What does your choice of beverage say about you? We’ll explore the arcane world of personal distilling, legal and otherwise with journalist and Guggenheim recipient Max Watman. His new book is “Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine” (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
What can be done to end family violence and child maltreatment? We’ll spend this hour with SMU professors Dr. Renee McDonald, Dr. Ernie Jouriles and Dr. George Holden who will all participate in this week’s American Psychological Association National Summit on Interpersonal Violence and Abuse.
What’s the best strategy for parents facing a highly-advanced yet confusing and expensive landscape of adolescent medical care? We’ll talk this hour with bestselling author and journalist Judith Warner, whose new book is “We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication” (Riverhead Books, 2010).
Which planet celebrates its 80th anniversary this month? We’ll talk about the February, 1930 discovery of Pluto and learn lots of Pluto facts this hour with one of our favorite astronomers Ken Croswell, author of “Ten Worlds: Everything that Orbits the Sun” (Boyds Mill Press, 2007)
What can you learn from driving 7,436 miles across northern China? We’ll spend this hour with New Yorker staff writer Peter Hessler, whose new book is “Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory” (Harper, 2010).
What ethical, legal, moral and medical issues are faced by emergency psychiatric caregivers and how do they cope with the stress? We’ll talk with Dr. Paul R. Linde who reflects on his professional experiences in the new book “Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist” (University of California Press, 2010).
How will the relationship between the United States and Japan evolve in the coming decade? We’ll talk with Japan’s Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Ichiro Fujisaki, about strengthening ties between the two countries in the near future, and the issues that will inevitably influence that bond: the climate change initiative, trade policy, Toyota, […]
What scenes from your daily life would make for good stories? We’ll discuss the art of storytelling and writing this hour with novelist and memoirist Tobias Wolff who’s in town for the Highland Park Literary Festival. Wolff will give a free public reading this evening at the Highland Park High School auditorium.
What killed urbanism in America and is an urban resurgence possible? We’ll preview this weekend’s UTD Central Trak Symposium “Kinetics of Urban Sprawl: Cybernetics and Urbanism in the 21st Century” with Robert Bruegmann, Professor of Architectural History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of the book “Sprawl: A Compact History” (Chicago, 2005).
How are the people of Texas changing and what does it mean for our future? Rice University Sociology Professor Steve H. Murdock will deliver the lecture entitled “The New Texas Challenge: Population Change and the Future of Texas” at SMU this evening. We’ll get a preview with Professor Murdock this hour.
