Keen On America
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Episode 2260: Felipe Torres Medina laughs and cries about the American immigration system
Mar 9, 202545 min
Episode 2259: Why AI is about to transform everyone (yes, even you) into a coder
Mar 8, 202532 min
Episode 2258: Joyce Chaplin on how Benjamin Franklin warmed up America
Mar 8, 202546 min
Episode 2257: Kevin Fagan on a San Francisco story of homelessness that will break your heart
Mar 7, 202556 min
Episode 2256: Meenakshi Ahamed on the meteoric rise of Indians in America
Mar 6, 202535 min
Episode 2255: Nicholas Lalla on Reviving the American Dream in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Mar 5, 202535 min
Episode 2254: Why Trump wants to be the Godfather
Mar 4, 202546 min
Episode 2253: John Lechner on the deadly role of Russian Mercenaries in Ukraine
Mar 3, 202542 min
Episode 2252: How to Unstick the Future
Mar 1, 202549 min
Episode 2251: Kristian Ronn on why, in the short term, we all might be dead
Feb 28, 202542 min
Episode 2250 Rebecca Haw Allensworth on America's Cult of the Professional
Feb 27, 202540 min
Episode 2249: Caroline Fleck on the Skill Set that will Change your Life
Feb 26, 202538 min
Episode 2248: Yoni Applebaum on why America is STUCK in a Crisis of Immobility
Feb 25, 202546 min
Episode 2247: Andrew Cockburn on Trump and Musk's Futile War Against the Deep State
Feb 24, 202541 min
Episode 2246: Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a carnival of hypocrisy
Feb 23, 202539 min
Episode 2245: Is it really "not hard" to be a billionaire these days?
Feb 22, 202542 min
Episode 2244: Tim Wu on how to decentralize capitalism
Feb 21, 202551 min
Episode 2243: Nick Bryant on why Trump 2.0 is as historic as the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Feb 20, 202542 min
Episode 2242: Ian Goldin on the past, present and future of migration
Feb 19, 202544 min
Episode 2241: Gaia Bernstein on the Threat of AI Companions to Children
Feb 18, 202538 min
Episode 2240: Ray Brescia on how our private lives have been politicized by social media
Feb 17, 202547 min
Episode 2239: Frank Vogl on why Trump's financial deregulation is likely to lead to another global economic crash
Feb 16, 202536 min
Episode 2238: What to make of J.D. Vance's speech at the Paris AI Summit
Feb 15, 202537 min
Episode 2237: Matthew Karp explains how progressives can successfully bulldoze America
Feb 14, 202548 min
Episode 2236: Colum McCann and Dianne Foley on what a mother said to her son's ISIS executioner
Feb 13, 202548 min
Episodes 2235: Jeffrey Toobin on whether we all deserve second chances
Feb 12, 202543 min
Episode 2234: Walter Mosley on Easy Rawlins, King Oliver and the history of fictional black American detectives
Feb 11, 202537 min
Episode 2233: John Kay on why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
Feb 10, 202545 min
Episode 2332: Greg Beato on what could go possibly RIGHT with our AI future
Feb 9, 202547 min
Episode 2331: The Week that Silicon Valley went from Woke to DOGE
Feb 8, 202540 min
Episode 2330: Eoin Higgins on how reactionary tech billionaires bought Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi
Feb 7, 202547 min
Episode 2329: Ethan Zuckerman on how the United States learned to love online censorship
Feb 6, 202548 min
Episode 2328: A gay Jewish atheist rides to the rescue of American Christianity
Feb 5, 202543 min
Episode 2327: John Lee Hooker Jr explains who gets to go to Heaven and who doesn't
Feb 4, 202539 min
Episode 2326: Mike Colias assesses the impact of Trump's Tariffs on the US Auto Industry
Feb 3, 202540 min
Episode 2325: Charles Piller on Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's
Feb 2, 202536 min
Episode 2324: Why we need some Sputnik Thinking on Wealth Redistribution in our AI Age
Feb 1, 202542 min
Episode 2223: Sophia Rosenfeld asks if our age of choice might also be an age of tyranny
Jan 31, 202552 min
Episode 2322: Andrew Lipstein on how to reinvent American masculinity
Jan 30, 202533 min
Episode 2321: Michael Ignatieff on why he's still (half) in love with the United States
Jan 29, 202541 min
Episode 2320: Nicholas Carr on how technologies of connection are tearing us apart
Jan 28, 202545 min
Episode 2319: Christopher DiCarlo on AI as the latest chapter in our long history of building an all-knowing God
Jan 27, 202538 min
Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the digital dystopia of platform capitalism
Jan 26, 202547 min
Episode 2317: Is Trump's America now an Oligarchy?
Jan 25, 202538 min
Episode 2316: Agnes Callard on how to learn from Socrates about questioning everything
Jan 24, 202553 min
Episode 2315: Andrew McAfee finds reasons to be cheerful about the next 20 years of our tech century
Jan 23, 202541 min
Episode 2314: Richard Socher on why AI might be good for humanity
Jan 22, 202539 min
Episode 2313: Esther Dyson on being the Aunt and Court jEsther of the Tech Industry
Jan 22, 202546 min
Episode 2312: Robert D. Kaplan on the decadence of Trump's America
Jan 21, 202544 min
Episode 2311: Martin Puchner looks forward to 2045 when the whole world will have access to high quality education
Jan 20, 202533 min