Keen On America
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We Are (Not) the Champions: Why Silicon Valley Isn’t Providing an AI Human Dividend
Aug 23, 202639 min
The The Profitable Art of Dumb Meme Coins: Nicholas Anthony on Trump's $636M Gain & His Fans' $3.8B Loss
Aug 22, 202649 min
The Next Moonshot Won’t Come from Silicon Valley: ex-Google X’er Salima Bhimani on How to Invent Now
Aug 21, 202641 min
Apocalypse Past, Present and Future: James Crawford’s Dispatches from the Frontiers of Extraction
Aug 20, 202646 min
Citizen Twain: Jeff Jarvis on Hot Type, the Magnificent Machine That Gave Birth to Mass Media
Aug 19, 202645 min
Yes, January 6 Was an Organized Religious Coup: Rep. Jared Huffman on the Christian Nationalist Menace
Aug 18, 202637 min
Our Seven Trillion Dollar Future: Dave McClure & Aman Verjee Burst the AI Pessimism Bubble
Aug 17, 202655 min
The Scarlet Summer of Our Luddite Discontent: Opening Up on AI Shame & Anthropic Watermarks
Aug 16, 202649 min
The Machines Will See You Now: Anmol Madan's Human Roadmap to AI Health Care
Aug 15, 202642 min
The Roman Road to the Ruin of its Republic: Michelle Berenfeld’s Lessons from Antiquity
Aug 14, 202643 min
The Yesterday of the Jackal: Joby Warrick Meets Carlos, the World’s Original Super-Terrorist
Aug 13, 202644 min
The Deadly Americans: Adam Isacson & John Walsh on MAGA's Killing Rampage in Latin America
Aug 12, 202647 min
Are They Dead Yet? Sam Roberts on the Art of the Obit
Aug 11, 202645 min
Is Jurassic Park Playing in Silicon Valley? Renée Jones on the Unicorn Stampede in Startup Finance.
Aug 10, 202640 min
Three Deadly Days in August: James M. Scott on Truman, Hirohito & the Two Bombs That Ended the War
Aug 9, 202646 min
Let Them Eat Intelligence: A Silicon Valley Eulogy for the Working Class
Aug 8, 202639 min
The United States of Protest: Gloria Browne-Marshall on the Engine Room of American Democracy
Aug 7, 202646 min
The Banality of the Deal: Casey Michel on the United States of Oligarchy
Aug 6, 202654 min
Is Google Evil? Claire Stapleton on Bad Bosses, Bullshit Jobs, and Her Great Escape from Big Tech
Aug 5, 202646 min
The Only Certainty Is Uncertainty: Stuart Firestein on Science in the Age of Tony Fauci
Aug 4, 202643 min
How to Say No to Fascism: Curtis White’s Anti-Manifesto of Resistance
Aug 3, 202638 min
Who’s Afraid of the AI-Enabled Author? On “Real” Creativity & Cheating in Our Age of AI Slop
Aug 2, 202656 min
No, Not Everybody Needs a Therapist: Amy Morin on America's Epidemic of Mental Weakness
Aug 1, 202635 min
The Robin Hood of the Book Biz: How Andy Hunter's Bookshop.org Is Standing Up to Amazon.
Jul 31, 202645 min
Should the American Pope Debate the American President? Jack Hanson on the Radical Reformation of the Catholic Church
Jul 30, 202642 min
Why Volodymyr Zelensky Is the World’s Only Living Statesman: Steven B. Smith on the Leadership America Lacks
Jul 29, 202643 min
An American Circus of Skulls: Paul Stob on Phrenology, the P.T. Barnum of Pseudosciences
Jul 28, 202640 min
How to Walk from Mumbai to San Francisco: Saumya Roy Navigates the Cracks in the American Dream
Jul 27, 202636 min
Kill Bill or Kill Keith? Why Using AI to Author Books Might Not Be in the Interest of Man
Jul 26, 202646 min
The Strange Death of the American Front Porch: Molly Brady on Land, Law, and the Lost Art of Neighborliness
Jul 25, 202642 min
How a Turkey Voted for Xmas: Ricardo Semler on Why One Boss Wants the End of All Bosses.
Jul 24, 202644 min
Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: Is Ben Barnes the Last Moderate Texan Democrat?
Jul 23, 202653 min
The American Way of Violence: Mike McIntire on Guns, Greed, and a Daily Trickle of Bloodshed
Jul 22, 202640 min
The Seduction of the American Mind: Emily Eakin on Her Life in French Theory
Jul 21, 202642 min
A $14 Billion Glitter Glue Gospel: Michael Blanding on the Wealthiest Christian Nationalist Family You've Never Heard Of
Jul 20, 202634 min
Homer's Hollywood Odyssey: Joel Christensen on How Christopher Nolan Gave Us the Odysseus We Deserve
Jul 19, 202645 min
Who Owns Intelligence? The Smart Wealth of Nations
Jul 18, 202639 min
Trump Points, Justice Shoots: Jonathan Rauch Looks Back (Without Anger) at the First Six Months of 2026
Jul 17, 202642 min
We All Hallucinate Reality: Turi Munthe on Why We Think What We Think
Jul 16, 202645 min
Who's Addicted to Addiction? Sally Satel on the Social Media Trials & America's Therapeutic Culture
Jul 15, 202645 min
The Art Restorer Who Came in From the Cold: Daniel Silva on Gabriel Allon, the Truest Fake Spy
Jul 14, 202643 min
A Time for Monsters: David Masciotra Looks Back in Anger at the First Six Months of 2026 in America
Jul 13, 202650 min
Ten Days That Didn’t Shake the World: Is it 1905 in AI Time?
Jul 12, 202638 min
From Istanbul With Love: Kaya Genç on How Turkey is Watching Trump's America
Jul 11, 202649 min
The End of the End of Geography: Mehran Gul on Why Innovation is Happening in America & China — but Nowhere Else
Jul 10, 202649 min
The Glory of Small Things: Ian Bogost on How To Be Enchanted by Diet Coke Cans & Plane Tickets
Jul 9, 202642 min
How the Democrats Screwed Bernie: Tad Devine on the 2016 Campaign, the Rigged Economy, and What’s at Stake in 2028
Jul 8, 202645 min
A Sudden Flicker of Light: Has David Thomson Fallen Out of Love With the Movies?
Jul 7, 202657 min
Was the Colonization of North America a Genocidal Project? David Silverman on the Tragic Fate of Native Americans
Jul 6, 202643 min
Universal Basic Capitalism: The Next American Revolution Or More Trickle Down Economics?
Jul 5, 202638 min