As part of KERA’s American Graduate series What’s Next For The Class Of ’17, this hour we’ll discuss those pivotal decisions with Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Stanford dean and author of “How to Raise an Adult” (Henry Holt and Co.).
This hour, we’ll talk about America’s must-visit stops with Brent D. Glass, director emeritus of the National Museum of American History and author of “50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.”
This hour, Siddhartha Mukherjee takes us from Gregor Mendel’s 19th Century experiments with pea plants to current methods of gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9, which he writes about in his latest effort, “The Gene: An Intimate History.”
This hour, we’ll talk with Amy Stewart, author of “Girl Waits With Gun,” about creating memorable characters – and we’ll get a preview of her next book due this fall.
This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility that alcoholics, drug abusers and compulsive gamblers may actually suffer from a learning disorder with Maia Szalavitz, author of “Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction.”
This hour, we’ll talk with Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, about perseverance and other wisdom he’s gained in his 86 years, which he’s collected in “No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon.”
This hour, we’ll talk about how that information is gathered – and how presidents have used it through the years – with David Priess, who served as an intelligence officer in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. His new book is called “The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama.”
This hour, we’ll talk about how our inability to agree on this most basic feeling has led to differences of opinion on legal issues with Keith Wailoo, vice dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
This hour, we’ll talk with U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera about how being the son of immigrant farmers has affected his work – and about how we can get young readers and writers more interested in poetry.
This hour, we’ll talk with Krista Tippett about the lessons she’s learned from hosting the podcast “On Being,” which she writes about in “Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living”
