Who gets to decide how African Americans should be portrayed in the media and in popular culture? Author and poet Ishmael Reed tackles the issue in his new collection “Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections” (Da Capo, 2008). We’ll talk with him this hour.
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Does a nation’s collective identity have an influence on its governance? We’ll discuss the issue this hour with former Israeli deputy prime minister and Soviet dissident and political prisoner Natan Sharansky. His latest book is “Defending Identity: Its Indispensible Role in Protecting Democracy” (Public Affairs, 2008).
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Last week, President Bush lifted the off-shore drilling moratorium. Will this have an impact on energy prices? We’ll talk this hour with Max Schulz – senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Energy Policy and the Environment – who supports Bush’s action.
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Has the United Nations outlived its purpose? Thomas Carothers writes about the proposed new League of Democracies in his current Foreign Policy Magazine piece “A League of Their Own.” Carothers will join us this hour.
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How are the presidential candidates positioning themselves? How are they shaping the message and the campaign to get your vote? As we enter the election season in earnest, we’ll hold our first of three planned discussions with Bob Ray Sanders of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Bill McKenzie of the Dallas Morning News.
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Who really runs the world? We talked in May with David Rothkopf, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of the new book “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)
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What goes into a successful screenplay? What does it take to create award-winning fiction that holds a readers attention and sells millions of books? We’ll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-Winning writer Larry McMurtry and his long-time collaborator Diana Ossana. They won an Academy Award for their “Brokeback Mountain” screenplay and will speak to the sold out NasherSalon this evening.
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What were your favorite movies this summer? We’ll talk picks and pans this hour with Chris Vognar of the Dallas Morning News and Christopher Kelly of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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Are you having trouble staying focused? Join the club. Our guest this hour argues that with millions of resources just a mouse click away, and almost constant interruptions, our lives are becoming more fragmented by the minute. We’ll talk with Maggie Jackson, author of “Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age” (Prometheus Books, 2008).
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Does the Olympic Movement achieve its goal of “a peaceful and better world” as the Olympic Charter states? Not necessarily, according to John Hoberman, whose article “Think Again: The Olympics” appears in the July/August issue of Foreign Policy Magazine. We’ll talk to Hoberman this hour.
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Why is it so challenging for combat troops to re-adjust to home life? We’ll talk to one such veteran this hour. Matt Cook, who began basic training on September 11th, 2001, writes about his experience in the piece “SOLDIER” which appears in the July issue of Texas Monthly Magazine.
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How do art experts “know” that an artwork is genuine? How do the forger’s fool them? We’ll find out this hour with journalist Edward Dolnick. His new book is “The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century” (Harper Collins, 2008).
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