Sitemap - 2024 - Keen On

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 America's professional elites

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

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

Episode 2035: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Christopher Schroeder

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

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

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

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

Episode 2030: KEEN OF AMERICA featuring Sara Paretsky

Episode 2029: How to House America?

Episode 2028: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Thelton Henderson

Episode 2027: Marc Hauser on giving children second chances to overcome trauma and lead happy lives

Episode 2026: Dr Damon Tweedy on today's struggle to center psychiatry and mental healthcare into the mainstream of the medical community

Episode 2025: On the eve of the eclipse, Christopher Cokinos illuminates the sun and moon's history and their future

Episode 2024: Sheryl Kaskowitz on how FDR and his New Deal team saved America from the Great Depression - one folk song at a time

Episode 2023: How the AI "bubble" isn't really a bubble and why Keith Teare might be emigrating to China

Episode 2022: Henk de Berg on the many similarities tying Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler

Episode 2021: Norman Ohler on Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Episode 2020: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Arlie Russell Hochschild

Episode 2019: Ismar Volic explains how mathematics can save American democracy from the Trump/Biden gerontocratic duopoly

Episode 2018: Becca Rothfeld's celebration of mess, appetite and sexual desire

Episode 2017: David Masciotra finds the pathologies of American Totalitarianism in Exurbia

Episode 2016: Stefan Simchowitz on why he may be the most loathed man in the contemporary art world

Episode 2015: Is Apple about to pull out of the European Union and did Sam Bankman-Fried really deserve his 25 year jail sentence?

Episode 2014: B. Janet Hibbs explains why not-so-young Americans are retreating home to their parents and the other certainties of their former childhood

Episode 2013: Candida Moss on how Christian slaves helped write the Bible and why this will outrage some American evangelicals

Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism

Episode 2011: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Peter Wehner

Episode 2010: How everyone, even business school professors, are joining the anti big tech church

Episode 2009: Keith Teare on why Big Tech might be getting even BIGGER

Episode 2008: Chris French on the Science of Weird Shit

Episode 2007: Bethanne Patrick's guide to a literary March madness

Episode 2006: Everything you wanted to know about sex but didn't have the imagination to ask

Episode 2005: Why the Pete Rose story is as much about the rise and fall of America as it is about the fate of Charlie Hustle

EPISODE 2004: Jacob Heilbrunn on conservative America's 100 year romance with foreign dictators like Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Pinochet, Orban and Putin

Episode 2003: Martin Sixsmith on Vladimir Putin and the return of history to Russia and the West

Episode 2002: Elaine Lin Hering gives voice to the "Unsilent Generation"

Episode 2001: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Adam Hochschild

Episode 2000: Keith Teare on why the Congressional attempt to ban TikTok is astonishingly dumb

Episode 1999: Sasha Issenberg offers a playbook for winning elections in our disinformation age

Episode 1998: Emily Raboteau on how to mother against "the apocalypse"

Episode 1997: Benjamin Shestakofsky reveals the inegalitarianism at the heart of the startup economy

Episode 1996: Frank H. McCourt, Jr explains why rebuilding the Internet is THE most important issue of our time

Episode 1995: Sam Daley-Harris explains how to reclaim American democracy

Episode 1994: Why 1924 was the year that Adolf Hitler became "Hitler" and what it teaches us about the crisis of American democracy in 2024

Episode 1993: Keith Teare on the Hobbesian war of all-against-all inside & outside Silicon Valley

Episode 1992: Andrew Cockburn explains how Dr. Strangelove has always been a feature - rather than a bug - of Silicon Valley

Episode 1991: Bethanne Patrick on how to disrupt the disruption of our revolutionary age

Episode 1990: James Kaplan on Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans and the making of the most miraculous jazz record of all time

Epiosode 1989: Travis Rieder explains why an ethically pure life is neither moral nor practical in our complex world

Episode 1988: How the Patty Hearst saga captured the paranoia of early 70's America

EPISODE 1977: Max Stearns on why a "Parliamentary America" is the best fix for the country's broken democratic system

Episode 1976: Keith Teare on the DEI Elephant in every Silicon Valley Boardroom

Episode 1975: Ira Shapiro explains how Mitch McConnell Betrayed America

EPISODE 1974: Getting beyond Oppenheimer

A Belated February Reading List

Navigating the labyrinth of Argentina's bankrupt economy

Why we remember and why we forget

Waking Up White

A Brave New World of AI, Virtual Reality and Memetic Culture

Against Marriage

Why the Shadows of Socrates still haunt us today

The forced erasure of gays from 20th century American life

The Biggest Liberal Loser or an Iconic Progressive?

In defense of geeky intellectuals

Why do we seem to have so little free time?

And the Oscar goes to.....

Unpacking the Facebook tragedy

Will Putin ever die?

Should Americans pursue virtue or happiness?

A Case for Reparations

Exposing Hollywood's most notorious interwar celebrity spy

What chance peace in Israel?

How to write a #1 global bestseller

How Tucker Carlson's Putin interview captures today's "new, new media" revolution

Uncovering the world's mightiest (and tiniest) narco-state

in defense of cultural liberalism

Do nations have psychologies and can they experience collective trauma?

