What does the future hold for the United States on the global stage? According to former governor and U.S. senator David Boren, the decisions we make now will secure our country’s future. Boren, currently president of the University of Oklahoma, is in town to talk about his new book “A Letter to America” (University of […]
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’ll take a closer look at China this evening with journalist Ted Fishman, author of “China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and […]
What will actually help your brain perform better and what won’t? We’ll find out this hour with neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt, co-author of the new 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).
What happens to the families and small children of illegal immigrants when they are detained or seeking asylum? Many are locked up in a former medium-security prison right here in Texas. We’ll spend this hour with journalist Margaret Talbot, whose story “The Lost Children: What do tougher immigration policies mean for illegal immigrant families?” appears […]
How good is the good life for our representatives in the U.S. Congress? We’ll spend this hour with Ken Silverstein, Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine. His March cover story is “Beltway Bacchanal: Congress lives high on the contributor’s dime.”
Think will be pre-empted this hour by special NPR coverage of the Tuesday, March 4th Primaries.
Today is Election Day in Texas (don’t forget to vote) and the big races are the Democratic and Republican Presidential Primaries. We’ll spend this hour with William McKenzie, editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News and J.R. Labbe, deputy editorial page editor for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Where are the roots of liberty? Many would argue that our modern concepts of due process and judicial rights began in 1215 with the Great Charter also known as Magna Carta. We’ll examine the history of this important document and how it relates to greed and imperial ambitions today with Professor Peter Linebaugh, author of […]
What was the Ark of the Covenant and what happened to it after its 586 BC disappearance? We’ll spend this hour with Professor Tudor Parfitt. Known to some as the “British Indiana Jones,” Parfitt’s new book is “The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark” (Harper […]
Will the situation in Iraq improve, or will the country’s spiral into guerrilla war and anarchy continue? We’ll spend this hour with Charles Ferguson, author of the book “No End in Sight: Iraq’s Descent into Chaos” (Public Affairs, 2008). Ferguson’s film of the same name was a nominee for Best Documentary Feature in last month’s […]
