Opponents of immigration argue that the influx of new people leads to increased government spending. We’ll talk this hour to SMU economics professor Robert Lawson, whose new research shows the opposite to be true.
The ghost of King Hamlet announces himself on film in various ways, some of them quite entertaining. Guest host Jerome Weeks takes inventory of the versions with Shakespeare scholar Samuel Crowl.
KERA’s Jerome Weeks fills in to host Anne Wilkes Tucker of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. They’ll talk about her collection ‘War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath.’
We’ll talk this hour about the link between generosity and happiness with Hilary Davidson, co-author of The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose.
The PBS series Art 21 debuts its seventh season on KERA next month. This hour, we’ll get a taste of new energy in the contemporary art world with Susan Sollins, Art 21’s executive producer and curator.
DALLAS/FORT WORTH – KERA, the North Texas public television and radio stations, will host Attorney General Greg Abbott and State Senator Wendy Davis in The Texas Debates: The Race for Governor. The live, one-hour debate is a co-production with NBC 5/KXAS-TV and Telemundo39/KXTX-TV, The Dallas Morning News and Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB). Sponsored by […]
This hour, we’ll talk about how informal learning can supplement what students are taught in the classroom with Milton Chen, a senior fellow and former executive director of The George Lucas Educational Foundation. He’s in town to participate in “Learning Crossroads – The Digital Future: A National Forum” at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.
We’ll talk this hour about how we can maintain that balance with Stephen Whitfield of Brandeis University. On Saturday, he’ll teach a class called “National Security vs. Freedom of Expression” during The Dallas Morning News’ One-Day University.
We’ll talk this hour about our planet’s relative order and how it relates to the seeming randomness of the rest of existence with Dr. Caleb Scharf, Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University. His new book is The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities.
We’ll talk this hour about how parents can put these findings to use with Laurence Steinberg, Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Temple University. His new book is Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence.
