Keen On America
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AI and Political Freedom: Anthropic's Matthew Botvinick on the Risk to Democracy and How to Respond
Oct 8, 20261h 1m
The President and the Oligarch: Greg Steinmetz on FDR’s Vendetta Against Andrew Mellon
Oct 7, 202641 min
Do We All Really Need a Digital Chief of Staff? Grok Bot, Dot and Muse Say Yes (Duh)
Oct 6, 202642 min
The Future of Truth: How AI Reshaped Steven Rosenbaum’s Reality
Oct 5, 202646 min
Everything Is Everything: Steven E. Jones on Tom Wilson & the Magic of 1966
Oct 4, 202641 min
How to Survive Authoritarianism: Dan Storyev on a Russian Phrasebook for America
Oct 3, 202647 min
An Inconvenient Woman: Keri Leigh Merritt on Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America
Oct 2, 202631 min
Biography of a Dangerous Idea: Andrew Curran on How the Enlightenment Invented Race
Oct 1, 202657 min
Artificial Intimacy: Sherry Turkle on Who We Become When We Talk to Machines
Sep 30, 202657 min
London Station: David McCloskey on the CIA, MI6 & the End of the Special Relationship
Sep 29, 202651 min
The Age of Cures: Barry Werth on How Big Pharma Once Saved Your Life
Sep 28, 202648 min
A Fabulous Debt: Robin Wigglesworth on How Bonds Built the Modern World
Sep 27, 202647 min
And Now For Something Completely Similar: Untangling the Power from the Pretense of Our AI Circus
Sep 26, 202649 min
Trump Has Finally Lost the Plot: Jonathan Rauch & Peter Wehner on the Autumn of the American Patriarch
Sep 25, 202649 min
Proudly-Jewish & Never-Boring: Alan Dershowitz on His Divorce from the Democratic Party
Sep 24, 202643 min
Eureka in Silicon Valley! Richard Socher on Why AI Will Unlock a New Scientific Renaissance
Sep 24, 202649 min
Our Own Worst Enemies: Robert Pape on America’s Age of Violent Populism
Sep 22, 202655 min
Patrimonial Capitalism: Peter Hall on Trump, Orbán & Other Pitchfork-Wielding Plutocrats
Sep 22, 202637 min
The Pursuit of Unhappiness: George Loewenstein on Why We're Wired for Misery
Sep 21, 202645 min
Are the Doomers Now Doomed? A Bad Week for the AI Apocalypse.
Sep 20, 202637 min
Mortgaging the American Dream: Joshua Specht on the Rise & Fall of US Homeownership
Sep 19, 202654 min
It's Happening Here: Rosan Smits on Fascism in America & Europe
Sep 18, 202651 min
Eight Profiles in Cowardice: Jacob Weisberg on Bezos, Bush & the Other Collaborators of the MAGA Age
Sep 17, 202655 min
The Enigmatic Mr Douglass: Dennis Rasmussen on America's Fiercest Critic & its Greatest Fan.
Sep 16, 202643 min
Three Million Millionaires: Eric Zwick Finds the American Dream on Main Street USA
Sep 15, 202650 min
She Calls It Evil: Susan Neiman on Germany, Capitalism & the Banality of Trump
Sep 14, 20261h 6m
Shut Up or Shut Down? Amodei, Altman, Musk & the Great AI Freakout
Sep 13, 202650 min
Losing Dogmas, Winning Elections: Adam Jentleson on How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Supermajority
Sep 12, 202647 min
How We Got the Thirties Wrong: William Hitchcock on FDR, Fascism & America’s World War II
Sep 11, 202659 min
America's New Forever War? Yonah Jeremy Bob on the US-Israeli Conflict With Iran
Sep 10, 202656 min
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Skye Perryman's Guide to Reclaiming Power in Trump's America
Sep 9, 202626 min
Why Are We So Miserable? Mikko Ketovuori Surfs on the Waves of History to Explain Social Mood Swings
Sep 9, 202631 min
Is That Really a Flying Saucer? Adam Kirsch on Why We Want to Believe in Aliens
Sep 8, 202642 min
The Madness of Markets: Alex Edmans on Why Smart Investors Make Crazy Decisions
Sep 7, 202643 min
The Revolution Won’t Be Meatless: Erin Somers Finds the Beef
Sep 6, 202631 min
Lord of the Swarms: Who to Trust in an Age of AI Agents?
Sep 5, 202637 min
The Trickle-Down Morality of a Free-Market Girl: Stephanie Slade on Libertarian Fusionism
Sep 4, 202655 min
Cashing In on Chaos: Finn Brunton on Polymarket, Polycrisis and the Casinoification of American Life
Sep 3, 202650 min
The Mother of Silicon Valley Heresy: Paulina Borsook on the Second Coming of Cyberselfish
Sep 2, 202645 min
Opening the Book of Genocides: Graphic Artist Dana Mashoian Walrath Draws Humanity’s Worst Crime
Sep 1, 202646 min
The Death of the Internet and of You: John West on Why We Aren’t Gods
Aug 31, 202631 min
Breaking ICE: Sonali Kolhatkar Explains Why Only the People Can Save the American Republic
Aug 30, 202640 min
What Berlin Teaches Us About Resisting Tyranny: Wendy Lesser’s Cautionary Mirror for Our Times
Aug 29, 202652 min
A Global Storm in a Capitalist Teacup? Jeremy Adelman on Why There’s No Exit to the Market
Aug 28, 202656 min
Before Abe Was Lincoln: Jonathan Earle on the Most Important Election in American History
Aug 27, 202656 min
When America Broke Up: Kurt Andersen Looks Forward to the Divorce of the United States
Aug 26, 202650 min
An Unknown American Hero: Katie S. Sanders on the Man Who Saved Her Grandfather's Life in WW2.
Aug 25, 202642 min
From Japan With(out) Love: David Baerwald on His Grandfather Spy Who Helped Flatten Tokyo
Aug 24, 202646 min
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