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 […]
Do the great oceans of the world have their own unique biographies? We’ll spend this hour with Simon Winchester, whose new book is “Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories” (HarperCollins, 2010).
From the archives: We all know the adage about necessity being the mother of invention, but are there ways to increase the occurrence of our collective eureka moments? We examined the phenomenon of innovation in October with Steve Johnson, author of “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” (Riverhead Books, 2010).
From the archives: What will it take to finally eliminate bias against the poor and people of color in the American criminal justice system? We spent an hour in September with Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative Alabama.
How did the United States transform itself from a largely agrarian economy to a powerhouse on the world stage and how did it happen so fast? We’ll spend this hour with H.W. Brands, the Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas in Austin and author of the new book “American […]
How did a working-class English lad evolve into an Oscar-winning filmmaker? We’ll talk this hour with Danny Boyle, director of “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Trainspotting,” and the upcoming “127 Hours,” which opened last November.
