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 and CEO of the Parkland Health and Hospital System.
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.
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 […]
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” […]
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.
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).
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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).
