Keen On America
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Where Are the Firefighters? Jonathan Vigliotti on How Los Angeles Was Left to Burn
May 13, 202644 min
What Would You Do With the Last 19 Minutes of Your Life? Vincent Yu on an Apocalypse that Fizzled
May 13, 202638 min
A Nation of Strangers: Ece Temelkuran on Rebuilding Home in a Homeless World
May 11, 202641 min
That Sounds Incredibly Boring: Keith Teare's Vision of our Jobless AI Future
May 10, 202632 min
Hong Kong Burning: Simon Elegant on the 2019 Protests
May 9, 202650 min
Is London Really Falling? Bethanne Patrick on Patrick Radden Keefe, Freya India and the Collapse of Book Reviewing
May 8, 202648 min
Never Trust a Handsome Soldier: Becky Holmes on the Past, Present and Future of Fraud
May 8, 202646 min
The Mysterious Mr Murdaugh: James Lasdun on Why a Father Annihilated His Son
May 7, 202643 min
Why History Keeps Happening: Patrick Wyman on Human Failure and Success in Building Civilizations,
May 6, 202654 min
How Politicians Broke Our World: Ian Shapiro on Raising Ourselves Up After the Fall
May 5, 202652 min
Why the Future of Europe Is Wales: Glyn Morgan on the Rise and Fall of American Europe
May 4, 202640 min
Make Hungary (and America) Boring Again: Marc Loustau on Why Orbán Lost and How to Defeat Trump
May 3, 202643 min
Do We Really Want a No-Hands Job From Silicon Valley? Who Holds the Power in the Age of AGI
May 2, 202648 min
May Day, May Day: Jason Pack on the Unhappy War in Iran We All Want to Ignore
May 1, 202643 min
God Looks After Fools, Drunks and the United States: John Steele Gordon on How Information Technology United America
May 1, 202639 min
We Know You Can Pay a Million: Anja Shortland Illuminates the Dark Screen of Ransomware
Apr 30, 202643 min
The Deadliest of Plagues? Gary Slutkin on Violence as Our Most Contagious Disease
Apr 29, 202653 min
How Iraq Turned Some American Soldiers into Monsters: Helen Benedict on the Unintended Consequences of War
Apr 29, 202637 min
The Too Many Führers Problem: Steven J. Ross on the History of American Neo-Nazism
Apr 28, 202649 min
The Truth Is Paywalled and the Lies Are Free: Brewster Kahle on the Internet of Forgetting
Apr 27, 202642 min
Are White Men Really Smarter Than Everybody Else? Steve Phillips on Who Actually Runs America
Apr 26, 202657 min
Adulting: The Week That AI Finally Grew Up
Apr 25, 202636 min
A Terrible, Terrible Intimacy: Melvin Patrick Ely on Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
Apr 24, 202651 min
Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong: Peter Wehner on Trump's Unholy War
Apr 23, 202653 min
The Revolutionary Center: Adrian Wooldridge on the Lost Genius of Liberalism
Apr 22, 202650 min
How to Be a Dissident: Gal Beckerman on Why Pessimism Is the Most Important Human Quality
Apr 21, 202652 min
The Eleventh Commandment: Jamie Metzl and GPT-5 Write a New Moral Code for Humanity
Apr 20, 202637 min
Friending the Machine: Victoria Hetherington on How to Fall in Love with Your Bot
Apr 19, 202643 min
Let’s Just Say It Out Loud: AI Is Not Dangerous
Apr 18, 202641 min
Read Fifty Books a Year: Deborah Kenny on Nurturing a Well-Educated Child
Apr 18, 202639 min
Cold Feet over the Cold War: Daniel Bessner on Why Cold War Liberalism Was Unamerican
Apr 17, 202637 min
From One Mad King to Another: Don Watson's Shortest History of the United States
Apr 16, 202644 min
Agency, Agency, Agency: Sophie Haigney on the Three Things All the Worst People Want
Apr 15, 202635 min
How Osama Bin Laden and Barron Trump Explain the World: Franklin Foer on Arsenal, the MAGA World Cup and an Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Apr 14, 202644 min
Biden’s Blue Authoritarianism: Stuart Schrader on How America’s Police Seized Power From Below
Apr 14, 202637 min
Forget Iran: Eyck Freymann on Taiwan, China, and Why America Keeps Hitting the Snooze Button,
Apr 13, 202644 min
Can I Say It? Jacob Mchangama on Our Global Crisis of Free Speech
Apr 12, 202640 min
Slippery Sam, Devious Dario, Honest Hassabis: Blowing Up Silicon Valley’s Cult of Personality
Apr 11, 202638 min
The Failure of Ultra-Stability: Robert Pearl on Why American Healthcare is Quietly Rationing Us to Death
Apr 11, 202646 min
Between Pride and Shame: Beverly Gage Gets in her Subaru & drives Across 250 Years of American History
Apr 10, 202636 min
The Many Faces of AI: Sebastian Mallaby on Demis Hassabis and the Quest to Read God’s Mind
Apr 9, 202654 min
More Embarrassing Than Sex: Alex Mayyasi on Why Money Talk Makes Us So Nervous
Apr 8, 202648 min
An Anticapitalist Mutiny: Noam Scheiber on the Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
Apr 7, 202643 min
Truth is Dead: Steven Rosenbaum on AI as a Spectacularly Good Liar
Apr 6, 202647 min
The Joe Biden Tragedy: Julian Zelizer on the Last New Deal President
Apr 5, 202647 min
We Shape Our AI, Thereafter It Shapes Us: How to Maintain Human Agency in Our Agentic Age
Apr 4, 202641 min
Stop, Don't Do That: Peter Edelman on What Bobby Kennedy Can Still Teach America
Apr 3, 202641 min
That's My Story, But Not Where It Ends: Robert Polito on Bob Dylan's Second Act
Apr 2, 202646 min
Does God Love Haiti? Dimitry Elias Léger on the Haitian Scorer of the Greatest Goal in US History
Apr 1, 202633 min
One Life in Nine World Cups: Simon Kuper on Football Fever and Why the Beautiful Game Still Matters
Mar 31, 202650 min