This hour, we’ll talk about whether or not Texas executed an innocent man with Jessie Deter, the director and producer of the Frontline documentary Death by Fire 2, which updates a previous film about the story.
This hour, we’ll talk to Lawrence Wright about his book Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David (Knopf), which explores how peace in the Middle East was found during the 1978 meeting.
This hour, we’ll talk about questions over the way proposed social studies textbooks in Texas may teach culture and religion with a pair of SMU professors who testified about the books before the State Board of Education – Kathleen Wellman of the history department and David Brockman, who teaches religious studies.
This hour, we’ll talk about how our brains process fear – and why it can override our intellects – with Dr. Alicia Meuret, Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center at SMU; and Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, Chair of UT-Southwestern’s Mental Health Department.
This October on KERA’s CEO with Lee Cullum DALLAS/FORT WORTH – On the October episode of CEO, Satori Capital Managing Partner Sunny Vanderbeck tells host Lee Cullum how the private equity firm helps companies steer clear of common roadblocks to growth and explains why they look to invest in companies with a conscience. “(Satori Capital […]
We’ll talk this hour about how we can reclaim the art of prose with Steven Pinker, author of The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.
This hour, we’ll talk to Timothy Denevi about how he ultimately learned to live with the disorder, which he writes about in Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Greg Abbott and State Senator Wendy Davis took part in The Texas Debates: Race for Governor – a live state-wide debate originating from KERA. This hour, we’ll talk about what we learned and how the campaigns are positioned going forward with KERA’s Shelley Kofler, Gromer Jeffers of The Dallas Morning News and Norma Garcia of Telemundo 39.
The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. was found Tuesday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. This hour, we’ll talk about what North Texans need to know about the disease with UT-Southwestern infectious disease specialist Dr. Robert Haley.
