Keen On America

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Keen On America

Phew! When AI ate the internet

A Chilling Plot to Grab the World's Food and Water Resources

How to Get Beyond the Shame of Sexual Violence

America's First Great Naturalist

The Uncomfortable Truths Our Dogs Would Tell Us If They Could Talk

Why Novels Must Be More Believable than Non-Fiction Books

Remembering Judy Garland, Michael Jackson, the Spice Girls and Stevie Wonder

From Pizza and Meze to Ramen and Borscht: Unscrambling the Politics of National Dishes

Is most of rural America really plotting to destroy democracy?

On the Importance of Being Batshit Crazy

American Whitelash: Wesley Lowery on the cost of progress in an increasingly multiracial America

The American Dream of a "Tossed Salad": Luma Mufleh on reconciling her identity as a gay Muslim woman with an Arab-turned-American refugee

The 20th Century Corporation: Richard Langlois on the cultural and economic history of the modern American business enterprise

Pricing the Priceless: Paula DiPerna on how to quantify the planet and solve the climate crisis

Why 80% Isn't Good Enough: Matt Higgins imagines how the publishing industry and writers will be impacted by the coming AI storm

The Middle Eastern Maze: Itamar Rabinovich on Israel, the Palestinians and an inglorious seventy-five year history of mostly failed peace initiatives

A Teacher's Journey: Adam Bessie's graphically dystopian take on education in the digital age of COVID and AI

Fireworks Every Night: Beth Raymer on her delightfully delusional father, male homelessness and why Florida "just is America"

The End of the Game: Roger Ballen on the existential ecological psychodrama of the destruction of African wildlife

Becoming Fully Me: Bethanne Patrick about how she escaped her double depression and wrote a memoir about it

Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World: Christian Cooper on birding, the flight of freedom and how we must positively bend the arc of justice

Why Big Tech is Getting Even Bigger: Keith Teare on how the biggest tech companies now control our economic and political fates

From Queer to Gay to Queer: James Kirchick on why he believes the theory of "queerness" is a "parasite" on the gay rights movement

How to Get Rid of Rich White Men: Garrett Neiman on uprooting the old boy's club in order to transform America

A Queer American Life: R.K. Russell on being black and bi-sexual in the National Football League

Winner Sells All: Jason Del Rey on the quarter century Amazon vs Walmart war for our wallets, bodies and souls

Animal Spirits: Jackson Lears on the American Pursuit of vitality from Walt Whitman and William James to Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump

How to Think Like a Philosopher: Peter Cave on the scholars, dreamers and sages who can teach us how to live

France and Marc Chagall in World War Two: Stephen Kiernan on the redemptive power of art to reconstruct a broken nation

The Purple Presidency 2024: C. Owen Paepke on how voters can reclaim the White House for "bipartisan" governance

Things You Wanted to Say But Never Did: Geloy Concepcion on his confessional photographic journal on Instagram

The Datapreneurs: Bob Muglia on why we should trust the promise of AI and its creators to build a better human future

Against Nostalgia: Mark Lilla on why progressives should reject nostalgia in thinking about both the past and future

In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss why Keith was wrong in last week's show about Apple's new Vision Pro and how this revolutionary device might once again change everything

A Radical Amerikan Family: Santi Elijah Holley on the Shakurs - from the Black Panthers to Tupac

The Good Enough Job: Simone Stolzoff on how to reclaim our life from work

The Three Ages of Water: Peter Gleick on the prehistoric past, imperiled present and hopeful future of water

My Hijacking: Martha Hodes on her memoir of forgetting

Imagine a City: Mark Vanhoenacker writes a love letter from the sky to the world's greatest cities

As Rich as a Digital Croesus: Trevor Traina imagines a super app in which we can store all our Web3 data

In Defense of Big Girls: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan asks whether the American Republic was founded on anti-fat people principles

The Overlooked Americans: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett on the resilience of rural America and it means for the future of the country

Donna Cleanwell Leaves Home: Ana Castillo on her "truth seeking" fictional characters and her amusement at being considered the "grande dame of Chicana literature"

Conversations with Your Future Self: Hal Hershfield on how to escape the tyranny of the present and make tomorrow better today

The Chile Project: Sebastian Edwards on the story of the Chicago Boys and the downfall of neoliberalism

The Siberian Job: John Kleinheinz on how he got rich in post-communist Russia and what that experience taught him about the value of free markets and democracy

Crime and Punishment for the Jews: Paul Goldberg on "The Dissident", his new Cold War mystery about a group of refuseniks in Moscow in 1976

Having Pride in Pride: Abdi Nazemian on why he's happy being thought of as a queer writer

Here Begins the Global Age: Meredith Small explains how a 15th century Venetian monk drew a map of the world and foresaw the future

The Best of New York City Distilled into a Neighborhood Bar: Jon Michaud on the life and death of Coogan's, one of New York's most beloved saloons