How does a mother cope with the death of her child when his murder becomes a national headline? We’ll talk this hour with Judy Shepard, author of the new book “The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed” (Hudson Street, 2009).
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What were you doing in the 1960s? Journalist Jenny Diski remembers the influential decade as she experienced it in London in her new book “The Sixties” (Picador Paperback Original, 2009). We’ll talk with her this hour.
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What are the most important elements of the India-U.S. relationship? We’ll spend this hour with Ambassador Swashpawan Singh, former ambassador of India to the Offices of the United Nations in Geneva. He’ll address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth on Wednesday.
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Where is Rene Descartes actually buried and how did his life and death influence religion and the understanding of rationalism? We’ll talk with Russell Shorto, author of “Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason” (Vintage, Paperback, 2009).
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How can the arts help spur economic growth and what role does business play in fostering a vital arts scene? We’ll talk with Katherine Wagner, the new CEO of North Texas Business for Culture and the Arts. What does jazz improvisation tell us about African-American culture? And how did jazz influence the thinking of authors James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Amiri Baraka? Walton Muyumba, UNT professor and author of the new book “The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism” (Chicago, 2009) will join us for the ArtandSeek segment.
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Where do freedom and America’s love affair with the automobile intersect? They meet in the brain of P.J. O’Rourke. He’s in town to address the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations about his work with Freedom House on global political and economic freedom. He’s also just published a collection of essays called “Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009). P.J. O’Rourke will be our guest this hour.
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What does it mean to be Cuban, but to live in exile waiting to return home? NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten profiles one such family (whose name you might recognize) in his new book “Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba” (Penguin Books, 2009). We’ll speak with Tom this hour.
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Could the sun fulfill our energy needs while solving our global warming problems at the same time? We’ll explore the solar energy world this hour with George Johnson, whose piece “Plugging into the Sun” appears in the September issue of National Geographic Magazine.
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Is it possible that all the traditional wisdom about children is – while not exactly wrong, not exactly right either? We’ll examine the recent scientific evidence this hour with journalist Po Bronson, co-author of the new book “NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children” (Twelve, 2009).
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What will it take to secure real freedom for the women of Afghanistan? We’ll talk this hour with Awista Ayub, founder of the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange and author of the new book “However Tall the Mountain: A Dream, Eight Girls and a Journey Home” (Hyperion, 2009).
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Who was Glenn Summerford and why was he on trial for attempted murder by rattlesnake in Alabama in 1992? We’ll talk with Dennis Covington who covered the trial and whose book about it – “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia” (Da Capo, 2009) had just been re-released.
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What does it really mean to live and eat sustainably? We’ll talk this hour with James McWilliams, winner of the 2009 Hiett Prize in the Humanities and author of the new book “Just Food: Where Locovores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly” (Little, Brown and Company, 2009).
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