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Twilight of the American Newspaper [2009-11-19 13:00:00] Are newspapers destined to become a relic of history? This hour we'll talk with Richard Rodriguez, whose article "Final Edition: Twilight of the American Newspaper" appears in this month's edition of Harper's Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Education&the State of America's Students [2009-11-19 12:00:00] Have past attempts at education reform made a difference in learning? And how can things be improved for the immediate future? We'll discuss the state of America's students with Margaret Spellings, former U.S. Secretary of Education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Outsourcing of American Power [2009-11-18 13:00:00] Have private corporations taken over the U.S. government? We'll talk this hour with Allison Stanger, author of "One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy" (Yale University Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Decades of Wall Street Greed [2009-11-18 12:00:00] Why did the banking system almost collapse last year? And who was responsible? We'll spend this hour with Charles Gasparino, author of the new book "The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System" (Harper Business, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Search for America's Christmas Present [2009-11-17 13:00:00] Is Frisco, Texas, the capitol of over-the-top Christmas excess? We'll talk this hour with Washington Post pop culture writer Hank Stuever, author of the new book, "Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Assassination of JFK [2009-11-17 12:00:00] Can you remember the assassination of President Kennedy? Or does your knowledge of that tragic moment come from a history textbook rather than news reports or firsthand accounts? We'll spend this hour with Tom Jennings, executive producer of the new documentary "The Lost JFK Tapes," and Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, where the film will have its premiere tomorrow night before airing nationally on the National Geographic Channel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Life and Legacy of Archimedes [2009-11-16 13:00:00] How much do you know about the man who leaped from his bathtub exclaiming "Eureka!" on discovering a scientific principle that, today, allows a balloon to fly? We'll talk this hour with biographer Alan Hirshfeld, whose new book is "Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes" (Walker & Company, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website India's Harvest of Water [2009-11-16 12:00:00] Is an ambitious new water system in India a viable alternative to monsoon season for the nation's farmers? We'll talk with Sara Corbett, whose article "A Harvest of Water" appears in this month's issue of National Geographic Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Law Enforcement View of Terrorism [2009-11-12 13:00:00] What challenges do security experts face when an individual terrorist can pose as much threat as a powerful rogue nation? This hour we'll discuss the law enforcement view of terrorism with Oliver "Buck" Revell, President of Revell Group International and former Associate Deputy Director of the FBI. He's in town to speak at the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fall of the Soviet Empire [2009-11-12 12:00:00] How did the collapse of the USSR's European empire happen so quickly and peacefully in the waning months of the 80s? We'll talk to Victor Sebestyen, author of "Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire" (Pantheon, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Influence of Abigail Adams [2009-11-11 13:00:00] As wife of the nation's second president and mother of the sixth, Abigail Adams influenced the founding days of the United States, but who was she really? We'll talk this hour with Woody Holton, author of "Abigail Adams" (Free Press, 2009), a new biography on America's second First Lady. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Battles That Saved South Korea From Extinction [2009-11-11 12:00:00] Why is the Korean War often overlooked in the canon of American military history? We'll spend this hour with Bill Sloan, author of the new book "The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea - and the Marines - From Extinction" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shoah as Turning Point [2009-11-10 12:00:00] How does the Holocaust continue to affect us today? We'll spend this hour with Elliott Dlin, executive director of the Dallas Holocaust Museum, and Rick Halperin, director of SMU's Human Rights Education Program. They are part of a series of events on "Holocaust Legacies: Shoah as Turning Point" this fall at SMU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thoughts on Teacherhood [2009-11-09 13:00:00] What can we learn from children not yet old enough to graduate elementary school? We'll talk this hour with award-winning teacher Phillip Done, whose new book is "Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind" (Center Street, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Inside Story of Barack Obama's Historic Victory [2009-11-09 12:00:00] How did a grassroots political movement forever change the way that presidential campaigns are run? We'll talk with David Plouffe, political strategist and author of the new book, "The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory" (Viking, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Excavating London's 16th-Century Playhouses [2009-11-05 13:00:00] Were the lives lived offstage in the time of Shakespeare as intriguing as the legendary characters in his plays? This hour we'll discover life inside London's famous 16th-century playhouses with Julian Bowsher, Senior Archaeologist at the Museum of London. He's in town for the Boshell Family Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of Art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty [2009-11-05 12:00:00] Why do hunger and famine persist and do we possess the knowledge and resources to feed the planet's poor? We'll talk to Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Roger Thurow, co-author of "Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy [2009-11-04 13:00:00] Do you know how to savor a perfect peach or decode the wine list at an upscale restaurant? Have you eaten street food in a strange new city and lived to tell the tale? We'll talk this hour with Pim Techamuanvivit, author of "The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy" (Chronicle, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women's Health Care Today [2009-11-04 12:00:00] What is the current state of women's healthcare in America? We'll spend this hour with Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States. She is in town to deliver the Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture at SMU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Days of Wasp Splendor [2009-11-03 13:00:00] What was it like to be born into a family of declining prominence and fading glamour? We'll talk this hour with New Yorker writer Tad Friend, whose new memoir is "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor" (Little, Brown & Company, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's the Right Thing to Do? [2009-11-03 12:00:00] How should we as individuals handle today's most controversial issues? We'll spend this hour with Harvard Professor of Government and political philosopher Michael J. Sandel, author of the new book "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Tom Schieffer [2009-11-02 13:00:00] What makes a candidate want to be the next governor of Texas? We'll talk this hour with the former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Tom Schieffer, about state politics and his gubernatorial candidacy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Untold Story of Jewish Spies in Nazi Germany [2009-11-02 12:00:00] If you had barely escaped the Nazis during World War II, could anything make you go back? We'll talk with Patrick K. O'Donnell, military historian and author of the new book, "They Dared Return: The Untold Story of Jewish Spies behind the Lines in Nazi Germany" (De Capo, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Language & Usage, Part Two [2009-10-29 13:00:00] Have you ever been guilty of abusing the English language? Find out in this two-hour special with language and grammar expert Bryan Garner, author of "A Dictionary of Modern American Usage" (3rd Edition. Oxford, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Language & Usage, Part One [2009-10-29 12:00:00] Have you ever been guilty of abusing the English language? Find out in this two-hour special with language and grammar expert Bryan Garner, author of "A Dictionary of Modern American Usage" (3rd Edition. Oxford, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secrets About the World's Musical Masters [2009-10-28 13:00:00] Who knew that Bach composed music in prison, or that Wagner had a thing for women's underwear? We'll talk this hour with Elizabeth Lunday, author of the new book "Secret Lives of Great Composers: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters" (Quirk Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teenage Dating Today [2009-10-28 12:00:00] How is teenage dating different today than when you were in high school? We'll spend this hour with Sujata Dand, producer of the new documentary "Boyfriends," premiering tonight on KERA, channel 13. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Diary of the Great Depression [2009-10-27 13:00:00] What can we learn from a journal written in the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash? We'll talk this hour with James Ledbetter, co-editor of the new book "The Great Depression: A Diary" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Americans Really Want [2009-10-27 12:00:00] How do your personal hopes, dreams and fears compare with those of the majority of Americans? We'll spend this hour with polling expert and political pundit Frank Luntz, whose new book is "What Americans Really Want...Really" (Hyperion, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of Think [2009-10-26 13:00:00] In a Best of Think program, we'll talk with Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, CNN Host and author of "The Post-American World" (Norton & Co, 2008). Then in the second half of the hour we'll talk with Lee Woodruff, life and family contributor for ABC's Good Morning America and author of book "Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress" (Random House, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feminism & Islam [2009-10-26 12:00:00] How will Islamic law adapt to the feminist movement in Muslim nations? We'll talk with Professor Qudsia Mirza about the public's misconceptions over Islam and women's rights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Hero's Search for What Really Matters [2009-10-22 13:00:00] What do we learn about ourselves in moments of crisis? We'll talk this hour with Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger who heroically landed a disabled passenger jet on the Hudson River last January. His new book is "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters" (William Morrow, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Genocide and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity [2009-10-22 12:00:00] Why does genocide happen and what will it take to stop it? We'll explore these questions and more this hour with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of "Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Amazing Journey of American Women [2009-10-21 13:00:00] How have the roles of women changed in the last fifty years? We'll talk this hour with New York Times columnist Gail Collins. Her new history of the feminist movement is "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" (Little, Brown & Company 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine [2009-10-21 12:00:00] How did regular old food become American food? We'll spend this hour with culinary historian and author Andrew F. Smith, whose new book is "Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine" (Columbia, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Becoming a Show Business Legend [2009-10-20 13:00:00] How does a performer go from Wall Lake, Iowa to a multi-platinum recording career and a two-decade headlining gig at Las Vegas' Caesar's Palace? We'll find out this hour with the legendary Andy Williams whose new memoir "Moon River and Me" (Viking, 2009) is just out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas Politics [2009-10-20 12:00:00] What's going on with the Texas Governor's race? We'll check-in this hour with Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Positive Thinking Has Undermined America [2009-10-19 13:00:00] Is ubiquitous optimism bad for America? We'll talk this hour with writer Barbara Ehrenreich whose new book is "Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America" (Metropolitan Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Guilty Liberal Attempts to Save the Planet [2009-10-19 12:00:00] How far would you go to help save the environment? We'll talk this hour with Colin Beavan whose new book is "No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process" (FSG, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Journey to the Heart of White America [2009-10-15 13:00:00] What exactly are exurbs and why are some white Americans moving to them in droves? We'll spend the hour with Rich Benjamin, senior fellow at the non-partisan think tank Demos and author of the new book "Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America" (Hyperion, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon [2009-10-15 12:00:00] How did the U.S.-Soviet nuclear competition affect the outcome of history? We'll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize winner Neil Sheehan, who profiles the Air Force officer who led the U.S. missile effort in his new book "A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon" (Random House, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon [2009-10-15 12:00:00] How did the U.S.-Soviet nuclear competition affect the outcome of history? We'll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize winner Neil Sheehan, who profiles the Air Force officer who led the U.S. missile effort in his new book "A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon" (Random House, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning About America from Starbucks [2009-10-13 13:00:00] What does your cup of coffee say about you? What does it say about society? We'll talk this hour with Bryant Simon, Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Temple University and author of "Everything but the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks" (University of California Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dallas Arts District & AT&T Performing Arts Center [2009-10-13 12:00:00] Have you visited the newly completed Dallas Arts District yet? We'll spend this hour with Veletta Forsythe Lill, Executive Director of the Dallas Arts District and Mark Nerenhausen, President and CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center which opens this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean [2009-10-12 13:00:00] What does it take to reinvent one's self? We'll find out this hour with Roz Savage, who left a successful management career for a life of adventure. She tells the story in her new book "Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lives of Stars [2009-10-12 12:00:00] What's going on in astronomy these days? We'll explore the Milky Way, collliding galaxies and find out if there's really water on the Moon this hour with astronomer Ken Croswell whose new book for kids is "The Lives of Stars" (Boyds Mills Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preparing for the Flu [2009-10-08 13:00:00] What do we need to know about the H1N1 "Swine Flu" virus? We'll get tips this hour from Jorie Klein, Director of Disaster Planning at Parkland Health and Hospital System. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Transformation of the Memorial Landscape [2009-10-08 12:00:00] What do our monuments really say about our history and ourselves? We'll talk this hour with University of Pittsburgh Chair of the History of Art and Architecture Kirk Savage, who'll lecture at the Sixth Floor Museum this evening. His books include "Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape" (University of California Press, 2009) and "Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Cent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Freud Invented Psychoanalysis [2009-10-07 13:00:00] Were Sigmund Freud's ideas about treating psychological disorders really his own? We'll explore the world of 1870s Vienna and early psychology this hour with Louis Breger, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Studies at California Institute of Technology and author of the new book "A Dream of Undying Fame: How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis" (Basic Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Secret World of Bernie and Ruth Madoff [2009-10-07 12:00:00] How and why did Bernie Madoff steal billions of dollars from clients who trusted him with their life savings and financial futures? We'll talk this hour with Brian Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent at ABC News and author of "The Madoff Chronicles: Inside the Secret World of Bernie and Ruth" (Hyperion, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back to the Future of Education [2009-10-06 13:00:00] Is our method of teaching right for all of our country's children? We'll explore current theories and possible solutions this hour with E.D. Hirsch, Jr., founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation and author of the new book "The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools" (Yale, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Media [2009-10-06 12:00:00] Is a new world dawning and more importantly, are we prepared to live in it? We'll spend this hour with Bob Garfield, co-host of NPR's On the Media and author of the new book "The Chaos Scenario, Amid the Ruins of Mass Media, The Choice for Business is Stark: Listen or Perish" (Stielstra Publishing, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Muslim Middle Class [2009-10-05 13:00:00] How might a burgeoning middle class determine the future of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the rest of the region? We'll examine the commercial landscape of the Middle East this hour with international relations expert and best-selling author Vali Nasr. His latest book is "Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World" (Free Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Changing Perception of God [2009-10-05 12:00:00] How has the perception of God changed and how has this transformation affected society? We'll talk this hour with scholar and world-wide religion expert Karen Armstrong, whose new book is "The Case for God" (Knopf, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction [2009-10-01 13:00:00] How does an ornithologist write a definitive account of an extinct and virtually unknown bird? We'll find out this hour with Glen Chilton, Ph.D., who set out to write a brief description and ended up with his new book "The Curse of the Labrador Duck: My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faith, Belief, and the Age of Spirituality [2009-10-01 12:00:00] Is spirituality replacing formal religion? We'll discuss the history and future of religious practice this hour with Harvey Cox, the Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard and author of the new book "The Future of Faith" (Harper One, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The National Conversation on Race [2009-09-30 13:00:00] Where is the national conversation on race today? We'll check in with Dallas Morning News columnists James Ragland and Steve Blow who have recently published another installment of their on-going "Talking Race" series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pros & Cons of Global Legalism [2009-09-30 12:00:00] Does international law actually help keep the peace between the nations of the world? We'll discuss the issue this hour with Eric. A. Posner, the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. His new book is "The Perils of Global Legalism" (Chicago, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mysticism & America [2009-09-29 13:00:00] How have secret societies and mystical leaders influenced our country? We'll spend this hour with Mitch Horowitz author of the new book "Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation" (Bantam, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Violent Twilight of Oil [2009-09-29 12:00:00] What is our oil addiction really doing to us and to our world? We'll talk this hour with Peter Maass, contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and author of the new book "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil" (Knopf, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks [2009-09-28 13:00:00] Are you addicted to FaceBook, Myspace or Twitter? We'll explore the brave new world and influence of these networks with Harvard professor Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, Ph.D., co-author of the new book "Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives" (Little, Brown and Company, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bridging Dallas' North-South Gap [2009-09-28 12:00:00] Is Dallas making progress south of the Trinity River? We'll check in with Dallas Morning News editorial page editor Keven Ann Willey and columnist Tod Robberson about their on-going, long-term project "Bridging Dallas' North-South Gap." The latest installment was published last week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution, Intelligent Design & the Courts [2009-09-24 13:00:00] The conflict over teaching evolution in public schools is nothing new, but it came to a head (and was addressed in court) in Dover, Pennsylvania in 2005. We'll talk this hour with a key player in that story - U.S. District Judge John Jones. We'll also be joined by "NOVA: Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" Senior Executive Producer Paula Apsell and Laurie Lebo, author of "The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America" (New Press ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Meaning of Gourmet [2009-09-24 12:00:00] What does "gourmet" mean today? We'll talk this hour with best-selling memoirist and Gourmet Magazine Editor-In-Chief Ruth Reichl. She's also the editor of the brand new cookbook "Gourmet Today: More than 1000 All-New Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Archive: The Way We Run [2009-09-23 13:00:00] From the Archives: Is there a better way to run? We'll explore the world of the Tarahumara this hour with journalist Christopher McDougall, author of the new book "Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, And The Greatest Race The World Has Never Seen" (Knopf, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Architecture & The Future of Cities [2009-09-23 12:00:00] What will our cities be like in 10, 20, or 100 years and what roll will sustainability play in their design? We'll talk this hour with Adrian Smith, principal at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Smith is in town to judge the 42nd Annual AIA Dallas Design Awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban Chickens [2009-09-22 13:00:00] To what lengths would you go for farm-fresh eggs? We'll explore the world of the urban backyard chicken farmer this hour with Leslie Finical Halleck, general manager at North Haven Gardens and Sarah Perry, former KERA producer and successful Dallas chicken farmer and gardener. