What’s funny about a presidential campaign? Charles Osgood, anchor of CBS Sunday Morning, will join us this evening to discuss his new collection of tales “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail” (Hyperion, 2008). Harry Lynch, director of “Recapturing Cuba,” which airs Wednesday, May 28th on KERA 13, will join us for the Scene segment.
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Who was Lorenzo de’ Medici and what was life really like in 15th Century Florence? We’ll spend the hour with art historian and journalist Miles J. Unger, author of “MAGNIFICO: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de’ Medici” (Simon and Schuster, 2008).
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What exactly is Asperger’s Syndrome? Until recently, the high-functioning form of Autism was largely unknown to the public and even to those who suffered from the illness. We’ll spend the hour with one such person. John Elder Robison is a self-described “machine aficionado” who restores high-end automobiles and even created and built fire-shooting guitars for the band KISS. Robison joined us in January to discuss his best-selling book “Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s” (Crown, 2007).
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Why is it so difficult to discuss racial issues? We’ll spend this hour with two Dallas Morning News columnists who’ve been doing just that. James Ragland and Steve Blow will join us to discuss their on-going “Talking Race” series.
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How do you define what is sacred? We’ll talk this hour with Stuart A. Kauffman, founding director of the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics and professor at the University of Calgary. His new book is “Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion” (Basic Books, 2008).
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What’s the best way to transition to a greener lifestyle? We’ll get tips this hour from Meaghan O-Neill, editor of PlanetGreen.com, TreeHugger.com and co-author of the new book “Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living” (Villard, 2008).
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What happened with the 2000 election and how can we be sure it doesn’t happen again? We’ll spend this hour with Ben Ginsberg, National Counsel for the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign and now a partner at Washington DC-based Patton Boggs. He’s in town for a screening of the HBO film “RECOUNT” in which he is portrayed. The film airs on Sunday, May 25th at 8pm CT.
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How tough is it to get ahead in China today? We’ll talk this hour with Leslie T. Chang whose piece, “Gilded Age, Gilded Cage” appears in the May issue of National Geographic Magazine.
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Think you know your American History? We’ll explore unknown aspects of our nation’s past this hour with Kenneth C. Davis author of the new book “AMERICA’S HIDDEN HISTORY: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation” (Smithsonian Books, 2008).
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What does it mean to be visually literate? We’ll preview the University of North Texas International Conference on Critical Literacy in Visual Culture this evening with Professor Keith Owens and Professor Michael Gibson.
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Who are the Israelis? In honor of this month’s 60th Anniversary of the Founding of Israel we’ll spend this hour with journalist Donna Rosenthal. Her recently revised book is “The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land” (Free Press, Paperback, 2008).
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Have you seen the Dallas arts district lately? The skyline of Dallas is changing. We’ll spend this hour with one of the architects of that change, Pritzker Prize-winner and designer of the new Victory Park Museum of Nature and Science facility, Thom Mayne. He’ll address the Nasher Salon Series this evening.
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