Would you be surprised to learn that slavery still exists in America today? Journalist John Bowe isn’t. His new book, “Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy” (Random House, 2007), exposes a practice which fuels the low prices that benefit us all. John Bowe will join us for […]
In observance of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs until October 15th, we’ll discuss the continuous merging of cultures not only in Texas, but in the United States as a whole with Macarena Hernandez, writer for the Dallas Morning News, and Alejandrina Drew, General manager of the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas. Jerrie Marcus Smith, Stanley […]
What kind of car will you drive in 20 or 40 years? Will it be gas, hydrogen or solar-powered? Which car companies will dominate the landscape? We’ll peer into the future this hour with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, correspondent for The Economist and co-author of the new book “ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of […]
What is your body doing right now? We’ll find out this hour with journalist Jennifer Ackerman, who’s new book is “Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body” (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
Are you looking forward to the fall movie season? We’ll get the picks and pans of two area critics this hour – Chris Vognar, Movie Critic for The Dallas Morning News and John Meyer, Film Critic for PegasusNews.com.
What is the best way to measure the performance of our education system? Is standardized testing the answer? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Linda Perlstein who spent a year inside a Maryland elementary school to write her new book “Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade” (Henry Holt and Company, 2007).
Why, in America in the 20th and 21st Centuries, are books still being banned? We’ll discuss some of the books that have been described as subversive this hour with Judith Krug, the founder of Banned Books Week and the Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
Does the ever-widening expansion of capitalism threaten democracy? Former Clinton Administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich thinks so. We’ll spend this hour with Reich, currently professor of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley, to discuss his new book “Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life” (Knopf, 2007).
How does science relate to the gathering of evidence and prosecution of a crime? We’ll spend this hour with Dr. Katherine Ramsland, Assistant Professor of Forensic Psychology at DeSales University and author of the new book “Beating the Devil’s Game: A History of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation” (Berkeley Publishing Group, 2007).
What is your definition of justice? Morris Dees, Founder and Chief Counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center, will deliver the lecture “With Justice For All” at the First Unitarian Church of Dallas this Friday. He’ll join us to discuss the Center’s work and preview his talk this hour.
