Where do your loyalties lie? Are they with family, friends, country and church or elsewhere? We’ll explore the concepts of commitment, reliability and trust this hour with Eric Felten, columnist for The Wall Street Journal and author of the new book “Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue” (Simon & Schuster, 2011).
Program Alert: April 22, 2011 Think airs Monday to Thursday from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. on KERA-FM and at 7:00 p.m. every Friday except the last Friday of the month on KERA-TV. Podcasts and streamed video are available online at www.kera.org/think. KERA Think Rundown – Week of 4/25/11 Monday, 4/25 Noon: Which country has […]
How do the real lives of novelists empower their storytelling? We’ll talk with writer Anne Lamott about the hazy demarcation between the personal and the professional and what lessons parents might glean from some of the characters in her latest novel, “Imperfect Birds” (Riverhead Books, 2010). And in the Art&Seek segment, Jerome Weeks talks with […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 21, 2011 DALLAS/FORT WORTH – Kathleen Gibson, Central Division President for Citibank Commercial Banking, talks with KERA host, Lee Cullum, for this month’s episode of CEO. From bailout to profits, Gibson gives a glimpse into Citibanks’ remarkable financial resurrection. Also discussed are the new regulations and challenges in the banking industry. […]
How did the mid-1960s Chicano Movement in Texas influence other Latino rights struggles around the country? We’ll talk this hour with U.C. Berkeley Professor of Ethnic Studies David Montejano, author of “Quixote’s Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981” (University of Texas, 2010). Montejano will deliver the Center for Mexican American Studies Distinguished […]
What should we each be doing to help preserve the environment and especially the oceans? We’ll talk this hour with adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild, who (along with his crew) crossed the Pacific Ocean last year on a boat made from 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other fully recyclable materials. His recounts the experience […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 20, 2011 KERA announced today that it has eliminated the positions of six employees and is ending, on April 22, the television production of Think that airs three Fridays a month at 7 p.m. on KERA TV. Think with Krys Boyd continues to air on KERA FM, Monday through Thursday, from […]
He was undoubtedly one of the greatest leaders in history, but where did Ghandi’s achievements fall short of his own expectations and how did those disappointments inform his world view? We’ll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld, whose highly-acclaimed new book is “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India” (Knopf, […]
How is the modern world treating the vulnerable Ursus Arctos Horribilis or Grizzly Bear? We’ll spend this hour with naturalist and National Geographic “Expedition Wild” host Casey Anderson. He’ll speak to the Brinker International Forum at the AT&T Performing Arts Center this evening.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 19, 2011 LIVE COVERAGE OF THE ROYAL WEDDING ON KERA Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Nuptials Broadcast KERA TV will air coverage of the Royal Wedding between Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton from 2:00 a.m. CST to 7:30 a.m. CST in the early morning hours of Friday, April 29, […]
