses Joshua Oppenheimer's 'The Act of Killing' documentary at the Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley. 

Cal Performances Kronos Quartet Symposium on the Centennial Anniversary of WWI at UC Berkeley. Historian and Journalist Mark Danner offered thoughts on the historical impact of the Great War and the human costs of warfare in the following century. 

"The journalist Mark Danner, who covered the war and is now covering the aftermath, says the inconvenient truth here is that the public doesn’t want to reconsider it either, because we’re all implicated in the shame". 

"We’ll discuss  media coverage of Senator Dianne Feinstein accusing the CIA of spying on a Senate panel. How are the media linking the latest revelations to the NSA’s mass surveillance program? We’ll also discuss the renewed protests in Turkey. We’ll be joined by McClatchy’s Mark Seibel, investigative journalist and author Mark Danner and the Times of London’s Turkey correspondent Alex Christie-Miller". 

Mark Danner reviews the Donald Rumsfeld decade in Iraq on This is Hell! with Chuck Mertz, WNUR Chicago. 

Mark Danner discusses "Rumsfeld's War and Its Consequences Now," his provocative recent article in The New York Review of Books, with Ian Masters for "Background Briefing," KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles. 

Mark Danner discusses American and Iraqi involvement in the Syrian civil war on Chuck Mertz's This is Hell. WNUR Chicago, November 3, 2013. Click here to listen to the full episode.

Mark Danner interviewed on Truthdig Radio, KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles, about the Syrian regime, American diplomacy, and his recent article, "Syria: Is There a Solution?", published in the November 7, 2013 issue of The New York Review of Books.

Mark Danner joined HuffPost Live's Cocktail Chatter at 3pm EST on September 11, 2013, to discuss the 12th anniversary of 9/11. 

Mark Danner speaks with Ian Masters for "Background Briefing," KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, about the United Nations' "responsibility to protect" doctrine and how it could be applied to the civil war in Syria. Click here for the full program. 

Mark Danner speaks with Errol Morris after the screening of his film, The Unknown Known, at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. The film explores the years that Donald Rumsfeld influenced American policy, from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War.

Mark Danner in conversation with Don DeLillo and Errol Morris at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. DeLillo reads an excerpt from his novel, Underworld, and screens the iconic 26-second Zapruder film. Danner, DeLillo, and Morris discuss the film as well as Errol Morris' The Umbrella Man, a short video that explores the story behind the man standing under an open umbrella at the scene of the assassination.

Mark Danner leads a tribute to Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. Rasoulof's films present a bold critique, often at his own risk, of Iran's systematic oppression of individuals. Listen to Danner's introduction to Rasoulof's work and watch a video of the Q&A following the screening. Translation by Mishana Hosseinioun.

Mark Danner leads a tribute to Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. Rasoulof's films present a bold critique, often at his own risk, of Iran's systematic oppression of individuals. Listen to Danner's introduction to Rasoulof's work and watch a video of the Q&A following the screening. Translation by Mishana Hosseinioun.

Mark Danner leads a tribute to Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. Rasoulof's films present a bold critique, often at his own risk, of Iran's systematic oppression of individuals. Listen to Danner's introduction to Rasoulof's work and watch a video of the Q&A following the screening. Translation by Mishana Hosseinioun.

Mark Danner discusses the Cambodian genocide with filmmaker Rithy Panh at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. The Missing Picture chronicles Panh's own experience losing his family to the Khmer Rouge. Listen to Danner's introduction to the film or watch a video of the discussion following the screening.

Mark Danner speaks with author Don DeLillo at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival about the 26-second Zapruder film -- the iconic video recording of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. November 2013 marks its 50th anniversary. 

Mark Danner speaks with Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland about her film, Burning Bush, commisioned as a three-part series by HBO Europe. The film explores the gray areas of the "Prague Spring," a democratic uprising in the Czech Republic in the late 1960s.

Mark Danner spoke with Errol Morris about his latest film, The Unknown Known, which profiles former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the man behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The edited interview was published in Telluride's The Watch. Listen to the unedited conversation here. 

Mark Danner interviewed by reporter Samantha Fields on PRI's America Abroad about a possible U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war. 

Mark Danner speaks with host Dave Iverson on Forum, KQED 88.5 San Francisco, about the definition of terrorism twelve years after 9/11.

The 3rd annual Milosz Festival was held in Krakow, Poland from May 16-19, 2013. Mark Danner speaks with poets Juan Gelman, Michael Krüger, and Adam Zagajewski about the nature of evil in literature and life.

The 3rd annual Milosz Festival was held in Krakow, Poland from May 16-19, 2013. Mark Danner speaks with Renata Gorczynska, Richard Lourie and Anthony Milosz about the poet's career and legacy.

Mark Danner interviewed on Truthdig Radio, KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles, about a new report by the bipartisan Task Force on Detainee Treatment. The report found U.S. personnel responsible for post-9/11 interrogation techniques that constitute torture. 

Mark Danner speaks with Ian Masters for "Background Briefing," KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles, about a new report by the Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment. The report found it "indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture."

As the New York Review of Books turns 50, its founding editor speaks with Review contributor Mark Danner about the poetry of Twitter, hiding the Pentagon Papers, and how his journal of ideas emerged from the flood of "little magazines" as possibly the unlikeliest success story in publishing.

On February 5, 2013, The New York Review of Books celebrated its 50th anniversary. Mark Danner read from his past work for the Review at the celebration at Town Hall in New York City.

Mark Danner speaking about the use of narrative and metaphor in politics with University of Auckland professor Michael Hanne. The interview will appear as a chapter in Hanne's forthcoming book on this topic, published by The Psychology Press.

Mark Danner and New York Times film critic A.O. Scott interviewed by Brian Lehrer about the film "Zero Dark Thirty," its controversial torture scenes, and its relationship to the recent past.