A Chat With Author Susan Orlean
November 19, 2014This hour, we’ll talk to her about her prolific career as both an author and journalist ahead of her appearance in town Thursday for a Friends of the Dallas Public Library event.
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Riding The Economic Rollercoaster
November 18, 2014We’ll talk this hour about why rapid economic fluctuations might be here to stay with James K. Galbraith, author of The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth.
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The Psychology Of Disease
November 18, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about how we champion some diseases and turn our noses up at others with Dr. Angelica Tratter and Dr. Robert Kugelmann of the University of Dallas.
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Helping Kids After Abuse
November 17, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about how to care for kids after the abuse is over with Dan Powers, senior vice president and clinical director for Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County.
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The Limits Of Time In A Speedy World
November 17, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about our culture’s need for speed and its effect on our well-being with Columbia University’s Mark C. Taylor, author of Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left.
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A Nation Of Anxiety
November 13, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about how the leaders we elect both help us and hinder us during tough times with David Rothkopf, author of National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear.
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The Life Of Joan Of Arc
November 13, 2014This hour, we’ll get to know the Maid of Orleans with Kathryn Harrison, author of Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured.
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A Chat With DPD Chief David Brown
November 12, 2014This hour, we’ll talk to him about how race factors into law enforcement ahead of the national Facing Race conference taking place in Dallas this weekend.
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On Faith And Fighting
November 12, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about the intersection of worship and war with Karen Armstrong, author of Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence.
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Talkin’ Trees
November 11, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about the long-term effects of man’s interjection into nature with Jared Farmer, author of Trees in Paradise: A California History. Farmer is in town to accept the Hiett Prize from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
