Archive from 6/28/07 – What makes a country? What makes America what it is today? Author Andro Linklater argues that changing territorial markers and frontiers played an important role in the creation of our country’s personality. His book is “The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity” (Walker, 2007). Linklater was our guest in June.
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Archive from 5/23/07 – We’ve heard many theories and there are still questions surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. Vincent Bugliosi, author of “Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy” (Norton, 2007), joined us in May.
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Archive from 6/4/07 – What does it take to be a really great President? Perhaps no one is better suited to discuss the question than historian Michael Beschloss. He joined us for an hour in June to talk about his latest work “Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989” (Simon and Schuster, 2007).
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Archive from 5/22/07 – Is adventure dead? Not according to people like John Haslett. In 1995, Haslett attempted to re-create Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition from South America to Hawaii. He ended up engaged in a five-year quest that was more a struggle for survival than anything else. His book “Voyage of the Mante??o: The Education of a Modern-Day Explorer” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006) tells the story. Haslett joined us for an hour in May.
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Archive from 5/17/07 – How do you decide how you’ll raise your kids? Will you take your parents’ advice? What about friends and what you’ve seen in the media? Michael Gurian, author of “Nurture the Nature: Understanding Your Child’s Unique Core Personality” (Jossey-Bass, 2007) joined us in May to explore the issues that parents face today.
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Archive from 5/16/07 – Is there something wrong with religion? Famous contrarian and “devout atheist” Christopher Hitchens thinks so. The contributing editor to Vanity Fair, who has been called “one of the most brilliant journalists of our time” by the London Observer, has just published his latest book “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” (Twelve Books, 2007). He was our guest in May.
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Archive from 5/16/07 – Imagine you’re riding in a tank covering Iraq as a journalist and suddenly, without any warning an IED explodes, causing a traumatic brain injury that nearly kills you. Now imagine getting the word back home that this has happened to your spouse. Lee and Bob Woodruff joined us in May to discuss their book “In An Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing” (Random House, 2007) which tells the story of their experience.
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What is the state of public health care in North Texas? We’ll talk this evening with Dr. Ron Anderson, President and CEO of Parkland Health and Hospital System about meeting the health care needs of a growing population. Market research analyst Kelley Styring will join is for the Scene segment of the show to discuss her recent multi-media project “In Your Purse: Archaeology of the American Handbag.”
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In November, Dallas voters will decide whether a toll road will be part of the Trinity River Corridor project. We’ll get an update on the referendum this hour with Dave Levinthal of the Dallas Morning News and Jim Schutze of the Dallas Observer.
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The Dallas Video Festival is celebrating its twentieth year this week. We’ll spend this hour with a few of the filmmakers. Bill Buchanan will join us to discuss the plight of abandoned animals as detailed in his film “Companions to None.” Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza will drop by to discuss their work-in-progress “Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril.” Jennifer Horst will join us to describe the only-in-Texas phenomenon that she covers in her piece “Mum-A-Mia,” and Video Festival founder Bart Weiss will stop in to cover other festival highlights. The festival continues through Sunday, August 5th.
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How can law enforcement aid the War on Terror? Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and our guest this hour, examines the link between traditional criminal activities and terrorism in his recently published Manhattan Institute study “The Convergence of Crime and Terror: Law Enforcement Opportunities and Perils.”
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Should developed nations help developing countries – even if those countries have sponsored terrorism? What if that assistance includes desperately-needed health care? This hour we’ll discuss the plight of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were convicted and twice sentenced to death for allegedly injecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. They were released after eight years in prison last week. Our guests will be documentarian Mickey Grant, whose film “INJECTION” covered the subject and Rick Halperin, Director of SMU’s Human Rights Education Program.
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