Who was the person behind the larger-than-life public persona of Winston Churchill? We’ll talk this hour with University of Exeter historian Richard Toye. His new biographical history is “Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made” (Henry Holt, 2010).
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How does our spiritual, mental, emotional and physical well-being influence our productivity as professionals and citizens? We’ll spend this hour with Tony Schwartz, founder and president of The Energy Project and author of the new book “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance” (Free Press, 2010).
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From the archives – How important is the lowly ant? We talked in June with the Smithsonian’s Mark W. Moffett. His latest, highly-researched book is “Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions” (University of California Press, 2010).
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From the archives – How has the job of reporting the news changed in the last three decades and what’s it like to have your voice on public radio listeners’ answering machines all over the country? We found out earlier this summer with Carl Kasell, former NPR newscaster and official judge and scorekeeper for NPR’s weekly news quiz show, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!
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This week, host Krys Boyd talks with City Manager Mary Suhm about the painful process of cutting more than 130 million dollars from the strapped city budget. No one escaped the fallout including police officers and firefighters. Find out what it means to public safety and city services in the coming year. And Jerome Weeks talks to Katherine Wagner, CEO of Business Council for the Arts, which just calculated the impact the arts have on North Texas’ economy.
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What does the economy mean for the future of U.S. military operations and other foreign policy initiatives overseas? We’ll spend this hour with Michael Mandelbaum, the Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies and author of the new book “The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era” (Public Affairs, 2010).
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Where did Middle East conflict begin? We’ll travel back to 1917 London this hour and discuss the first official Western effort to establish a Jewish National Homeland with Georgia Tech historian, Jonathan Schneer. His new book is “The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict” (Random House, 2010).
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What did this week’s quick Texas visit by President Obama mean for Texas politics and how will his administration’s successes and challenges influence the looming November elections? We’ll spend this hour with Bud Kennedy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Bill McKenzie of the Dallas Morning News.
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What’s great about chocolate? Where is the best cacao grown and what goes into getting it on the plate? We’ll discuss every step of the process this hour with chocolate expert Adrienne Newman, Wiseman House Chocolatier Kevin Wenzel and Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek Executive Pastry Chef David Collier. They’re all participants in this weekend’s DallasChocolate.org Chocolate Conference 2010.
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How hard is it for you to admit you’re wrong when you’re wrong and why are we, as humans, so bad at accepting our errors? Kathryn Schulz looks into this phenomenon regularly on her Slate blog “The Wrong Stuff.” Her new book is “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error” (Ecco, 2010). We’ll talk with her this hour.
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Where and when did the modern American woman emerge in pop culture and society? According to journalist Sam Wasson, it had a lot to do with the silver screen character Holly Golightly. Wasson will join us this hour to discuss his new book “Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman” (Harper, 2010).
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Is humanity still at risk from Cold War weapons, out-dated attack strategies, and largely forgotten but still active computer systems? We’ll talk this hour with journalist David Hoffman whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy” (Anchor Books, Paperback, 2010), is now out in paperback.
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