After Rape

Born in Blood: Scott Gac explains why violence is the defining feature of American history

Can the American university survive the 21st century? Nicholas Dirks explains why American universities need to reinvent themselves in our winner-take-all age of social media and AI

How to Win the Global Battle to Power our Lives? Ernest Scheyder on the new economic war between China and the West to control critical minerals like lithium, copper and cobalt

Why Scientific Truth Might Be Infinitely Weirder Than Scientific Fiction: Mike Chen on "A Quantum Love Story"

Should Elon Musk have publicly visited Auschwitz? Keith Teare on Musk, X, Instagram and the breakdown of civility in our social media age

Why today's internet is simultaneously autocratic and plutocratic: Ehud Shapiro on the egalitarian architecture necessary to build genuine digital democracy

Why Writing a Book is an Act of Free Will: Kevin Mitchell on free agency and how evolution gave us free will

Why Does Everything Need To Be About Race? Keith Boykin on Claudine Gay, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and why the real function of racism is distraction

Suburbia and American Disillusionment: Benjamin Herold on the unravelling of both America's suburbs and the American dream

The War for Israel's Soul: Bernard Avishai on the age old battle in Israel between globalists and messianic Zionists

A Winston Churchill for our TikTok age? Simon Shuster on Volodymyr Zelensky, the workaholic improv politician who needs to be loved by his Ukrainian people

A venture capitalist imagines a world after capital: Albert Wenger on work, leisure and the environment in the AI age

In Trouble With Gender: Alex Byrne explores slippery sex facts and factual gender fictions

Can AI produce genuine culture? Martin Puchner on the future of artistic creativity in the age of the smart machine

Radically reinventing America in upstate New York: Susan Danzinger on how to effectively put philosophy into action

Why Generative AI represents an existential threat to the creative community: Ed Newton-Rex warns about the dire consequences of generative AI companies "scraping" data without acknowledging its creators

The Cult of the Algorithm: Hilary Mason peers behind the hidden door of AI, gaming and storytelling

What killed capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis' murder mystery about the death of capitalism and our descent into "techno feudalism"

Yes, there is an alternative to free market capitalism (and, no, it's not socialism): Nick Romeo on how to build a just economy

Don't Trust Us: Frank Vogl exposes the marketing scammers behind the increasingly mainstream success of cryptocurrency

Why there might be a ghost in all our smart machines: Kenneth Cukier on AI, spirituality and a new humanism in our digital age

Unlocking and decrypting 2024: Azeem Azhar on AI's impact on politics, economics and society in the coming year

The Wicked Art of the Gothic Thriller: Abbott Kahler on writing unnerving literature about unnerving times

10 must read books for 2024: Bethanne Patrick on intriguing fiction and non-fiction to read in the new year

Is the current AI boom just another Silicon Valley bubble? John Thornhill separates the truth from the fiction of today's AI hysteria

Confessions of a Disillusioned Social Scientist: Brian Klaas on why we are all random accidents of chance and chaos

How foreign lobbyists in America threaten democracy around the world: Casey Michel on the dirty overseas money sloshing around both sides of American politics

Should you have sex with your robot?

Should you have sex with your robot? Eve Herold on our narcissistic echo-chamber culture in which we are falling in love with our robots (ie: ourselves)

How American healthcare is rigged against ethical doctors and poor patients: Dr Robert Pearl explains how the system can be reformed in 2024

Why a future of digitally connected brains is now on the horizon: PJ Caldas on the networked tsunami that is about to transform all our realities

What happens when AI "drifts"? Dominique Shelton Leipzig offers protection from the high-risk dangers of algorithmic malfunction

Turning writing into a habit that lasts: Bec Evans on how to start and finish books and why binge writing isn't a bad habit

Why all crises of capitalism are caused by moral failures: Colin Mayer on the social responsibility of business in every industry, from oil to tobacco to genetic engineering and AI

That Will Be The Year: Keith Teare predicts the major political, economic and technological developments for 2024

How to learn to tell the truth about ourselves: Dr .Annie Zimmerman explains how therapy can allow us to break free from old patterns and transform our lives

The Illusion of More: David Newhoff explains why we don't need GenerativeAI to make good art

Eyeless in Digital Gaza: Eryk Salvaggio sifts through the debris of our AI age in which we can no longer trust anything we see

What it's like to be a Russian these days: Marzio G. Mian ventures behind the new Iron Curtain to find caviar, counterculture and a reborn cult of Stalin

Why Impeachment remains an Indelible Stain on the Presidencies of Nixon, Clinton and Trump: Michael J. Gerhardt's guide for engaged citizens to the the law of Presidential impeachment

How to break out of the tyranny of the travel search box: Rafat Ali on the impact of AI on the travel industry

Why OpenAI has an Uber problem

Why OpenAI has an Uber problem: Tim O'Reilly explains how all successful companies depend on successful ecosystems

A former mobster's history of organized crime in America

A former mobster reveals the history of organized crime in America: Louis Ferrante charts the meteoric rise of the Mafia from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America

We've Been Here Before: Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin offer both radically new and historically trusted strategies for resisting neo-liberalism

On our nostalgia for vinyl records and authoritarian political leaders

On our nostalgia for vinyl records and authoritative political leaders