What’s next for the war fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan? We’ll spend this hour with war correspondent and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Bing West. His new book is “The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics and the End Game in Iraq” (Random House, 2008).
If you had the chance, would you play in the NFL? Sportswriter and NPR contributor Stefan Fatsis got his shot with the Denver Broncos. We’ll talk with him about “A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL” (The Penguin Press, 2008).
Why would someone string a high-wire between the World Trade Center Towers, risking arrest and certain death to walk between them over 1,300 feet in the air? We’ll talk with director James Marsh, whose film “Man On Wire” profiles the man who actually did it in 1974.
Could someone fool your parents into believing that they were you? We’ll talk with The New Yorker’s David Grann this hour. His current piece, “The Chameleon,” profiles a French con man who serially impersonates teenagers – not for money, but for – love and a family.”
How does Pakistan’s instability affect its neighbor Afghanistan? We’ll examine the situation this hour with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. His Daily Standard piece, “A Dangerous Neighbor: How Pakistan’s deterioration harms Afghanistan,” is available on-line.
Is there a dark side to capitalism? We’ll explore the economic history of the global free market this hour with Naomi Klein, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” (Picador, Paperback, 2008).
What can you learn about someone from the items they collect, own, and purchase? We’ll discuss the psychology of things this hour with Sam Gosling, UT associate professor and author of the new book “Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You” (Basic Books, 2008).
Can new economic relationships heal conflicts between nations? Professor Lloyd J. Dumas of the University of Texas at Dallas will join us this evening to discuss the paper “Turning Enemies into Friends: The Role of Economic Relationship in Building Security and Sustaining Peace” which he recently presented at Seoul National University.
Is James Howard Kunstler’s “Long Emergency” of post-peak oil societal stress already underway, or is it just a big barrel of hype? We’ll get views from both sides of the issue this hour with participants in the Dallas Morning News’ Points Summer Book Club – Tod Robberson, Trey Garrison, and Jeffrey Brown.
Is the free market dead? Out guest this hour believes that conservatives in power, who have traditionally supported free market ideals, have in fact largely abandoned those philosophies in practice. We’ll talk with James K. Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Govt. / Business Relations at UT’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. His […]
