With the stock market falling and unemployment rising, what is the outlook for the American worker? We’ll spend this hour with Steven Greenhouse, whose book “The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker” (Anchor, Paperback, 2009) is now out in paperback.
How is the NYPD safeguarding New York residents in a post-9/11 world? We’ll spend the hour with journalist Christopher Dickey, whose new book is “Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force – the NYPD” (Simon and Schuster, 2009). Dickey speaks to the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth this evening.
How are emotions created and where does creativity come from? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Antonio Damasio, the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. He’ll lecture this evening at UTD’s Center for BrainHealth Lecture Series.
This month marks the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. But what was the pivotal year in the creation of the Lincoln legend? We’ll spend this hour with historian Charles Bracelen Flood, author of “1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History” (Simon and Schuster, 2009).
What does it take to turn underserved, inner-city neighborhoods around? We’ll talk this hour with Paul Tough, editor at the New York Times Magazine and author of the book “Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008).
What are things really like in Iran and how should the West deal with a potentially nuclear regime in Tehran? What do Iranians think? We’ll get an informed perspective this evening with “Lipstick Jihad” author Azadeh Moaveni, whose new book is “Honeymoon in Tehran” (Random House, 2009). The National Inventors Hall of Fame recently celebrated […]
How does your mind think, remember, learn, create and do all the other things it does simultaneously? We’ll explore the workings of human intellect this hour with one of the world’s 50 living autistic savants, Daniel Tammet. His new book is “Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind” (Free Press, […]
Which of your favorite films and actors will win Oscars this year? We’ll find out when the 81st Annual Academy Awards are held on Sunday, February 22nd. We’ll preview the ceremony this hour with Arnold Wayne Jones of the Dallas Voice, Stephen Becker of KERA’s Art and Seek and Christopher Kelly of the Fort Worth […]
How will the world react to new American leadership after eight years of the Bush Administration? We’ll discuss the situation this hour with Thomas P. M. Barnett author of the new book “Great Powers: America and the World after Bush” (Putnam, 2009).
How does the Daily Show’s “senior black correspondent” view the Obama election and other significant events of the New Year? We’ll talk this hour with humorist Larry Wilmore whose new book is “I’d Rather We Got Casinos, and Other Black Thoughts” (Hyperion, 2009).
