What would you do to fight oppression and change your country for the better? Would you be willing to spend 27 years in prison? We’ll explore the life of a man who did just that this hour with author Martin Meredith. His new book is “Mandela: A Biography” (Public Affairs, 2010).
How does the Obama Administration really operate? We’ll explore the realities of current American politics this hour with veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk, whose film “Obama’s Deal,” airs tonight at 9pm on KERA 13.
What can we learn about America from its pop-culture past? We’ll spend this hour with Florida International University law professor and New York Times blogger Stanley Fish, who delivers the lecture “The Fugitive in Flight: Law, Faith, and Liberalism in a Classic TV Show” at UTD’s Jonsson Performance Hall this evening.
What does it mean to be financially literate? In the spirit of Financial Literacy Month, we’ll talk this hour with Todd Mark, Vice President for Education at Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater Dallas and Julie Gunter, Senior Community Affairs Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
How can we prepare a new generation of teachers to turn the tide in the American math and science crisis? We’ll talk with Tom Luce, Chief Executive Officer of the National Math and Science Initiative, about the keys to keeping the United States competitive in today’s global marketplace. In the Art&Seek segment, Jerome Weeks talks […]
In the age of ever-expanding technology, social networking and targeted marketing, does privacy still exist? We’ll talk this hour with Chip Pitts, President of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and former chairman of Amnesty International USA. Chip will deliver the lecture “Privacy and Technology: Protecting Autonomy in a Transparent World” on Monday, April 12 […]
When you’re gone, will you go green, anti-corporate or Disney? This is just one of the topics covered in the new book by journalist, former radio producer and undertaker’s apprentice-for-a-year Tom Jokinen. The book is called “Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training” (Da Capo, 2010).
You probably see them on every road trip, but what are the stories behind those historical markers? We’ll talk this hour with Dan K. Utley, former chief historian of the Texas Historical Commission and co-author of the new book “History Ahead: Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers” (TAMU Press, 2010).
How does a school’s design influence a student’s ability to learn and excel? We’ll spend this hour with Victoria Bergsagel, founder and director of Architects of Achievement. She’ll address the North Texas chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism this evening.
What is life like for the day laborers who help build America’s cities and homes and landscape their gardens? We’ll find out first-hand this hour with journalist and North Carolina State University English Professor Dick Reavis, author of “Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers” (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
