Think with Krys Boyd

Think is a daily, topic-driven interview and call-in program hosted by Krys Boyd covering a wide variety of topics ranging from history, politics, current events, science, technology and emerging trends to food and wine, travel, adventure, and entertainment.

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Recent Shows:

A Lost Generation Love Story (Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:33:11 -0400)
Who were the Murphys and why were they so influential in the 20the Century Art World? We'll revisit the 1920s Paris scene this hour with Amanda Vail author of "Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sarah Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story" (Broadway Paperback, 1999). She'll speak at the Dallas Museum of Art this evening.
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D Magazine's Best of Big D (Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:14:20 -0400)
What's big in Big D this year? We'll find out this hour with D Magazine editors Eric Celeste, Nancy Nichols, and Sarah Eveans who put together the current "Best of Big D" issue.
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Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections (Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:13:21 -0400)
Who gets to decide how African Americans should be portrayed in the media and in popular culture? Author and poet Ishmael Reed tackles the issue in his new collection "Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections" (Da Capo, 2008). We'll talk with him this hour.
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War, Peace, and Diplomacy (Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:53:10 -0400)
What does war do to a society? What has it done to ours? We'll talk this hour with Colonel Ann Wright, the senior-most U.S. official to publicly resign in protest of the Iraq War. She'll speak to the Dallas peace Center this evening.
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In Support of Off-Shore Drilling (Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:44:00 -0400)
Last week, President Bush lifted the off-shore drilling moratorium. Will this have an impact on energy prices? We'll talk this hour with Max Schulz - senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Energy Policy and the Environment - who supports Bush's action.
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The Role of Identity in Democracy (Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:23:18 -0400)
Does a nation's collective identity have an influence on its governance? We'll discuss the issue this hour with former Israeli deputy prime minister and Soviet dissident and political prisoner Natan Sharansky. His latest book is "Defending Identity: Its Indispensible Role in Protecting Democracy" (Public Affairs, 2008).
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Election 2008 - First in a Series (Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:23:15 -0400)
How are the presidential candidates positioning themselves? How are they shaping the message and the campaign to get your vote? As we enter the election season in earnest, we'll hold our first of three planned discussions with Bob Ray Sanders of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Bill McKenzie of the Dallas Morning News.
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A Proposed League of Democracies (Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:03:18 -0400)
Has the United Nations outlived its purpose? Thomas Carothers writes about the proposed new League of Democracies in his current Foreign Policy Magazine piece "A League of Their Own." Carothers will join us this hour.
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The Global Power Elite (Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:14:53 -0400)
Who really runs the world? We talked in May 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 joined 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 Dirty World of Blues and Rock 'N' Roll" (Backbeat Books, 2008).
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Summer Movies (Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:43:11 -0400)
What were your favorite movies this summer? We'll talk picks and pans this hour with Chris Vognar of the Dallas Morning News and Christopher Kelly of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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