Episodes
Saturday Feb 27, 2010
COLLEGE $PORT$
Saturday Feb 27, 2010
Saturday Feb 27, 2010
Saturday Feb 20, 2010
The mental game
Saturday Feb 20, 2010
Saturday Feb 20, 2010
Thursday Feb 18, 2010
Procrastination
Thursday Feb 18, 2010
Thursday Feb 18, 2010
If there is a dysfunction symptomatic of our times, perhaps it is procrastination. It often separates those who succeed from those who don't. It causes lose of productivity. It prevents so many from fully achieving what they are truly capable of. Why is it so prevalent, how do psychiatrists see it, and why is it so hard to correct. Dr. Jane Burka, a psychologist, has been looking at this problem for over twenty-five years. Her book Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now, is just out in an updated 25th Anniversary Edition. My conversation with Dr. Jane Burka.
Tuesday Feb 16, 2010
One happy customer...
Tuesday Feb 16, 2010
Tuesday Feb 16, 2010
Monday Feb 15, 2010
Journalism, DOA?
Monday Feb 15, 2010
Monday Feb 15, 2010
Monday Feb 15, 2010
The road most traveled
Monday Feb 15, 2010
Monday Feb 15, 2010
Monday Feb 15, 2010
America's surburban future
Monday Feb 15, 2010
Monday Feb 15, 2010
Sunday Feb 14, 2010
Iraq...the worst is yet to come
Sunday Feb 14, 2010
Sunday Feb 14, 2010
Washington Post special military correspondent, and Pulitzer Prizer winner Thomas Ricks predicts that the war in Iraq is likely to last at least another five to ten years. He argues that invading Iraq was perhaps the worst decision in the history of American foreign policy. As such, we've made a mess that won't be easy to clean up and that this preemptive and false war will continue to haunt us. Iraq was an epic mistake for which there are now few good solutions. He concludes that the worst may still be ahead of us. His book The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq is put just out in paperback.
Wednesday Feb 10, 2010
Autobiography of an Execution
Wednesday Feb 10, 2010
Wednesday Feb 10, 2010
While executions in the U.S. are considered public policy, they are carried out in private; often far, far away from public scrutiny. In Texas, the execution capital of America, they happen with barely a mention. Yet, at least outside of Texas, the tide may be turning against state sponsored murder. David R. Dow, the litigation director of the Texas Defender Service and a Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, in his new book The Autobiography of an Execution gives us an up close and personal look inside the death penalty. My conversation with David Dow:
Sunday Feb 07, 2010
The world in a grain of sand
Sunday Feb 07, 2010
Sunday Feb 07, 2010
Wednesday Feb 03, 2010
Do Not Enter
Wednesday Feb 03, 2010
Wednesday Feb 03, 2010
Whether we are discussing the war on terrorism, the onslaught of modern technology, or the rightward shift of the Supreme Court, we continue see within them the erosion of the right to privacy in America. Thought history, it seems that it's the one right we've always been willing to cede for what we often mistakenly perceive as the great good. Journalist and attorney Frederick Lane, in his new book American Privacy: The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right, explains that "the history of America is the history of the right to privacy." Yet Lane explains that the right to privacy has never kept pace with technological and social change. My conversation with Fredrick Lane:
Monday Feb 01, 2010
The Inheritance
Monday Feb 01, 2010
Monday Feb 01, 2010