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama at the UN [2009-09-22 12:00:00] How will President Obama work with the UN Security Council? We'll talk with former Foreign Policy Magazine editor David Bosco. His new book is "Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World" (Oxford University Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Highs and Lows of American Conservatism [2009-09-21 13:00:00] Is the American Conservative movement in trouble? We'll spend this hour with journalist Sam Tanenhaus, who takes a firm line on the subject in his new book "The Death of Conservatism" (Random House, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Byzantine Empire & Western Civilization [2009-09-21 12:00:00] Why do we know what we know about the Roman Empire? We'll find out this hour with historian Lars Brownworth, author of "Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization" (Crown, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Thief, a Detective, and a Literary Obsession [2009-09-17 13:00:00] What would you do for a good book? We'll explore the story of two very serious book lovers this hour with journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett whose new book is "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession" (Riverhead Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War [2009-09-17 12:00:00] Will we ever truly know what happened to soldiers captured or otherwise missing during the Vietnam War? We'll discuss the political and historical fallout from that war this hour with Michael J. Allen, Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of "Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War" (UNC Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advancing the Dignity of Children Worldwide [2009-09-16 13:00:00] Who is helping the children of the world and how are they making a difference? We'll talk this hour with Maya Ajmera, President and Founder of the Global Fund for Children which advances the dignity of children and youth around the world through grant-making and media programs designed to raise awareness of the world's most vulnerable citizens. Maya Ajmera will address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Return of the Master Economist [2009-09-16 12:00:00] Can we still learn from an economist born in the late 19th century and could his theories shed light on the economic troubles of this century? We'll spend this hour with Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick and author of the new book "Keynes: The Return of the Master" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mother-Daughter Story [2009-09-15 13:00:00] What special stories do mothers and daughters share? We'll hear a few such tales this hour with Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor, authors of "Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story" (Viking, 2009). They're in town to speak to Arts & Letters Live. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Evolution of U.S. Military Strategy [2009-09-15 12:00:00] How is the American military presence overseas evolving to meet new challenges in the Middle East and Afghanistan? We'll talk this hour with Rear Admiral Michael T. Franken, Deputy Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy at the United States Central Command (CENTCOM). He's in town to speak at SMU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Allied Heroes & History's Greatest Treasure Hunt [2009-09-14 13:00:00] Who rescued many of the finest artworks in history from Adolf Hitler and his henchmen? We'll talk this hour with writer and producer Robert Edsel, whose new book is "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History" (Center Street, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diary of a Teacher's First Year [2009-09-14 12:00:00] What does a teacher learn in his or her first year of work? We'll spend this hour with Esme Raji Codell, whose 1999 book, "Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year" (Algonquin Books, 2009), has just been re-issued in an expanded paperback edition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Human-Dog Connection [2009-09-10 13:00:00] Why do many of us find it difficult if not impossible to live without a dog? We'll examine this special relationship and its origins with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jon Franklin. His new book is "The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs" (Holt, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Educational Leadership Today [2009-09-10 12:00:00] Every parent wants their child to have the best teachers, but how important is the educational leadership at that student's school and district? We'll talk this hour with two leaders in the field - David Chard, Ph.D., Dean of the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at SMU and Reid Lyon, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at SMU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sixties in London [2009-09-09 13:00:00] What were you doing in the 1960s? Journalist Jenny Diski remembers the influential decade as she experienced it in London in her new book "The Sixties" (Picador Paperback Original, 2009). We'll talk with her this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A World Transformed by Hate Crime [2009-09-09 12:00:00] How does a mother cope with the death of her child when his murder becomes a national headline? We'll talk this hour with Judy Shepard, author of the new book "The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed" (Hudson Street, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason [2009-09-08 13:00:00] Where is Rene Descartes actually buried and how did his life and death influence religion and the understanding of rationalism? We'll talk with Russell Shorto, author of "Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason" (Vintage, Paperback, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America's Relationship with India [2009-09-08 12:00:00] What are the most important elements of the India-U.S. relationship? We'll spend this hour with Ambassador Swashpawan Singh, former ambassador of India to the Offices of the United Nations in Geneva. He'll address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth on Wednesday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The History of Bacardi Rum & Cuban Politics [2009-09-03 13:00:00] What does it mean to be Cuban, but to live in exile waiting to return home? NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten profiles one such family (whose name you might recognize) in his new book "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba" (Penguin Books, 2009). We'll speak with Tom this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending [2009-09-03 12:00:00] Where do freedom and America's love affair with the automobile intersect? They meet in the brain of P.J. O'Rourke. He's in town to address the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations about his work with Freedom House on global political and economic freedom. He's also just published a collection of essays called "Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009). P.J. O'Rourke will be our guest this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Thinking About Children [2009-09-02 13:00:00] Is it possible that all the traditional wisdom about children is - while not exactly wrong, not exactly right either? We'll examine the recent scientific evidence this hour with journalist Po Bronson, co-author of the new book "NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children" (Twelve, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Plugging into the Sun [2009-09-02 12:00:00] Could the sun fulfill our energy needs while solving our global warming problems at the same time? We'll explore the solar energy world this hour with George Johnson, whose piece "Plugging into the Sun" appears in the September issue of National Geographic Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snake Handling and Redemption [2009-09-01 13:00:00] Who was Glenn Summerford and why was he on trial for attempted murder by rattlesnake in Alabama in 1992? We'll talk with Dennis Covington who covered the trial and whose book about it - "Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia" (Da Capo, 2009) had just been re-released. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Dream, Eight Girls & a Journey Home [2009-09-01 12:00:00] What will it take to secure real freedom for the women of Afghanistan? We'll talk this hour with Awista Ayub, founder of the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange and author of the new book "However Tall the Mountain: A Dream, Eight Girls & a Journey Home" (Hyperion, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Helping Children Understand Their Senses [2009-08-31 13:00:00] We all sense things differently, but how do we develop our sensory skills and what are the best ways to help our children understand their senses? We'll spend this hour with pediatric occupational therapist Lindsey Biel, co-author of "Raising a Sensory Smart Child" (Penguin, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly [2009-08-31 12:00:00] What does it really mean to live and eat sustainably? We'll talk this hour with James McWilliams, winner of the 2009 Hiett Prize in the Humanities and author of the new book "Just Food: Where Locovores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly" (Little, Brown & Company, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World of Costume Design [2009-08-27 13:00:00] How important are costumes in bringing characters to life on screen? We'll explore the intersection of fashion and film with Oscar-nominated costume designer Deborah Landis, author of "Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design" (Harper Collins, 2007). She'll speak tonight as part of the Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The U.S. Transplant System [2009-08-27 12:00:00] Are you an organ donor? Do you know anyone who's received a donated organ? We'll discuss America's transplant policies this hour with Steve Farber, co-author of the new book "On the List: Fixing America's Failing Organ Transplant System" (Rodale, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic [2009-08-26 13:00:00] What does Ben Bernanke's reappointment as Fed chair mean for our economic future? We'll spend this hour with David Wessel, Economics Editor at the Wall Street Journal and author of "In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic" (Crown Business, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America [2009-08-26 12:00:00] What is life like for young gay men and women who don't live in the city? We'll find out this hour with Mary L. Gray, author of the book "Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America" (NYU Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Austin/Boston Connection [2009-08-25 13:00:00] Why did Texas and Massachusetts share Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives for more than 50 years? We'll talk this hour with professors Anthony Champagne of UT-Dallas and James Riddlesperger of TCU, authors of the new book "The Austin/Boston Connection" (Texas A&M, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Foreign Aid Dilemma [2009-08-25 12:00:00] Where have the billions of dollars in US aid to Afghanistan really gone? We'll spend this hour with Harper's Magazine Washington Editor Ken Silverstein, whose piece "Developmentally Disabled: Why foreign aid to Afghanistan stays in America " appears in the current issue of Harper's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dealing with Drought [2009-08-24 13:00:00] Are we squandering our most precious natural resource? What can a desert tribe teach us about survival? We'll spend this hour with journalist and water expert James G. Workman, author of "Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought" (Walker & Company, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory [2009-08-24 12:00:00] What does the iconic image of the one-room schoolhouse tell us about ourselves, our culture, and public education? We'll talk with historian Jonathan Zimmerman, whose new book is "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory" (Yale University, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reflections on the Spirits of Animals [2009-08-20 13:00:00] Do animals have souls? Does your dog have a conscience? Does your cat possess free will? We'll explore the inner lives of animals with writer Jon Katz, whose new book is "Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm" (Villard, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love [2009-08-20 12:00:00] Can the power of one man's music inspire change in a troubled continent? We'll discuss Africa's most famous musician this hour with Chai Vasarhelyi, director of the new documentary "Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love" (Shadow Distribution, 2009). It opens this weekend at the Angelika Dallas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A History of Consumer Activism in America [2009-08-19 13:00:00] Have you ever purchased goods, or refused to purchase goods, out of ethical responsibility? We'll talk this hour with Lawrence B. Glickman, author of the new book "Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America" (University of Chicago, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Siege and Burning of Atlanta [2009-08-19 12:00:00] What was life like for the citizens of Civil War Atlanta as their city was besieged and destroyed? We'll find out this hour with Marc Wortman, author of the book "The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta" (Public Affairs Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leaving for College [2009-08-18 13:00:00] Is the latest crop of incoming college freshmen ready for life without adult supervision? We'll talk this hour with Harry H. Harrison, Jr., author of the books "1001 Things Every College Student Needs to Know" (Thomas Nelson, 2008) and "1001 Things Every Teen Should Know Before They Leave Home" (Thomas Nelson, 2007). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healthcare Reform [2009-08-18 12:00:00] As the debate over healthcare reform intensifies, how can we discern intellectual discourse from confusing misconception? We'll spend this hour with healthcare editorial writers Steve Jacob of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Bill McKenzie of the Dallas Morning News. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Intimate History of Shooting Stars [2009-08-17 13:00:00] Were you fascinated by last week's meteor shower? Who are the maverick scientists and starry-eyed profiteers who chased meteorites into a legitimate science and a romantic myth? We'll spend this hour with Christopher Cokinos, author of "The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Russian Peninsula Ruled by Salmon [2009-08-13 13:00:00] Will politics threaten the existence of Russia's healthy salmon population and the communities that depend on it for survival? We'll explore the plight of the remote Kamchatka Peninsula with writer David Quammen, whose article "Where the Salmon Rule," appears in the current issue of National Geographic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Dallas Parks Renaissance [2009-08-13 12:00:00] Can a brand new park and recreation system revive the city's public spaces? We'll talk this hour with Willis Winters, Assistant Director for Planning Design & Construction at the Dallas Park Department. His piece, "A Renaissance Plan for Dallas Parks," appears in the summer issue of Columns Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Einstein's Theory of Relativity [2009-08-12 13:00:00] Is Einstein's theory of relativity too complex for the average Joe to comprehend, or just waiting for the right teacher? We'll discuss common misconceptions about relativity this hour with Brian Cox, particle physicist and co-author of the new book "Why Does E=MC2 And Why Should We Care?" (DaCapo, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why We Drive the Way We Do [2009-08-12 12:00:00] What do your driving habits reveal about human nature in general, and you in particular? We'll find out this hour with Tom Vanderbilt, author of the book "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)" (Vintage, Paperback, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pressure to Win at Youth Sports [2009-08-11 13:00:00] How does the American obsession with winning affect children playing little-league sports? We'll talk this hour with Tom Farrey, author of the new book "Game On: How the Pressure to Win At All Costs Endangers Youth Sports and What Parents Can Do About It" (ESPN Books Trade Paperback, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The High Cost of Discount Culture [2009-08-11 12:00:00] Do lower and lower prices tempt you into overspending and greater debt? We'll explore the personal, political and economic consequences of price slashing with Ellen Ruppel Shell, author of "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture" (The Penguin Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage [2009-08-10 13:00:00] What is the value of marriage to society? Does that value change in places where gay marriage is legal? We'll spend this hour with M. V. Lee Badgett, author of "When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage" (NYU Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Birth of the American Mafia [2009-08-10 12:00:00] How did the mafia first take root in the United States? We'll talk with historian Mike Dash whose new book is "The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and the Birth of the American Mafia" (Random House, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Make a Vacation at Home Fun for the Whole Family [2009-08-06 13:00:00] Are you wondering how to pull off a great vacation or have you already cancelled your annual trip this year to save on limited funds? We'll talk this hour with Dallas Morning News writer and columnist Matt Wixon, whose new book is "The Great American Staycation: How to Make a Vacation at Home Fun for the Whole Family (and Your Wallet!)" (Adams Media, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America [2009-08-06 12:00:00] Does the current economy really spell disaster for the country or does it offer us an unprecedented opportunity? We'll spend this hour with Kurt Andersen, host of PRI's Studio 360 and author of the new book "Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America" (Random House, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Way to Truthful Relationships [2009-08-05 13:00:00] Are you a liar? Do you, like most people, tell an average of three lies every ten minutes? We'll explore the ubiquity and the cost of everyday deception this hour with University of Massachusetts psychologist Robert Feldman, whose new book is "The Liar in Your Life: The Way to Truthful Relationships" (Twelve, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Macho [2009-08-05 12:00:00] What is the future of macho? According to our guest this hour, Reihan Salam, journalist and fellow at the New America Foundation, macho is on the way out. Salam's piece, "The Death of Macho," appears in the current issue of Foreign Policy Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Year Everything Changed [2009-08-04 13:00:00] If you had to pick the pivotal year of the last century - a year of key happenings in science, politics and entertainment - which year would it be? We'll talk this hour with Slate.com contributor Fred Kaplan. His new book is "1959: The Year Everything Changed" (Wiley, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Congress Really Works [2009-08-04 12:00:00] How does Congress really get things done? We'll talk to an expert this hour - U.S. Representative Henry A. Waxman, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and author of the new book "The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works" (Twelve, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior [2009-08-03 13:00:00] Do we have conscious control over the choices we make about the goods and services we buy or is an evolutionary impulse driving our decisions? We'll talk this hour with University of New Mexico evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, author of the new book "Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior" (Viking, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline [2009-08-03 12:00:00] How high will gas prices go and is there an up side to increasing energy costs? We'll spend this hour with Forbes staff writer Christopher Steiner, whose new book is "$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline will Change Our Lives for the Better" (Grand Central, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson [2009-07-30 12:00:00] He lent his name to several famous places in North America, but who was Henry Hudson? We'll find out this hour as guest host Jerome Weeks talks with University of Southern California historian and anthropologist Peter C. Mancall, author of the new book "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson" (Basic Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: Esperanto Rock Stars & Klingon Poets [2009-07-29 13:00:00] From the Think archive - Why would someone set out to invent a new language? Last month we explored a few of the almost 900 created tongues with linguist Arika Okrent, author of the book "In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language" (Spiegel & Grau, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: The Search for a Way Out of Iraq [2009-07-29 12:00:00] From the Think archive - Where does the war in Iraq stand now and when might the U.S. troops stationed there be able to return home? In June we talked with veteran journalist Linda Robinson, author of "Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq" (Public Affairs, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: Making Decisions [2009-07-28 13:00:00] From the Think archive - How do we make choices and is there a way to improve our decision making? Last spring we discussed the latest research on the workings of the brain with writer Jonah Lehrer, whose recent book is "How We Decide" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website After Detroit, the Wreck of an American Dream 2009-07-28 12:00:00] What does the future hold for the American auto industry? Guest host Jerome Weeks will talk this hour with Harper's Magazine contributing editor Ben Austen, whose piece "End of the Road: After Detroit, the wreck of an American dream" appears in the current issue the magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: A Writer's Creativity [2009-07-27 13:00:00] From the Think archive - How do memory, place and time influence character and a writer's creativity? In May we spoke with award-winning playwright, novelist and actor Eric Bogosian. His latest book is "Perforated Heart" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Theroux on Paul Theroux [2009-07-23 12:00:00] Where does a writer discover his or her material? We'll talk with the author of more than 47 books of travel writing, short-story collections, novels, criticism and children's literature - legendary writer Paul Theroux. He'll preview his 2009 UNT Mayborn Literary Conference Lecture with guest host Jerome Weeks this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: Dance for the 21st Century [2009-07-22 12:00:00] From the Think archive - What is a creative life and what's the best way to mentor the next generation of artists? We discussed the evolving artistic climate of the new century and the world of dance with legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp when she was in town last May to speak at the Nasher Salon Series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Plays [2009-07-21 12:00:00] How does a playwright transition from the page to the stage and back again? Guest host Jerome Weeks will talk this hour with critically acclaimed Tony and Obie Award-winner David Rabe. His works "The Black Monk and The Dog Problem: Two Plays" (Simon & Schuster, 2009) are now out in a single paperback volume. Rabe's novel "Dinosaurs on the Roof" will be released in paperback next month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: An Army Chaplain's Memoir [2009-07-20 12:00:00] From the Think archive - We've heard the stories of many returning Iraq combat veterans, and no one can deny the difficulties faced by soldiers re-integrating into civilian life, but what's the experience like for military chaplains? We'll hear one such story this hour with former Army chaplain Roger Benimoff, who tells the story of his two Iraq deployments in the new book "Faith Under Fire: An Army Chaplain's Memoir" (Crown, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Treating Wounded Veterans - A New Approach [2009-07-16 12:00:00] Is there a better way to treat wounded veterans? We'll talk this hour with University of Texas at Arlington researcher Dr. Robert Gatchel about his new program combining physical rehabilitation with treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Border [2009-07-15 13:00:00] What is really happening along the border and what role is the Mexican Army playing in the turmoil? We'll talk this hour with Mother Jones Magazine contributing writer Charles Bowden who's been documenting Mexico's drug wars and border clashes since 2005. His piece in the current issue is "We Bring Fear." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life Inside America's New Rootless Professional Class [2009-07-15 12:00:00] What are the possible consequences of our modern lives on the move? We'll spend this hour with Peter T. Kilborn, who explores the suburbs around cities like Atlanta and Dallas in his new book "Next Stop, Reloville: Life Inside America's New Rootless Professional Class" (Times Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Executive Power Threatens Democracy [2009-07-14 13:00:00] What is the greatest threat to American democracy? We'll explore the phenomenon of "aggressive presidentialism" this hour with Peter M. Shane, the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law and author of "Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens Democracy" (Chicago, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Blogging Began and What It's Becoming [2009-07-14 12:00:00] How did blogs become the "next big thing" and how are they influencing our culture? We'll talk this hour with Salon.com co-founder Scott Rosenberg. His new book is "Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters" (Crown, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Conquest of America's First Frontier [2009-07-13 13:00:00] Who invented guerilla warfare and how did the revolutionary strategy influence the birth of our nation? We'll find out this hour with John F. Ross, executive editor of American Heritage Magazine and author of the new book "War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier" (Bantam, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower [2009-07-13 12:00:00] Why do the oppressed, once in power often become oppressors themselves? We'll hear one such story this hour with journalist Michela Wrong whose new book "It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower" (Harper, 2009) chronicles the harrowing experience of reformer John Githongo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Real Estate Came to Own Us [2009-07-09 13:00:00] Where are root causes of the mortgage crisis and is the tough economy the beginning of the end for the American dream? We'll explore the history of the U.S. real estate market this hour with journalist Alyssa Katz, author of the new book "Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us" (Bloomsbury, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Homeownership in North Texas [2009-07-09 12:00:00] Where can North Texans turn for solid advice on homeownership, foreclosure and other issues in the current challenging economy? As part of KERA's year long Economy Project, we'll spend this hour with Donna VanNess, Executive Director of the Tarrant County Housing Partnership and Albert Martin, Executive Director of the North Texas Housing Coalition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble [2009-07-08 13:00:00] Are we responsible for making the world a better place for animals or are animals here for humans to use as we see fit for food, clothing and entertainment? We'll discuss these questions and more this hour with Ingrid Newkirk, president and founder of PETA and author of the new book "The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble" (St. Martin's Griffin, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village [2009-07-08 12:00:00] What are conditions really like on the ground in Sudan? We'll find out this hour with James Maskalyk, a Doctors Without Borders volunteer physician and author of the new book "Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village" (Spiegel & Grau, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vietnam at War [2009-07-07 13:00:00] How was the Vietnam War viewed by the people who lived though it? We'll explore the war this hour from the perspective of the Vietnamese people with University of Chicago historian Mark Philip Bradley, author of the new book "Vietnam at War" (Oxford, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Political Life of an American Musician [2009-07-01 13:00:00] Was Leonard Bernstein a threat to American democracy? We'll explore the life and times of one of the greatest creative forces of the 20th Century with Barry Seldes, political scientist at Rider University and author of the new book "Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician" (California, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Sonnets [2009-07-02 12:00:00] Who was the mysterious subject of Shakespeare's sonnets and was the Bard really even the author of the 154 famous poems? We'll talk this hour with Clinton Heylin, author of the new book "So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Sonnets" (Da Capo, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Galileo and the Roman Inquisition [2009-07-01 13:00:00] What was the 17th Century heresy trial of Galileo really like? We'll find out this hour with author Dan Hofstadter, who examines the details of the trial and conviction in his new book "The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition" (W.W. Norton & Co., 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arts and Cultural Management [2009-07-01 12:00:00] What are the special challenges faced by those who run arts and cultural organizations? How are they coping with the world-wide economic downturn? As the 10th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management wraps up today at SMU, we'll talk with one of the organizers. Krista Farber Weinstein is a recent Visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for Arts Administration at SMU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Andean Village and Tomorrow's Economy of Values [2009-06-30 13:00:00] Is there a developed world solution to issues that face developing world communities? We'll talk this hour with Princeton University Professor Adam. K. Webb, author of the new book "A Path of Our Own: An Andean Village and Tomorrow's Economy of Values" (Spence Media, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protests in Iran [2009-06-30 12:00:00] What will become of the protesters in Iran and will they accomplish the change they so desperately want? We'll explore the current situation and possible outcomes this hour with Dr. Mahmoud Sadri, Professor of Sociology at Texas Women's University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best and Brightest Blow it Again [2009-06-29 13:00:00] Is the President blowing it? We'll spend this hour with Kevin Baker, whose article "Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow It Again" appears in the current issue of HARPER'S Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today [2009-06-29 12:00:00] It may seem unbelievable, but according to our guest this hour, slavery is alive and well - even in our country. We'll talk with Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves in Washington, D.C and co-author of the new book "The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today" (University of California, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Web of Art and Politics in American Democracy [2009-06-25 13:00:00] Controversy over the public funding of art is nothing new, but how will the current economic climate influence future funding and what does history tell us? We'll talk this hour with David A. Smith, a Baylor University historian and author of the recent book "Money for Art: The Tangled Web of Art and Politics in American Democracy" (Ivan R, Dee, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer [2009-06-25 12:00:00] On October 26, 1976, the last case of Smallpox occurred, ending a ten-year struggle to eliminate a disease that had annually killed two million people or more. We'll spend this hour with Dr. D.A. Henderson, the physician who led the campaign. He tells the story in a new book - "SMALLPOX - THE DEATH OF A DISEASE: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer " (Prometheus, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions [2009-06-24 13:00:00] Is the brain capable of change and growth - even later in life? We'll talk this hour with neuroscientist Susan R. Barry who describes her own brain's transformative experiences in the new book "Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions" (Basic Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing Up in Africa [2009-06-23 13:00:00] Can we really "know" a place without living there, breathing its air and feeling its earth? We'll spend this hour with an author who first introduced readers to mid-seventies Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her 2001 national bestseller "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" and revisited her roots in "Scribbling the Cat" in 2004. Alexandra Fuller is in town to speak at Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art tonight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Callers respond to Obama's press conference [2009-06-23 12:00:00] "Think" listeners respond to the issues that President Obama touched on during his press conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of a Master Counterfeiter [2009-06-22 13:00:00] What is it about the crime of counterfeiting that people find so fascinating? Is it the possibility of an endless supply of money, the "victimless" nature of the crime or the fact that counterfeiting is incredibly difficult to pull off? We'll explore the life of one such criminal this hour with journalist Jason Kersten, author of "The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter" (Gotham Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. [2009-06-22 12:00:00] Who will carry the flag for American conservatism in the future and what can we learn from the movement's past? We'll spend this hour with historian Richard Brookhiser who details his life-long friendship with one of conservatism's "glittering" stars in the new book "Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement" (Basic Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: "We Are Our Mothers' Daughters" 10th Anniversary [2009-06-18 13:00:00] From the archives - How have the roles of American women changed in the last ten years? How about the last hundred years? We talked with renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts last month. Her #1 New York Times Bestseller "We Are Our Mothers' Daughters" is now out in an updated 10th anniversary edition (William Morrow, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: The Art of Haggling [2009-06-18 12:00:00] From the archives - What are your strategies for saving a buck or two these days? In April we spent an hour with Dallas Morning News columnist James Ragland, who received a huge response to his series of columns on the art of haggling this spring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: America's Best Idea [2009-06-17 13:00:00] From the archive - When you think of documentary filmmaking, whose name leaps to mind? We talked this spring with acclaimed film maker Ken Burns whose past films - "The War," "Baseball," "Jazz," "The Civil War," etc.- are among the most-watched documentaries ever made. His newest film, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," premieres this fall on PBS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: New Urbanism Today [2009-06-17 12:00:00] From the archive - Can the existing urban environment be refreshed to meet the needs of a growing and changing population? In March we talked with a pioneer of the New Urbanism movement, Andr?s Duany. He visited Dallas to address the Congress for the New Urbanism's North Texas Chapter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adrien Brody: An Actor Prepares [2009-06-16 13:00:00] From the archives - What goes into the development of a character and how does an actor prepare to play that character? We talked in March with Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody who received the AFI Dallas International Film Festival Star Award this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Redemption in a Forgotten Texas Church [2009-06-04 12:00:00] What happens when a white, middle-class crime reporter finds herself in a rundown black Pentecostal church on an out-of-the-way street? We'll talk this hour with former Dallas Observer editor-in-chief Julie Lyons, who tells the story in her new book "Holy Roller: Finding Redemption and the Holy Ghost in a Forgotten Texas Church" (Water Brook, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language [2009-06-03 12:00:00] Why would someone set out to invent a new language? From 12th Century Lingua Ignota to the chipmunk noise-based Dritok, we'll explore a few of the almost 900 created tongues with linguist Arika Okrent, author of the new book "In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language" (Spiegel & Grau, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Jury Trial and the Future of American Justice [2009-06-01 13:00:00] What is happening to the jury trial and what does it mean for the future of American justice? We'll talk this hour with Robert P. Burns, professor at the Northwestern University School of Law and author of the new book "The Death of the American Trial" (Chicago, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Controversy over Genetically Modified Food [2009-06-01 12:00:00] Are genetically modified foods really dangerous or are they just misunderstood? We'll find out this hour with Portland State University biologist, Dr. Lisa H. Weasel, author of the new book "Food Fray: Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Food" (AMACOM, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Bill Gates Turn Hunger into Profit? [2009-05-28 13:00:00] According to the United Nation's World Food Program, 25,000 adults and children die every day from hunger and hunger-related causes. How can the world's rich help solve this problem? We'll talk this hour with Frederick Kaufman, whose piece "Let Them Eat Cash: Can Bill Gates Turn Hunger into Profit?" appears in the current issue of Harper's Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Returning to the Embarrassments of Childhood [2009-05-28 12:00:00] If you had the chance to do it all over again would you? Robin Hemley did. We'll talk with him this hour about the experiences that led to his new book "Do-Over!: In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments" (Little, Brown, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Couple Who Taught America How to Love [2009-05-27 13:00:00] Who were Masters and Johnson and what motivated their pioneering sexuality research? We'll talk this hour with journalist and biographer Thomas Maier who tells their stories in the new book "Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love" (Basic Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why to Err is Human [2009-05-27 12:00:00] Everyone makes mistakes, but exactly why do people foul things up? We'll find out this hour with Michael Kaplan, who with his mother Ellen, has just published "Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human" (Bloomsbury, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Trial of President Andrew Johnson [2009-05-26 13:00:00] How close did the nation come to a second Civil War in 1868? We'll talk this hour with historian and attorney David O. Stewart, whose new book is "Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press [2009-05-26 12:00:00] Just how influential is "emerging" media? We'll explore the increasingly significant role of technology and the web this hour with journalist Eric Boehlert, author of "Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press" (Free press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Smile Pinki" [2009-05-21 13:00:00] How easily can a life be changed? We'll spend this hour with documentarian Megan Mylan, whose Academy Award-winning film, "Smile Pinki," follows a young girl from rural India as she undergoes surgery for a cleft lip. The film will debut on HBO on Wednesday, June 3rd. