Keen On America
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Episode 2084: Terry H. Anderson on why the 1990's still matter so much
Jun 5, 202446 min
Episode 2083: Andrew Lipstein on the $15 Trillion 401(k) Doomsday that might trigger a global economic catastrophe
Jun 4, 202436 min
Episode 2082: James Kirchick explains why a chill has fallen over Jews in the American publishing industry
Jun 3, 202445 min
Episode 2081: Robert Wolcott on how just-In-time technology is about to radical transform business, society and daily life
Jun 2, 202439 min
Episode 2080: Keith Teare's defense of technological utopianism
Jun 1, 202431 min
Episode 2079: Jeremy S. Adams on Lessons in Liberty from ten extraordinary Americans
May 31, 202443 min
Episode 2078: Spencer Kornhaber on our carnally confused age in which sex is always in our heads but not in our beds
May 30, 202441 min
Episode 2077: Kathleen DuVal on a Thousand Year History of Native Nations in North America
May 29, 202451 min
Episode 2076: Sir Tim Lankester on the promise, failure and legacy of Margaret Thatcher's monetarist revolution
May 28, 202433 min
Episode 2075: Bethanne Patrick's six must-read new books for May
May 27, 202436 min
Episode 2074: Raghuram Rajan on why India must break the mold if it is become a prosperous 21st century economy
May 26, 202440 min
Episode 2073: Sulmaan Wasif Khan on the past, present and future conflict between America and China over Taiwan
May 25, 202439 min
Episode 2072: Keith Teare on Scarlett Johansson's voice and the creative promise/peril of AI
May 24, 202432 min
Episode 2071: Jehuda Reinharz on Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel who aspired to be a British aristocrat
May 23, 202453 min
Episode 2070: John R. MacArthur warns that reading digital screens might be shrinking our brains
May 22, 202442 min
Episode 2069: KEEN ON America featuring Bobi Conn
May 21, 202442 min
Episode 2068: Jacob Kushner on the National Socialist Underground's plot to kill German immigrants
May 20, 202440 min
Episode 2067: Jordan Elgrably on richly complex stories about the Middle East and North Africa mostly ignored by Western media
May 19, 202432 min
Episode 2066: Steven Johnson on the invention of dynamite, anarchist violence and the rise of the 20th century surveillance state
May 17, 202443 min
Episode 2065: Craig Whitlock explains how an overweight Malaysian contractor known as Fat Leonard bribed, bilked and seduced the U.S. Navy
May 16, 202441 min
Episode 2064: Chris Gavaler explains how How Stars Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Marvel determine how we view reality
May 15, 202441 min
Episode 2063: Rabbi Shai Held on why Judaism is really all about Love
May 14, 202439 min
Episode 2062: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Ali Velshi
May 13, 202439 min
Episode 2061: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi on Branson, Missouri, the most American town you've never heard of
May 12, 202441 min
Episode 2060: Ferdia Lennon on the tragicomedy of the Peloponnesian War
May 11, 202439 min
Episode 2059: Keith Teare on why critics of the iPad Crush advertisement are "haters of the future"
May 10, 202435 min
Episode 2058: Timothy Morton searches for a Christian Ecology that will get us out of our Planetary Hell
May 9, 202435 min
Episode 2057: KEEN ON America featuring R. Derek Black
May 8, 202454 min
Episode 2056: Kyle Paoletta exposes the 2024 Republican Primaries as "Farce"
May 7, 202442 min
Episode 2055: Michael Ignatieff on a history of his privileges
May 6, 202444 min
Episode 2054: Keith Teare follows the money of the online creative economy
May 5, 202434 min
Episode 2053: Vince Houghton on how the Cold War transformed Miami into America's most Covert City
May 4, 202441 min
Episode 2052: Bryan Caplan on the economic and philosophical case for the radical deregulation of the housing industry
May 3, 202437 min
Episode 2051: Mohamed Amer Meziane offers an ecological and racial history of seculization
May 2, 202437 min
Episode 250: Andrew J Scott on why we should care about old people
May 1, 202438 min
Episode 2049: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Samyr Laine
May 1, 202451 min
Episode 2048: Tobias Buck on the Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
Apr 30, 202445 min
Episode 2047: Elisa New on Poetry in America
Apr 29, 202439 min
Episode 2046: David Faris on why American kids are all left these days
Apr 28, 202436 min
Episode 2045: Lisa Kaltenegger on the inevitability of the existence of non-human life somewhere in the Universe
Apr 27, 202435 min
Episode 2044: Warning! This KEEN ON conversation with Alex Edmans may contain lies
Apr 26, 202431 min
Episode 2043: Adam Kuper explains why our museums reveal much more about ourselves than about other people's cultures
Apr 25, 202433 min
Episode 2042: Robert Pearl MD explains how AI can regenerate the American medical system
Apr 24, 202441 min
Episode 2041: Dr. Judy Ho on how we can stop f*****g ourselves up
Apr 23, 202435 min
Episode 2040: Matt Hern on the revolutionary potential of suburbia
Apr 22, 202438 min
Episode 2039: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Mark Danner
Apr 21, 20241h 6m
Episode 2038: Daniel Bessner on how the existential crisis of Hollywood's film & tv writers is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of America's professional elites
Apr 20, 202437 min
Episode 2037: Elliot Ackerman on the danger of mercenaries and the value of national service
Apr 19, 202435 min
Episode 2036: Stephen Marche, author of "The Next Civil War", on Alex Garland's new movie "Civil War"
Apr 18, 202432 min
Episode 2035: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Christopher Schroeder
Apr 17, 202450 min