Why hasn’t the U.S. achieved the same kind of universal health care that other industrialized nations instituted long ago? Journalist and author T.R. Reid examined this question and many more in his bestselling book “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care” (Penguin, Paperback, 2010) which is now out […]
How do top performers train themselves to succeed under extreme pressure and what can the rest of us learn from them? We’ll talk this hour with Paul Sullivan, “Wealth Matters” columnist for The New York Times and author of the new book “Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don’t” (Portfolio Penguin, 2010).
What made Texas the national leader and template for criminal incarceration? We’ll talk this hour with Robert Perkinson, professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and author of “Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire” (Picador, 2010).
What was retirement like for the great hero of World War II whose presidency marked the start of unprecedented prosperity for Americans? We’ll spend this hour with David Eisenhower whose new book is “Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969” (Simons & Schuster, 2010). Eisenhower will address the World […]
What will it take to restore habitats, protect migration routes and preserve the planet’s necessary predators? We’ll talk this hour with writer Caroline Fraser, whose new book is “Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution” (Picador, 2010).
What was one early 20th Century athlete’s influence on sports, culture and African American hopes for racial equality? We’ll find out this hour with biographer Randy Roberts, whose new book is “Joe Louis: Hard Times Man” (Yale, 2010).
How important are bats to maintaining a healthy ecosystem and what caused more than a million hibernating bat deaths in the U.S. since 2006? We’ll talk this hour with writer David Quammen, whose article “Bat Crash,” appears in the current issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Carol Reed tells what it takes to mount a winning campaign for precarious elections like the Trinity River corridor or a costly new arena.
From the archives – What are environmental degradation, fish farming and commercial fishing doing to the wild fish populations in the world’s oceans? We talked in July with Paul Greenberg, seafood and ocean authority and author of “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food” (The Penguin Press, 2010).
From the archives – Is there any way to prove the existence of the soul? Last summer we talked with David Eagleman, Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine and author of the book “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives” (Vintage, Paperback, 2010).
