Keen On America
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On Mental Illness and the Mist of Consciousness: William Brewer explains how Psychedelic Therapy Saved His Life
Apr 11, 202332 min
On Roads Not Taken: Novelist Juliette Fay explains why regret is such fertile territory for fiction writers
Apr 10, 202331 min
Disrupting the Traditional Art World: Evrim Oralkan on how Collecteurs.com is transforming privately owned creative work into "public" digital art
Apr 10, 202335 min
A Tragic Grand Delusion: Steven Simon on the Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
Apr 10, 20231h 2m
That Was the Week in Tech: Inspired by his wife, Gene, Keith Teare asks whether the market has hit the bottom
Apr 7, 202331 min
Nine Black Robes: Joan Biskupic on the historic significance of the Supreme Court's drive to the right
Apr 7, 202330 min
An Impossible Choice: Anjan Sundaram on the devastating personal costs of being a war correspondent in Africa
Apr 7, 202330 min
The Painful Joy of Remembering the Lives of Two Holocaust Survivors: Max J. Friedman on why he chose to write a memoir about his Holocaust surviving parents
Apr 7, 202332 min
Why We Should Blame Leaders, not Citizens, for Today's Crisis of Democracy: Larry Bartels on how democracy is eroding from the top
Apr 6, 202330 min
The Start-Up That Defines the entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley: Jimmy Soni on the story of PayPal and its remarkable alumni who have shaped the 21st century
Apr 6, 202331 min
The Teen Mental Health Crisis: Hannah Murphy asks whether teens are paying with their sanity for their "free" social media
Apr 6, 202335 min
Complicate the Narrative: Rajiv Vinnokota on how to transform Americans into better citizens
Apr 5, 202334 min
Getting Kids to Hear the Trees: Brian Selznick on how to make a hopeful children's book about our environmental crisis
Apr 5, 202325 min
Why Philosophy Matters: Diana Janney on the philosophical foundations of her fiction
Apr 5, 202328 min
Getting Out of Saigon: Ralph White explains how he - as a 27-year old American banker - saved 113 South Vietnamese civilians
Apr 4, 202347 min
Welcome to the Age of Scientific Wellness: Nathan Price on why the future of medicine will be personalized, predictive, data-rich, and in all of our hands
Apr 4, 202338 min
How to Laugh in the Face of our Environmental Apocalypse: Aaron Sachs explain why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change
Apr 4, 202331 min
George VI and Elizabeth: Sally Bedell Smith on the 20th century royal marriage that saved the British monarchy
Apr 3, 202330 min
I Can't Save You: Anthony Chin-Quee on how giving up his successful career in medicine "saved" him
Apr 3, 202334 min
Why We Need To Unwire from Big Tech: Gaia Bernstein on how to gain control over addictive digital technologies
Apr 2, 202329 min
Don't Be King Canute: Keith Teare's Open Letter against pausing generative AI
Apr 1, 202332 min
Retracing the Iron Curtain: Timothy Phillips on his 3,000 mile journey through the end and afterlife of the Cold War
Apr 1, 202335 min
The Problem to End All Problems: Michael Scott-Baumann on the tragically parallel histories of Israel and Palestine
Mar 30, 202341 min
A Memoir about Hardship and Tragedy: Nicole Chung personal story of class, anger and grief in an increasingly unequal America
Mar 29, 202337 min
The Last Catastrophe: Allegra Hyde offers an existential pitch for saving the planet
Mar 29, 202328 min
Is the Web3 Dead? Edward Lee on Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the seductive promise of creators taking control of their digital work
Mar 28, 202329 min
Why the Ideal of the "Self" is a Social Construction: Brian Lowery on the myth of rugged individualism and what this should mean for the America of the 2020s
Mar 27, 202331 min
How to Save Democracy? Eli Merritt offers advice and inspiration from 95 (mostly) democratic world leaders on how to save our democracy from demagogue like Donald Trump
Mar 27, 202332 min
An Archeology of the Soviet Century: Karl Schlogel offers an encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union
Mar 27, 202331 min
How To Fix Democracy: Samuel Issacharoff searches for glimmers of hope to strengthen democracies around the world
Mar 26, 202337 min
Retelling the stories of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Stephanie Marie Thornton imagines the lost words between the iconic 18th century feminist and her equally visionary 19th century daughter
Mar 26, 202335 min
American Humility and Hubris in Kabul: Jeffrey E. Stern on a many layered story of brotherhood and terror in the Afghanistan war
Mar 24, 202330 min
A Gutenberg Moment in the History of Medicine: Dr Robert Pearl offers 5 ways that generative AI is about to revolutionize healthcare
Mar 24, 202336 min
Digital McCarthyism: Keith Teare on the chilling anti=Chinese and anti-Communist hysteria in Washington DC against TikTok
Mar 24, 202335 min
How to Incentivize People to Change their Behavior: Uri Gneezy reveals how incentives really work
Mar 23, 202339 min
The Power of Hope: Carol Graham on how the science of well-being an save us from despair
Mar 23, 202329 min
Ancient Stories about the Future: Sabrina Orah Mark on telling fairy tales designed to wake us up
Mar 23, 202330 min
Trump as the Road Runner: Kevin O'Brien, former Assistant US Attorney to the DOJ, on hush money, Stormy Daniels and the latest farcical chapter of the Donald Trump Show
Mar 22, 202328 min
How Data Happens: Chris Wiggins on a history of data from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
Mar 22, 202347 min
When All Else Failed: Dana Sachs on the volunteers at the heart of the worst human displacement crisis in Europe since WW2
Mar 22, 202328 min
Our Brains on Art and Music: Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross on how the arts improve both individual and communal health
Mar 21, 202334 min
The New American Abnormal: Kerry Howley questions the seduction of a singular "truth" in the "Deep State" America of violent rumor, paranoia and perpetual surveillance
Mar 21, 202332 min
Who Doesn't Want to Reinvent Themselves? Joanne Lipman reveals the five laws of reinventing our lives and work
Mar 21, 202332 min
Why Water Matters: Natalie Koch untangles the weirdly connected environmental fates of Arizona and Saudi Arabia
Mar 21, 202337 min
Are You Drowning in Work? Nick Sonnenberg on how to reduce clutter and enable productivity
Mar 20, 202332 min
Do Women Make Better Murderers Than Men? Ren DeStefano on female serial killers and why she suspects everyone might have a murder in them
Mar 20, 202330 min
Great Kingdoms of Africa: John Parker Liberates African history from the colonial narrative of oppression, suffering and powerlessness
Mar 20, 202339 min
Hallucinations, Guardian Angels and The Third Man: Dr Ben Alderson-Day on the strange science and true stories of the unseen other
Mar 19, 202334 min
Keen On Keen: Andrew Keen on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, ChatGPT4 and the general state of tech in 2023
Mar 18, 202333 min
Appropriating the appropriators: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on why female novelists like herself should appropriate the voices of men
Mar 18, 202341 min