How is the U.S. Army filling its recruitment quota? Filmmaker Edet Belzberg will join us to discuss the hard work of Sergeant Clay Usie and the experiences of several of his recruits. She profiles them in her new film “THE RECRUITER” which premieres on HBO this evening.
What’s big in Big D this year? We’ll find out this hour with D Magazine editors Eric Celeste, Nancy Nichols, and Sarah Eveans who put together the current “Best of Big D” issue.
Who were the Murphys and why were they so influential in the 20the Century Art World? We’ll revisit the 1920s Paris scene this hour with Amanda Vaill author of “Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sarah Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story” (Broadway Paperback, 1999). She’ll speak at the Dallas Museum of Art this evening.
What does war do to a society? What has it done to ours? We’ll talk this hour with Colonel Ann Wright, the senior-most U.S. official to publicly resign in protest of the Iraq War. She’ll speak to the Dallas peace Center this evening.
Who gets to decide how African Americans should be portrayed in the media and in popular culture? Author and poet Ishmael Reed tackles the issue in his new collection “Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections” (Da Capo, 2008). We’ll talk with him this hour.
Does a nation’s collective identity have an influence on its governance? We’ll discuss the issue this hour with former Israeli deputy prime minister and Soviet dissident and political prisoner Natan Sharansky. His latest book is “Defending Identity: Its Indispensible Role in Protecting Democracy” (Public Affairs, 2008).
Last week, President Bush lifted the off-shore drilling moratorium. Will this have an impact on energy prices? We’ll talk this hour with Max Schulz – senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Energy Policy and the Environment – who supports Bush’s action.
Has the United Nations outlived its purpose? Thomas Carothers writes about the proposed new League of Democracies in his current Foreign Policy Magazine piece “A League of Their Own.” Carothers will join us this hour.
How are the presidential candidates positioning themselves? How are they shaping the message and the campaign to get your vote? As we enter the election season in earnest, we’ll hold our first of three planned discussions with Bob Ray Sanders of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Bill McKenzie of the Dallas Morning News.
Who really runs the world? We talked in May with David Rothkopf, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of the new book “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)
