Keen On America
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The forced erasure of gays from 20th century American life
Feb 20, 202436 min
The Biggest Liberal Loser or an Iconic Progressive?
Feb 19, 202440 min
In defense of geeky intellectuals
Feb 18, 202436 min
Why do we seem to have so little free time?
Feb 17, 202438 min
And the Oscar goes to.....
Feb 16, 202432 min
Unpacking the Facebook tragedy
Feb 16, 202435 min
Will Putin ever die?
Feb 15, 202441 min
Should Americans pursue virtue or happiness?
Feb 14, 202438 min
A Case for Reparations
Feb 13, 202433 min
Exposing Hollywood's most notorious interwar celebrity spy
Feb 12, 202430 min
What chance peace in Israel?
Feb 11, 202434 min
How to write a #1 global bestseller
Feb 9, 202435 min
How Tucker Carlson's Putin interview captures today's "new, new media" revolution
Feb 9, 202436 min
Uncovering the world's mightiest (and tiniest) narco-state
Feb 9, 202436 min
in defense of cultural liberalism
Feb 7, 202446 min
Do nations have psychologies and can they experience collective trauma?
Feb 7, 202444 min
After Rape
Feb 6, 202436 min
Born in Blood: Scott Gac explains why violence is the defining feature of American history
Jan 28, 202434 min
Can the American university survive the 21st century? Nicholas Dirks explains why American universities need to reinvent themselves in our winner-take-all age of social media and AI
Jan 28, 202441 min
How to Win the Global Battle to Power our Lives? Ernest Scheyder on the new economic war between China and the West to control critical minerals like lithium, copper and cobalt
Jan 27, 202434 min
Why Scientific Truth Might Be Infinitely Weirder Than Scientific Fiction: Mike Chen on "A Quantum Love Story"
Jan 27, 202433 min
Should Elon Musk have publicly visited Auschwitz? Keith Teare on Musk, X, Instagram and the breakdown of civility in our social media age
Jan 26, 202449 min
Why today's internet is simultaneously autocratic and plutocratic: Ehud Shapiro on the egalitarian architecture necessary to build genuine digital democracy
Jan 26, 202438 min
Why Writing a Book is an Act of Free Will: Kevin Mitchell on free agency and how evolution gave us free will
Jan 25, 202432 min
Why Does Everything Need To Be About Race? Keith Boykin on Claudine Gay, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and why the real function of racism is distraction
Jan 25, 202441 min
Suburbia and American Disillusionment: Benjamin Herold on the unravelling of both America's suburbs and the American dream
Jan 25, 202436 min
The War for Israel's Soul: Bernard Avishai on the age old battle in Israel between globalists and messianic Zionists
Jan 23, 202442 min
A Winston Churchill for our TikTok age? Simon Shuster on Volodymyr Zelensky, the workaholic improv politician who needs to be loved by his Ukrainian people
Jan 18, 202437 min
A venture capitalist imagines a world after capital: Albert Wenger on work, leisure and the environment in the AI age
Jan 18, 202421 min
In Trouble With Gender: Alex Byrne explores slippery sex facts and factual gender fictions
Jan 18, 202442 min
Can AI produce genuine culture? Martin Puchner on the future of artistic creativity in the age of the smart machine
Jan 18, 202428 min
Radically reinventing America in upstate New York: Susan Danzinger on how to effectively put philosophy into action
Jan 17, 202423 min
Why Generative AI represents an existential threat to the creative community: Ed Newton-Rex warns about the dire consequences of generative AI companies "scraping" data without acknowledging its creators
Jan 17, 202427 min
The Cult of the Algorithm: Hilary Mason peers behind the hidden door of AI, gaming and storytelling
Jan 17, 202424 min
What killed capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis' murder mystery about the death of capitalism and our descent into "techno feudalism"
Jan 17, 202444 min
Yes, there is an alternative to free market capitalism (and, no, it's not socialism): Nick Romeo on how to build a just economy
Jan 17, 202438 min
Don't Trust Us: Frank Vogl exposes the marketing scammers behind the increasingly mainstream success of cryptocurrency
Jan 16, 202434 min
Why there might be a ghost in all our smart machines: Kenneth Cukier on AI, spirituality and a new humanism in our digital age
Jan 16, 202441 min
Unlocking and decrypting 2024: Azeem Azhar on AI's impact on politics, economics and society in the coming year
Jan 16, 202426 min
The Wicked Art of the Gothic Thriller: Abbott Kahler on writing unnerving literature about unnerving times
Jan 16, 202430 min
10 must read books for 2024: Bethanne Patrick on intriguing fiction and non-fiction to read in the new year
Jan 15, 202436 min
Is the current AI boom just another Silicon Valley bubble? John Thornhill separates the truth from the fiction of today's AI hysteria
Jan 15, 202432 min
Confessions of a Disillusioned Social Scientist: Brian Klaas on why we are all random accidents of chance and chaos
Jan 15, 202437 min
How foreign lobbyists in America threaten democracy around the world: Casey Michel on the dirty overseas money sloshing around both sides of American politics
Jan 9, 202437 min
Should you have sex with your robot?
Jan 9, 202432 min
Should you have sex with your robot? Eve Herold on our narcissistic echo-chamber culture in which we are falling in love with our robots (ie: ourselves)
Jan 9, 202432 min
How American healthcare is rigged against ethical doctors and poor patients: Dr Robert Pearl explains how the system can be reformed in 2024
Jan 8, 202437 min
Why a future of digitally connected brains is now on the horizon: PJ Caldas on the networked tsunami that is about to transform all our realities
Jan 8, 202430 min
What happens when AI "drifts"? Dominique Shelton Leipzig offers protection from the high-risk dangers of algorithmic malfunction
Jan 7, 202430 min
Turning writing into a habit that lasts: Bec Evans on how to start and finish books and why binge writing isn't a bad habit
Jan 7, 202429 min