Keen On America

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Keen On America

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

Some People Will Believe Anything: Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers and other anti-scientific fundamentalists

I am Still With You: Emmanuel Iduma's reckoning with the silence, inheritance and history of the Nigerian Civil War

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: John Perkins on how China and the United States both seek world hegemony and what we can do about it

Remembering Africatown: Nick Tabor on America's Last Slave Ship and the Community it Created

An Affirming Flame: Roger Cohen meditates on life, politics and how to rebuild our age of undoing

ChatGPT gets sexy, Tesla fails to startup &amp; Google gets ready for its Supreme Court showdown: That Was the Week in tech for 2/17/23

The Inside Story of Social Media: Steven Levy on Friendster, MySpace, Facebook and TikTok

Black and Queer on Campus: Michael P. Jeffries on what life is like for Black LGBTQ students in American colleges today

Purposeful Curiosity: Costas Andriopoulos on asking the right questions that will change our lives

Go, Dorothy, Go! Lynn Cullen on the woman who gave up everything and changed the world

Journeys in Earth's Extinct Ecosystems: Thomas Halliday on paleobiology, croquet and the inevitable end of our species

How To Remember Auschwitz-Birkenau? Wojciech Soczewica on why we must never forget this unique monument to evil

What Would Other Species Tell Us If They Could Talk? POD author Laline Paull on telling "humanimal" stories in the voice of other species

Why Stress Can Be Good For Us: Ben Ramalingam on turning pressure into performance and crisis into creativity

When Will Silicon Valley Fix its Annoying Password Problem? Phillip Dunkelberger on digital technology that might finally kill the online password

Instapundit on the Blogging Revolution: Glenn Reynolds remembers the early 21st century birth of our social media age

Miss Aldridge Regrets: Louise Hare on how to write a successful second novel

No Miracles Needed: Mark Jacobson on how today's technology can save our climate and clean our air

Fragile Cargo: Adam Brookes on the the World War II race to save the treasures of China's Forbidden City

Freedom Moves: H. Samy Alim celebrates the Past, Present and Future of Hip Hop on its fiftieth birthday

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism: Why Capitalism and Democracy have fallen out of love and how to bring them back together

Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Mai Nardone's unvarnished fictional truths about life in contemporary Thailand

Burn the Boats: Matt Higgins on why we should all toss Plan B overboard

Why All Writing is Failure: Stephen Marche on the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer

Why Both America and Britain are Imprisoned in Empireland: Sathnam Sanghera on how the West has been shaped by its imperial past

Happy B'Day, Abe!! John Cribb on what both Republicans and Democrats can learn from the great Rail Splitter on Lincoln's 214th birthday

Bloodshed and Lies in Saudi Arabia: Jeed Basyouni on Mohammed bin Salman's Kingdom of Executions

Can Populism Survive? Massimo Morelli on the nature and future of Populism

A Week is a Long Time in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare on How Artificial Intelligence Is Now Unstoppable

The United Nations as Leviathan: Roland Rich on why we need to reinvent the UN

A Spiritual Void at the Core of the Influencer Industry? Emily Hund on on the sad quest for authenticity on social media

The Ghost at the Feast: Robert Kagan on America and the Collapse of the World Order 1900-1941

Hijad Butch Blues: Lamya H on how to unf**k the world

Revolutionary Roads: Bob Thompson gets into his gas guzzling VW in search of the American war of independence

Maybe Tech Isn't So Evil: Darlene Damm on the exponential technologies that could radically improve the lives of billions of 21st century people

A Hacker's Mind: Bruce Schneier on how the powerful bend society's rules and how to bend them back

We Don't Know Ourselves: Fintan O'Toole on contemporary Ireland as a model for an open 21st century society

How to Fix a Broken Planet: Julian Cribb's advice for surviving the 21st century

An Assassin in Utopia: Susan Wels on the true story of a nineteenth-century sex cult and a President's murder

Rising Up Against Bullshit Healthcare: Sonali Kolhatkar on Why Americans Want a Government Run Health System

On the Ocean's Awesomeness: Farah Obaidullah explains why our lives depend on healthy oceans

Banking With Your Eyes Open: Robert Pickering on the rights and wrongs of contemporary banks and bankers

How to Fix Capitalism and Democracy? Raymond W. Baker on the "Invisible Trillions" that are Breaking American Society

From Doom to Bloom in 7 Days: Why Spring Has Arrived Unnaturally Early this Year in Silicon Valley

HOMO ECOPHAGUS: Warren M. Hern on how humans-beings have become a metastasizing cancer devouring our own ecosystem

How We Built the Wrong Internet: Thomas P. Vartanian on Rebuilding Cyberspace to Make it "Unhackable"

ChatGPT gets sexy, Tesla fails to startup & Google gets ready for its Supreme Court showdown: That Was the Week in tech for 2/17/23