Keen On America
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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
Episode 2310: Why Progressives must become "Yes People" on Technology
Jan 19, 202542 min
Episode 2309: Michal Kosinski on the corrosive impact of social media on democracy and freedom
Jan 19, 202538 min
Episode 2308: Kenneth Cukier mourns the biliousness of our Big Data age
Jan 18, 202539 min
Episode 2307: Ece Temelkuran on why she still retains faith in the future
Jan 17, 202546 min
Episode 2306: Albert Wenger on how to save the Internet, Capitalism and the Planet
Jan 17, 202541 min
Episode 2305: Kurt Gray explains why we fight about morality and politics
Jan 16, 202550 min
Episode 2304: Lisa Genova on the connection between bipolar disorder and standup comedy
Jan 15, 202546 min
Episode 2303: Isaac Stanley-Becker on a Europe without Borders
Jan 14, 202543 min
Episode 2302: Laurie Trautman on the Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders
Jan 13, 202543 min
Episode 2301: Nicholas Carr on how the Arc of Innovation Bends Towards Decadence
Jan 12, 202547 min
Episode 2300: Sandra Matz makes the Case for a Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
Jan 11, 202539 min
Episode 2299: Jill Kastner explains why everything old is new again in international politics
Jan 11, 202536 min
Episode 2298: Adam Chandler on the fatal contradiction at the heart of American capitalism
Jan 9, 202545 min
Episode 2297: Louis Ferrante on why the Mafia Killed JFK
Jan 8, 20251h 4m
Episode 2296: Adi Jaffe on how to free yourself from addiction forever
Jan 7, 202544 min
Episode 2295: Paula Whyman on how to save the American environment - one wild mountaintop at a time
Jan 6, 202541 min
Episode 2294: Larry Downes' non-MAGA plan to shrink the Federal bureaucracy
Jan 6, 202541 min
Episode 2293: David Masciotra on why Kamala Harris should have gone on the Joe Rogan show
Jan 4, 202543 min
Episode 2292: Chris Schroeder on how America now swims in an ocean of black swans
Jan 3, 202548 min
Episode 2291: Michael Scott-Baumann on the hopelessness of the Palestinian situation
Jan 2, 202546 min
Episode 2290: Marshall Poe on why 2024 was a bad year for most podcasters
Jan 1, 202540 min
Episode 2289: Gary Marcus on how Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is, in the long run, inevitable
Dec 31, 202441 min
Episode 2288: Simon Kuper on the chilling parallels between MAGA America and Apartheid South Africa
Dec 30, 202444 min
Episode 2287: Joseph O'Neill explains how to resist contemporary Fascism
Dec 29, 202451 min
Episode 2286: Seth Rogovoy on why A Complete Unknown, the new Dylan biopic, is a complete failure
Dec 28, 202447 min
Episode 2285: Toby Walsh on the revolutionary promise and peril of AI in 2025
Dec 27, 202451 min
Episode 2284: Soli Ozel on the possibility of a 2025 "Pax Hebraica" in the Middle East
Dec 26, 202447 min
Episode 2283: Jonathan Rauch's six key moments of 2024
Dec 25, 20241h 3m
Episode 2282: Adam Kirsch on the nonsense of "Settler Colonialism"
Dec 24, 202444 min
Episode 2281: Parmy Olson on why Google DeepMind will trump OpenAI in 2025
Dec 23, 202448 min
Episode 2280: Who will win the multi trillion dollar race for AI supremacy in 2025?
Dec 22, 202440 min
Episode 2279: Why 2024 will be remembered as the year before 2025
Dec 21, 202441 min
Episode 2278: Max Stier on the Essential Value of the American Federal Government
Dec 20, 202443 min
Episode 2277: From “Science” to Atrocity - The Seductive History of Eugenics
Dec 19, 202451 min
Episode 2276: Byrne Hobart on Booms, Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Dec 18, 202433 min
Episode 2275: Jeff Jarvis on how the world has changed over the last 20 years
Dec 17, 202438 min
Episode 2274: Bethanne Patrick's Favorite Non-Fiction Books of 2024
Dec 16, 202431 min
Episode 2273: Bethanne Patrick's Best Five Favorite Novels of 2024
Dec 15, 202430 min
Episode 2272: Mark Lilla on why ignorance is bliss
Dec 14, 202449 min
Episode 2271: Keith Teare on why he's fallen in love with Elon Musk
Dec 13, 202441 min
Episode 2270: Craig Garnett on May 24, 2022 - Uvalde's Darkest Hour
Dec 13, 202439 min
Episode 2269: Michael Sayman looks forward to an AI age in which all our online interactions are with bots
Dec 12, 202445 min
Episode 2268: David Rowell on how new technology is making us dislike new music
Dec 10, 202442 min
Episode 2267: Jonathan Taplin on the coming cultural renaissance in America
Dec 9, 202444 min
Episode 2266: Mr Musk, Mr Sacks and Mr Andreessen go to Washington
Dec 8, 202442 min
Episode 2265: Jeff Jarvis on how to reclaim the internet from moguls, misanthropes and moral panics
Dec 7, 202437 min