What is the competitive landscape like for law firms owned by minorities and women? Is the courtroom a level playing field? We’ll talk this hour with Emery K. Harlan, Board Chairman of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms and Elise A. Healy, founding shareholder at Spencer Crain Cubbage Healy and McNamara, […]
Horses have played key roles in almost every chapter of American history. What is the status of the wild mustang today? We’ll spend this hour with Deanne Stillman, author of “Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West” (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). She’ll speak at SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies on Thursday, […]
What was it like to grow up the grandson of one of the greatest presidents in history? We’ll spend this hour with Curtis Roosevelt whose new book is “Too Close to the Sun: Growing Up in the Shadow of My Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor” (Public Affairs, 2008).
Where has the darkness gone? With the current National Geographic Magazine cover story “Our Vanishing Night” as our starting point, we’ll discuss the importance of darkness with Pete Strasser, Senior Technical Advisor at the International Dark Sky Association.
How can we replace fear with purpose and hope? We’ll spend this hour with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, author of the 2007 book “You Don’t Have to be Wrong for Me to be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism” (Harmony). Hirschfield will address the Jewish Community Center of Dallas this evening.
What does this week’s national election tell us about where America is headed? How does North Texas compare to the rest of the country? We’ll talk this evening with Political Science Professors Dennis Simon of SMU and Thomas Brunell of UTD.
How did the friendship of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln help create the America we know today? We’ll explore their lives this hour with Harvard historian John Stauffer, author of “Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln” (Twelve, 2008).
What would you do if you were convicted of a crime you didn’t commit? Texas has seen a wave of recent DNA-based exonerations – 20 in Dallas County alone. We’ll spend this hour with Texas Monthly senior editor Michael Hall whose piece “The Exonerated” appears in the current issue; James Waller, a Dallas resident who […]
No matter how you feel about it, yesterday’s election of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States was groundbreaking in many ways. We’ll open the phones this hour to get your thoughts on the national, state and regional election results.
Who was Emily Post before she became the etiquette expert we all know today? We’ll spend this hour with Laura Claridge author of “Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners” (Random House, 2008).
