What are the latest developments in the fight against type 1 and juvenile diabetes? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Gregory Clark of UT Southwestern Medical Center and Jeffrey Brewer, President and CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Would you risk your life to achieve equality? This hour we’ll remember the brave individuals who did just that in the spring and summer of 1961 with Ray Arsenault, the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. His acclaimed book “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle […]
What made Winston Churchill one of the great leaders of the 20th century? We’ll spend this hour with Celia Sandys, author of “We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill.” Sandys, who will address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Forth Worth this evening, is Churchill’s granddaughter.
What are the current big ideas about power, journalism, religion and healthcare? We’ll preview the upcoming Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Festival of Ideas this hour with KERA’s own Lee Cullum, who’ll lead this weekend’s event. We’ll also be joined by George Getschow, writer-in-residence of UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference and “Future of Journalism […]
What does the destruction in Japan mean for the Japanese and global economy and how will the tragedy affect our relationship with Japan? We’ll spend this hour with David Schnetzer, President of the Japan America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth and William Tsutsui, Dean of Dedman College at SMU. Tsutsui, a specialist in modern Japanese business […]
Why do we choose to live the way we do and what really influences those choices? We’ll talk this hour with New York Times columnist and bestselling author David Brooks, whose new book is “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement” (Random House). Brooks will address the Dallas Museum of Art’s […]
Why would an acclaimed photographer choose small town Texas football as the subject of her art? We’ll talk with Laura Wilson, who documents the tradition, energy, and cultural importance of high school sports in “Grit & Glory: Six-Man Football,” an exhibition running through April 23rd at SMU’s Meadows Museum. What’s it like growing up with, […]
Was the Boston Tea Party really about taxation or just a cunning ploy for political power? We’ll find out this hour with Harlow Giles Unger, author of “American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution” (Da Capo, 2011).
Can making errors improve our families, jobs and the world? We’ll talk this hour with New York Times consumer columnist Alina Tugend, whose new book is “Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong” (Riverhead Books, 2011).
What happens when nearly thirty thousand plastic animals spill from a freighter in the North Pacific? We’ll talk with Donovan Hohn, whose new book is “Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them” (Viking, 2011).