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. [2009-05-21 12:00:00] Where does talent come from? Is it natural? Does it occur by chance? We'll talk this hour with journalist Daniel Coyle who visited and studied a variety of "talent hotbeds" to research his new book, "The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How." (Bantam, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How the Digital Age Stupifies Young Americans [2009-05-20 13:00:00] Is a good portion of your day dedicated to Twitter and Facebook? According to our guest this hour, you may have a problem. We'll talk with Emory University Professor Mark Bauerlein, author of "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupifies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)" (Tarcher Penguin, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan [2009-05-20 12:00:00] Will Pakistan continue to destabilize or will the country come to grips with the growing power of the Taliban and the other issues that may threaten its very existence? We'll talk this hour with veteran journalist and New America Foundation fellow Nicholas Schmidle. His new book is "To Love or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan" (Henry Holt, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Writer's Creativity [2009-05-19 13:00:00] How do memory, place and time influence character and a writer's creativity? We'll talk this hour with award-winning playwright, novelist and actor Eric Bogosian who'll be in town to speak to the Writer's Studio. His new book is "Perforated Heart" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of America [2009-05-19 12:00:00] What is the future of America in light of the country's internal struggles over war, religion, immigration and limited natural resources? We'll spend this hour with Columbia University Professor Simon Schama whose new book is "The American Future: A History" (Ecco, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages [2009-05-18 13:00:00] Why would someone set out to read a dictionary from end to end and what might they learn along the way? We'll find out this hour with author and bibliophile Ammon Shea, whose new book is "Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages" (Perigree, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Helping Our Sons Find Direction in Their Lives [2009-05-18 12:00:00] Do boys and girls require different sets of tools to be prepared for life? We'll spend this hour with family therapist and best-selling author Michael Gurian. The third volume in his trilogy of books on boys is "The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives" (Jossy-Bass, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dance for the 21st Century [2009-05-14 13:00:00] What is a creative life and what's the best way to mentor the next generation of artists? We'll discuss the evolving artistic climate of the new century and the world of dance this hour with legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp who's in town to speak at the Nasher Salon Series this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Portrait of American Food [2009-05-14 12:00:00] You get a little taste of it when you eat vegetables from a backyard garden or a local farmer's market. But what was America's food really like in the 1930s and early 40s? We'll explore that culinary culture this hour with bestselling author and James A. Beard Award-winning food writer Mark Kurlansky. His new book is "The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food—Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes [2009-05-13 13:00:00] What is the Muslim view of world history and how does it differ from what we learn in the West? We'll talk this hour with Tamim Ansary, director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop and author of the new book "Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A White-Knuckled Quest for the Rocky Mountain High [2009-05-13 12:00:00] How does an overweight, middle-aged father of three prepare to climb fifty-four 14,000 foot peaks in a year? We'll find out this hour with journalist Mark Obmascik whose new book is "Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled and Knuckleheaded Quest for the Rocky Mountain High" (Free Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet [2009-05-12 13:00:00] What has happened to the bees and what will become of those who care for them? We'll explore the complexities of the hive and the future of the honeybee with beekeeper Susan Brackney whose new book is "Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet" (Perigree, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age [2009-05-12 12:00:00] What is the future of the world's nuclear arsenal? This hour we'll examine the massive arms race of the 20th Century and how it continues even today with journalist Stephanie Cooke. Her new book is "In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age" (Bloomsbury, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking Dangerously with a Changing Language [2009-05-11 13:00:00] How have politics and the rapid digitalization of society changed language? We'll talk this hour with regular Fresh Air contributor Geoffrey Nunberg, whose new collection of essays and articles deconstructs the buzzwords, stock phrases and metaphors of the last few years. It's called "The Years of Talking Dangerously" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Profiles in Backroom Power [2009-05-11 12:00:00] How are things changing in Washington D.C. and how will the Obama Administration handle an upcoming vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court along with its other pressing responsibilities? We'll spend this hour with John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC, political writer for the New York Times and co-author of "Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power: Making Washington Work Again" (Random House, 2009) which is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us [2009-05-07 13:00:00] Does the modern world continually surprise you? If so, you're not alone. We'll talk this hour with former Time Magazine editor and current geostrategic advisor Joshua Cooper Ramo, whose new book is "The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It" (Little, Brown, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Found Footage Festival [2009-05-07 12:00:00] What makes an out-of-date corporate instructional video or a thrift store-purchased family home movie featuring strangers so funny? We'll find out this hour with Joe Pickett, co-founder of the Found Footage Festival which appears at the Lakewood Theater in Dallas tomorrow night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Jews and the Myth of Silence [2009-05-06 13:00:00] How did the American Jewish community memorialize those who died in the Holocaust after World War II? We'll spend this hour with Hasia R. Diner, the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at NYU. Her new book is "We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962" (NYU Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "We Are Our Mothers' Daughters" 10th Anniversary [2009-05-06 12:00:00] How have the roles of American women changed in the last ten years? How about the last hundred years? We'll talk this hour with renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts. Her #1 New York Times Bestseller "We Are Our Mothers' Daughters" is now out in an updated 10th anniversary edition (William Morrow, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: Deadly Obsession in the Amazon [2009-05-05 13:00:00] What happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the legendary Amazonian Lost City of Z? We talked with New Yorker staff writer David Grann earlier this year about his book "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" (Doubleday, 2009). Grann will appear at Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: Rediscovering the New World [2009-05-05 12:00:00] Who really "discovered" America? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz will appear at Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art next week to discuss his book "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World" (Henry Holt, paperback, 2009). We talked to him last year when the book was first published. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improving Your Brain's Performance [2009-05-04 13:00:00] What can diet, exercise and a positive attitude do for your brain? Well find out this hour with Dr. Richard Restak, clinical professor of neurology at George Washington University's Medical Center and author of the new book "Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance" (Riverhead, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Encounters in the Changing Middle East [2009-05-04 12:00:00] What is the Middle East like behind the politics? Who are the people that live there? We'll talk this hour with veteran journalist Neil MacFarquhar, who tells many of their stories in his new book "The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How We Can Develop Moral Intelligence [2009-04-30 13:00:00] How do we learn the difference between right and wrong and what's the best way to teach these concepts to our children? We'll talk this hour with bestselling author John Bradshaw whose new book is "Reclaiming Virtue: How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason" (Bantam, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biology and Environmentalism [2009-04-30 12:00:00] What does biology reveal about the changing world and changing climate? We'll spend this hour with Harvard's Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, professor E. O. Wilson. Wilson will receive the 2009 International Award of Excellence in Conservation from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life as a Field Archaeologist [2009-04-29 13:00:00] What can archaeology tell us about who we are today and what does it take to succeed as an archaeologist? We'll spend this hour with an expert in American and North African archaeology, Fred Wendorf - Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory Emeritus at SMU. Wendorf's new memoir is "Desert Days: My Life as a Field Archaeologist" (SMU Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era [2009-04-29 12:00:00] What do we get from shows that poke fun at our serious selves like "The Daily Show" and "South Park" and what makes these shows so popular? We'll talk this hour with Jeffrey P. Jones, Associate Professor of Communication & Theatre Arts at Old Dominion University and co-editor of the new collection "Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era" (NYU, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Hundred Days - FDR & Obama [2009-04-28 13:00:00] Much is made of a president's first hundred days in office. How does President Obama's first hundred days compare to presidents of previous generations? We'll spend this hour with H.W. Brands, the Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas in Austin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frost Nixon [2009-04-28 12:00:00] How does an actor move from film to television to the stage and back again? With scores of credits on the big screen and almost as many on television, Stacy Keach has done it all. He's in town to appear as President Richard Nixon in the Dallas Summer Musicals presentation of "Frost Nixon" which runs April 29th through May 3rd at the Majestic Theatre. We'll talk with him this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today [2009-04-27 12:00:00] Where does marriage stand in American culture today? We'll explore the subject this hour with Johns Hopkins University Sociologist Andrew J. Cherlin, author of "The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today" (Knopf, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mothers, Infants & The Origins of Language [2009-04-23 13:00:00] Where does human communication originate? According to our guest this hour, anthropologist Dean Falk, language begins in the arms of our mothers. Falk will join us this hour to discuss her research and her new book "Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants & The Origins of Language" (Basic Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dead Man Walking and Social Change [2009-04-23 12:00:00] Can the Arts influence social change? We'll talk this hour with Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking" and composer Jake Heggie whose opera of the same name opens at the Fort Worth Opera next month. They'll both participate in a panel discussion on "Arts, Social Change, and Human Rights" at SMU this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comedy and Journalism [2009-04-22 13:00:00] Where do journalism and comedy meet? We'll find out this hour with humorist Mo Rocca, who's in town to appear at Jewish Family Services' For the Love of Family Concert Event tonight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real-life Lessons in Word-of-Mouth Marketing [2009-04-22 12:00:00] How do you learn about products and services? We'll explore the subject this hour with bestselling author Emanuel Rosen whose new book is "The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited: Real-life Lessons in Word-of-Mouth Marketing" (Doubleday, paperback, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Battle for the Soul of South Africa [2009-04-21 13:00:00] How is life in South Africa these days? Plagued by violence and the AIDS crisis, but enjoying economic growth, South Africans will go to the polls tomorrow for national elections. We'll examine their choices this hour with Alec Russell, world news editor at the Financial Times and author of the new book "Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa from Mandela to Zuma" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child [2009-04-21 12:00:00] Do your kids love to read? If not, what's the best way to motivate them? We'll spend this hour with North Texas educator Donalyn Miller, whose new book is "The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child" (Jossey-Bass, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women's Heart Health [2009-04-20 13:00:00] According to the American Heart Association, coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death for American women. We'll discuss women's health this hour with Dr. Cara East, Director of the Soltero Cardiovascular Research Center at Baylor University Medical Center and Dr. Jeffrey Schussler, an interventional cardiologist at Baylor Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prozac Puppies & Dog-Park Politics [2009-04-20 12:00:00] We call the dog "man's best friend" but to many Americans, the family pet is a priority. We'll explore America's pet mania this hour with journalist Michael Schaffer, whose new book is "One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food" (Henry Holt, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Haggling [2009-04-16 13:00:00] What are your strategies for saving a buck or two these days? We'll spend this hour with Dallas Morning News columnist James Ragland, whose second column on the art of haggling is in today's paper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures [2009-04-16 12:00:00] How tough are things for today's teenage girls? We'll explore the pressures girls face and some solutions for dealing with them this hour with Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley and author of the new book "The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures" (Ballantine Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How the Web is Reshaping Culture [2009-04-15 13:00:00] How should we use the internet and how can we be sure the web's not using us? We'll spend this hour with Lee Siegel, author of the book "Against the Machine: How the Web is Reshaping Culture and Commerce - And Why it Matters" (Spiegel & Grau, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The AARP [2009-04-15 12:00:00] What does the future hold for America's aging population? We'll discuss the issues that seniors face this hour with Jennie Chin-Hansen, National President of the AARP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World's Fiercest Food Fight [2009-04-14 13:00:00] Are certain foods crueler than others? Remember the 2002 foie gras flap started by Chef Charlie Trotter in Chicago? We'll talk this hour with Mark Caro the journalist who broke the story in the Chicago Tribune. Caro's new book is "The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing the Real World through Documentary [2009-04-14 12:00:00] What's the best way for a filmmaker to portray the world and how has documentary filmmaking changed since over the last five decades? We'll spend this hour with someone who knows, Frederick Wiseman. The acclaimed documentarian will lecture about his process and his films at SMU this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Victors and Victims in the Roman Triumph [2009-04-13 13:00:00] What exactly were Roman Triumphs and how did these celebrations of military victory influence the Roman view of war? We'll talk with Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and author of the book "The Roman Triumph" (Belknap Harvard, 2007). Dr. Beard will lecture at the Dallas Museum of Art this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse [2009-04-13 12:00:00] Is a post-race society a possibility in America? We'll spend this hour with Richard Thompson Ford, Professor of Law at Stanford and author of the book "The Race Card; How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse" (Picador, paperback, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Decisions [2009-04-09 13:00:00] How do we make choices and is there a way to improve our decision making? We'll explore the latest research on the workings of the brain this hour with writer Jonah Lehrer, whose new book is "How We Decide" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America's Tangled Relationship With Saudi Arabia [2009-04-09 12:00:00] How will U.S.-Saudi relations change under the Obama Administration? What do key Saudi players think of our new President? We'll talk this hour with David Ottaway, Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and author of the book "The King's Messenger: Prince Bandar bin Sultan and America's Tangled Relationship With Saudi Arabia" (Walker & Company , 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier of Religion [2009-04-08 13:00:00] How is religion changing in America and how does the new Christian practice differ from the traditional church? We'll talk this hour with Tony Jones, author of "The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier" (Jossey-Bass, 2008), which will soon be released in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America [2009-04-08 12:00:00] Where is the fringe of American society? We'll get a guided tour this hour with journalist Evan Wright, who's famous for his bestselling book "Generation Kill" which became an HBO miniseries. Wright's new book is "Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War against the Gap, and other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America" (Putnam, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Spartacus [2009-04-07 13:00:00] Most of us remember the 1960 Kirk Douglas role that re-ignited the myth for a 20th Century audience, but who was the real Spartacus? We'll find out this hour with Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics at Cornell University and author of the new book "The Spartacus War" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Hungry is America? [2009-04-07 12:00:00] Do you know someone who's hungry? We'll explore the growing issue of domestic hunger this hour with Joel Berg, a former Clinton Administration food security official and current head of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. His recent book is "All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?" (Seven Stories, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: The Cosmic Perspective [2009-04-06 12:00:00] What does astrophysics mean to you? We'll discuss life, the universe and everything else this hour with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Leonid McGill Mystery [2009-04-02 13:00:00] What does a writer share with his or her best characters and how are new characters born? We'll talk this hour with perennial bestselling author Walter Mosley, whose new book is "The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery" (Riverhead, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Army Chaplain's Memoir [2009-04-02 12:00:00] We've heard the stories of many returning Iraq combat veterans, and no one can deny the difficulties faced by soldiers re-integrating into civilian life, but what's the experience like for military chaplains? We'll hear one such story this hour with former Army chaplain Roger Benimoff, who tells the story of his two Iraq deployments in the new book "Faith Under Fire: An Army Chaplain's Memoir" (Crown, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Color-Blind Society? Ask a Mexican. [2009-04-01 13:00:00] Is the idea of a color-blind American society just that, or will we ever actually see past our differences and backgrounds? We'll chat this hour with Gustavo Arellano, who reaches over 2 million readers a week with his syndicated "Ask a Mexican" column. