A panel of North Texas philosophers and academics join us to work through the question: What would it take to have peace on Earth?
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The Politics Of Intelligence
Joshua Rovner, chair of International Politics and National Security at SMU, joins us to talk about what’s at stake if the future president ignores the intelligence community.
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Presidential Appointees
This hour, we’ll talk about building smooth transitions from one administration to the next with G. Edward DeSeve of the Brookings Institute. He writes about the topic in “The Presidential Appointee’s Handbook.”
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The Politics Of The White Working Class
This hour, we’ll talk about how many in the white working class have come to feel disenfranchised with George Mason University’s Justin Gest. He’s the author of “The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Era of Immigration and Inequality.”
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The Republic Of Spin
This hour, we’ll talk about how every administration since then has used presidential press conferences as opportunities to craft the messages they want the American public to hear with Rutgers University presidential historian David Greenberg. He writes about the topic in “Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency”
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The National Endowment For The Arts
This hour, we’ll talk with National Endowment for the Arts chair Jane Chu about how her organization distributes its funding and about the intersection of politics and the arts.
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The Politics Of Black Republicans
This hour, we’ll talk about the 10 percent of African Americans who say they lean Republican with Corey D. Fields of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford.
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The Rise Of Populism
This hour, we’ll talk about how populists movements form and gain momentum with John B. Judis, author of “The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics.”
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How Polls Work
This hour, we’ll talk about how polling data is collected – and about how we should interpret the results – with UT-Dallas political science professor and polling expert Harold Clarke.
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The Final Presidential Debate
This hour, we’ll recap the third and final presidential debate – and talk about the strategies for each candidate through Nov. 8 – with presidential historian Jon Meacham.
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What Third-Party Voters Want
This hour, we’ll talk about the many reasons these voters have for sticking by candidates who have little chance of winning with Emma Roller. Her opinion piece “Third-Party Voters Know What They Want” appeared recently in The New York Times.
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A Conversation With Maureen Dowd
This hour, we’ll talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Maureen Dowd, about her newest book “The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics.”
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