We call the dog “man’s best friend” but to many Americans, the family pet is a priority. We’ll explore America’s pet mania this hour with journalist Michael Schaffer, whose new book is “One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and Organic Pet Food” (Henry Holt, 2009).
Is the world entering a post-American period? We’ll talk this evening with Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, CNN Host and author of “The Post-American World” (Norton and Co, 2008). Bette Buschow, Executive Director of Resolana will join us during the Scene segment to discuss how the organization helps incarcerated women and to preview an […]
How tough are things for today’s teenage girls? We’ll explore the pressures girls face and some solutions for dealing with them this hour with Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley and author of the new book “The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures” (Ballantine Books, 2009).
What are your strategies for saving a buck or two these days? We’ll spend this hour with Dallas Morning News columnist James Ragland, whose second column on the art of haggling is in today’s paper.
How should we use the internet and how can we be sure the web’s not using us? We’ll spend this hour with Lee Siegel, author of the book “Against the Machine: How the Web is Reshaping Culture and Commerce – And Why it Matters” (Spiegel and Grau, 2008).
What does the future hold for America’s aging population? We’ll discuss the issues that seniors face this hour with Jennie Chin-Hansen, National President of the AARP.
Are certain foods crueler than others? Remember the 2002 foie gras flap started by Chef Charlie Trotter in Chicago? We’ll talk this hour with Mark Caro the journalist who broke the story in the Chicago Tribune. Caro’s new book is “The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World’s Fiercest Food Fight” (Simon […]
What’s the best way for a filmmaker to portray the world and how has documentary filmmaking changed since over the last five decades? We’ll spend this hour with someone who knows, Frederick Wiseman. The acclaimed documentarian will lecture about his process and his films at SMU this evening.
What exactly were Roman Triumphs and how did these celebrations of military victory influence the Roman view of war? We’ll talk with Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and author of the book “The Roman Triumph” (Belknap Harvard, 2007). Dr. Beard will lecture at the Dallas Museum of Art this evening.
Is a post-race society a possibility in America? We’ll spend this hour with Richard Thompson Ford, Professor of Law at Stanford and author of the book “The Race Card; How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse” (Picador, paperback, 2009).
