How geopolitically important are the Indian Ocean and the countries that surround it? Our guest this hour, Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow Robert D. Kaplan, argues for a more complete understanding of the region and its power in the 21st Century and beyond in his new book “Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and […]
How will PBS navigate the unique challenges of a media landscape in flux? We’ll discuss changing technologies, fundraising issues, and the future of public television with Paula Kerger, President and CEO of PBS. In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with Atlee Phillips, Consignment Director for Heritage Auction Galleries, about Henry Arthur McArdle’s historic “lost” painting […]
Is there a time when war is the right decision? What makes Americans fight? We’ll find out this hour with Richard E. Rubenstein, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at George Mason University and author of the new book “Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War” (Bloomsbury, 2010).
Everyone’s seen the photos and films from Dallas in November 1963, but what was it like to be part of President Kennedy’s Secret Service team on the day of his tragic assassination? We’ll spend this hour with two of those agents, Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin – the journalist who helps tell […]
How will machines and humans interact in the future? We’ll talk this hour with designer Jonathan Tippett, who also co-hosts Discovery Channel’s “Breaking Point” program. Tippett will deliver the UTD Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology Lecture on “Expanding the Human Experience Through Machines” tonight.
What do numbers and statistics really tell us about ourselves and our country, and how vulnerable are these data to manipulation? We’ll find out this hour with NYU journalism professor Charles Seife, author of the new book “Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception” (Viking, 2010).
Which writers do your favorite authors love to read and why? We’ll spend this hour with bestselling novelist Pat Conroy, who’ll discuss his new memoir, “My Reading Life” (Nan A. Talese, 2010), at tonight’s Dallas Museum of Art Arts & Letters Live event.
Almost seven decades later, tales of Nazi atrocities and personal experiences of the Holocaust are still coming to light. We’ll hear one such story this hour, with Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, The Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies, Professor of Literature and the History of Ideas at UTD and author of “When the Danube Ran […]
Religion is undoubtedly a force in American society, but what role if any should religion play in politics? We’ll talk this hour with Harvard University Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Robert D. Putnam. He’s the co-author of the new book “American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us” (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
What still awaits discovery on our planet and how will it be found? We’ll talk this hour with Robert Rutford, Antarctic explorer, President Emeritus at UT Dallas and winner of the 2010 Medal for International Scientific Coordination by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
