Keen On America
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Chris Miller on Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World Is Computer Chip Technology
Oct 17, 202240 min
Sean Connolly on How Irish Immigration Made the World Modern
Oct 16, 202232 min
Natasha Lance Rogoff on Muppets in Moscow: The Crazy Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
Oct 16, 202235 min
Rita Katz: In Our Age of Internet-Born Terrorism, Should We Consider QAnon, ISIS, Proud Boys, and Individual School Shooters to All Be Terrorists?
Oct 16, 202237 min
Jerry Stahl on Which Nazi Concentration Camp Had the Best Cafeteria
Oct 15, 202229 min
Alice Wexler Remembers Her Father, Milton, An Unconventional and Controversial Freudian Psychoanalyst
Oct 15, 202235 min
Victor Pickard on Why American Democracy Can't Survive Without Reliable Journalism: How to Confront Our Misinformation SocietyVictor Pickard
Oct 15, 202235 min
Patrick House on How All Writers, Even Neuroscientists, Seek the Impossible: To Replicate Our Unique Interiority
Oct 15, 202245 min
Daniel Gross on What Makes a "Great" Banker? The Story of Edmond Safra, One of the Greatest Bankers of the 20th Century
Oct 15, 202233 min
Michael Bess on Climate, Pandemic, Artificial Intelligence, and Nukes: Identifying and Overcoming the Four Most Existential Threats to Humanity
Oct 14, 202234 min
Bruce Usher on Good News on the Climate Front: We Finally Have the Technologies to Confront the Crisis
Oct 14, 202228 min
Simon Morrison on the Life and Work of Stevie Nicks: A Great Artist or a Footnote to the Glory Years of the Sixties?
Oct 13, 202229 min
Mauro Porcini on the Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love With People
Oct 13, 202240 min
Tricia Hersey on How Best to Resist Capitalism and Racism? Wake Up, Rest, and Dream
Oct 13, 202232 min
Nora McInerny: Why America Needs a National "Bad Vibes Only" Day In Which We Can All Be Totally Miserable
Oct 13, 202233 min
Lecia Cornwall on That Fictional Summer in Berlin: When a British Aristocrat, and Her Camera, Revealed the Truth About the Nazi Regime
Oct 12, 202227 min
Michael Tomasky: No. Don't Laugh. Why Joe Biden, In His Embrace of Progressive Economics, Might Be the Next FDR or LBJ
Oct 12, 202232 min
Sean Kingsley on Confronting Colonial Amnesia: Dredging Up the Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Oct 12, 202234 min
Stacy Schiff: What Made Samuel Adams Both the Most Essential and the Least Understood Founding Father
Oct 12, 202230 min
Melissa Urban: Does Self Require Us to Be Selfish? How Setting Boundaries In Our Relationships Can Set Us Free
Oct 11, 202228 min
Thomas B. Pepinsky on Pandemic Politics in the Covid Age: Why American Democracy Has Been Infected By a Plague of Partisanship and How to Cure It
Oct 11, 202233 min
Adrian Geiges and Stefan Aust: How Xi Jinping Is the Most Powerful Man in the World and What This Means for the United States and Europe
Oct 11, 202235 min
Kay Harel on Examining Charles Darwin's Soul: A Singular Case of Biophilia
Oct 11, 202234 min
Lorraine H. Marchand: How Can We Democratize Economic Opportunity So That It's Not Just White Men Who Boast of Being "Innovators"?
Oct 10, 202236 min
Deborah Holt Larkin on More Real-Life Murder Stories: The Evil Mother-in-Law Who Organized One of California's Grisliest Killings
Oct 10, 202230 min
Dale Kretz: What Progressives Can Learn From the General Failure of the American State to Address the Legacy of Slavery After the Civil War
Oct 9, 202241 min
Paul Magnone on How to Make Smart Business Decisions In Our Age of Big Data: Don't Rely Exclusively on Either Your Intuition or Your Information
Oct 9, 202232 min
Kieran Setiya: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way in a Life of Infirmity, Loneliness, and Failure
Oct 9, 202249 min
Nancy Marie Brown on the Wisdom of the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth
Oct 9, 202235 min
Hillary Chute on Maus Now: Why Art Spiegelman's Classic Remains As Relevant Today As It Was When First Serialized in 1980
Oct 8, 202237 min
Jennifer Brown: Can American Capitalism Be Radically Transformed by Leaders Who Create Inclusive Cultures Where Everyone Can Thrive?
Oct 7, 202241 min
Erika Hayasaki on Somewhere Sisters: The Complex Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
Oct 7, 202233 min
Daniel Pick on Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control
Oct 6, 202238 min
Lynn Melnick: What Dolly Parton Can Teach Us About Surviving the Trauma of Drug Addiction and Sexual Violence
Oct 6, 202230 min
Allison Gilbert on Elsie Robinson, America's Most Popular Female Writer Who You've Never Heard Of
Sep 28, 202235 min
Bruce Carruthers on the Economy of Promises: How Trust, Power, and Credit Have Shaped America Over the Last Two Hundred Years
Sep 27, 202232 min
Ainslie Hogarth: A Profane, Insane, Hilarious, and Disgusting Horror Novel About a Mother-In-Law from Hell
Sep 27, 202226 min
Namwali Serpell on Grief and Its Association With Religion and Writing
Sep 27, 202228 min
Hafizah Augustus Geter on Personhood, Race, and Origin in America Today
Sep 27, 202234 min
Dr. Cindy McGovern: Why the First Lady of Sales Believes That the Word "Sales" Appears So Icky and Cringeworthy
Sep 26, 202229 min
Richard Reeves Identifies Today's Crisis of Masculinity and Explains How to Fix It
Sep 26, 202239 min
Geoffrey L. Cohen: Is There Really a "Science" of Belonging Which Enables Us to Create Connection and Bridge Divides?
Sep 25, 202234 min
Brian Michael Jenkins: Plagues and Their Aftermath: Why Recovering From Covid Is Really "Up to Us"
Sep 25, 202230 min
Thomas Orlik: Why the Chinese Economic "Bubble" Might Never Pop
Sep 24, 202237 min
Jamie Weiner: How Much Sympathy Should We Have for the Children of Privilege Who Have Lost Their Way in Life?
Sep 24, 202235 min
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz: How the Upcoming Brazilian Presidential Election is a Referendum on Racism, Misogyny, and Military Rule
Sep 23, 202223 min
Michael Fabey: How American Shipyard Workers Might Offer Us Lessons on How to Re
Sep 23, 202227 min
Liza Lin: Why China's "New Kind" of Modern Surveillance Government Might Not Be Quite as Chilling as it Appears
Sep 22, 202227 min
Alex Jahangir: Covid Isn't Over and Won't Be Until We Fix Some of America's Fundamental Social and Cultural Problems
Sep 22, 202230 min
John Sides on the Bitter End: The 2020 Election and the Future of American Democracy
Sep 21, 202235 min