Are you looking forward to the fall movie season? We’ll get the picks and pans of two area critics this hour – Chris Vognar, Movie Critic for The Dallas Morning News and John Meyer, Film Critic for PegasusNews.com.
What is the best way to measure the performance of our education system? Is standardized testing the answer? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Linda Perlstein who spent a year inside a Maryland elementary school to write her new book “Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade” (Henry Holt and Company, 2007).
Does the ever-widening expansion of capitalism threaten democracy? Former Clinton Administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich thinks so. We’ll spend this hour with Reich, currently professor of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley, to discuss his new book “Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life” (Knopf, 2007).
Why, in America in the 20th and 21st Centuries, are books still being banned? We’ll discuss some of the books that have been described as subversive this hour with Judith Krug, the founder of Banned Books Week and the Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
What is your definition of justice? Morris Dees, Founder and Chief Counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center, will deliver the lecture “With Justice For All” at the First Unitarian Church of Dallas this Friday. He’ll join us to discuss the Center’s work and preview his talk this hour.
How does science relate to the gathering of evidence and prosecution of a crime? We’ll spend this hour with Dr. Katherine Ramsland, Assistant Professor of Forensic Psychology at DeSales University and author of the new book “Beating the Devil’s Game: A History of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation” (Berkeley Publishing Group, 2007).
Cheese heroin is big news because it’s a big problem in North Texas. In conjunction with KERA Producer Sujata Dand’s series on the cheese epidemic, we’ll talk this hour with Michelle Hemm, Program Director at the Phoenix House Academy in Dallas.
Fall is officially here and soon, we’ll all see pumpkins in the stores and on our neighbor’s porches. But look over the back fence and you might be surprised at the size of the pumpkins they’re growing in the backyard next door. We’ll spend this hour with Susan Warren, deputy bureau chief for the Wall […]
Love baseball? With the regular season winding down and the playoffs just around the corner, there’s no better time to discuss baseball’s influence on American culture. We’ll spend this hour with Ted Spencer, VP and Chief Curator at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Hall of Fame player Jim Palmer. They’re both in town to […]
How have borders influenced the American West? The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture will hold a day-long symposium “The American West: Border and Frontier,” on Saturday, September 29th. We’ll explore the influence of the borderlands this hour with professor, writer, and dual-culture blogger Luis Alberto Urrea. He’s one of many speakers scheduled for Saturday.