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Thoreau Really Meant About Environmentalism [2009-04-0112:00:00] Has Henry David Thoreau's true message been misunderstood by generations of teachers and school kids? We'll talk this hour with a man who's been called the "urban Thoreau" himself. Robert Sullivan is the author of the new book "The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant" (Collins, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The U.S. Health Care System [2009-03-31 13:00:00] How troubled is our country's health care system and is there any way to fix it? We'll examine the issue this hour with veteran FRONTLINE producer Jon Palfreman, whose film "Sick Around America" airs on PBS' FRONTLINE tonight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Documentary Filmmaking [2009-03-3112:00:00] When you think of documentary filmmaking, whose name leaps to mind? We'll spend this hour with acclaimed film maker Ken Burns whose past films - "The War," "Baseball," "Jazz," "The Civil War," etc.- are among the most-watched documentaries ever made. Burns is in town to speak at the Brinker International Forum this evening. His latest film, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," premieres next fall on PBS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde [2009-03-30 13:00:00] Who were the real Bonnie and Clyde? We'll find out this hour with writer Jeff Guinn who debunks the myths and sets the record straight in his new book "Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Urbanism Today [2009-03-30 12:00:00] Can the existing urban environment be refreshed to meet the needs of a growing and changing population? We'll talk this hour with a pioneer of the New Urbanism movement, Andr?s Duany. He's in town to address several events sponsored by the Congress for the New Urbanism's North Texas Chapter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adrien Brody: An Actor Prepares [2009-03-26 13:00:00] What goes into the development of a character and how does an actor prepare to play that character? We'll spend this hour with Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody who will receive the Star Award at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything [2009-03-26 12:00:00] What is your strategy for achieving your best results? We'll explore creative ways to find where our natural abilities and personal passions meet with Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D., author of "The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything" (Viking, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency [2009-03-25 13:00:00] How does one even begin to mount the production of a new drama series? And how do you get it all done in Botswana? We'll spend this hour with Amy J. Moore, who at least had a very popular story to start with. Moore is the producer of the new series "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" which debuts March 29 on HBO. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Search for Living Planets [2009-03-25 12:00:00] Are there other worlds capable of sustaining life in the universe? We'll spend this hour with Astronomer Alan Boss, research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and author of the new book "The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets" (Basic Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World's Fastest-Growing Economies [2009-03-24 13:00:00] Which countries still have growing economies and are there smart investment opportunities in those countries for American businesses? We'll talk this hour with University of Maryland Professor of Strategy and Organization, Anil K. Gupta. He's the co-author of the new book "Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World's Fastest-Growing Economies for Global Advantage" (Jossey-Bass, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent [2009-03-24 12:00:00] What are we sacrificing in the never-ending search for more oil reserves? We'll discuss a growing North American environmental concern this hour with journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, author of the new book "Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent" (Greystone, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height [2009-03-23 13:00:00] What would you do to ensure that your child was a "normal" height? Would growth hormones be out of the question? We'll explore the issue this hour with Christine Cosgrove, co-author of the new book "Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age [2009-03-23 12:00:00] What has happened to the music business over the last decade? Kids are still forming bands and thousands still attend conventions and festivals like SXSW and Coachella every year. But the sales figures just aren't what they used to be. We'll examine the music biz this hour with journalist Steve Knopper, author of "Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible [2009-03-19 13:00:00] Where are the inconsistencies in The Bible and why aren't they better known? We'll explore biblical contradictions this hour with noted University of North Carolina religious studies professor, Bart D. Ehrman whose new book is "Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Archive: How Karaoke Conquered the World [2009-03-19 12:00:00] From the Archive: Can karaoke transform your life? We'll spend this hour with Brooklyn journalist Brian Raftery who has written about his experience in the new book "Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soul Music on Film [2009-03-18 13:00:00] What does Soul Music mean to you? We'll talk with documentarian Jeffrey Levy-Hinte whose new film "Soul Power" looks back at the 1974 music festival in Zaire which featured BB King, Celia Cruz, James Brown, Bill Withers and others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Acting Now to End World Poverty [2009-03-18 12:00:00] Is there a solution for world poverty? Peter Singer thinks so. We'll spend this hour with Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University. His new book is "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" (Random House, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Moral Underpinnings of the Current Economic Crisis [2009-03-17 13:00:00] What roles did corruption, irresponsibility and duplicity play in causing the current economic crisis? We'll talk with Rushworth M. Kidder, President and Founder of the Institute for Global Ethics which has just published his book "The Ethics Recession: Reflections on the Moral Underpinnings of the Current Economic Crisis" (2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Intricacy of Africa [2009-03-17 12:00:00] Will Western society every truly understand the complexities of Africa? We'll talk this hour with Richard Dowden, director of the Royal African Society and author of the new book "Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon [2009-03-16 13:00:00] What happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the legendary Amazonian Lost City of Z? Our guest his hour, New Yorker staff writer David Grann, looked into the story and became a bit enthralled by the mystery himself. His new book is "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama [2009-03-16 12:00:00] Will the Dalai Lama ever be able to return to Tibet? Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan leader's exile from his homeland. We'll talk this hour with writer Pico Iyer, whose book "The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama" is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Body Image Problem [2009-03-12 13:00:00] Why do some of us hate our bodies and why is the problem spreading around the world? We'll spend the hour with Susie Orbach, co-founder of the Women's Therapy Centre in London and New York and author of the new book "Bodies" (Picador Paperback Original, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy [2009-03-12 12:00:00]What makes a politician a leader for the ages? We'll examine the life of one such leader - one highly respected on both sides of the aisle - this hour as we talk with Peter S. Canellos, editor of The Boston Globe's new biography "Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bizarre Things Learned from the Bible [2009-03-11 13:00:00] What can one learn if they read every book, chapter, and verse of The Bible? We'll spend the hour with Slate editor David Plotz, whose new book is "Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible" (Harper, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto [2009-03-11 12:00:00] Who is left to tell the story when a group of people are wiped out by violence? We'll talk this hour with Samuel D. Kassow, the Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College and author of "Who will write our history? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto" (Vintage, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Changing Role of the National Security Advisor [2009-03-10 13:00:00] What is the role of the National Security Advisor and how have those who've held the post shaped that role? We'll talk this hour with I. M. Destler, professor at University of Maryland's School of Public Policy and co-author of the new book "In the Shadow of the Oval Office" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America through Native Eyes Is an understanding of Native American :[2009-03-10 12:00:00] History critical to the study of American History? We'll spend this hour with Sharon Grimberg, Executive Producer of the PBS American Experience series "We Shall Remain," and Chris Eyre, who directed three of the five films in the Native American History series. It premieres on PBS next month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling [2009-03-09 13:00:00] Should everyone be required to attend traditional schools? Education reformer John Taylor Gatto is not so sure. He'll join us this hour to share his thoughts and discuss his new book "Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling" (New Society Publishers, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sustainable Communities [2009-03-09 12:00:00] What role should local economies play in the search for a more sustainable society? Author Bill McKibben is in town to participate in the EPA's National Sustainable Communities Conference today in Dallas. He'll join us for the hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels with the Man Who Invented History [2009-03-05 13:00:00] Who invented history? Herodotus is widely known as the "Father of History." But as we'll discuss this hour with writer Justin Marozzi, he was also so much more. Marozzi's new book is "The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History" (Da Capo, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals [2009-03-05 12:00:00] How do you prosecute the worst of the world's criminals? We'll talk this hour with journalist Chuck Sudetic, who profiles the work of Carla Del Ponte, former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nation's War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, in the new book "Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity" (Other Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Year Without Shopping [2009-03-04 13:00:00] Could you go an entire year without shopping? Writer Judith Levine did it in 2004. Her chronicle of the experience, "Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping" (Free Press, 2009), is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Future of Food [2009-03-04 12:00:00] What is the future of food? Are there more sustainable methods to feed everyone? We'll spend this hour with author Paul Roberts who is speaking today at the Owens Conference on Agricultural Sustainability & Food Safety at Austin College in Sherman. His recent article "Spoiled" appears in the current issue of Mother Jones Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Cultural History of Terrorism [2009-03-03 13:00:00] Where are the roots of terrorism? This hour we'll explore how the actions and impulses of terrorists aren't necessarily a new thing with historian Michael Burleigh, whose new book is "Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism" (Harper Collins, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Corporate Trust in 2009 [2009-03-03 12:00:00] Do you trust corporations? This hour we'll discuss corporate trust and the recently-released 2009 Edelman Trust Barometer with former Congressman Michael Oxley, now vice chairman of NASDAQ and Matthew Harrington, Edelman's US CEO. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Next 100 Years [2009-02-26 12:00:00] What will the next century hold for America and the rest of the world? We'll spend this hour with George Friedman, president and CEO of STRATFOR - a private intelligence company. His new book is "The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century" (Doubleday, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Current Economy & Hope for Recovery [2009-02-26 13:00:00] Is there hope for the economy in 2009? We'll look back at the seeds of the financial crisis and forward to possible recovery this hour with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, which has just published the anthology "Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover" (Nation Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gone with the Wind Revisited [2009-02-25 13:00:00] Why are film buffs still captivated by "Gone with the Wind" 70 years after the film was released? We'll explore the film, the book and the myth of Scarlet O'Hara this hour with writer and film critic Molly Haskell whose new book is "Frankly My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited" (Yale, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tough Times for the American Worker [2009-02-25 12:00:00] With the stock market falling and unemployment rising, what is the outlook for the American worker? We'll spend this hour with Steven Greenhouse, whose book "The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker" (Anchor, Paperback, 2009) is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cosmic Perspective [2009-02-17 13:00:00] What does astrophysics mean to you? We'll discuss life, the universe and everything else this hour with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, who'll speak to UTA's Maverick Speakers Series tonight and Bishop Dunne Catholic School's 2009 GeoTech Conference next month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economic Situation [2009-02-17 12:00:00] How is the economic downturn affecting Texas and what does the future hold? Kathleen Cooper, Senior Fellow at SMU's Tower Center, Mine Yucel, Senior Economist and Vice President at the Federal Reserve of Dallas and William Wallace, Adjunct Professor of Economics at UNT will join us to preview their Thursday panel discussion at the Dallas Democratic Forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Food Trends Today [2009-02-16 13:00:00] With trends in eco-cuisine and a simultaneous resurgence of comfort food, where is the culinary industry headed these days? We'll talk this hour with Amy Albert, Senior Associate Editor of Bon App?tit. She's in town to judge in this year's Dallas Morning News Wine Competition which takes place this week. Winning wines will be featured at the Dallas Wine and Food Festival this spring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Reagan Legacy? [2009-02-16 12:00:00] It's popular political fodder on both sides of the aisle, but what exactly is the Reagan legacy and how does it impact politics today? We'll spend this hour with journalist Will Bunch, whose new book is "Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future" (Free Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Complete History of Sesame Street [2009-02-12 12:00:00] For almost 40 years, no other show has delighted kids and parents like Sesame Street. How did it get started and why has the show lasted so long? Television critic Michael Davis will join us this hour to discuss his new book, "Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street" (Viking, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution [2009-02-11 13:00:00] What followed the so-called "great leap forward" in human civilization and was that really the end of biological evolution in human beings? We'll explore the subject this hour with Gregory Cochran, physicist and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah and co-author of the new book "The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution" (Basic Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of American Health-Care [2009-02-11 12:00:00] Will the U.S. Government, under a new administration, finally be able to solve the health-care issues that have trouble so many Americans? We'll talk this hour with Luke Mitchell, Senior Editor for Harper's Magazine and author of the current piece "Sick in the Head: Why America Won't Get the Health-Care System it Needs." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Young Charles Darwin [2009-02-10 13:00:00] Who was Charles Darwin before he wrote the landmark "On the Origin of Species?" We'll find out this hour with Keith Thomson, professor emeritus of natural history at the University of Oxford and author of "The Young Charles Darwin" (Yale, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escaping from North Korea [2009-02-10 12:00:00] If you had to flee your homeland in order to have a life free from government persecution, how would you do it? We'll spend this hour with journalist Tom O'Neill, whose story "Escape from North Korea" appears in the current issue of National Geographic Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sound of Literature [2009-02-09 13:00:00] Why does some literature seem better when read aloud? That's the question that Selected Shorts has been answering for almost twenty years on the stage and nationwide on public radio. We'll spend this hour with Isaiah Sheffer, a founder and artistic director of Symphony Space in New York City, and director of Selected Shorts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listening to the Twentieth Century [2009-02-09 12:00:00] What does a century sound like? This hour we'll discuss and listen to the sounds of the last century with MacArthur Fellow Alex Ross. His highly acclaimed book, now in paperback, is "The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century" (Picador, 2007). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Washington and America's Veterans [2009-02-05 13:00:00] What does the future hold for the thousands of veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan? According to journalist Aaron Glantz, it doesn't look good. Glantz will join us this hour to discuss his new book "The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans" (University of California Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Aggression Among Girls [2009-02-05 12:00:00] How big a problem is aggression among children? How can parents and educators deal with the issue? We'll spend this hour with Dr. Marion Underwood, UTD Professor of Developmental Psychology. Underwood is also the author of the 2003 book "Social Aggression Among Girls" (The Guilford Press). