Think features in-depth interviews with compelling guests, covering a wide variety of topics ranging from history, politics, current events, science, technology and trends to food and wine, travel, adventure and entertainment.
Angel of Death August 13, 2007
Archive from 7/12/07 – What would motivate a “sweet, soft-spoken nurse” to begin murdering her patients? Skip Hollandsworth waited years to find out. He interviewed Nocona nurse Vickie Dawn Jackson for his July, 2007 Texas Monthly cover story “Angel of …
Art and War August 10, 2007
Archive from 7/6/07 – How are art and war related? During World War II, the Nazi’s looted European art treasures by the thousands. Author and film producer Robert M. Edsel tells the story of this theft and the subsequent Allied …
A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance August 9, 2007
Archive from 6/13/07 – Everyone wants to do a good job, but doctors are under constant pressure to perform perfectly. Dr. Atul Gawande knows first hand what it’s like to work under stressful conditions. The 2006 MacArthur Fellow and general …
How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity August 9, 2007
Archive from 6/28/07 – What makes a country? What makes America what it is today? Author Andro Linklater argues that changing territorial markers and frontiers played an important role in the creation of our country’s personality. His book is “The …
The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy August 8, 2007
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” …
Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 August 8, 2007
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 …
Understanding Your Child’s Unique Core Personality August 7, 2007
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 …
The Education of a Modern-Day Explorer August 7, 2007
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 …
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Twelve Books, 2007) August 6, 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 …
A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing August 6, 2007
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 …
