Archive - Keen On

Episode 2040: Matt Hern on the revolutionary potential of suburbia

Why we shouldn't write off the suburbs as places of political disengagement and reaction

Apr 22 •

38:08

Episode 2039: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Mark Danner

American foreign policy in a time when nowhere or nobody is really foreign anymore

Apr 21 •

1:06:52

Episode 2038: Daniel Bessner on how the existential crisis of Hollywood's film & tv writers is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of…

Why today's life and death of Hollywood isn's simply history repeating itself

Apr 20 •

37:19

Episode 2037: Elliot Ackerman on the danger of mercenaries and the value of national service

How America can remain both a great and a morally responsible 21st century power

Apr 19 •

35:16

Episode 2036: Stephen Marche, author of "The Next Civil War", on Alex Garland's new movie "Civil War"

Is America really on the brink of Civil War and what will this conflict look like?

Apr 18 •

32:22

Episode 2035: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Christopher Schroeder

How to Fix America with practical knowledge rather than ideological fervor

Apr 17 •

50:12

Episode 2034: Dale Maharidge tells American liberals to look in the mirror to understand the Doom Loop now engulfing their country

Maharidge on homeless and hope in the America of the 2020s

Apr 16 •

33:17

Episode 2033: Batya Ungar-Sargon on how American elites have betrayed the country's working men and women

Why Clinton, Obama and Biden are more responsible than Reagan and the Bushes for the collapse of the American Dream

Apr 15 •

45:21

Episode 2032: Natalie Foster on how the arc of the 21st century American moral universe is bending toward justice

Foster, author of THE GUARANTEE, gets inside the fight for America's next economy

Apr 14 •

42:11

Episode 2031: New books from Salman Rushdie, Erik Larsen, Amor Towles, Mohamed Amer Meziane, Patric Gagne & Leif Enger

Bethanne Patrick on the best new reading for Spring

Apr 13 •

31:34

Episode 2030: KEEN OF AMERICA featuring Sara Paretsky

Paretsky on Chicago in the Sixties, Civil War Kansas, and when she learnt what it means to be an American

Apr 12 •

32:37

Episode 2029: How to House America?

Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse on Social Equity, Architecture and the Future of Affordable Housing

Apr 11 •

33:43

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