What will become of the protesters in Iran and will they accomplish the change they so desperately want? We’ll explore the current situation and possible outcomes this hour with Dr. Mahmoud Sadri, Professor of Sociology at Texas Women’s University.
Is the President blowing it? We’ll spend this hour with Kevin Baker, whose article “Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow It Again” appears in the current issue of HARPER’S Magazine.
It may seem unbelievable, but according to our guest this hour, slavery is alive and well – even in our country. We’ll talk with Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves in Washington, D.C and co-author with Ron Soodalter of the new book “The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today” (University […]
Host Lee Cullum explores the world of nanotechnology with James R. Von Ehr II, founder, chairman and CEO of Richardson-based Zyvex.
Controversy over the public funding of art is nothing new, but how will the current economic climate influence future funding and what does history tell us? We’ll talk this hour with David A. Smith, a Baylor University historian and author of the recent book “Money for Art: The Tangled Web of Art and Politics in […]
On October 26, 1976, the last case of Smallpox occurred, ending a ten-year struggle to eliminate a disease that had annually killed two million people or more. We’ll spend this hour with Dr. D.A. Henderson, the physician who led the campaign. He tells the story in a new book – “SMALLPOX – THE DEATH OF […]
From the archive: What has happened to the bees and what will become of those who care for them? We’ll explore the complexities of the hive and the future of the honeybee with beekeeper Susan Brackney whose new book is “Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet” […]
Is the brain capable of change and growth – even later in life? We’ll talk this hour with neuroscientist Susan R. Barry who describes her own brain’s transformative experiences in the new book “Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions” (Basic Books, 2009).
Can we really “know” a place without living there, breathing its air and feeling its earth? We’ll spend this hour with an author who first introduced readers to mid-seventies Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her 2001 national bestseller “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” and revisited her roots in “Scribbling the Cat” in 2004. Alexandra […]
Think listeners respond to the issues that President Obama touched on during his press conference.
