Skip Navigation
  • The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

    Archive from 5/23/07 – We’ve heard many theories and there are still questions surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. Vincent Bugliosi, author of “Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy” (Norton, 2007), joined us in May.

  • Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989

    Archive from 6/4/07 – What does it take to be a really great President? Perhaps no one is better suited to discuss the question than historian Michael Beschloss. He joined us for an hour in June to talk about his latest work “Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989” (Simon and Schuster, […]

  • The Education of a Modern-Day Explorer

    Archive from 5/22/07 – Is adventure dead? Not according to people like John Haslett. In 1995, Haslett attempted to re-create Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition from South America to Hawaii. He ended up engaged in a five-year quest that was more a struggle for survival than anything else. His book “Voyage of the Mante??o: The Education […]

  • Understanding Your Child's Unique Core Personality

    Archive from 5/17/07 – How do you decide how you’ll raise your kids? Will you take your parents’ advice? What about friends and what you’ve seen in the media? Michael Gurian, author of “Nurture the Nature: Understanding Your Child’s Unique Core Personality” (Jossey-Bass, 2007) joined us in May to explore the issues that parents face […]

  • A Family's Journey of Love and Healing

    Archive from 5/16/07 – Imagine you’re riding in a tank covering Iraq as a journalist and suddenly, without any warning an IED explodes, causing a traumatic brain injury that nearly kills you. Now imagine getting the word back home that this has happened to your spouse. Lee and Bob Woodruff joined us in May to […]

  • God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Twelve Books, 2007)

    Archive from 5/16/07 – Is there something wrong with religion? Famous contrarian and “devout atheist” Christopher Hitchens thinks so. The contributing editor to Vanity Fair, who has been called “one of the most brilliant journalists of our time” by the London Observer, has just published his latest book “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons […]

  • The State of Public Health Care

    What is the state of public health care in North Texas? We’ll talk this evening with Dr. Ron Anderson, President and CEO of Parkland Health and Hospital System about meeting the health care needs of a growing population. Market research analyst Kelley Styring will join is for the Scene segment of the show to discuss […]

  • Dallas Video Festival Round-Up

    The Dallas Video Festival is celebrating its twentieth year this week. We’ll spend this hour with a few of the filmmakers. Bill Buchanan will join us to discuss the plight of abandoned animals as detailed in his film “Companions to None.” Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza will drop by to discuss their work-in-progress “Stop the […]

  • The Trinity Toll Road

    In November, Dallas voters will decide whether a toll road will be part of the Trinity River Corridor project. We’ll get an update on the referendum this hour with Dave Levinthal of the Dallas Morning News and Jim Schutze of the Dallas Observer.

  • Bulgarian Nurses, Human Rights, and the Risks of Giving Aid to Developing Nations

    Should developed nations help developing countries – even if those countries have sponsored terrorism? What if that assistance includes desperately-needed health care? This hour we’ll discuss the plight of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were convicted and twice sentenced to death for allegedly injecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. They were […]