Keen On America

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Keen On America

The Case for Cultural Appropriation: Martin Puchner on how culture is simultaneously owned by nobody and by all of us

Beijing 1949: Elisabeth B. Armstrong on the most consequential anti-colonial feminist conference that you've never heard of

How to Walk the Walk: Neil Gross on three police chiefs who defied the odds and changed American cop culture

Has World War One Ended Yet? Alice Winn on innocence, privilege, violence, sexuality and love in 1914-18 England

Broken threads, broken springs, broken idols, broken heads: Christopher Hobson on how everything everywhere - from the US and UK to Nigeria, Iraq, Lebanon and South Africa - is broken

The Last Russian Doll: Kristen Loesch on fictionalizing and feminizing the history of 20th century Russia

A 21st Century Money Revolution: Richard Duncan outlines the monetary policy that can make America great again

Celebrating International Women's Month: Tiffany Shlain on the history of feminism, tree rings and "Dendrofemonology"

The Power of Wonder: Monica C. Parker on the extraordinary emotion that can change the way we live, learn and work

The Death of American Politics: Peter Wehner on retribution, vengeance, forbearance and healing in Trump's America

Playing God: Mary Jo McConahay on why American Catholic Bishops are a threat to democracy

Bootstrapped: Alissa Quart on why we need to liberate ourselves from the "American Dream"

More Than a Glitch: Meredith Broussard confronts race, gender and ability bias in tech

A Murderous Women's History Month: Patti McCracken on some early 20th century Hungarian women who poisoned 160 men (plus a few females)

On Human Agency and the Language of Grief: Colin Campbell explains why grieving is the quintessential human activity

Are Mindfulness and Yoga the Luxuries of a Privileged Class? Susan Verde on childhood trauma, positive self-acceptance and her journey of healing

The (a)Morality of War: Ian Buruma on how some people actively collaborated with evil during World War II

The Silicon Valley Bank apocalypse: That Was the Week's Keith Teare on the death (and resurrection?) of SVB

What Gives You the Right? Jean Hanff Korelitz on Philip Roth, "The Human Stain" and a novelist's "right" to tell other people's stories

Why weren't the economic consequences of COVID more apocalyptic? Liz Hoffman on how government and companies successfully crash landed the COVID economy

Craig Seligman on Doris Fish, the rise of drag and why Ron DeSantis should dress up as a woman

The Noise of Typewriters: Lance Morrow remembers the golden age of American journalism

Empathize Empathize Empathize: Chris Shipley on how to "empower" the workforce in our post COVID world

How To Outrun Artificial Intelligence: Ashley Recanati on protecting YOUR job from the voracious smart machines of the AI revolution

Without a Female Doubt: Surbhi Sarna on how woman can go from underrated to unbeatable

42 Today: Michael G. Long on why Jackie Robinson's political legacy is at least as important as his sporting one

THE BIG CON: Rosie Collington on how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments, and warps our economies

A Venture Apocalypse? Keith Teare on the collapse of start-up value, the failure of government to rein in Big Tech, and the relentless rise of AI

The Marriage Box: Corie Adjmi on her guilt at writing about "flawed" Jewish characters

Women Are the Fiercest Creatures: Andrea Dunlop on why today is such a rage-inducing time to be a woman

The New Language of Building: Reinier de Graaf on how our cities and buildings have been infected with the corporate doublespeak of "wellness", "innovation" and "livability"

A Radical Take on Putin's Invasion of Ukraine: Benjamin Abelow on how the West brought war to Ukraine

A Psychiatric Novel about Donald Trump: Peter Kramer fictionalizes the "Great Man's" inner life.

A Wooden World of Mud, the Stars and the Forest: Alexander Nemerov's Fable of America in the 1830s

50 Reasons to be Cheerful: Ryan Bernsten on why America isn't quite as divided as we are told

Gnar Country: Steven Kotler on how to stay "rad" while growing old

The New Deal's Unlikely Heroes: Derek Leebaert on FDR's Four Key Lieutenants and the World They Made

Workers of the World Unite, You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Blood: Kathleen McLaughlin on the Plasma Industry Sucking the Blood of the American Poor

The Indiana Jones of the Deep: Mensun Bound on the discovery of Shackleton's Endurance in the most hostile sea on earth

Why Has Children's Literature Become So Politicized? Kelly Yang on Roald Dahl, Ron DeSantis and the new culture wars over kids' books

That Was The Week in tech: Keith Teare on Section 230, an AI bubble, the new China-Saudi axis, and Sam Bankman-Fried's growing legal woes

Crisis, What Crisis? Paul Stephan on the world crisis triggered by our knowledge economy

The Big Myth: Erik Conway explains how American business taught us to loathe government and love the free market

Should We Be Outraged By the New York Police Department? Michael Hayes on Bill de Blasio, the NYPD &amp; the Broken Promises of Police Reform

America as Injustice, Inc: Daniel Hatcher on how the US criminal justice system commodifies children and the poor

Our Meganets Nightmare: David Auerbach on How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities

We All Live in Palo Alto Now: Malcolm Harris' History of California, America and the World

Fictionalizing History: Jonathan Wilson on whether Palestine was a Jewish "state in waiting" during the 1930s

Should Law about Press Freedom be Rewritten for our Internet Age? Samantha Barbas on how the Supreme Court might be preparing to overhaul New York Times vs Sullivan

The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: Joel Warner on a notorious scoundrel, a mythical manuscript and the biggest scandal in literary history

Should We Be Outraged By the New York Police Department? Michael Hayes on Bill de Blasio, the NYPD & the Broken Promises of Police Reform