What’s reasonable about “doing the right thing?” And why is an ethical compromise often so easy for many people? We’ll talk this hour with Clinton D. Korver, co-author of the new book “Ethics: {for the real world}” (Harvard Business Press, 2008).
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How is the current economy affecting your life? How are other North Texans dealing with the pinch and what might the future hold? We’ll talk this evening with Professor Michael L. Davis of SMU’s Cox School of Business and Angela Shah, staff writer for The Dallas Morning News.
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Chinese citizens will have the world stage during next month’s Olympic Games. But how are they coping with a rapidly-changing capitalist society that is still strictly controlled by a Communist government? We’ll explore a changing China this hour with Philip P. Pan, former Washington Post Beijing bureau chief and author of the new book “OUT OF MAO’S SHADOW: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China” (Simon and Schuster, 2008).
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Why do you live where you live? Which city is right for you? We’ll talk this hour with Richard Florida, author of “Who’s Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life” (Basic Books, 2008).
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Can public art still be controversial? We’ll discuss the impact of John Houser’s monumental El Paso sculpture of Juan de O??ate this hour with filmmaker John Valadez. His film “The Last Conquistador” screens at the KERA studios on Thursday July 10th and airs on KERA 13 on Tuesday, July 15th.
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What is it like inside Guantanamo Bay’s U.S. detention center? We’ll spend this hour with Mahvish Rukhsana Khan who writes about the prison and the people inside in her new book “My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me” (Public Affairs, 2008).
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Where is the line between a government’s need for secrecy and the public’s right to know? Our guest this hour stood on that line for three years. Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will join us to discuss his book “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, 2008).
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Is there a problem with America’s prisons? According to our guest this hour, Jennifer Gonnerman, U.S. prisons hold “1 in 100 American adults” and it’s a money-losing business. She’ll join us to discuss her feature story “SLAMMED: Inside America’s Broken – and Broke – Prison System” which appears in the July + August issue of Mother Jones Magazine.
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Does the stuff we buy really define who we are? We’ll talk this hour with New York Times Magazine “Consumed” columnist Rob Walker. His new book is “Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are” (Random House, 2008).
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What will it take to re-cast human society in a more sustainable model? We’ll spend this hour with Peter Senge, MIT senior lecturer and co-author of the new book “The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World” (Doubleday, 2008).
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What is the most enduring photographic image of the conflict in Iraq? Is it an image of a wounded soldier or an orphaned child, or is it the photo of a hooded Abu Ghraib detainee, balanced on a box with wires connected to his body? We talked in May with Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris. His recent film about the Abu Ghraib prison controversy and its aftermath is “STANDARD OPERATING PRODCEDURE”
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Is the news getting you down? We’ll find out what TV news is all about this hour with former New York news anchor and media scholar, Steve Powers. Powers has recently revised his classic, written along with Neil Postman, “How to Watch TV News” (Penguin, 2008).
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