True Style
October 26, 2015This hour, we’ll talk with fashion expert G. Bruce Boyer about simple steps for men to dress their best, which he writes about in “True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear.”
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A Dystopian Texas
October 15, 2015This hour, as we broadcast live from KUT in Austin, we’ll talk with Zachary Thomas Dodson, author of “Bats of the Republic,” about expanding a novel’s potential ahead of his appearance at this weekend’s Texas Book Festival.
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The Jemima Code
October 15, 2015This hour, we’ll talk to food writer Toni Tipton-Martin about the black contribution to American cuisine, the subject of her book “The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks.”
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Reconstructing La Belle
October 14, 2015This hour, as we broadcast live from KUT in Austin, we’ll talk about what we’ve learned from the wreckage of La Belle with Peter Fix, who oversaw the ship’s reconstruction for the Bullock Texas State History Museum.
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The Baron of Brisket
October 14, 2015This hour, as we broadcast live from KUT in Austin, we’ll talk to Aaron Franklin about the Midas touch he has with brisket, about his latest cookbook and about “BBQ with Franklin,” his PBS series that airs on KERA-TV.
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The Business Of Education
September 8, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about the many reasons why even a $100 million donation has been unable to break through the many roadblocks to education reform with the author of The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?
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Best of ‘Think’: The Future of Jobs
September 7, 2015This hour, as part of our “Best of Think” Labor Day special, we’ll listen back to our July interview with Derek Thompson of The Atlantic about what increased automation means for the future of our workforce.
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To Tip, Or Not To Tip?
September 2, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about how we navigate the service industry, whether workers actually benefit from this payments system, and if we’ll ever see an end to tipping in America with New York magazine restaurant critic Adam Platt.
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One Day, Two Dollars
September 1, 2015We’ll discuss the underlying causes of extreme poverty with National Poverty Center researcher H. Luke Shaefer, co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.
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Only The Lonely
September 1, 2015We’ll talk about feeling isolated from the rest of the world – and what we can do to increase our interactions with other people – with psychologist Dr. Guy Winch.
