Keen On America
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The Apotheosis of Donald Trump? Peter Wehner on Madness, Mayhem and How Trump Eludes Shakespearean Tragedy
Jun 28, 202649 min
Payback’s a Bitch: AI Sovereign Wealth Funds, the Fake Andrew Keen, and America’s Inevitable Decline
Jun 27, 202635 min
Down the Democratic Drain: Justin Gest on How Migration Is Unintentionally Strengthening Authoritarianism Around the World
Jun 26, 202634 min
Is London Really Falling? Patrick Radden Keefe's Search for Truth in the Most Invisible of Cities
Jun 25, 202643 min
The Best and Worst Thing About America: Konstanty Gebert on the Interlibrary Loan and Yalta
Jun 24, 20261h 7m
We No Longer Dream of the United States: Bartosz Wieliński on America, Poland, and the Suicide of a Superpower
Jun 24, 202635 min
Let’s Agree to Disagree: Maciej Kisilowski on How to Save Democracy From Deplorables on All Sides
Jun 23, 202649 min
Life After GDP: Tim Jackson Returns to 1968 to Excavate a Post-Capitalist Future
Jun 22, 202632 min
Middlewomen: Laura McGrath on the 25 People Who Control American Fiction
Jun 21, 202636 min
What Makes Us Human? Kate O’Neill on the H Word, Verbal Slop, and the Meaning of Tech Humanism
Jun 20, 202640 min
Never Invite Sally Quinn: The Illustrious Washington Hostess on Ben Bradlee, Jill Biden and the Sexiness of Silence
Jun 19, 202644 min
Gerontocracy in America: Samuel Moyn on How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth
Jun 18, 202644 min
The Trouble with Trillionaires: Mordecai Kurz on Capitalism, Democracy, and the Second Gilded Age
Jun 17, 202644 min
The Vanishing Black Family: Delano Squires on Marriage, Moynihan, and the Crisis in Black America
Jun 17, 202652 min
A Century of Orations: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Listens to 2,500 Voices of the American Revolution
Jun 15, 202645 min
Up to the Stars and Down into the Gutter: Elon Musk's Ascent/Descent to SpaceX and White Nationalist Violence
Jun 14, 202639 min
No Statecraft for Old Men: Jack Watling on the New Rules of Power in a Chaotic World
Jun 13, 202641 min
The David Frum Show: Frum on Gatsby, Trump the Fascoid and What It Means to Be an American
Jun 12, 202650 min
Save San Francisco’s Soul: Jonathan Weber on Technology and Politics in the City By the Bay
Jun 11, 20261h 5m
Brooklyn Al Primo Posto: Vincent Coppola’s Magical Memoir of the Church, the Mafia and the Gowanus Canal
Jun 10, 202642 min
Trump Finally Gets the Priceless Book He Deserves: Ben Fountain on How Rasputin Swims the Potomac
Jun 9, 202647 min
The Unexceptional Exceptionalism of the United States: Michael Mandelbaum on the American Way of Foreign Policy
Jun 8, 202655 min
The Jeffrey Epstein of Antiquities: Matthew Campbell on the Man Who Got Away With Stealing the Gods,
Jun 7, 202647 min
D-Day for AI: How to Create an End Game That Will Benefit Everyone
Jun 6, 202638 min
Good Bobby, Bad Bobby: Evan Thomas on the Greatest Riddle in 20th Century American Politics
Jun 5, 202637 min
Why Football Saves Our Souls: Brian Bunk on the Collective Beauty of the World’s Most Popular Game
Jun 4, 202648 min
Get the F*** Out of Your House: Yotam Marom on How to Raise the Volume on the Politics of Powerlessness
Jun 3, 202644 min
Around the World in One Long Depression: Liaquat Ahamed on 1873 & the Making of the Global Economy
Jun 2, 20261h 0m
Drayton and Mackenzie: Alexander Starritt on How the 2008 Crash Ruined Everything
Jun 1, 202650 min
Ecocivilization and Our Discontents: Jeremy Lent on Why TINA Is Wrong
May 31, 202645 min
Anthropic Trounces OpenAI with Its Papal Pivot: Value Investing in Our AI Age
May 30, 202639 min
1776 as 1917: Sarah Pearsall's World History of the American Revolution
May 30, 202650 min
To Love or Hate the United States? Dominic Erdozain on the Problem of American Patriotism
May 29, 202643 min
Life of the Party: Joe Cunningham on How Democrats Lost America’s Trust and How They Can Win It Back
May 28, 202648 min
Is America Unfinished or Just Getting Started? Alexandra Natapoff on 250 Years of Justice and Injustice in the United States
May 27, 202644 min
Beyond the Lean Startup: Eric Ries on Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Ones Stay Great,
May 26, 202645 min
God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: Jasper Craven on the Damage West Point Has Done to American Boys
May 25, 202645 min
What Albert Camus Teaches Us About America: David Masciotra on a Country of Strangers,
May 24, 202634 min
Boy Meets Girl Meets AI Therapist: Fred Lunzer on Sike, Fictional Realism, and the Future of Love
May 23, 202640 min
Unvaccinated Under God: Kira Ganga Kieffer on Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America
May 22, 202646 min
How to Win a Trade War: Soumaya Keynes on Trump, China, and Her Great-Great-Uncle Maynard
May 21, 202641 min
Bad Entrepreneurs and Even Worse Artists: Does Capitalism Have a Future in the AI Age?
May 20, 202643 min
When California Was an Island: Peter Keating on the Cartography That Maps How We See the World
May 19, 202650 min
Don’t Use the F-Word: David Ost on Why the Red Pill, Not Fascism, Demystifies the Far Right
May 19, 202646 min
Don't Retire, Rewire: Michael Clinton's Longevity Nation
May 18, 202642 min
How to Watch the World Cup Like a Genius: Nick Greene on Why the Best Team Doesn’t Always Win
May 17, 20261h 0m
Can Keith Teare Convince Jonathan Rauch That AI Is Benign? That Was the Week, Special Edition
May 16, 202655 min
Athens vs Sparta: Adrian Goldsworthy on the Rivalry That Made the West
May 16, 202642 min
Sometimes Fixed Sometimes Fickle: Audun Dahl on Why Our Moral Judgements Are Always in Flux
May 16, 202651 min
From SEAL Sniper to Puddle Jumper: Brandon Webb on How to Raise Confident and Joyful Kids
May 15, 202654 min