#3 - Dr. Michael Bess: Morality, World War II, Foucault, and Bioenhancement

<p><a href="https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/michael-bess">Dr. Michael Bess</a> is an author and Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Reed College in 1979 and earned a doctorate in history from UC Berkeley in 1989. At Vanderbilt University, Dr. Bess has written and taught extensively on 20th- and 21st-century Europe, environmentalism, and human bioenhancement.</p> <p>In this interview, Dr. Bess and I explore his thoughts on WWII, human evil, morality, ethics, his interview with Michel Foucault, bioenhancement, and much more. It was a treat for me to engage a historian with such a keen eye for the past, present, and future.</p> <p>Dr. Bess' personal website, which includes details of his books, his Foucault interview, and more: <a href="https://michaelbess.net/">https://michaelbess.net/</a></p> <p>Amazon link to his first published book (1993): <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Realism-Utopia-Mushroom-Cloud-1945-1989-Louise/dp/0226044211/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3W1MXBD1VG11V&amp;keywords=Realism%2C+Utopia%2C+and+the+Mushroom+Cloud&amp;qid=1641845764&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=realism%2C+utopia%2C+and+the+mushroom+cloud%2Cstripbooks%2C177&amp;sr=1-1">Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and their Strategies for Peace, 1945-1989</a></p> <p>Amazon link to his second published book (2003): <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226044181/qid=1084470859/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2962679-2198411?v=glance&amp;s=books">The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000</a></p> <p>Amazon link to this third published book (2006): <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Choices-Under-Fire-Moral-Dimensions/dp/0307275809/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3KK1YJL4SPWU3&amp;keywords=choices+under+fire&amp;qid=1641845665&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=choices+under+fire%2Cstripbooks%2C74&amp;sr=1-1">Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II</a></p> <p>Amazon link to his fourth published book (2015): <a hre