Keen On America

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Keen On America

The Blood Years, then and now: Elana K. Arnold on book banning, book burning and what we can learn from Second World War books about good and evil

Disorder, Disorder, Disorder: Jason Pack and Alexandra Hall Hall order our disordered world

Is peace there for the taking? Jason Pack on Israel, Gaza, the Middle East and beyond

The All American B***h: Evelyn McDonnell on Joan Didion's artistic sensibility and moral clarity

Why politics needs to be relegated to its proper place: Alexandra Hudson offers timeless principles on how to heal society and ourselves

Claudia Goldin, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Economics, on women's journey to close the gender gap

The Myth of Progress: Erik J. Larson on Silicon Valley's failure to change anything of any significance since the Fifties

My Bath with Hitler: Kenneth Rendell on safeguarding history at a time when fakers are much smarter and more creative than their victims

The Human Tragedy and Political Shame of America's Mass Criminal Supervision System: Vincent Schiraldi on probation, parole and the illusion of safety and freedom in contemporary America

Iron Man, Ant-Man and our relentless thirst for parasocial super heroes: Joana Robinson and Gavin Edwards on the reign of Marvel Studios

The Right Female Stuff: Loren Grush on the story of America's first six female astronauts

Should environmentalists be utopian? Dickson Despommier imagines the perfect 21st century city

From Suicide Notes to Every Star That Falls: Michael Thomas Ford on 15 years that changed the world of teen mental health and sexual identity

Artificial Intelligence or Bust: Keith Teare on why AI might be the most important development in tech since the invention of the internet

Evil colonizers, brave explorers or clueless white men? Peter Slen on the geographical and literary exploits of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

The real McElroy: Isle McElroy on what it means to be a non-binary writer and how it might feel like to be born into the wrong body

The Taylor Swift or Lady Di of the early 20th Century: Shelley Fraser Mickle on Alice Roosevelt, the White House wild child

The Repressive Power of Artificial Intelligence: Kian Vesteinsson on the crisis of freedom on the internet in 2023

All the American demons are there: Jake Tapper on how returning to the late 1970's can help us understand the America of the early 2020's

Modern Britain and all that caper: Jonathan Coe on British chocolate, the Royal Family and its decision to marry the wrong Super Power

An Old Story Told Differently: Bethanne Patrick on 8 books reimagining the experience of first generation immigrants

Against the Romance of Transformation: Leon Weiseltier on America's love affair with the promise of personal and social change

Normalizing China: Gilles Guiheux on China's very ordinary history between 1949 and today

Against Green Capitalism: Charles Derber on how big money fuels extinction and what we can do about it

No, Men aren't Angels: Peter Slen on why the Federalist Papers is one of the ten books that has most shaped America

Dumb devices, dumb bureaucrats and dumb entrepreneurs: Keith Teare on FTC chair Lina Khan, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and why the iPhone is on the brink of becoming radically more intelligent

Why Disorder may be the New Order: Jason Pack on how the global system itself has gone rogue and no longer conforms with the textbooks

Why Artificial Intelligence will make us smarter: W. Russell Neuman presents AI as a progressive moment in human evolution

An Afterword to Words Themselves? Bethanne Patrick on six speculative novels which imagine a world saturated by AI

Should we punish innovation? Keith Teare on public and private investment markets, breaking up Google and paying to use X

The 10 books that have most shaped America: Peter Slen on Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE

The White Man's version of Democracy in America? Brook Manville on the "Civic Bargain" that defines the history of democracy in western civilization

How to think faster and talk smarter: Matt Abrahams on speaking successfully when you're put on the spot

"I want you to be more selfish": Millennial therapist Sara Kuburic on how to discover your true self and change your life

The case against forgiveness: Myisha Cherry questions a forgiving God, Christian forgiveness and happy Hollywood moral endings

The Buried History of Jerusalem: Andrew Lawler digs up the political archeology of the world's most contested city

Untangling the twin three-way relationships shaping the contemporary Middle East: Ilan Eyatar on Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States

Nothing will ever be the same again: Hugh Eakin remembers the year when the United States bumped into Pablo Picasso and modern art arrived in America

How to ensure the survival of democracy: Josiah Ober on ancient Greece and Rome as models of self government by their citizens

There's No Them There, Only Us: Kerri Maher on the Jane Collective in the early 1970s and how to write fiction about an issue as divisive as abortion

On Power, Patriarchy and Privilege: Kemi Nekvapil offers a woman's guide to living and leading without apology

Is the American Constitution undermining American Democracy? Daniel Ziblatt on how constitutional reform can strengthen democracy in America

Blood in the Machine: Brian Merchant on what we can learn from the 19th century Luddites in our digital age of gig work and generative AI

Notes from the invisible underground: Kat Calvin on the 26 million American adults who have no government ID and, thus, in the eyes of the government, don't really exist

How the quest for respect can heal our divided world: Michele Lamont on rebuilding dignity in our age of anxiety , inequality and isolation

Why Justice is Coming to America: Cenk Uygur predicts that progressives are going to take over the country and how we are all going to love it

Confronting Amazon, Google and his own powerful family: John Sargent on his adventures and misadventures as CEO of one of the world's largest publishing companies

What's Your Lego? Bent Flyvbjerg on how to get big things done

Seeing through all the shtick: of parenting Gary John Bishop on how to grow up to become the parent your kids deserve

Is Web3 technology - Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, DAOs, NFTs et al - just the latest Silicon Valley hype? Alex Tapscott separates the signal from the noise on the internet's next economic and cultural frontier