According to the United Nation’s World Food Program, 25,000 adults and children die every day from hunger and hunger-related causes. How can the world’s rich help solve this problem? We’ll talk this hour with Frederick Kaufman, whose piece “Let Them Eat Cash: Can Bill Gates Turn Hunger into Profit?” appears in the current issue of […]
If you had the chance to do it all over again would you? Robin Hemley did. We’ll talk with him this hour about the experiences that led to his new book “Do-Over!: In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments” (Little, Brown, 2009).
Everyone makes mistakes, but exactly why do people foul things up? We’ll find out this hour with Michael Kaplan, who with his mother Ellen, has just published “Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human” (Bloomsbury, 2009).
Who were Masters and Johnson and what motivated their pioneering sexuality research? We’ll talk this hour with journalist and biographer Thomas Maier who tells their stories in the new book “Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love” (Basic Books, 2009).
How close did the nation come to a second Civil War in 1868? We’ll talk this hour with historian and attorney David O. Stewart, whose new book is “Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy” (Simon and Schuster, 2009).
Just how influential is “emerging” media? We’ll explore the increasingly significant role of technology and the web this hour with journalist Eric Boehlert, author of “Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press” (Free press, 2009).
How did the Civil Rights Movement in Texas differ from the rest of the country? We’ll talk with historian Darwin Payne who explores the life of one particularly influential African American judge in his new book “Quest for Justice: Louis A. Bedford and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Texas” (SMU Press, 2009).
How easily can a life be changed? We’ll spend this hour with documentarian Megan Mylan, whose Academy Award-winning film, “Smile Pinki,” follows a young girl from rural India as she undergoes surgery for a cleft lip. The film will debut on HBO on Wednesday, June 3rd.
Where does talent come from? Is it natural? Does it occur by chance? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Daniel Coyle who visited and studied a variety of “talent hotbeds” to research his new book, “The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.” (Bantam, 2009).
Is a good portion of your day dedicated to Twitter and Facebook? According to our guest this hour, you may have a problem. We’ll talk with Emory University Professor Mark Bauerlein, author of “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupifies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30)” (Tarcher Penguin, […]
