When did American Cuisine begin and where is it headed? Ask Andrew F. Smith. He’s written about turkeys, popcorn, ketchup, and junk food. He serves as the Chair of The Culinary Trust and teaches culinary history at the New School in Manhattan. He’s the editor of the “Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America” […]
Do you love your neighborhood? Consider yourself lucky. As society becomes more centered on the individual, many worry that neighborhoods are becoming less… well neighborly. Jay Walljasper, Senior Fellow of the Project for Public Spaces, hopes to reverse that trend. He’ll join us this hour to discuss “The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to […]
Is the military running short on doctors in Iraq and Afghanistan? According to Mother Jones Magazine, the U.S. Army has only 4,200 physicians on active duty worldwide. We’ll spend this hour with Dr. Kevin Patterson, an emergency room doctor who put himself through medical school by serving in the Canadian Army. Patterson’s article on his […]
Remember the Alamo? Of course you do. But what about Goliad? Just weeks after the more famous battle in present-day downtown San Antonio, Goliad marked the deaths of more than 340 Texans and the nadir in the struggle for independence from Mexico. We’ll revisit the battles this hour with William R. Bradle, author of “Goliad: […]
What would you do to celebrate the end of your single years? Throw yourself a bachelor or bachelorette party? Go skydiving? Not so for Josh Wolk. To celebrate his transition to the married life, Josh decided to go back to summer camp as a counselor. We’ll spend this hour with Wolk, whose new book is […]
How are art and war related? During World War II, the Nazi’s looted European art treasures by the thousands. Author and film producer Robert M. Edsel tells the story of this theft and the subsequent Allied recovery in his book “Rescuing Da Vinci” (Laurel, 2006) and the documentary film “The Rape of Europa.” We’ll talk […]
How does the current immigration debate in North Texas compare with the climate in the early 20th Century? We’ll spend the hour with Michael Phillips, author of “White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001” (University of Texas Press). Phillips will deliver the talk “Less Desirable People: Racism and the Politics of Immigration” at […]
Last month the U.S. Federal Claims Court began hearings concerning alleged links between vaccines and autism. How can vaccination, a procedure that has saved millions of lives be so controversial? We’ll discuss the case and the history of vaccination with Slate’s “Risk” columnist Arthur Allen, who explores the subject in his recent book “VACCINE: The […]
From the archives: Should countries spy on each other? Should our government spy on us? We examined the spy game, its benefits and detriments in May with James M. Olson. Olson teaches at Texas AandM University, but before that he served as the chief of CIA counterintelligence at CIA headquarters. He’s also served overseas in […]
From the archives: What happens when a young man is accused and convicted of a brutal rape and murder that he didn’t commit? It happened to Darryl Hunt in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1984. Hunt spent 10 years in prison before DNA testing exonerated him of the rape. He spent another 10 years in jail […]
