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The posthumously published Ho dato voce ai poveri: dialogo con i giovani (" I Gave a Voice to the Poor: Conversations with the Youth "; Trent, Il Margine, 2007 ; subsequently published in Poland as Dałem głos ubogim.

Rozmowy z młodzieżą ; Cracow, Znak, 2008 ) is a record of Kapuściński's interactions with the students of the University of Bolzano in Italy in October 2006 ; while Rwący nurt historii.

Zapiski o XX i XXI wieku (" In the Whirlpools of History: Jottings on the 20th and the 21st Centuries "; Cracow, Znak, 2007 ) is a compilation of interviews and lectures, reflecting Kapuściński's training as a historian and dealing with contemporary issues and their historical and cross-cultural parallels ( including such issues as globalisation, Islam, the birth of the Third World, and the dawn of the Pacific civilisation ). Kapuściński's pronouncements on current affairs were noteworthy: he thought that the causes of the 9 / 11 tragedy, for example, were too complex to lend themselves to an exhaustively thorough analysis at present, although he offered an extensive and sophisticated exposition of some of the key elements of the puzzle in " Zderzenie cywilizacji " ( The Clash of Civilisations ); he told a BBC interviewer right after the attacks: " I greatly fear that we will waste this moment.

That instead of meaningful dialogue, it will just be gates and metal detectors ".

In an interview granted in 2002 to the well-known Mexican writer and ( the then ) editor-in-chief of the monthly Letras Libres, Ricardo Cayuela Gally ( b. 1969 ), Kapuściński opined that the war on terror, owing to the asymmetrical character of the combatants engaged in it, could only be wonand indeed easily, within a monththrough a ( re ) introduction of " Stalinism ", a method undesirable for the sole reason that it would leave the world under the permanent " hegemony " of the United States, a circumstance that would spell the end of " the free society ".

In the end, he pinned all his hopes for a better future on the intellectual traditions of Europe rather than those of America, for " in the strength of her thought, only Europe is capable of self-criticism ... only Europe has produced a Reformation, a Renaissance, an Enlightenment ".

Some ( limited ) light has been thrown on Kapuściński's lifelong visceral anti-Americanism by Monroe Edwin Price ( b. 1938 ), professor in the University of Pennsylvania, in his book Television, the Public Sphere, and National Identity published in 1995, but in general nowhere in his writings does Kapuściński respond to or engage in any remotely sophisticated way with the classic exposition of the reasons for anti-Americanism formulated in various publications by the French philosopher, Jean-François Revel ( for whom Kapuściński would seem to have served as a case study ).

Kapuściński seems to have anticipated the Arab Spring in positing a concept of " global society " ( społeczeństwo planetarne ), in effect a body of " 6 billion people whom nobody can insinuate anything, on whom nobody can impose anything ".