Where are the roots of terrorism? This hour we’ll explore how the actions and impulses of terrorists aren’t necessarily a new thing with historian Michael Burleigh, whose new book is “Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism” (Harper Collins, 2009).
Why would someone string a high-wire between the World Trade Center Towers, risking arrest and certain death to walk between them over 1,300 feet in the air? In August of last year we talked with director James Marsh, whose film “Man On Wire” profiles the man who actually did it in 1974. The film won […]
As President and CEO of Half Price Books, Sharon Anderson Wright heads one of the nation’s largest and best-known family-owned used bookstore chains.
What will the next century hold for America and the rest of the world? We’ll spend this hour with George Friedman, president and CEO of STRATFOR – a private intelligence company. His new book is “The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century” (Doubleday, 2009).
Is there hope for the economy in 2009? We’ll look back at the seeds of the financial crisis and forward to possible recovery this hour with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, which has just published the anthology “Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover” […]
With the stock market falling and unemployment rising, what is the outlook for the American worker? We’ll spend this hour with Steven Greenhouse, whose book “The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker” (Anchor, Paperback, 2009) is now out in paperback.
Why are film buffs still captivated by “Gone with the Wind” 70 years after the film was released? We’ll explore the film, the book and the myth of Scarlet O’Hara this hour with writer and film critic Molly Haskell whose new book is “Frankly My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited” (Yale, 2009).
How is the NYPD safeguarding New York residents in a post-9/11 world? We’ll spend the hour with journalist Christopher Dickey, whose new book is “Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force – the NYPD” (Simon and Schuster, 2009). Dickey speaks to the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth this evening.
How are emotions created and where does creativity come from? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Antonio Damasio, the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. He’ll lecture this evening at UTD’s Center for BrainHealth Lecture Series.
This month marks the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. But what was the pivotal year in the creation of the Lincoln legend? We’ll spend this hour with historian Charles Bracelen Flood, author of “1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History” (Simon and Schuster, 2009).