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Archive Edition - The Untold History of English [2009-02-04 12:00:00] With all its idiosyncrasies, some might argue it's a wonder that the English language actually exists as a working language. But how did the language develop? We'll spend this hour with bestselling author, linguist, and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow, John McWhorter. His new book is "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English" (Gotham, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena [2009-02-03 13:00:00] Is there empirical evidence for Extra Sensory Perception? We'll spend this hour with Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell, a Johns Hopkins-trained neuroscientist and author of the new book "The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena" (Walker & Company, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breast Cancer Today [2009-02-03 12:00:00] Is genetic testing and pre-assessment of risk an effective weapon in the current fight against breast cancer? We'll explore advances in risk assessment, prevention, diagnosis and treatment this hour with Dr. David Euhus, professor of surgical oncology and Linda Robinson, head genetic counselor at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snark [2009-02-02 12:00:00] What is Snark? According to New Yorker film critic David Denby, it weakens our public discourse, our intellectual pursuits and even the traditions of American humor. He'll join us this hour to discuss the rise of the phenomenon and his new book of the same name "Snark" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes [2009-02-02 12:00:00] What role did Texas play in the history of the U.S. oil business? Bryan Burrough chronicles the lives of the Texas oil industry's biggest figures in his new book "The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes" (The Penguin Press, 2009). Burrough will be our guest this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Complexities of Character [2009-01-29 13:00:00] What makes a character great? Can an author know or exert control over how a reader will respond to that character? We'll talk this hour with best-selling author Wally Lamb, whose new novel is "The Hour I First Believed" (Harper Collins, 2008). He speaks to Arts & Letters Live this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventures in the New French Wine Country [2009-01-29 12:00:00] What happens when a Dallas journalist with an interest in wine moves to France? We'll talk this hour with Robert V. Camuto, author of the new book "Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country" (Nebraska, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What to Do When People Are Rud [2009-01-28 13:00:00] Why are people rude and what's the best way to stop the cycle of bad social behavior? We'll talk this hour with P.M. Forni, professor of Italian Literature at Johns Hopkins University and author of "The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude" (St. Martin's Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Community, Culture and Urban Design [2009-01-28 12:00:00] Can landscape architecture and urban design create public spaces that meet the needs of a diverse population? We'll explore the possibilities this hour with Karen Walz, Project Manager for Vision North Texas and Don Gatzke, Dean of UTA's School of Architecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rehnquist Court [2009-01-27 13:00:00] Did the Supreme Court fail to protect civil liberties and rights under Chief Justice William Rehnquist? Contributors to the new anthology "We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court" (NYU Press, 2008) think so. We'll spend the hour with Suffolk University Law Professor Michael Avery, who edited the collection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Memories of Pre-Revolutionary Iran [2009-01-27 12:00:00] How does one's memory color history? What if that personal history took place in pre-revolutionary Iran? We'll spend this hour with bestselling author Azar Nafisi, who gained international acclaim in 2003 with "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books." Her new book is "Things I've Been Silent About: Memories" (Random House, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics and Race in the Age of Obama [2009-01-26 13:00:00] The election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States is a landmark moment in American history. Many have called it the start of a new era in American politics, including our guest this hour, PBS correspondent Gwen Ifill. She'll join us to discuss the new political landscape and her new book "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama" (Doubleday, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer [2009-01-26 12:00:00] Was the man who led the Manhattan Project really a security risk? Why did the U.S. Government lose faith in him in the years after World War II? We'll talk this hour with acclaimed filmmaker David Grubin, whose new film "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer" airs on PBS' American Experience tonight. You can see it at 8pm on KERA 13. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solving the Housing Problem [2009-01-25 17:30:00] For many Americans, one of the biggest day-to-day challenges is access to affordable housing. We'll discuss the issue and explore solutions this evening with former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and current Executive Chairman of Cityview, Henry Cisneros. Cisneros is in town to deliver the keynote address at the North Texas Housing Coalition's 10th Annual Housing Summit. California-based artist, Robert Wilhite, will join us during the Scene segment to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Therapy [2009-01-22 13:00:00] Exactly how powerful is music? We listen for entertainment and enjoyment, but can music actually heal? We'll spend this hour with Barbara L Bastable, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music Therapy at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lobbying and American Government [2009-01-22 12:00:00] Who really pays for the multi-million dollar election campaigns that send our Representatives and Senators to Washington? We'll talk this hour with veteran Washington Post reporter Robert G. Kaiser, who writes about the issue in his new book "So Much Damn Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government" (Knopf, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Educating and Engaging New World Kids [2009-01-21 13:00:00] What's the best way to engage and educate 21st Century kids? We'll talk this hour with two leaders in the field. Susan Marcus is co-founder of the Learning About Learning Education Foundation and co-author of the book "New World Kids: The Parent's Guide to Creative Thinking" (Foundry Media, 2008). Robyn Flatt is Executive Artistic Director of the Dallas Children's Theater and Director of the Baker Idea Institute, which held it's winter symposium "Creativity: The Next L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fiscal Therapy [2009-01-21 12:00:00] How should the U.S. Government face the current economic crisis and is there a way for the Obama Administration to get it right? In the current Mother Jones Magazine cover story, "Fiscal Therapy," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston offers a 14-part prescription for getting the economy back on its feet. We'll talk with him this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Archive Edition - "Waltz with Bashir" [2009-01-19 13:00:00] Can film conquer the demons of war? We'll talk this hour with director Ari Folman who deconstructs nightmares, memories and the first Lebanon War of the early eighties in his new animated film "Waltz with Bashir" (Sony Classics). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Art and Making it Count [2009-01-15 13:00:00] Where does "the everyday" meet serious art? We'll spend this hour with an international titan of the art world, Jeff Koons. Equally famous for his giant public art pieces - including the iconic "Balloon Dog" - and his 90s marriage to Italian porn star and parliamentarian Cicciolina, Koons will address the sold-out Nasher Salon Series this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colors in the Brain: Understanding Synesthesia [2009-01-15 12:00:00] How do colors influence our perception? Is there a complimentary, but reverse counterpart to that process? We'll talk this hour with Dr. David Eagleman, Director of The Laboratory for Perception and Action at the Baylor College of Medicine. He'll discuss his groundbreaking research on the fascinating scientific phenomenon known as Synesthesia in a lecture "Colors in the Brain" tomorrow evening at the Dallas Museum of Art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything [2009-01-14 13:00:00] What is your strategy for achieving your best results? We'll explore creative ways to find where our natural abilities and personal passions meet with Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D., author of "The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything" (Viking, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution [2009-01-14 12:00:00] What was the darkest chapter in America's Civil Rights struggle? We'll spend this hour with Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Carry Me Home, Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution" (Simon & Schuster, 2002). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fate of a Fruit that Changed the World [2009-01-13 13:00:00] You probably have a bunch of them at home and maybe even one on your desk. But what do you know about the political power and history of the simple banana? We'll explore that history and find out how the world's favorite fruit may be endangered with Dan Koeppel, author of "Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World" (Plume Paperbacks, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America's Invisible Middle Eastern Minority [2009-01-13 12:00:00] Conflict in the Middle East headlines most newscasts, yet coverage and understanding of Middle Eastern Americans is negligible. We'll find out why this hour with attorney and professor John Tehranian, author of "Whitewashed: America's Invisible Middle Eastern Minority" (NYU Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Journalists Don't Get Religion [2009-01-12 13:00:00] How important is a journalist's understanding of religion and the role that faith plays in everyday life? We'll talk this hour with veteran religion reporter Roberta Green Ahmanson, co-editor of the new collection "Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion" (Oxford, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50 [2009-01-12 12:00:00] What are your plans for life after 50 and how do you view the process of aging? We'll spend this hour with renowned sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, whose new book is "The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50" (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating and Designing for Planet Earth [2009-01-11 17:30:00] How involved should an artist be in the way a viewer experiences his or her art? We explored the social and theoretical implications of art in November with world-wide art and design phenom Olafur Eliasson, whose exhibit "Take Your Time" is on view now at the Dallas Museum of Art. Judith Garret Segura joined us during the Scene segment to discuss her media-biz history "Belo: From Newspapers to New Media" (UT Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Karaoke Conquered the World [2009-01-08 13:00:00] Can karaoke transform your life? We'll spend this hour with Brooklyn journalist Brian Raftery who has written about his experience in the new book "Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life" (Da Capo, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 81st Legislature Preview [2009-01-08 12:00:00] What is on the agenda for the 81st Session of the Texas Legislature? We'll preview the upcoming session - which convenes on Tuesday the 13th - with State Senators Royce West and Florence Shapiro this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning to Live Better with Less [2009-01-07 13:00:00] Do you fantasize about an organized 2009? We'll get tips on ordering and simplifying our hectic lives this hour with Mary Carlomagno, whose new book is "Secrets of Simplicity: Learn to Live Better with Less" (Chronicle Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Presidency [2009-01-07 12:00:00] What's it like to be the President of the United States? We'll explore the tightly controlled presidential enclave this hour with veteran journalist Elisabeth Bumiller whose piece "Inside the Presidency" appears in the January issue of National Geographic Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Search for Wisdom from Old People [2009-01-06 13:00:00] Does wisdom really come with age and experience? We'll find out this hour with journalist and humor writer Henry Alford whose new book is "How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They are Still on This Earth)" (Twelve, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Business of Modern Slavery [2009-01-06 12:00:00] It's an astounding but established fact that slavery is alive and well in the world today. And according to our guest this hour, sex slavery generates 40% of the world-wide profits of slavery today. Siddarth Kara will join us to discuss his research and new book "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery" (Columbia, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science, Faith Revolution, and the Birth of America [2009-01-05 13:00:00] Was there a scientific influence on the founding of American Democracy? We'll talk this hour with Steven Johnson, who profiles the brilliant 18th Century British scientist, theologian and political philosopher Joseph Priestly in his new book "The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith Revolution, and the Birth of America" (Riverhead Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers [2009-01-05 12:00:00] How did America become a nation of nerves and a multi-billion dollar market for anti-anxiety drugs? We'll spend this hour with Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine at McGill University and author of the new book "The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers" (Basic Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ending Genocide [2009-01-04 17:30:00] What will it take to end the killing in Africa forever? We'll talk this evening with John Prendergast, co-founder of the ENOUGH Project, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity. He's in town to speak to the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth and SMU's Human Rights Education Program. Diane Sikes, artist and education coordinator for the Dallas Contemporary will join us during the Scene segment to discuss the organization's new youth outreach ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Genius of Lily Tomlin [2009-01-01 13:00:00] How do our favorite performers make us laugh? We'll talk - and laugh - this hour with legendary comedian and actor Lily Tomlin. She's in town for a special benefit show at the Addison Improv. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protecting Those Who Protect Us [2008-12-31 13:00:00] What's it like to serve one's country and then have that service rebuked for political gain? We'll find out this hour with Valerie Plame Wilson, the former covert CIA operative whose name was leaked by the Bush Administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holiday Food&Drink [2008-12-30 13:00:00] Think is on vacation today. Please enjoy an archive episode from earlier this month with cheesemonger Rich Rogers of Scardello Artisan Cheese and sommelier and wine expert Darryl Beeson. We got lots of great holiday entertaining tips. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teen Pregnancy&"Boyfriends" [2008-12-29 13:00:00] What is the impact of a teenage pregnancy on the life of the teen and her family? We'll spend this hour with KERA reporter Sujata Dand who's collected the stories of several teens with kids of their own while researching her multi-media project "Boyfriends: Inside the World of Teenagers and Their Relationships." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st Century Activism [2008-12-23 13:00:00] Change was the resonant theme of the past political year, but what will it take to make the message of change continue to resonate with the electorate? We'll chat this hour with Temple University Assistant Professor Jason Del Gandio. His new book is "Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists" (New Society Publishers, 2008) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Muhammad Ali and Arnold Schwarzenegger [2008-12-23 12:00:00] Is there a champion inside you? We'll talk this hour with Al Satterwhite, whose new book "TITANS: Muhammad Ali and Arnold Schwarzenegger" (Dalton Watson Fine Books, 2008) features two subjects from his long career as a photographer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samuel Johnson [2008-12-22 13:00:00] What makes a literary figure great? We'll explore the life of one of those greats this hour with Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and author of the new biography "Samuel Johnson: The Struggle" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life and Death in 21st Century Medicine [2008-12-22 12:00:00] How would you like to face your final moments? The Baylor University Medical Center Palliative Team has answers. We'll spend this hour with Baylor's Dr. Mark Casanova and Min Patel and journalist Lee Hancock who profiled the team in a recent Dallas Morning News series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website North Texas in Need [2008-12-21 17:30:00] Who is there to assist North Texans in need in these challenging economic times and what can the rest of us do to help? We'll talk this evening with Larry James, President and CEO of Central Dallas Ministries and Mike Doyle, CEO of Cornerstone Assistance Network. The Scene segment will feature a piece by KERA Executive Producer Rob Tranchin. As you'll see, "Million Dollar Monarch" is a profile of not just a tree, but of the history that tree has witnessed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Collection of Radical Children's Literature [2008-12-18 13:00:00] Should children's literature teach obedience or independence, conformity or originality? We'll explore examples of the latter this hour with Professor Philip Nel, Director of the Children's Literature Program at Kansas State University and co-editor of the new collection "Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature" (NYU Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History [2008-12-18 12:00:00] You probably use them everyday, but do you know the history behind your favorite sayings and mottos? We'll talk this hour with Jan R. Van Meter, author of the new book "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History" (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tangled Story of English Spelling [2008-12-17 13:00:00] Do you struggle with spelling? You're not alone. We'll explore the interesting history of English spelling this hour with David Wolman, whose new book is "Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling" (Collins, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rare Recordings of British & American Literary Figures [2008-12-16 13:00:00] What did your favorite authors sound like? The British Library and the BBC have just released a series of rare recordings and interviews with dozens of British and American writers called "The Spoken Word." We'll speak with the British Library's Richard Fairman this hour and hear some of those recordings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truth and Lies about Why We Buy [2008-12-08 13:00:00] What motivates us to want products that we may not even need? We'll explore the psychology behind consumption this hour with global marketing guru Martin Lindstrom whose new book is "Buy-ology: Truth and Lies about Why We Buy" (Doubleday, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Waltz with Bashir" [2008-12-08 12:00:00] Can film conquer the demons of war? We'll talk this hour with director Ari Folman who deconstructs nightmares, memories and the first Lebanon War of the early eighties in his new animated film "Waltz with Bashir" (Sony Classics). