Feeding Moloch: The Sacrifice of Children on the Altar of Capitalism

Russell Banks, one of the United States’s most celebrated writers of contemporary fiction, delivers the 2014 Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality at HDS. Banks argues that immortality, if it exists, lies with people’s descendants—their children, and their children’s children, and on. In the modern era, he states, it has become increasingly difficult to protect children from dangerous forces in the world. Today, children have become the largest single segment of the consumer economy. Learn more about Harvard Divinity School: