This hour, Anna Badkhen joins us to talk about her experience living with the Fulani people of Mali, which she writes about in Walking With Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah.
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Sex and the Law
This hour, we’ll talk about the dubious history of legislating sex with human rights lawyer Eric Berkowitz, author of The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities.
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Down And Out
This hour, we’ll talk about why LGBTQ teens are prone to homelessness – and about how little is being done to help them – with the author of No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions.
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New Orleans After Katrina
This hour, we’ll talk about how the city preserved its vibrant culture and recovered from the disaster with Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City.
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The Ethical Consumer
This hour, we’ll talk about how what we know about businesses affects how we spend our money with a panel of business ethics professors.
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Charting A Career Path
We’ll talk about how to develop a plan for our working lives that gets us to the jobs we want with the author of The Strategic Career: Let Business Principles Guide You.
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The Case For And Against College
We’ll talk about getting the best bang for your educational buck with the author of Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make.
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Tattoo You
We’ll talk specifically about what extensive body art says about the women who chose the look with Siena College sociology professor Beverly Yuen Thompson.
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Francis: The Pope, The Person
We’ll get to know the man born Jorge Mario Bergoglio a little better with Robert Draper, whose book with photographer David Yoder is called Pope Francis and the New Vatican.
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Do I Sound Gay?
We’ll talk about whether a “gay voice” exists – and if it does, why? – with filmmaker David Thorpe, whose documentary Do I Sound Gay opens this weekend at the Texas Theatre.
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The Surfing Life
This hour, we’ll talk with New Yorker writer William Finnegan about the allure of surfing, which he explores in his memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.
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Frame By Frame
New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee joins us to talk about what separates the comics that make it into the magazine from the ones that don’t – and about packing the maximum amount of humor into a single frame.
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