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Foreign Policy for the United States [2008-12-07 17:30:00] Where is America's foreign policy headed? What can we expect from the Obama Administration's newly named national security team? We'll talk this evening with Seyom Brown, the John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security at SMU and author of the new book "Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States" (Paradigm Publishers, 2008). Dallas actor Nye Cooper will join us during the Scene segment to preview his appearan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Collision of Old and New Media [2008-12-04 13:00:00] How is the ongoing media convergence changing American culture and society? We'll explore the topic this hour with MIT Comparative Media Studies Director, Professor Henry Jenkins. Jenkins is also the author of "Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide" (NYU Press, Paperback, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website After Mumbai: The Future of India-Pakistan Relations [2008-12-04 12:00:00] How will last week's Mumbai terror attacks affect the fragile relationship between India and Pakistan? We'll talk this hour with Kamran Bokhari, Director of Middle East Analysis for Stratfor, a private intelligence company based in Austin, Texas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patty Hearst in 1970's America [2008-12-03 13:00:00] Who was Patty Hearst and what does her story tell us about the confusing and turbulent 70s? We'll spend this hour with William Graebner, author of the new book "Patty's Got a Gun: Patty Hearst in 1970's America" (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Untold History of English [2008-12-03 12:00:00] With all its idiosyncrasies, some might argue it's a wonder that the English language actually exists as a working language. But how did the language develop? We'll spend this hour with bestselling author, linguist, and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow, John McWhorter. His new book is "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English" (Gotham, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love and Hate in the Automotive Age [2008-12-02 13:00:00] Do you love your car but hate traffic, the expense of your vehicle and the environmental damage it does? According to Brian Ladd, this love-hate relationship is nothing new. We'll talk with Ladd, author of "Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age" (University of Chicago Press, 2008) this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walt Whitman and his Brothers in the Civil War [2008-12-02 12:00:00] Many are familiar with poet Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War. But did you know about the roles his brothers played? We'll explore the Civil War through the lens of one family this hour with Robert Roper, author of "Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and his Brothers in the Civil War" (Walker & Co., 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War [2008-12-01 13:00:00] Due to a recording error, we regret to report that today's second hour is shorter than usual. We hope that you enjoy. What role did the Indian Nations of the Southern Plains play in America's 19th Century conflict with Mexico? We'll talk this hour with University of Colorado historian Brian DeLay. His new book on the subject is "War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War" (Yale, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Anomalies Tell Us about Development and Evolution [2008-12-01 12:00:00] What does "biologically normal" really mean and what can we learn from abnormalities? We'll spend this hour with the University of Iowa's Professor Mark S. Blumberg, author of the new book "Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us about Development and Evolution" (Oxford 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration [2008-11-26 13:00:00] Should the Bush Administration be held accountable for miscarriages of justice including war crimes? Harper's Magazine contributing editor and New York attorney Scott Horton thinks so. He makes this case in this month's cover story "Justice After Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Challenge of Knowing History [2008-11-26 12:00:00] Can history really be known? Where are the clues to the truth about the past? According to our guest this hour, University of Georgia Professor Peter Charles Hoffer, history is all around us. We'll speak with him this hour about his new book "The Historian's Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time" (NYU Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq [2008-11-25 13:00:00] How has the ubiquitous private security contractor changed America's approach to war in Iraq and elsewhere? We'll spend this hour with 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Steve Fainaru, author of the new book "Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq" (Da Capo Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools [2008-11-25 12:00:00] What do Texas scientists think about the idea of teaching the weaknesses of the theory of evolution in Texas classrooms? UTA Professor Raymond A. Eve had just released a survey of 464 university science teachers. He'll join us this hour to discuss the findings published in "Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools: Surveying What Texas Scientists Think about Educating Our Kids in the 21st Century." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People [2008-11-24 13:00:00] Thirty years ago, the Reverend Jim Jones led 900 of his followers to their deaths. Why did it happen and could a tragedy of this magnitude happen again? We'll talk with journalist Tim Reiterman who covered Jonestown for the San Francisco Examiner. His book "RAVEN: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People" (Tarcher Penguin, Paperback, 2008) has just been reissued. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Past and Future of American Affluence [2008-11-24 12:00:00] Is today's economic crisis simply a reverberation of the double-digit inflationary period of the 1960s and 70s? We'll spend this hour with Robert J. Samuelson, columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post and author of the new book "The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence" (Random House, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The JFK Assassination - 45 Years Later [2008-11-23 17:30:00] How do journalists who were there view the JFK assassination 45 years later? We'll talk this evening with Bill Mercer and Bob Huffaker, co-authors of "When the News Went Live: Dallas 1963" (Taylor Trade Publishing). Ann Williams, founder and artistic director of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre will join us for the Scene segment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth Century Journalism [2008-11-20 13:00:00] What constitutes news? How has the definition changed over the last century or so? We'll take a look back at a time when "news" meant something different with Matthew Goodman, author of the new book "The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth Century New York" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wild Horse in the American West [2008-11-11 12:00:00] Horses have played key roles in almost every chapter of American history. What is the status of the wild mustang today? We'll spend this hour with Deanne Stillman, author of "Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West" (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). She'll speak at SMU's Clements Center for Southwest Studies on Thursday, November 13th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Replacing Fear with Purpose & Hope [2008-11-10 13:00:00] How can we replace fear with purpose and hope? We'll spend this hour with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, author of the 2007 book "You Don't Have to be Wrong for Me to be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism" (Harmony). Hirschfield will address the Jewish Community Center of Dallas this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Light Pollution - "The End of Night" [2008-11-10 12:00:00] Where has the darkness gone? With the current National Geographic Magazine cover story "Our Vanishing Night" as our starting point, we'll discuss the importance of darkness with Pete Strasser, Senior Technical Advisor at the International Dark Sky Association. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln [2008-11-06 13:00:00] How did the friendship of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln help create the America we know today? We'll explore their lives this hour with Harvard historian John Stauffer, author of "Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln" (Twelve, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Election Results & The Selection of America's 44th President [2008-11-05 12:00:00] No matter how you feel about it, yesterday's election of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States was groundbreaking in many ways. We'll open the phones this hour to get your thoughts on the national, state and regional election results. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New History of the Liberation of Europe [2008-11-04 13:00:00] How did the final months of World War II affect the residents of Europe? Temple University historian William I. Hitchcock brings a new point of view to the story of the "Greatest Generation" in his new book "The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe" (Free Press, 2008). He'll be our guest for the hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emily Post [2008-11-04 12:00:00] Who was Emily Post before she became the etiquette expert we all know today? We'll spend this hour with Laura Claridge author of "Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners" (Random House, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bush Administration [2008-11-03 13:00:00] In this era of uncertainty, one thing is certain - the country will elect a new President tomorrow. We'll look back at the last eight years and peek ahead at a potential new administration with Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of Slate, and author of "The Bush Tragedy" (Random House, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S. [2008-11-03 12:00:00] What is the future of the U.S. - Iranian relationship? What role will Israel play? We'll spend this hour with Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council and author of "Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S." (Yale, Paperback, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Horror Films and Fear [2008-10-30 13:00:00] What's your favorite horror film? Why? Since the 1920s, Americans have loved scary movies. In the spirit of Halloween, we'll explore the genre and its history with Rick Worland, professor of Cinema-Television at SMU and author of the book "The Horror Film: An Introduction" (Blackwell, 2007). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Clustering of Like-Minded Americans [2008-10-30 12:00:00] What caused the deep philosophical, political and religious divides that characterize American culture today? According to journalist Bill Bishop, we did it ourselves by choosing where and how to live and think. We'll discuss his research this hour and his recent book "The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart" (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States [2008-10-29 13:00:00] What is the state of mental health care in America today and what precipitated the monumental changes in the therapy culture of the 20th Century? We'll spend this hour with City University of New York professor Jonathan Engel, author of "American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States" (Gotham Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tier 1 Research Universities in North Texas [2008-10-29 12:00:00] Does North Texas need a Tier 1 University? What would it mean for the economy and high-achieving students in the area? We'll spend this hour with UTD President Dr. David E. Daniel, UNT President Dr. Gretchen M. Bataille, and UTA President Dr. James D. Spaniolo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons [2008-10-28 13:00:00] Where do science, morality and public policy intersect? Should they intersect? We'll discuss the issue this hour with journalist and practicing psychotherapist Gary Greenberg, whose new book is "The Noble Lie: When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons" (Wiley, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Achievement Gap [2008-10-27 13:00:00] What should American public schools be teaching and why aren't they teaching it? We'll talk this hour with Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His new book is "The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Achievement Gap [2008-10-27 13:00:00] What should American public schools be teaching and why aren't they teaching it? We'll talk this hour with Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His new book is "The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Achievement Gap [2008-10-27 13:00:00] What should American public schools be teaching and why aren't they teaching it? We'll talk this hour with Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His new book is "The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Achievement Gap [2008-10-27 13:00:00] What should American public schools be teaching and why aren't they teaching it? We'll talk this hour with Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His new book is "The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Achievement Gap [2008-10-27 13:00:00] What should American public schools be teaching and why aren't they teaching it? We'll talk this hour with Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His new book is "The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Achievement Gap [2008-10-27 13:00:00] What should American public schools be teaching and why aren't they teaching it? We'll talk this hour with Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His new book is "The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Achievement Gap [2008-10-27 13:00:00] What should American public schools be teaching and why aren't they teaching it? We'll talk this hour with Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His new book is "The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Achievement Gap [2008-10-27 13:00:00] What should American public schools be teaching and why aren't they teaching it? We'll talk this hour with Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His new book is "The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Achievement Gap [2008-10-27 13:00:00] What should American public schools be teaching and why aren't they teaching it? We'll talk this hour with Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His new book is "The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Achievement Gap [2008-10-27 13:00:00] What should American public schools be teaching and why aren't they teaching it? We'll talk this hour with Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His new book is "The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ending Genocide [2008-10-26 17:00:00] What will it take to end the killing in Africa forever? We'll talk this evening with John Prendergast, co-founder of the ENOUGH Project, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity. He's in town to speak to the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth and SMU's Human Rights Education Program. Diane Sikes, artist and education coordinator for the Dallas Contemporary will join us during the Scene segment to discuss the organization's new youth outreach ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Village to City in a Changing China [2008-10-23 13:00:00] What is "everyday life" like in China? Did the Olympic spotlight help or hurt the average Chinese citizen? We'll spend this hour with journalist Leslie Chang, author of "FACTORY GIRLS: From Village to City in a Changing China" (Spiegel & Grau, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website War and America [2008-10-23 12:00:00] Have militarism, corporatism and unchecked executive power begun to undermine American democracy? We'll talk this hour with award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki. His new book is "The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril" (Free Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Life and Times of Urban Reformer Clifton Weaver [2008-10-22 13:00:00] What does it really take to change and reform a city or even a country? What kind of person can get the job done? We'll look back at one such figure this hour with Wendell E. Pritchett, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Office of Research, Planning and Policy for the City of Philadelphia. His new book is "Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer" (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America [2008-10-22 12:00:00] What exactly has the National Security Agency been up to? How many Americans have been unknowingly subjected to its warrant less eavesdropping program? Is the program even legal? We'll talk this hour with journalist James Bamford, author of the new book "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America" (Doubleday, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Movies that Make You Think [2008-10-21 13:00:00] What goes on inside the mind of a successful screenwriter? We'll (try to) find out this hour with Academy Award-winner Charlie Kaufman, whose films "Being John Malkovich," "Human Nature," "Adaptation," "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" have captivated millions. His new film "Synecdoche, New York" opens Friday, November 7 at the Angelikas in Dallas & Plano. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Challenge of Global Warming [2008-10-21 12:00:00] How are the world's corporations and governments responding to the rising sea levels, fires, floods and droughts caused by increasing global temperatures? We'll talk this hour with Martin Smith, correspondent and producer of FRONTLINE's "HEAT" which airs on KERA 13 tonight at 8pm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind [2008-10-20 13:00:00] Is the ubiquity of technology affecting our brains? If so, what can we do about it? We'll explore the topic this hour with Dr. Gary Small, Director of the UCLA Memory & Aging Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and author of the new book "iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind" (Collins Living, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of American Political Cartoons [2008-10-20 12:00:00] Why are political cartoons important? How did they get started? We'll spend this hour with journalist and author Donald Dewey. His new book is "The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons" (NYU Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stories from the Nasher Collection [2008-10-19 17:00:00] Five years ago this week, the Nasher Sculpture Center opened its doors for the first time. We'll discuss some of the stories behind its collection this evening with Nancy A. Nasher and Jed Morse, Acting Chief Curator at the Center. In the Scene segment we'll preview the forthcoming KERA documentary, "South Dallas Pop," with Roger Boykin - band leader at Booker T. Washington Arts Magnet and long-time jazz radio host. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Genius of Lily Tomlin [2008-10-16 13:00:00] How do our favorite performers make us laugh? We'll talk - and laugh this hour with legendary comedian and actor Lily Tomlin. She's in town for a special benefit show at the Addison Improv. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Election 08 - After the Debates (Part 3 of 3) [2008-10-16 12:00:00] Now that the debates are over, how will the presidential campaigns approach the final 19 days before Election Day? We'll hold our last of three election-season discussions with Bob Ray Sanders of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Bill McKenzie of the Dallas Morning News. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 2008 Dallas Wholeness Index [2008-10-15 13:00:00] How does Dallas shape up compared to other cities? Do people have an equal opportunity to achieve financial success? Are they equally active in political and civic life? We'll discuss the 2008 Dallas Wholeness Index this hour with Dr. Timothy Bray, director of the UT Dallas Institute for Urban Policy and Research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Health Care [2008-10-15 12:00:00] What is the state of public health care in Dallas? In the midst of a $747 million bond campaign to build a new Parkland Hospital, we'll talk with Dr. Ron Anderson, President & CEO of the Parkland Health and Hospital System. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine [2008-10-13 13:00:00] Is the world's food supply stable? Will humanity be able to produce enough to feed itself in the future? The answers may lie in the research of a Stalin-era Soviet botanist. We'll spend this hour with Gary Paul Nabhan, whose new book is "Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine" (Island Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Causes of the Mortgage Meltdown [2008-10-13 12:00:00] What happened to the mortgage market? Why is the economy suddenly so shaky? We'll talk with Stan Liebowitz, Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation at UTD's School of Management. His paper "Anatomy of a Train Wreck" Causes of the Mortgage Meltdown" was published October 3rd. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" [2008-10-12 13:00:00] Is it ever appropriate to restrict access to works of art and literature? We'll discuss one such case this hour with Rick Wartzman, author of "Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath" (Public Affairs, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tales of Music and the Brain [2008-10-12 12:00:00] How does music affect our brains? We'll spend this hour with neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose book "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" (Vintage, 2008) is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good Food, Good Times [2008-10-12 17:00:00] Who's your favorite Public Television Chef? Jacques Pepin, whose new series "More Fast Food My Way" debuted this week on KERA, certainly tops our list. He'll join us this evening to discuss his new series and the current trends in food and culture. To many Texas young people, the State Fair is more than midway rides, corny dogs and cotton candy. Daryl Real, Vice President of Agriculture/Livestock at the State Fair will join us during the Scene segment to discuss the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins [2008-10-09 13:00:00] Who were the Neanderthals? Did they interact with modern humans? Where did they go? This month's National Geographic cover story "Last of the Neanderthals" tackles these questions and more. We'll talk this hour with Jamie Shreeve, science editor at the magazine and author of "The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins" (Harper Perennial, 1996). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diving for the Titanic's Last Secrets [2008-10-09 12:00:00] What can still be learned from the Titanic - nearly a century after it sank in one of the most notorious disasters of the 20th Century? We'll talk with Brad Matsen whose new book, "Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler" (Twelve, 2008), shines a bright new light on the subject. