There are refugees from war and violence living on every continent. What was it like when the violence they were fleeing was taking place in Western Europe? We’ll explore the stories of thousands and thousands of displaced Parisians in World War II with University of Bath Senior Lecturer in French History, Hanna Diamond. Her latest […]
What’s in store for television this fall? We’ll spend this hour with Ed Bark, who after his 26-year career as the TV critic at The Dallas Morning News, began covering the television scene on his very popular website and blog, Uncle Barky.com.
Archive from 7/13/07 – In the late 60s, Dr. Kenneth Cooper changed the way American’s approach exercise with the release of his book “Aerobics.” Now he hopes to help Texas school children revitalize their health with the Fitnessgram, a multi-platform physical fitness evaluation that Texas schools will implement in the coming year. Dr. Cooper joined […]
How is the United States Congress spending your money? Will new ethics rules change the way things are done in Washington or not? We’ll discuss pork, earmarks, and appropriations this hour with Tom Schatz, President of Citizens Against Government Waste, an organization “dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.
Without a doubt, the United States military mission in Iraq is facing an unprecedented challenge facing an insurgent that was completely unexpected when the conflict began. One just-published response is “The U.S. Army – Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual” (University of Chicago Press, 2007). We’ll talk this hour with Lt. Col. John A. Nagl, Military […]
We’ve all heard about the sacrifices that mothers must make in order to pursue a successful career. But Leslie Bennetts, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, wonders if stay-at-home moms might be making un-necessary sacrifices too. She’ll join us this hour to discuss the issue and her book “The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too […]
There was once a great culture in this hemisphere known as the Maya. But how did their success contribute to their failure and what can our culture learn from their mistakes? We’ll spend this hour with Guy Gugliotta, whose three-part cover story, “The Maya: Glory and Ruin” appears in the August, 2007 issue of National […]
Archive from 7/16/07 – It’s often said that the English language is the hardest to learn. What makes English so strange and why does it seem that the language was created without any plan or rules? We talked last month with Seth Lerer, Avalon Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and author of “Inventing […]
Archive from 7/16/07 – Got pets? Jon Katz does – four dogs, four donkeys, a cat, several chickens, a herd of sheep, and a giant steer named Elvis – although he considers some of them livestock. Katz, who frequently writes about his menagerie for the online magazine Slate, was our guest last month to discuss […]
Archive from 7/12/07 – What would motivate a “sweet, soft-spoken nurse” to begin murdering her patients? Skip Hollandsworth waited years to find out. He interviewed Nocona nurse Vickie Dawn Jackson for his July, 2007 Texas Monthly cover story “Angel of Death.” Hollandsworth joined us for an hour last month.
