Are you having trouble staying focused? Join the club. Our guest this hour argues that with millions of resources just a mouse click away, and almost constant interruptions, our lives are becoming more fragmented by the minute. We’ll talk with Maggie Jackson, author of “Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age” (Prometheus […]
Does the Olympic Movement achieve its goal of “a peaceful and better world” as the Olympic Charter states? Not necessarily, according to John Hoberman, whose article “Think Again: The Olympics” appears in the July/August issue of Foreign Policy Magazine. We’ll talk to Hoberman this hour.
Why is it so challenging for combat troops to re-adjust to home life? We’ll talk to one such veteran this hour. Matt Cook, who began basic training on September 11th, 2001, writes about his experience in the piece “SOLDIER” which appears in the July issue of Texas Monthly Magazine.
How do art experts “know” that an artwork is genuine? How do the forger’s fool them? We’ll find out this hour with journalist Edward Dolnick. His new book is “The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century” (Harper Collins, 2008).
What’s reasonable about “doing the right thing?” And why is an ethical compromise often so easy for many people? We’ll talk this hour with Clinton D. Korver, co-author of the new book “Ethics: {for the real world}” (Harvard Business Press, 2008).
How have the Olympics affected your life? We’ll look back at a critical turning point in the Olympic Movement with Pulitzer Prize-Winner David Maraniss, whose new book is “Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World” (Simon and Schuster, 2008).
How is the current economy affecting your life? How are other North Texans dealing with the pinch and what might the future hold? We’ll talk this evening with Professor Michael L. Davis of SMU’s Cox School of Business and Angela Shah, staff writer for The Dallas Morning News.
Why do you live where you live? Which city is right for you? We’ll talk this hour with Richard Florida, author of “Who’s Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life” (Basic Books, 2008).
Chinese citizens will have the world stage during next month’s Olympic Games. But how are they coping with a rapidly-changing capitalist society that is still strictly controlled by a Communist government? We’ll explore a changing China this hour with Philip P. Pan, former Washington Post Beijing bureau chief and author of the new book “OUT […]
What is it like inside Guantanamo Bay’s U.S. detention center? We’ll spend this hour with Mahvish Rukhsana Khan who writes about the prison and the people inside in her new book “My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me” (Public Affairs, 2008).
