How do you prosecute the worst of the world’s criminals? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Chuck Sudetic, who profiles the work of Carla Del Ponte, former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nation’s War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, in the new book “Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity” (Other Press, 2009).
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Who invented history? Herodotus is widely known as the “Father of History.” But as we’ll discuss this hour with writer Justin Marozzi, he was also so much more. Marozzi’s new book is “The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History” (Da Capo, 2009).
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What is the future of food? Are there more sustainable methods to feed everyone? We’ll spend this hour with author Paul Roberts who is speaking today at the Owens Conference on Agricultural Sustainability and Food Safety at Austin College in Sherman. His recent article “Spoiled” appears in the current issue of Mother Jones Magazine.
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Could you go an entire year without shopping? Writer Judith Levine did it in 2004. Her chronicle of the experience, “Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping” (Free Press, 2009), is now out in paperback.
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Do you trust corporations? This hour we’ll discuss corporate trust and the recently-released 2009 Edelman Trust Barometer with former Congressman Michael Oxley, now vice chairman of NASDAQ and Matthew Harrington, Edelman’s US CEO.
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Where are the roots of terrorism? This hour we’ll explore how the actions and impulses of terrorists aren’t necessarily a new thing with historian Michael Burleigh, whose new book is “Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism” (Harper Collins, 2009).
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Why would someone string a high-wire between the World Trade Center Towers, risking arrest and certain death to walk between them over 1,300 feet in the air? In August of last year we talked with director James Marsh, whose film “Man On Wire” profiles the man who actually did it in 1974. The film won the Academy Award for best documentary last month.
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What will the next century hold for America and the rest of the world? We’ll spend this hour with George Friedman, president and CEO of STRATFOR – a private intelligence company. His new book is “The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century” (Doubleday, 2009).
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Is there hope for the economy in 2009? We’ll look back at the seeds of the financial crisis and forward to possible recovery this hour with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, which has just published the anthology “Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover” (Nation Books, 2009).
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With the stock market falling and unemployment rising, what is the outlook for the American worker? We’ll spend this hour with Steven Greenhouse, whose book “The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker” (Anchor, Paperback, 2009) is now out in paperback.
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Why are film buffs still captivated by “Gone with the Wind” 70 years after the film was released? We’ll explore the film, the book and the myth of Scarlet O’Hara this hour with writer and film critic Molly Haskell whose new book is “Frankly My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited” (Yale, 2009).
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How is the NYPD safeguarding New York residents in a post-9/11 world? We’ll spend the hour with journalist Christopher Dickey, whose new book is “Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force – the NYPD” (Simon and Schuster, 2009). Dickey speaks to the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth this evening.
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