Millions of European Jews did not survive the Holocaust, but some did. We’ll spend this hour with two of those survivors, William and Rosalie Schiff. We’ll also be joined by Craig Hanley, the journalist who has helped bring their story to the fore. Their manuscript won last year’s UNT Mayborn Literary Competition and has been […]
What happened when six young Yemeni-Americans from Western New York traveled to Afghanistan in the spring of 2001? Regardless of the reason for their trip, after the 9/11 attacks they were under suspicion. We’ll look back at the story this hour with NPR’s FBI Correspondent Dina Temple-Raston, author of the new book “The Jihad Next […]
StoryCorps, the revolutionary project to record American stories, is visiting North Texas and we want you to participate. We’ll spend this hour with StoryCorps founder and MacArthur Fellow, Dave Isay. We’ll also hear a few of the remarkable stories the project has collected since its inception in 2003.
What are you reading right now and, more importantly, why are you reading it? It’s a question that every writer, bookseller, and publisher would love to answer. We’ll discuss why some books flop and others fly off the shelves with Lisa Adams, co-author of “Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through […]
We’ll get some perspective on the creative process this evening with Michael Auping, Chief Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. His new book “30 Years: Interviews and Outtakes” compiles 34 of the hundreds of interviews that he has conducted with artists from the time when he was a graduate art history student […]
Why do we have human rights? Where did they come from? UCLA Professor Lynn Hunt, author of “Inventing Human Rights: A History” (Norton, 2007), will join us this hour.
What would happen if people just disappeared? Alan Weisman has a few thoughts on the subject. Weisman presents a haunting yet strangely appealing portrait of a planet earth devoid of human beings in his new, best-selling book “The World Without Us” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2007). We’ll explore that world and the ways we might get […]
A century ago, theology provided the basis for universities around the world, but what about today? Is theological education still viable? We’ll talk this hour with two guests who think so. Dr. William Lawrence is Dean of SMU’s Perkins School of Theology, which recently broke ground on a new $13 million facility. Dr. Darrell Bock […]
What is the nature of the mind? According to Harvard Professor Steven Pinker, language reflects the “distinctively human model of reality, which differs in major ways form the objective understanding of reality eked out by our best science and logic.” Pinker will join us for the hour to discuss his research and his new book […]
How will history view the Bush Administration? Journalist Robert Draper spent two years interviewing some 200 individuals including the President and his top officials and advisors for the book “Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush” (Free Press, 2007). Draper will be our guest this hour.
