What is the current state of women’s healthcare in America? We’ll spend this hour with Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States. She is in town to deliver the Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture at SMU.
What was it like to be born into a family of declining prominence and fading glamour? We’ll talk this hour with New Yorker writer Tad Friend, whose new memoir is “Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor” (Little, Brown and Company, 2009).
How should we as individuals handle today’s most controversial issues? We’ll spend this hour with Harvard Professor of Government and political philosopher Michael J. Sandel, author of the new book “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).
What makes a candidate want to be the next governor of Texas? We’ll talk this hour with the former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Tom Schieffer, about state politics and his gubernatorial candidacy.
If you had barely escaped the Nazis during World War II, could anything make you go back? We’ll talk with Patrick K. O’Donnell, military historian and author of the new book, “They Dared Return: The Untold Story of Jewish Spies behind the Lines in Nazi Germany” (De Capo, 2009).
