Keen On America
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Episode 2034: Dale Maharidge tells American liberals to look in the mirror to understand the Doom Loop now engulfing their country
Apr 16, 202433 min
Episode 2033: Batya Ungar-Sargon on how American elites have betrayed the country's working men and women
Apr 15, 202445 min
Episode 2032: Natalie Foster on how the arc of the 21st century American moral universe is bending toward justice
Apr 14, 202442 min
Episode 2031: New books from Salman Rushdie, Erik Larsen, Amor Towles, Mohamed Amer Meziane, Patric Gagne & Leif Enger
Apr 13, 202431 min
Episode 2030: KEEN OF AMERICA featuring Sara Paretsky
Apr 12, 202432 min
Episode 2029: How to House America?
Apr 11, 202433 min
Episode 2028: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Thelton Henderson
Apr 10, 202455 min
Episode 2027: Marc Hauser on giving children second chances to overcome trauma and lead happy lives
Apr 9, 202438 min
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