Keen On America
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Episode 2026: Dr Damon Tweedy on today's struggle to center psychiatry and mental healthcare into the mainstream of the medical community
Apr 8, 202438 min
Episode 2025: On the eve of the eclipse, Christopher Cokinos illuminates the sun and moon's history and their future
Apr 7, 202432 min
Episode 2024: Sheryl Kaskowitz on how FDR and his New Deal team saved America from the Great Depression - one folk song at a time
Apr 6, 202438 min
Episode 2023: How the AI "bubble" isn't really a bubble and why Keith Teare might be emigrating to China
Apr 5, 202441 min
Episode 2022: Henk de Berg on the many similarities tying Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler
Apr 4, 202441 min
Episode 2021: Norman Ohler on Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
Apr 3, 202441 min
Episode 2020: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Arlie Russell Hochschild
Apr 2, 20241h 11m
Episode 2019: Ismar Volic explains how mathematics can save American democracy from the Trump/Biden gerontocratic duopoly
Apr 1, 202436 min
Episode 2018: Becca Rothfeld's celebration of mess, appetite and sexual desire
Apr 1, 202439 min
Episode 2017: David Masciotra finds the pathologies of American Totalitarianism in Exurbia
Mar 31, 202439 min
Episode 2016: Stefan Simchowitz on why he may be the most loathed man in the contemporary art world
Mar 31, 202441 min
Episode 2015: Is Apple about to pull out of the European Union and did Sam Bankman-Fried really deserve his 25 year jail sentence?
Mar 29, 202441 min
Episode 2014: B. Janet Hibbs explains why not-so-young Americans are retreating home to their parents and the other certainties of their former childhood
Mar 29, 202438 min
Episode 2013: Candida Moss on how Christian slaves helped write the Bible and why this will outrage some American evangelicals
Mar 28, 202439 min
Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism
Mar 27, 202437 min
Episode 2011: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Peter Wehner
Mar 25, 202440 min
Episode 2010: How everyone, even business school professors, are joining the anti big tech church
Mar 25, 202434 min
Episode 2009: Keith Teare on why Big Tech might be getting even BIGGER
Mar 24, 202444 min
Episode 2008: Chris French on the Science of Weird S**t
Mar 23, 202427 min
Episode 2007: Bethanne Patrick's guide to a literary March madness
Mar 22, 202429 min
Episode 2006: Everything you wanted to know about sex but didn't have the imagination to ask
Mar 21, 202451 min
Episode 2005: Why the Pete Rose story is as much about the rise and fall of America as it is about the fate of Charlie Hustle
Mar 20, 202441 min
EPISODE 2004: Jacob Heilbrunn on conservative America's 100 year romance with foreign dictators like Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Pinochet, Orban and Putin
Mar 19, 202441 min
Episode 2003: Martin Sixsmith on Vladimir Putin and the return of history to Russia and the West
Mar 18, 202445 min
Episode 2002: Elaine Lin Hering gives voice to the "Unsilent Generation"
Mar 17, 202428 min
Episode 2001: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Adam Hochschild
Mar 16, 202452 min
Episode 2000: Keith Teare on why the Congressional attempt to ban TikTok is astonishingly dumb
Mar 15, 202437 min
Episode 1999: Sasha Issenberg offers a playbook for winning elections in our disinformation age
Mar 14, 202441 min
Episode 1998: Emily Raboteau on how to mother against "the apocalypse"
Mar 13, 202433 min
Episode 1997: Benjamin Shestakofsky reveals the inegalitarianism at the heart of the startup economy
Mar 12, 202441 min
Episode 1996: Frank H. McCourt, Jr explains why rebuilding the Internet is THE most important issue of our time
Mar 11, 202448 min
Episode 1995: Sam Daley-Harris explains how to reclaim American democracy
Mar 10, 202435 min
Episode 1994: Why 1924 was the year that Adolf Hitler became "Hitler" and what it teaches us about the crisis of American democracy in 2024
Mar 9, 202440 min
Episode 1993: Keith Teare on the Hobbesian war of all-against-all inside & outside Silicon Valley
Mar 8, 202434 min
Episode 1992: Andrew Cockburn explains how Dr. Strangelove has always been a feature - rather than a bug - of Silicon Valley
Mar 7, 202438 min
Episode 1991: Bethanne Patrick on how to disrupt the disruption of our revolutionary age
Mar 6, 202436 min
Episode 1990: James Kaplan on Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans and the making of the most miraculous jazz record of all time
Mar 6, 202442 min
Epiosode 1989: Travis Rieder explains why an ethically pure life is neither moral nor practical in our complex world
Mar 4, 202439 min
Episode 1988: How the Patty Hearst saga captured the paranoia of early 70's America
Mar 3, 202437 min
EPISODE 1977: Max Stearns on why a "Parliamentary America" is the best fix for the country's broken democratic system
Mar 2, 202446 min
Episode 1976: Keith Teare on the DEI Elephant in every Silicon Valley Boardroom
Mar 1, 202441 min
Episode 1975: Ira Shapiro explains how Mitch McConnell Betrayed America
Feb 29, 202434 min
EPISODE 1974: Getting beyond Oppenheimer
Feb 28, 202430 min
A Belated February Reading List
Feb 27, 202432 min
Navigating the labyrinth of Argentina's bankrupt economy
Feb 27, 202434 min
Why we remember and why we forget
Feb 25, 202434 min
Waking Up White
Feb 24, 202439 min
A Brave New World of AI, Virtual Reality and Memetic Culture
Feb 23, 202439 min
Against Marriage
Feb 22, 202440 min
Why the Shadows of Socrates still haunt us today
Feb 21, 202431 min