Which writers do your favorite authors love to read and why? We’ll spend this hour with bestselling novelist Pat Conroy, who’ll discuss his new memoir, “My Reading Life” (Nan A. Talese, 2010), at tonight’s Dallas Museum of Art Arts & Letters Live event.
Religion is undoubtedly a force in American society, but what role if any should religion play in politics? We’ll talk this hour with Harvard University Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Robert D. Putnam. He’s the co-author of the new book “American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us” (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
What still awaits discovery on our planet and how will it be found? We’ll talk this hour with Robert Rutford, Antarctic explorer, President Emeritus at UT Dallas and winner of the 2010 Medal for International Scientific Coordination by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
Should society do more to stop the bullying of homosexual, lesbian, and transgender teens? We’ll discuss ways to protect gay youth with Fort Worth city councilman Joel Burns of the It Gets Better campaign and Sam Wilkes of Youth First Texas. In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with violinist Matt Albert of eighth blackbird, the […]
Why was Winston Churchill voted out of office in 1945 – almost immediately after World War II and what led to his unlikely political comeback six years later? We’ll talk this hour with biographer Barbara Leaming, author of the new book “Churchill Defiant: Fighting On: 1945-1955” (Harper, 2010). Leaming addresses the World Affairs Council of […]
What does it take to provide shelter, clean water, sanitation and power for the poorest and most under-privileged in the world? We’ll spend this hour with Kenyan architect Ronald Omyonga and Andrew Quicksall, the J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Assistant Professor at SMU’s Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering.
What forces shaped Dallas from its humble 1841 beginnings into the city we know today? We’ll look back this hour with the perspective of 125 years of news-gathering with Bob Mong, editor of The Dallas Morning News and David Woo, photo editor of the newspaper’s 125th anniversary book, “Frontier to Top Tier: A Photo Retrospective […]
What factors influence which of us will retain mental acuity with age and what can we do to maintain cognitive vitality for the rest of our lives? We’ll talk this hour with neuroscientist Denise Park. Ph.D., founder and director of the UTD Center for Vital Longevity.
What can the careful observer glean from simply watching society? If they have access to the presidents, pundits, music stars, activists and thinkers who shaped the 20th Century, then quite a bit. We’ll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, whose new book is “Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer” (Viking, 2010).
What really killed off the Neanderthals? This hour we’ll explore new findings about the mysterious extinction that cleared the way for modern humans and changed the planet forever with UTA Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Naomi Cleghorn. She is the co-author of a “Current Anthropology” October issue paper on the Neanderthal extinction.
