David Aikman

1 archived appearance · 1994

International AffairsChinaReligionAmerican Politics

David Aikman is a journalist, foreign correspondent, and author who spent twenty-three years with TIME. He reported from the Middle East, Asia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe; served as TIME's Beijing bureau chief from 1983 to 1985; and later became a senior Washington correspondent. His reporting included the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the geopolitical and religious changes that followed the Cold War. Aikman joined Art Bell in 1994 to discuss Waco, domestic political conflict, and his novel When the Almond Tree Blossoms, which imagines a second American civil war.

On the air with Art · 1

May 20, 1994 · 2h 46m
Waco & the Coming Civil War
David Aikman joins Art Bell to discuss Waco and a fictional account of conditions that could drive the United States toward another civil war.Against a backdrop of anger at federal agencies and political distrust, Aikman describes how regional resistance, state action, and escalating confrontations might produce a c...