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives - A Life in Showbiz [2008-10-08 13:00:00] You know him, or at least you know the characters he's played. We spent an hour last May with Emmy Award-winning actor Leslie Jordan when he was in town to appear at the Majestic Theatre and promote his memoir - "My Trip Down the Pink Carpet" (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives - The Past, Present & Future of the CIA [2008-10-08 12:00:00] How much power does the Central Intelligence Agency really wield and what will be its role in the coming years? We talked in May with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Tim Weiner, author of "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" (Anchor Books, Paperback, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Novel of Lake Wobegon [2008-10-07 13:00:00] He created some of the best-known characters and probably the most famous fictional town in radio history. We'll spend this hour with Garrison Keillor, whose new book is "Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon" (Viking, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Personal History of Gustavo Arellano [2008-10-07 12:00:00] Regardless of how it's portrayed in the media, the immigrant wave is not monolithic. There are millions of individual stories to be told. We'll hear one such story this hour with Gustavo Arellano, who writes the syndicated "Ask a Mexican" column, which has a weekly circulation of 2 million nationwide. His new book is "Orange County: A Personal History" (Scribner, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World [2008-10-06 13:00:00] Is "anti-American extremism" becoming main stream in the Middle East? We'll talk this hour with Jim Sciutto, senior foreign correspondent for ABC News and author of the new book "Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World" (Harmony Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Knowledge in the 21st Century [2008-10-06 12:00:00] Is our access to knowledge at risk? According to Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin, "our society is sequestering knowledge more extensively, rapidly, and thoroughly than any before it in history." Laughlin will join us this hour to discus his new book "The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website King Tut [2008-10-03 19:30:00] "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" opens at the Dallas Museum of Art this weekend. We'll get a preview of the blockbuster exhibition with someone who knows King Tut like no one else - Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Fine art photographer and rural emergency physician, Dr. Jeffrey Gusky will join us during the Scene segment to discuss his latest book project "Bordertown: The Odyssey of An American Place" (Yale ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis [2008-10-02 13:00:00] What is the status of North Korea's nuclear program and where is Kim Jong Il? We'll discuss the current situation and its history this hour with Mike Chinoy, Edgerton Senior Fellow for Asia at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles and author of the new book "Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis" (St. Martin's Press, 2008). He'll speak to the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cycling, Recovering and The Rules of the Road [2008-10-02 12:00:00] Do you like to ride your bike? Have you been hit by cars and seriously injured twice in the past year? If so you have lots in common with CBS golf analyst David Feherty. We'll talk about cycling, recovering and the rules of the road this hour with Feherty, whose article "Crash Test Dummy" appears in the October issue of D Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Depletion and Abundance [2008-10-01 13:00:00] How can we live abundant and full lives with fewer resources? Farmer and blogger Sharon Astyk will join us this hour to discuss her strategies and her new book "Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front" (New Society Publishers, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Transformation of the American Dream [2008-10-01 12:00:00] Who are the real Americans? What are they like? What are their hopes and dreams? We'll find out this hour with John Zogby, president and CEO of Zogby International and author of the new book "The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream" (Random House, 2008). He'll speak to the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Unraveling of Life in Iraq [2008-09-30 13:00:00] What are the day-today challenges faced by regular Iraqi citizens? We'll talk with Farnaz Fassihi, Middle East and Africa deputy bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. Her new book is "Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq" (Public Affairs, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digging for Dinosaurs [2008-09-30 12:00:00] What's it like to search for the fossils of dinosaurs? What does it feel like to find one? We'll spend this hour with Dr. Tony Fiorillo, Curator of Earth Sciences at the Dallas Museum of Nature & Science. Fiorillo will also appear in the NOVA program "Arctic Dinosaurs" October 7th on KERA 13. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Walking Through Walls" [2008-09-29 13:00:00] You think it was hard being a teenager? Philip Smith had it harder. His dad was a psychic. We'll talk this hour with Smith, now a successful journalist and artist. His new memoir is "Walking Through Walls" (Atria, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Lives of Great Artists [2008-09-29 12:00:00] What were your favorite artists doing when they weren't making great works of art? We'll find out about Van Gogh's paint eating obsession, Pablo Picasso's legal problems and a whole lot more this hour with Elizabeth Lunday, author of "Secret Lives of Great Artists" (Quirk, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remembering Judge Barefoot Sanders [2008-09-25 13:00:00] Legendary U.S. District Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, Jr. passed away Sunday. We'll remember the Judge and discuss his legacy this hour with SMU history professor Glenn Linden, author of "Desegregating Schools in Dallas: Four Decades in the Federal Courts." We'll also talk with Kurt A. Schwarz, partner at Jackson Walker, L.L.P., who clerked for Judge Sanders from 1990-1991. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Puzzles of the Brain What will actually help your brain perform better and what won't? In March we talked with neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt, co-author of the book "Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life" (Bloomsbury, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity What is the human rights situation in Darfur? How are people coping in Iraq? We talked in March with one of the world's premiere authorities on human rights - former United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland. Egeland's recent book is "A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity" (Simon & Schuster, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Life and Times of Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Where is the country headed politically and how can regular Americans maintain their voice? Earlier this year we discussed the history and future of American politics with former two-term San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. He was in town to address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth and promote his recently published memoir is "Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times" (Simon & Schuster, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Chat With Allan Sloan You hear him each week on the Marketplace Morning Report's Sloan Sessions. We talked about the economy, business, and journalism with Allan Sloan, Senior Editor-at-Large for Fortune Magazine when he was in town to speak at SMU in February. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Step Parenting and Communication How do stepfamilies differ from traditional families and how can communication styles influence these relationships? Earlier this year we spent an hour with Paul Schrodt, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Texas Christian University who has studied stepfamily systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America and Islam after Iraq Has America's foreign policy since the end of the Cold War actually made us more vulnerable to terrorist attack? Veteran CIA counterterrorism officer Michael Scheuer thinks so. We examined the security situation with Scheuer in February. His recent book is "Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam after Iraq" (Free Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Reid What does the future hold for Latin America? According to Economist Americas Editor Michael Reid, a prosperous, fairer, and more democratic Latin America is just over the horizon. Reid's recent book on the subject is "Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul" (Yale, 2008). We talked with him last February. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Faith Without Fanaticism What is religious extremism and how can the faithful of different religions peacefully co-exist? We talked with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, author of "You Don't Have to be Wrong For Me to be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism" (Harmony, 2007), when he was in town to speak to the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Dallas last January. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise of China If you haven't noticed, China is a big deal. They're hosting the Olympics, manufacturing almost everything, and building more power plants faster than any other country on earth. We took a closer look at China last March with journalist Ted Fishman, author of "China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World" (Scribner, 2006), which is out in paperback. Dallas Morning News Business Columnist Cheryl Hall joined us during the scene segment to discuss her rece ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Culture of Hyper-Parenting How does our fast-paced, success-driven culture affect children? We'll find out this hour with journalist Carl Honor?. His new book is "Under Pressure: Rescuing Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting" (Harper One, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of the Middle East Can democracy and globalization help forge a solution to the historic problems in the Middle East? We'll spend this hour with Robin Wright, diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post and author of "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East" (Penguin Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tales from the Treetops Are you drawn to the treetops? If so, you'll find a kindred spirit in Margaret D. Lowman. She's the director of environmental initiatives and professor of biology and environmental studies at New College of Florida. Lowman will join us this hour to discuss her family's adventures in remote parts of the world and her newest work "It's a Jungle Up There: More Tales from the Treetops" (Yale, paperback, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lincolns Can a spouse influence the electability of a presidential candidate? What about the effectiveness of an administration? We'll look back this hour at an early American political marriage with biographer Daniel Mark Epstein, author of the new book "The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage" (Ballantine Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science What fears keep scientists awake at night? We'll find out with bestselling and highly acclaimed science writer Richard Preston. His new collection of true stories from the worlds of nature and scientific effort is "Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science" (Random House, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pornography of Power How have America's military-industrial complex and foreign policy adventures affected the security of the United States? We'll spend this hour with veteran journalist Robert Scheer, whose latest book, "The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America" (Twelve, 2008), will be published next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Of Mice and Men" - Fort Worth Opera's 2008 Festival It's opera time in Cowtown once again. We'll kick-off the final week of the Fort Worth Opera's 2008 Festival this hour with composer Carlisle Floyd and "Of Mice and Men" star Anthony Dean Griffey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad How tough is it to "fit in" in America, when your roots are firmly planted in another culture? Bestselling author Firoozeh Dumas does it all with a smile. She'll join us this hour to discuss her new book "Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad" (Villard, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ad??lie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica How quickly is climate change progressing? We'll discuss the rapid changes in the Earth's coldest regions this hour with Meredith Hooper, author of "The Ferocious Summer: Ad?lie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica" (Greystone Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Past, Present & Future of the CIA How much power does the Central Intelligence Agency really wield and what will be its role in the coming years? We'll explore the past, present and future of the CIA this hour with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Tim Weiner, who's in town to discuss his book "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" (Anchor Books, Paperback, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Memoir of Fat Camp Can adolescent weight issues affect our lives as adults? We'll talk this hour with writer, photographer and blogger Stephanie Klein, whose new book is "Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp" (William Morrow, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Lying, Secrecy, and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law How important is honesty? We'll explore the issue this hour with Steven Lubet, the Williams Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University and author of the new book "The Importance of Being Honest: How Lying, Secrecy, and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law" (NYU Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Life in Showbiz You know him, or at least you know the characters he's played. He's in town to appear in a one-man show at the Majestic Theatre tomorrow evening and to promote his new memoir of the same name - "My Trip Down the Pink Carpet" (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2008). We'll talk to Emmy Award-winning actor Leslie Jordan this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Presidential Campaigns of the Past What's funny about a presidential campaign? Charles Osgood, anchor of CBS Sunday Morning, will join us this evening to discuss his new collection of tales "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail" (Hyperion, 2008). Harry Lynch, director of "Recapturing Cuba," which airs Wednesday, May 28th on KERA 13, will join us for the Scene segment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion How do you define what is sacred? We'll talk this hour with Stuart A. Kauffman, founding director of the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics and professor at the University of Calgary. His new book is "Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion" (Basic Books, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking About Race Why is it so difficult to discuss racial issues? We'll spend this hour with two Dallas Morning News columnists who've been doing just that. James Ragland and Steve Blow will join us to discuss their on-going "Talking Race" series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RECOUNT - Re-examining the 2000 election What happened with the 2000 election and how can we be sure it doesn't happen again? We'll spend this hour with Ben Ginsberg, National Counsel for the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign and now a partner at Washington DC-based Patton Boggs. He's in town for a screening of the HBO film "RECOUNT" in which he is portrayed. The film airs on Sunday, May 25th at 8pm CT. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living What's the best way to transition to a greener lifestyle? We'll get tips this hour from Meaghan O-Neill, editor of PlanetGreen.com, TreeHugger.com and co-author of the new book "Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living" (Villard, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Price of Prosperity in Today's China How tough is it to get ahead in China today? We'll talk this hour with Leslie T. Chang whose piece, "Gilded Age, Gilded Cage" appears in the May issue of National Geographic Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Visual Literacy What does it mean to be visually literate? We'll preview the University of North Texas International Conference on Critical Literacy in Visual Culture this evening with Professor Keith Owens and Professor Michael Gibson. Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art will join us during the Scene segment to discuss the new exhibit "On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public Architecture Have you seen the Dallas arts district lately? The skyline of Dallas is changing. We'll spend this hour with one of the architects of that change, Pritzker Prize-winner and designer of the new Victory Park Museum of Nature and Science facility, Thom Mayne. He'll address the Nasher Salon Series this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Israelis Who are the Israelis? In honor of this month's 60th Anniversary of the Founding of Israel we'll spend this hour with journalist Donna Rosenthal. Her recently revised book is "The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land" (Free Press, Paperback, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo What has the last decade really been like in the Congo? Former Associated Press reporter Bryan Mealer knows. His search for the roots of Congolese conflict and for any flicker of hope appears in his new book "All Things Must Fight To Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo" (Bloomsbury, 2008). Mealer will join us for the hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website War What does a soldier do when their war is over? We'll spend this hour with former CENTCOM Commander, retired U.S. Army General John Abizaid. Currently a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, General Abizaid is in town to support the efforts of the Texas Resources for Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment (TRIAD) Fund. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work Do you feel like you're stuck in a rut? If spring isn't working as a wake-up call, perhaps creativity and innovation experts Andrew Pek and Jeanine McGlade can help. They'll join us this hour to discuss their new book "STIMULATED! Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work" (Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias What's your idea of the perfect retirement - a flawless neighborhood? Golf everyday? Writer Andrew Blechman tours the "geritopias" of Florida and Arizona for his new book "Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008). He'll join us for the hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "The Children of Huang Shi" What does it take to save children from war? We'll talk this hour with Roger Spottiswoode, director of the 2007 film "Shake Hands with the Devil." His new film, "The Children of Huang Shi," is based on a true story of war-torn, 1930s China. It opens next month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 1996 Tragedy on Mount Everest Remember the Mount Everest tragedy of May, 1996? Our guest this hour, filmmaker and climber David Breashears, was there. We'll find out what the survivors have to say over a decade later as we preview his film "Storm Over Everest" which airs on PBS' FRONTLINE tomorrow evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global Power Elite Who really runs the world? We'll talk this evening with David Rothkopf, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of the new book "Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008). Dallas (by way of New York) musician and journalist Josh Alan Friedman will join us during the Scene segment to discuss the true pioneers of rock as profiled in his new book "Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rescuing the Victims of the Global Sex Trade How extensive is the global sex trade and who is fighting it? We'll spend this hour with William Finnegan, staff writer for The New Yorker. His piece, "The Countertraffickers: Rescuing the Victims of the Global Sex Trade," appears in the May 5, 2008, issue of The New Yorker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom How and when did the West's fascination with Chinese civilization and technology begin? According to acclaimed author Simon Winchester, it all began in 1937 with Cambridge biochemist Joseph Needham. We'll talk with Winchester about his new book "The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom" (Harper, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who really "discovered" America? Who really "discovered" America? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz will join us to discuss his most recent exploration into the past and the resulting book "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World" (Henry Holt, 2008). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |