WYPR: Midday with Dan Rodricks Podcast
Summary: Midday is WYPR's daily public affairs program heard from noon-2pm, Monday-Friday. Hosted by longtime Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodricks, the program covers a wide-range of issues selected to engage, inform, and entertain the listening audience.
Podcasts:
From "Anna Karenina" to "Hitchcock" to "Killing Them Softly," a look at the current cinema with Linda DeLibero, associate director of film studies at The Johns Hopkins University, and filmmaker Christopher Llewellyn Reed, chair and associate professor of the Department of Film and Video at Stevenson University.
Perspectives on news and trends, interviews with newsmakers and authors, quick takes on some of the week's most interesting regional stories with the Maryland journalists who covered them.
The holidays are an emotional time, with expectations running high for many and low for others, bringing on feelings of anxiety, disappointment, even depression. Beyond the holidays, human expectations often present hazards. If too high, they can be overwhelming or oppressive. Keeping expectations low, commonly advised, can be problematic, too. Columbia-based psychologist Brad Sachs has some advice on establishing realistic expectations for ourselves and others, and responding well when we, or they, fail to meet them.
If you’re one of the Doomsday disciples who believe December 21st marks the “end of days,” then you don’t have to worry about last minute Christmas shopping. Why do the Mayan Prophesy and the apocalypse continue to be an obsession for so many? Midday's American culture commentator Sheri Parks debunks the notion that the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world on December 21st.
Our guest, Ethan Chorin, longtime Middle East scholar and former U.S. diplomat, served in Tripoli from 2004 to 2006, part of the team that re-established a formal diplomatic presence there. An expert on Libya and adviser to the Obama administration, he details the struggle for democracy following the Arab Spring and the end of the 41-year reign of Muammar al-Gaddafi in “Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution.”
According to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, nearly 6.5 million U.S. teens and young adults are neither in school nor the workforce, veering toward chronic underemployment as adults and failing to gain the skills employers need in the 21st century. We look at the report and how to better prepare young Americans for work. Plus: what college majors, skills, and fields will be most desirable in the future. Guests: Caroline Baker, who leads career services at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Patrice Cromwell, director of economic development at the Casey Foundation.
She died eight years ago, but Julia Child's influence on American food and appetites lives on. French chef, public television pioneer, author and cult icon, Julia Child is the subject of a new, 500-page biography by Bob Spitz, our guest. Spitz is the author of “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child.”
Need advice on a smart phone, tablet, a new game device or computer? Mario Armstrong, WYPR tech commentator, joins Jim Barry of the Consumer Electronics Association to answer listener questions about the latest and greatest gadgetry on the market this holiday season.
Midday on Health contributor Dr. John Cmar gives an insider’s tour of how a hospital works. He’ll guide us through the admissions process, to the who’s who of medicine, to what you need to know about your hospital bill.
The University of Maryland's big and expensive move from the ACC to the Big Ten is being met with a lot of resistance, from fans to alumni. We'll examine the controversial move with WYPR's Sports-at-Large commentator (and UM alumnus) Milton Kent.
Restaurateur and wine connoisseur Tony Foreman and award-winning chef Cindy Wolf answer your questions about food and wine for the holidays, and they take Dan's chef's challenge.
This week on the Midday Weekly Review, University of California Law Professor Justin McCrary discusses Baltimore's ranking as one of the most under-policed cities in the nation. The Sun's Tricia Bishop reports on the latest revelations in the John Merzbacher sexual abuse case. Jack Lambert of the Baltimore Business Journal reports on foreclosure proceedings against the company that wants to develop the waterfront in South Baltimore. And GOP commentator Richard Cross analyzes the current state of the Maryland Republican Party.
Our twice-monthly legal affairs hour with Baltimore attorneys (and husband and wife), Jim Astrachan and Julie Rubin.
With the number of Americans in poverty at its highest level since the 1960s, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and cartoonist Joe Sacco chronicle poverty's advance in four areas of the country -- a native American reservation, an impoverished New Jersey city, a rural mining region, and the farms where migrant workers toil under harsh conditions. Hedge's vivid commentary and Sacco's trenchant illustrations are published in Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Nation Books.
Baltimore Sun investigative reporter Scott Calvert joins Midday to discuss the Sun's ongoing look into the proliferation of speed cameras in Maryland.
