How was the Vietnam War viewed by the people who lived though it? We’ll explore the war this hour from the perspective of the Vietnamese people with University of Chicago historian Mark Philip Bradley, author of the new book “Vietnam at War” (Oxford, 2009).
Are people you know secretly addicted to painkillers but able to navigate their way in society without being discovered? We’ll explore the growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse this hour with journalist Joshua Lyon, author of “Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict” (Hyperion, 2009).
How is the U.S. Constitution evolving and does our country’s founding document continue to reflect an ever-changing society? We’ll spend this hour with Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School’s Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment. He is also co-editor of the new book “The Constitution in 2020” (Oxford, 2009).
Does North Korea’s saber rattling pose a legitimate threat to the United States and what can be done to slow their development of nuclear weapons? We’ll talk with Joseph Cirincione, anti-proliferation expert, president of Ploughshares Fund in Washington, D.C. and a blogger on nuclear disarmament for Salon.com.
What is corporate social responsibility and how accountable should we expect corporate entities to be? We’ll talk with Chip Pitts, Stanford Law School Lecturer, former Chief Legal Officer of Nokia, Inc., former Chair of Amnesty International USA, and co-author and editor of “Corporate Social Responsibility: A Legal Analysis” (LexisNexis, 2009). Pitts will address the World […]
Was Leonard Bernstein a threat to American democracy? We’ll explore the life and times of one of the greatest creative forces of the 20th Century with Barry Seldes, political scientist at Rider University and author of the new book “Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician” (California, 2009).
Who was the mysterious subject of Shakespeare’s sonnets and was the Bard really even the author of the 154 famous poems? We’ll talk this hour with Clinton Heylin, author of the new book “So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Sonnets” (Da Capo, 2009).
What was the 17th Century heresy trial of Galileo really like? We’ll find out this hour with author Dan Hofstadter, who examines the details of the trial and conviction in his new book “The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition” (W.W. Norton and Co., 2009).
What are the special challenges faced by those who run arts and cultural organizations? How are they coping with the world-wide economic downturn? As the 10th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management wraps up today at SMU, we’ll talk with one of the organizers. Krista Farber Weinstein is a recent Visiting Assistant Professor in […]
