Archives: Episodes
Art historian and author Hayden Herrera on Frida Kahlo
The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Frida Kahlo exhibit opens a week from today. We talk with Kahlo biographer and exhibit curator HA ...
Air Date: February 13, 2008
The rising political clout of Hispanic voters. First we’ll hear about a new population projection from the Pew Hispanic Center. In ...
Air Date: February 13, 2008
Meet EBOO PATEL an American, Muslim, and an Indian whose initial anger ultimately led him to help other young people search for their rel ...
Air Date: February 12, 2008
What would take for a conservative comeback? We talk with DAVID FRUM author of Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again. In it he analyz ...
Air Date: February 12, 2008
Eliminating local control of schools
In an article published in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly, writer MATT MILLER makes the case that eliminating local control of ...
Air Date: February 11, 2008
Should taxpayers fund sports stadiums?
Should taxpayers fund sports stadiums? Increasingly sports team owners are asking local governments to help pay for their new stadiums. I ...
Air Date: February 11, 2008
The increasinly perilous journeys of migrating animals
The seasonal migration of animals – from butterflies in Mexico to wildebeests on their long trek across the Serengeti – is on ...
Air Date: February 8, 2008
3rd Parties & Indepdent candidates
Election 2008: The other presidential candidates. If you follow the news you’d think there were only four people left running for ...
Air Date: February 8, 2008
MANIL SURI talks about his second novel, “The Age of Shiva.” It tells the story of Meera, a woman living in Bombay in the 19 ...
Air Date: February 7, 2008
The presidential candidate nomination process explained
The presidential candidate nomination process – delegates, superdelegates, proportional and winner-take all systems – can mak ...
Air Date: February 7, 2008
The evolution of automotive repairs. Car mechanics has become an outdated term, as cars become more high tech and computerized. All of th ...
Air Date: February 6, 2008
Reaction to Super Tuesday’s elections. We’ll talk with DICK POLMAN a national political columnist at the Philadelphia Inquire ...
Air Date: February 6, 2008
Hooking up on college campuses
We take a serious look at the hooking up culture among college students — what it means, how it has evolved and just who benefits. ...
Air Date: February 5, 2008
Marty speaks with VALERIE PLAME WILSON about her book” Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House.” Plame W ...
Air Date: February 5, 2008
M. Butterfly playwright. A new production by the Philadelphia Theater Company is showing through February 24th. We’ll talk with DAV ...
Air Date: February 4, 2008