How will last week’s Mumbai terror attacks affect the fragile relationship between India and Pakistan? We’ll talk this hour with Kamran Bokhari, Director of Middle East Analysis for Stratfor, a private intelligence company based in Austin, Texas.
How is the ongoing media convergence changing American culture and society? We’ll explore the topic this hour with MIT Comparative Media Studies Director, Professor Henry Jenkins. Jenkins is also the author of “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide” (NYU Press, Paperback, 2008).
With all its idiosyncrasies, some might argue it’s a wonder that the English language actually exists as a working language. But how did the language develop? We’ll spend this hour with bestselling author, linguist, and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow, John McWhorter. His new book is “Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English” (Gotham, […]
Who was Patty Hearst and what does her story tell us about the confusing and turbulent 70s? We’ll spend this hour with William Graebner, author of the new book “Patty’s Got a Gun: Patty Hearst in 1970’s America” (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Do you love your car but hate traffic, the expense of your vehicle and the environmental damage it does? According to Brian Ladd, this love-hate relationship is nothing new. We’ll talk with Ladd, author of “Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age” (University of Chicago Press, 2008) this hour.
Many are familiar with poet Walt Whitman’s work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War. But did you know about the roles his brothers played? We’ll explore the Civil War through the lens of one family this hour with Robert Roper, author of “Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and […]
What does “biologically normal” really mean and what can we learn from abnormalities? We’ll spend this hour with the University of Iowa’s Professor Mark S. Blumberg, author of the new book “Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us about Development and Evolution” (Oxford 2008).
What role did the Indian Nations of the Southern Plains play in America’s 19th Century conflict with Mexico? We’ll talk this hour with University of Colorado historian Brian DeLay. His new book on the subject is “War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War” (Yale, 2008).
Can history really be known? Where are the clues to the truth about the past? According to our guest this hour, University of Georgia Professor Peter Charles Hoffer, history is all around us. We’ll speak with him this hour about his new book “The Historian’s Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time” (NYU Press, […]
Should the Bush Administration be held accountable for miscarriages of justice including war crimes? Harper’s Magazine contributing editor and New York attorney Scott Horton thinks so. He makes this case in this month’s cover story “Justice After Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration.”
