Keen On America
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Why 1968 was the year that broke American politics and how this could be repeated in 2024
Aug 3, 202339 min
Why Greta Gerwig's BARBIE is Cynical and Vapid
Aug 3, 202333 min
Why So Many Smart People Are Turning Against Democracy
Aug 1, 202339 min
If We Can Be Taught How to Write, Then Why Not Also Be Educated in How to Love?
Jul 30, 202338 min
How to go from a small handful of book sales to top of the bestseller list via a 16 second Tiktok
Jul 29, 202329 min
How Landscape Architecture should get us to Pause and then Reconnect with Nature
Jul 29, 202332 min
Following the Dirty Money in Today's Globalized Entrepreneurial Underworld
Jul 29, 202335 min
How the High Price of Money is Wrecking the Venture Capital Industry
Jul 28, 202341 min
Hot Reads for the Heatwave
Jul 28, 202330 min
The New York Street that Changed American Art Forever
Jul 28, 202333 min
Why Springsteen's NEBRASKA Matters So Much
Jul 28, 202347 min
A Real World War II Story: The Tragic Life of Ira Hayes
Jul 28, 202333 min
In Praise of Valiant American Women
Jul 27, 202332 min
How Barbie Dolls Up the Plasticity of our Surreal Times
Jul 27, 202342 min
Can the Men Be Saved?
Jul 26, 202336 min
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
Jul 26, 202352 min
Why Julian Barnes Will Never Write a Memoir or Autobiography
Jul 25, 202335 min
Why Conservatives Should Fear & Loathe AI
Jul 25, 202337 min
How To Be a Wise Teacher
Jul 25, 202330 min
The Netscape Moment When AI Gets a Brain
Jul 21, 202337 min
Imaging the Animal World as Nature's Great Maintenance Crew
Jul 21, 202331 min
Why the "very very excellent" OPPENHEIMER is a complicated film for our complex times
Jul 21, 202340 min
The Hidden History of American Democracy
Jul 21, 202329 min
Episode 1610: Our Oppenheimer Moment
Jul 20, 202330 min
Episode 1609: Why America Dominates the World
Jul 20, 202333 min
Episode 1608: The Fourth Turning is Here
Jul 20, 202340 min
Episode 1607: What Happens When Both Life and the Planet is Programmable?
Jul 19, 202330 min
EPISODE 1606: On the "Moral Ambiguity" Surrounding the American Decision to Drop Two Nuclear Bombs on Japan
Jul 19, 202332 min
Episode 1605: Why the Habsburg Empire is as much a guide to our 21st Century Future as our 19th Century Past
Jul 19, 202341 min
Episode 1603: Can Diplomacy Save American Democracy?
Jul 19, 202328 min
Episode 1603: Social Media For Dummies
Jul 18, 202330 min
EPISODE 1602: How to Learn to Look So that We Become the World Itself
Jul 18, 202335 min
Episode 1601: Why Americans Still Can't Talk to Each Other About Politics
Jul 18, 202317 min
Episode 1600: What a Cock Up!
Jul 18, 202333 min
Episode 1599: Black Americans, Civil Rights and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962
Jul 18, 202327 min
Episode 1598: Goodbye, Eastern Europe
Jul 17, 202341 min
Episode 1597: Into the Bright Sunshine of Human Rights
Jul 17, 202340 min
Episode 1596: How the Internet Has Become an Outrage Machine
Jul 17, 202345 min
Episode 1595: Why AI is Now the Analytical Brain AND the Creative Heart of our Economy
Jul 17, 202337 min
EPISODE 1594: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral?
Jul 17, 202311 min
Episode 1593: Why America's Blood-Sucking Super Rich Want to Live Forever
Jul 16, 202337 min
Episode 1592: Risking Everything in Pursuit of Truth and Beauty
Jul 15, 202336 min
Episode 1591: Enabling a Conversation Between Rural and Urban America
Jul 15, 202332 min
Episode 1590: Talking to the Mafia about Michael Jackson, Donald Trump and Jimmy Hoffa
Jul 15, 202336 min
Episode 1589: Why Lina Khan and Gary Gensler Should Be Fired
Jul 14, 202344 min
Episode 1588: A Real-Life Tragicomedy about our Destruction of the Earth
Jul 14, 202338 min
Episode 1587: What America's current drug binge reveals about the post neoliberal 2020s
Jul 14, 202339 min
Episode 1586: Why the Renaissance Still Haunts Us
Jul 14, 202330 min
Walt Zuckerberg: If you like Disneyland, then you're gonna love Threads
Jul 8, 202337 min
Episode 1584: Learning from the Deepest Oceans about How Life Begun
Jul 5, 202332 min