Have past attempts at education reform made a difference in learning? And how can things be improved for the immediate future? We’ll discuss the state of America’s students with Margaret Spellings, former U.S. Secretary of Education.
Are newspapers destined to become a relic of history? This hour we’ll talk with Richard Rodriguez, whose article “Final Edition: Twilight of the American Newspaper” appears in this month’s edition of Harper’s Magazine.
Why did the banking system almost collapse last year? And who was responsible? We’ll spend this hour with Charles Gasparino, author of the new book “The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System” (Harper Business, 2009).
Have private corporations taken over the U.S. government? We’ll talk this hour with Allison Stanger, author of “One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy” (Yale University Press, 2009).
Can you remember the assassination of President Kennedy? Or does your knowledge of that tragic moment come from a history textbook rather than news reports or firsthand accounts? We’ll spend this hour with Tom Jennings, executive producer of the new documentary “The Lost JFK Tapes,” and Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at […]
Is Frisco, Texas, the capitol of over-the-top Christmas excess? We’ll talk this hour with Washington Post pop culture writer Hank Stuever, author of the new book, “Tinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas Present” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).
Is an ambitious new water system in India a viable alternative to monsoon season for the nation’s farmers? We’ll talk with Sara Corbett, whose article “A Harvest of Water” appears in this month’s issue of National Geographic Magazine.
How much do you know about the man who leaped from his bathtub exclaiming “Eureka!” on discovering a scientific principle that, today, allows a balloon to fly? We’ll talk this hour with biographer Alan Hirshfeld, whose new book is “Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes” (Walker and Company, 2009).
Twenty years ago this week the Berlin Wall came down, signaling the beginning of the end for the Soviet Empire. We’ll discuss that historic moment and how it still reverberates today with James F. Hollifield, Ph.D., Professor and Director of SMU’s Tower Center for Political Studies. In the ArtandSeek segment, we’ll talk with Miguel Harth […]
How did the collapse of the USSR’s European empire happen so quickly and peacefully in the waning months of the 80s? We’ll talk to Victor Sebestyen, author of “Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire” (Pantheon, 2009).
