School begins Monday in the Dallas and Fort Worth School Districts. What will the new year hold for students and parents and how are administrators facing the growing challenges of educating the youth of North Texas? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Melody Johnson, Superintendent of the Fort Worth I.S.D. and Dr. Michael Hinojosa, Superintendent […]
How did the United States rebuild World War II-ravaged Europe and how can the lessons learned be applied to current challenges? Our guest this hour, Greg Behrman, is the Henry Kissinger Fellow for Foreign Policy at The Aspen Institute and author of “The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped […]
What can we learn from meteorites – the oldest materials known to exist? We’ll find out this hour with Dr. Arthur Ehlmann, curator of the Oscar E. Monnig Meteorite Gallery and Dr. Doug Ingram, Instructor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at TCU.
There are refugees from war and violence living on every continent. What was it like when the violence they were fleeing was taking place in Western Europe? We’ll explore the stories of thousands and thousands of displaced Parisians in World War II with University of Bath Senior Lecturer in French History, Hanna Diamond. Her latest […]
What’s in store for television this fall? We’ll spend this hour with Ed Bark, who after his 26-year career as the TV critic at The Dallas Morning News, began covering the television scene on his very popular website and blog, Uncle Barky.com.
Archive from 7/13/07 – In the late 60s, Dr. Kenneth Cooper changed the way American’s approach exercise with the release of his book “Aerobics.” Now he hopes to help Texas school children revitalize their health with the Fitnessgram, a multi-platform physical fitness evaluation that Texas schools will implement in the coming year. Dr. Cooper joined […]
How is the United States Congress spending your money? Will new ethics rules change the way things are done in Washington or not? We’ll discuss pork, earmarks, and appropriations this hour with Tom Schatz, President of Citizens Against Government Waste, an organization “dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.
Without a doubt, the United States military mission in Iraq is facing an unprecedented challenge facing an insurgent that was completely unexpected when the conflict began. One just-published response is “The U.S. Army – Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual” (University of Chicago Press, 2007). We’ll talk this hour with Lt. Col. John A. Nagl, Military […]
We’ve all heard about the sacrifices that mothers must make in order to pursue a successful career. But Leslie Bennetts, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, wonders if stay-at-home moms might be making un-necessary sacrifices too. She’ll join us this hour to discuss the issue and her book “The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too […]
There was once a great culture in this hemisphere known as the Maya. But how did their success contribute to their failure and what can our culture learn from their mistakes? We’ll spend this hour with Guy Gugliotta, whose three-part cover story, “The Maya: Glory and Ruin” appears in the August, 2007 issue of National […]
