Keen On America
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John U. Bacon on Winning Fairly: Lessons About Successful Leadership From a Real-Life Ted Lasso
Sep 21, 202234 min
Caryn Franklin & Keon West: How to Recognize and Undermine Sexism, Racism, and Other Corrosive Media Biases
Sep 20, 202236 min
Rina Raphael on the Wellness Scam: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the Cult of Self-Care
Sep 20, 202232 min
Brandi Collins-Dexter on Black Skinheads and Kanye West: Reflecting on the Democratic Party As the Natural Political Home of African Americans
Sep 20, 202233 min
Andrew Meier: A Defense of Aristocracy? How the American Morgenthau Dynasty Pursued an Ethic of Public Service
Sep 20, 202235 min
Lewis H. Ziska: How Rising CO2 Is Turning Life on Earth Into a Bad Science Fiction Movie
Sep 19, 202230 min
Amit Chaudhuri on Post-Realist Fiction: Why Realism Is No Longer an Adequate Novelistic Form for Describing the World
Sep 19, 202238 min
Phyllis Vine: Why the Next Major Civil Rights Movement Is Mental Health Activism
Sep 18, 202231 min
Kate Beaton on Why Ducks, Her Coming-Of-Age Memoir, Isn't Quite As "Desolate" or "Dismal" As Some Critics Have Suggested
Sep 17, 202233 min
Matthew Stewart: Why the 9.9% Is Running Our World and How the 91.1% Need to Fight Back Against This Aristocracy
Sep 16, 202230 min
Mark LeVine on We'll Play Till We Die: The Role of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World
Sep 16, 202234 min
Sarah Kendzior: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Simultaneously Complacent and Paranoid
Sep 16, 202235 min
Kathryn and Ross Petras on Brains, Breasts, Bowels, and Bladders: A History of the World Through Body Parts
Sep 15, 202237 min
David Enrich: How Complicit Is Big Law in the Crimes and Misdemeanors of American Capitalism?
Sep 15, 202238 min
Joe Pompeo: What a Scandalous Double Murder in September 1922 Tells Us About America's Current Obsession With "Trume Crime"
Sep 14, 202232 min
Nicholas Kardaras: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Crisis and How Reading Plato Can Help Cure it
Sep 14, 202225 min
David Ambroz on Something All Americans Should Agree On: No Homeless Children and More Foster Kids in College Than in Jail
Sep 14, 202234 min
Lisa Genova: How Writers Can Use Both Memory and Forgetting to Improve Their Work
Sep 14, 202232 min
Kristin Beck: Why World War II Remains So Seductive to Novelists For Writing About Good and Evil
Sep 13, 202231 min
Luke Mogelson: How Seriously Should We Consider the January 6 Insurrection As a Threat to the American Republic?
Sep 13, 202244 min
Damien Lewis on a Profound Sense of Duty: What Josephine Baker Had in Common With Queen Elizabeth II
Sep 12, 202241 min
Andy Kroll on the Madness of Online Crowds: What the 2016 Murder of Seth Rich Tells Us About Our Conspiratorial Age
Sep 12, 202238 min
Kim Samuel: Should the Right to "Belong" Be Enshrined As a Sacred Human Right?
Sep 12, 202237 min
Jason Feifer on Darwin 2.0: How to Embrace Change, Adapt Fast, and Future Proof Both Your Career and Your Life
Sep 9, 202244 min
Michael Sayman: How the Gay Son of First-Generation Peruvian Immigrants Became the Most Influential Latino in Silicon Valley
Sep 9, 202244 min
Mark Bergen: Given YouTube's World Domination, Should the Google-Owned Video Platform Be More Aggressively Regulated and Controlled?
Sep 8, 202236 min
Douglas Rushkoff: What the Escape Fantasies of Tech Billionaires Reveal About Our Apocalyptic Age
Sep 8, 202230 min
Josh Chin: Why China's "Surveillance State" Is More Nuanced Than Either China Lovers or Haters Would Have Us Believe
Sep 7, 202234 min
Ross Dawson: How Can We Be Sure That This "Futurist" Author Isn't, In Fact, a Smart Machine?
Sep 7, 202230 min
David Livermore: How to Get Along With People That You Want to Eradicate
Sep 7, 202229 min
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell: Feminist or Feminine? A Twentieth-Century History of Skirts
Sep 7, 202225 min
Louise Perry: No More Sex? A "Feminist" Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Sep 6, 202238 min
Jonathan Darman: How FDR Learned to Be FDR: The Personal Crisis That Transformed Him Into a Historic Leader
Sep 6, 202241 min
A.M. Homes: Why American Novelists Need to Not Just Keep Up With But Also Overtake Reality
Sep 6, 202229 min
Helen Rappaport: In Search of Mary Seacole, a Quite Remarkable Black Cultural Icon
Sep 6, 202239 min
Neal Wooten on Life Growing Up on a Pig Farm in the Alabama Mountains: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Sep 5, 202227 min
Bill McGuire on Hothouse Earth: Why We've Only Got 90 Months Left to Save the Planet
Sep 5, 202229 min
That Was the Week in Tech: Why Substack Is a Bust, How Apple Can't Do AI, and Why China Is Thrashing the U.S. in Clean Tech Innovation
Sep 5, 202235 min
Solito: Javier Zamora's Memoir of His Unaccompanied Migration From El Salvador to California at the Age of Nine
Sep 3, 202233 min
Richard Winters, MD: Should Good "Leaders" Get Rid of the Idea of Leadership Itself?
Sep 2, 202229 min
J. Bradford DeLong on Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Wealthy and Miserable 20th Century
Sep 1, 202246 min
Patricia A. Turner: What Can We Learn from Anti-Obama Trash Talk to Confront Racism in 21st-Century American Politics
Sep 1, 202237 min
Sterling Hawkins: Why "Discomfort" Might Be the Key To Not Just a Meaningful Life But Also a Happy Death
Aug 31, 202230 min
Bill George: Shut Up, Elon! Why Business Leaders Need to Get Off Social Media and Keep Their Views To Themselves
Aug 31, 202237 min
W. David Marx: Does Our Desire for Social Rank Determine Taste, Identity, Art, and Fashion?
Aug 31, 202238 min
Evan Puschak: On Public Benches, Superman, Blade Runner, and Other Stuff That Gives Life Meaning
Aug 31, 202241 min
Tim Higgins on the Tesla Story: Is Elon Musk the Hero, The Villain, or Just an Accidental Footnote to the Company's Remarkable Engineers and Workers?
Aug 30, 202239 min
Mansi Choksi on An Alternative Passage to India: Rebelling Against Conventional Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Modi's India
Aug 30, 202227 min
Dahlia Lithwick: Is There a Supreme Court Plot to Destroy America?
Aug 29, 202235 min
Dana Milbank: How the Republicans Have Become the Destructionist Party and How This Might Destroy American Democracy
Aug 28, 202225 min