A World Tour Of Prisons
July 25, 2016This hour, we’ll listen back to our talk about strategies that prisons on other continents are using to rehabilitate inmates with Baz Dreisinger, founder of the Prison-to-College Pipeline Program.
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A Think Special: Donald Trump And The Republican Convention
July 21, 2016Donald Trump will accept the nomination for president tonight at the Republican National Convention. Today, we’ll devote both hours of our show to all things Trump.
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The Emerging Epidemic
July 13, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about what is known about how the Zika virus affects humans and what is being done to battle it with New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil. He’s the author of “Zika: The Emerging Epidemic.”
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License to Betray
July 13, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how some doctors get away with sexually abusing patients – and how others have been stopped – with Danny Robbin and Carrie Teegardin of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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A Talk With Mike Birbiglia
July 11, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with Mike Birbiglia about his new film, “Don’t Think Twice,” which he wrote, directed and stars in.
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A More Powerful Presidency
June 7, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about if the Founding Fathers set the federal government up for stagnation – and about the idea of updating the Constitution – with University of Chicago professor William Howell.
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The Problem With Dieting
June 7, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility that the practice of dieting itself might be keeping us from losing weight with neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt.
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Europe’s Migrant Crisis
June 6, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the current state of the migrant crisis in Europe – and about how these asylum seekers can be better served – with James Hollifield, public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and director of the Tower Center for Political Studies at SMU.
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The Boys In The Bunkhouse
June 6, 2016This hour, we’ll hear how a team of social workers, local journalists and a labor lawyer fought to free a group of disabled men working in a turkey processing plant for just $65 a month – and about how their experience is improving the working conditions of people living with disabilities – with New York Times reporter Dan Barry.
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Laughing All The Way To The Mosque
June 2, 2016This hour we’ll talk with Pakistani-Canadian sitcom writer Zarqa Nawaz, who writes about life, Islam and the west in her book “Laughing All the Way to the Mosque: The Misadventures of a Muslim Woman.”
