Keen On America

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Keen On America

Bob Blaisdell on When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

Lynne Twist: What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

Max Bazerman: Crypto, #MeToo, Theranos, and January 6: How We Enable the Unethical

Martin Lund on How to Fight Racism? We Need More Books and Conversations About Whiteness

Paul Boross: How Humor is the Best Antidote to Theocracy In Both Politics and the Workplace

MinaLima on The Art of Designing the Graphics For the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beast Films

There's More to Life Than Politics: Orville Schell's Fictional Message to Xi Jinping

Kristin Keffeler: Why Do We Care About the Scions of Wealthy American Families Struggling to Find Purpose?

Josiah Ober: In a Time of Hostility Toward Reason and Science, What Can the Ancient Greeks Teach us About the Value of Rationality?

Michael J. Wolf: If AI, Web3.0, and the Metaverse Are Utopian Pipe Dreams, What Internet Innovation Can Actually Help Save the World?

Robert Draper on Weapons of Mass Distraction: How the Republican Party Lost Its Mind After the January 6 Insurrection

Bruce Davis: Do the Oscars Have a Future in an Age of Superhero Sequels and Prequels?

Shahan Mufti: How the 1977 Siege of Washington Marks the Beginning of Our Preoccupation With "Terrorist" Violence and Real-Time News

Andrew Koppelman: How American Libertarianism Became the Delusional Ideology of Greedy, Selfish Capitalists

Fred Hogge on An Icy Truth: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity and Destroy the Environment

Roger Ballen: Why Good Photography Should Get Underneath Our Skin and Assault Us

Michael P. Leiter: Why the Latest Battle Between Elon Musk and Twitter Works Is Part of a Bigger War About Burnout and the Need to Manage People's Relationships With Their Jobs

Gary Marcus: Why Smart Machines Will Probably Never Replicate the Human Act of Writing and How Writers Should View AI Suspiciously —"Like a Hawk"

Derek Lidow: Why Joshiah Wedgwood—And Not Andrew Carnegie, Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk—Is the Definition of a "Good Entrepreneur"

Heather Ford on Can We Trust Wikipedia? How to Nurture Truth in the Digital Age

Jeff Kosseff: What Exactly Is Section 230 and Why Was It So Essential in the Creation of the Internet?

Rick Wartzman on Why Are Walmart Workers Still Broke? The Limits of a "Socially Conscious" American Capitalism That Still Won't Pay Its Employees a Living Wage

Matthew Campbell on Dead in the Water: The True Story of a Fake Hijacking and a Real Murder

Andrew Small on A Cold War Without Limits: The Chilling Story of China's Rupture With the West

Neal Gabler on You Don't Need to Be a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows: Ted Kennedy and the Rise of American Conservatism

Lucas Joppa: Why Both Government and Private Corporations Have Essential Roles in Confronting Global Warming

Jessica Todd Harper: Why Photography Can Be Fine Art and What Photographers Should Learn From Vermeer and Other 17th Century Dutch Artists

Isaac Stone Fish on America Second: Is It Really Possible That America's Elites Are Making China Stronger?

Daphne E. Jones on a Note to Donald Trump: This Is How to Become a Real Winner

Andrew Anagnost: How the Moral Sickness Afflicting Silicon Valley Might Be a Pandemic of Egoism

Peter Rawlinson: The Truth About Battery-Powered and Self-Driving Cars From the Engineer Who Invented the Tesla Model S and the Lucid Air

Edward J. Delaney on Cary Grant as The Acrobat: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn't Really Exist

Andrew S. Weiss on Super Unhero: Vladimir Putin, the Accidental Czar, Imagined Graphically

Ken Honda on How to Become a Zen Millionaire: The Japanese Art of Making Peace With Your Money

Mark Galeotti: How Putin Thinks Like a Warmongering 19th-Century Imperialist and Why Ukraine Will Be His Last Colonial War

Alexander Rose on The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

David Fenton on Lessons From Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator: Never Lie, Tell the Truth, Repeat Repeat Repeat

Ian Kershaw: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

Richard McCarthy: What Japan Can Teach Urban Americans About Regenerating Rural Values and Practices

Steve Kemper: Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Avoided With More Skillful American Diplomacy?

Eduardo Halfon: Why "Writing" Has Nothing to Do With Being a "Writer"

Katherine Corcoran: How the 2012 Murder of a Mexican Journalist Should Be a Warning About Press Freedoms in America

Andrew Hill on the Sign of Our Financial Times: How 2022's Best Business Books Address the Challenges of Contemporary Global Capitalism

Shannon O'Neil on The Globalization Myth: Why Most Economics Is Regional

Travis Baldree: Want to Self-Publish Successfully? Write Fast, Leverage All Your Social Media Networks, and Prioritize Memorable Cover Art

John Mulholland on Inside High Noon: Why the Classic 1952 Movie Is As Relevant in America Today As It Was 70 Years Ago

Ellis Cose on Reckoning on Race: Why Can't America Escape Its Racist Past?

Adam Mendelsohn on What Was It Like to Be a Jew in Lincoln's Armies: Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War

Colleen and John Darnell on Tutankhamun's Royal Mom and Dad: On Egypt's Golden Couple

Aric Prather on The Good Sleep Prescription: Stick Your Head in the Freezer, "Worry Early," and Stop Taking Your Smartphone to Bed