Could someone fool your parents into believing that they were you? We’ll talk with The New Yorker’s David Grann this hour. His current piece, “The Chameleon,” profiles a French con man who serially impersonates teenagers – not for money, but for – love and a family.”
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Is there a dark side to capitalism? We’ll explore the economic history of the global free market this hour with Naomi Klein, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” (Picador, Paperback, 2008).
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What can you learn about someone from the items they collect, own, and purchase? We’ll discuss the psychology of things this hour with Sam Gosling, UT associate professor and author of the new book “Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You” (Basic Books, 2008).
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Can new economic relationships heal conflicts between nations? Professor Lloyd J. Dumas of the University of Texas at Dallas will join us this evening to discuss the paper “Turning Enemies into Friends: The Role of Economic Relationship in Building Security and Sustaining Peace” which he recently presented at Seoul National University.
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Is the free market dead? Out guest this hour believes that conservatives in power, who have traditionally supported free market ideals, have in fact largely abandoned those philosophies in practice. We’ll talk with James K. Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Govt. / Business Relations at UT’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. His new book is “The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too” (Free Press, 2008).
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Is James Howard Kunstler’s “Long Emergency” of post-peak oil societal stress already underway, or is it just a big barrel of hype? We’ll get views from both sides of the issue this hour with participants in the Dallas Morning News’ Points Summer Book Club – Tod Robberson, Trey Garrison, and Jeffrey Brown.
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When’s the last time you went on a double date with your dad? New York Times writer and NPR contributor Bob Morris will join us this hour to discuss the single life – of his elderly father. Bob’s new book is “Assisted Loving: True Tales of Dating with My Dad” (Harper, 2008).
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Can you improve your health and help the environment at the same time? We’ll explore the connections between climate change and global health issues this hour with Dr. Erica Frank, president of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility. She’ll speak to the Dallas peace Center this evening.
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Do the United States’ counter-terrorism efforts – both at home and abroad – actually pose a greater threat to our own country than to the terrorists at which they’re aimed? Our guest this hour is New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer. Her new book is “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals” (Doubleday, 2008).
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Love snakes? Then you’d be in good company with Bryan Christy. The attorney-turned-author is a self described “reptile fanatic”. He’ll join us this hour to discuss his new book “The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World’s Greatest Reptile Smugglers” (Twelve, 2008).
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What is the current role of the Dallas Citizens Council and what place does it have in the city’s history? We’ll talk with historian Darwin Payne and past Council president Tom Dunning this hour.
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Could the building block of life hold the key to our destruction? We’ll spend this hour with Eric Roston, author of the new book “The Carbon Age: How Life’s Core Element has Become Civilization’s Greatest Threat” (Walker, 2008).
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