The Corner

The Buddhas of Bamiyan

Today’s Between the Covers podcast is with Llewelyn Morgan, author of The Buddhas of Bamiyan. We discuss why the Taliban demolished these massive pieces of art, what role al Qaeda may have played in their destruction, and whether other antiquities in Muslim lands, such as the Sphinx in Egypt, face a threat from Islamic radicals.

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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