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Think: Interviews with important thinkers

July 5, 2009: This seven-part interview is classic Gore Vidal. Whether you agree with Vidal or not, as Martin Amis said: "Even his blind spots are illuminating."

Gore Vidal on the Cold War

Part one of a seven-part interview with Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal on "The Emperor"

"He smiled benignly at the oil wells"

Gore Vidal on liberty

The people who wrote the constitution hated democracy

Gore Vidal on US media and society

We're not the United States of Amnesia — We're the United States of Alzheimer's

Gore Vidal on the Democrats and religion

How different would a Democratic Party administration be?

Gore Vidal on the future

"We've got to get back the pillars of the Constitution"

Gore Vidal on the media

Have TV journalists learned anything from the last several years?