D Magazine's Best of Big D
July 24, 2008What’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
July 23, 2008Who 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
July 23, 2008What 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
July 22, 2008Last 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
July 22, 2008Does 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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A Proposed League of Democracies
July 21, 2008Has 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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Election 2008 – First in a Series
July 21, 2008How 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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The Global Power Elite
July 18, 2008Who 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 and Giroux, 2008)
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Summer Movies
July 17, 2008What 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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The Making of a Successful Screenplay
July 17, 2008What goes into a successful screenplay? What does it take to create award-winning fiction that holds a readers attention and sells millions of books? We’ll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-Winning writer Larry McMurtry and his long-time collaborator Diana Ossana. They won an Academy Award for their “Brokeback Mountain” screenplay and will speak to the […]
