Keen On America

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Keen On America

Dimitris Xygalatas: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

Anna DeForest: How American Medicine, With Its Reliance on the Scientific "Data," Does Such a Bad Job of Dealing With Life's Greatest Mystery: Death

Mia Baytop Russell: How to Confront Corporate Burnout and Make Work Meaningful Again

Benjamin Cunningham: The Wife-Swapping Czech Double Agent Whose Sad Saga Captured the Nihilism of the Cold War Era

Phillip Levine: Why Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness Proposal Isn't the Solution to the Real Economic Injustices of the American College System

Christian Busch: Is the "Serendipity" of "Good Luck" Just More Neo-Liberal Pseudo-Science From Our Business School Elite?

Linda Villarosa: Why Racism Is the Deadliest Pandemic Afflicting Both African-American Lives and the Health of the Nation

Linda Kinstler: On How We Remember the Holocaust

Gary Weiss: What Donald Trump Might Have Learned From the Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

Anya Kamenetz on The Stolen Year: Kids, Covid, and the Catastrophic Cost of the Pandemic

William Deresiewicz: Can a Critic of "Wokeness" Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

Sinclair McKay on Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World

Dan Bouk on Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the U.S. Census

Jean Hanff Korelitz: Forget Politics: Why a Novelist's First Priority Is To Tell a Good Story

Kathleen Hale: What the Slenderman Stabbing Tragedy Tells Us About the State of Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in America

Laura Mason: How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

Graciela Mochkofsky on The Prophet of the Andes: A Latin American Journey to the Promised Land

Justin Gregg: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

Hans Greimel &amp; William Sposato: Is the Carlos Ghosn Story Really a Parable About the Limits of Davos Man and the Globalized Neo-Liberal Order?

Edward Chancellor on the Real Story of Interest: How Low Interest Rates Are Bad For Everyone (Except Central Bankers)

Sean McLain: What Does the Carlos Ghosn Story Tell Us About Contemporary Japan?

Eli Saslow: How Covid Compounded All the Best and Worst Things About the America of the 2020s

Natasha Sizlo: How an LA Real-Estate Agent Went to Paris and Wrote a Memoir of Love, Loss, and Destiny

Mike Rothschild: Is QAnon a Threat to Civilization or Childish Distraction For the Digital Underclass?

Peter Coy: Why Economics Might Not Be the Dismal Science That We Love to Hate

Christopher Kolenda: What Afghan War Veterans Can Teach America About How to Listen Empathically To Our "Enemies"

Richard Vague on Wiping the Financial Slate Clean: The Case For a Debt Jubilee

Dean Schroeder: What Denver and the Danes Can Teach Silicon Valley About Innovating Local Government

Brad Feld: The Tech Industry Isn't a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color

Kirk Wallace Johnson: How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

Major Tom Schueman and Zainullah Zaki: Remembering the US War in Afghanistan and the Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter

Wendy Smith on Profit AND Social Responsibility? How Today's Leaders Should Confront Our Toughest Problems

Nick Kostov on the Carlos Ghosn Story: A Modern-Day Greek Tragedy or the Parable of a Shameless Criminal Mastermind?

Kate Finn: Today Is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. But What Should We Be Celebrating?

Elliot Ackerman: Why the American "Retreat" From Afghanistan Was a Giant Fuck-Up And How It Represents the Final Act of a Classic Five-Part Tragedy

Sabine Hossenfelder: An Existential Physicist Answers Life's Biggest Questions: Does God Exist? Is There Life in the Universe? Are We Living In a Simulated Reality?

Alan Murray: Tomorrow's Capitalism: Searching For that Elusive "Soul" of American Business

Anthony Marra: The Tools Which Allow Novelists to Create More "Realistic" Characters Than Those You See on the Screen

David Chalmers: If the World Itself Is a Giant Simulation, Then What's the Difference Between the Virtual Reality of Cyberspace and "Real Life"?

Liska Jacobs on The Pink Hotel: A California Novel Where You Can Check In But You Can't Check Out

Steven Thrasher: In the Age of Covid and Monkeypox, Should We Be Prioritizing the Health of the "Viral Underclass"?

Dwyer Murphy: How to Write About the City? Go Out Without an iPhone

Isaac Saul: Yes, "Truth" Still Exists in the Misinformation Age, But It's Unlikely to Make Many of Us Happy

Nancy Jacobson and Ryan Clancy: How a 2024 Trump-Biden Rematch Would Be a "Black Swan" Moment For a Third Party Candidate

Kevin Boyle: Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

Dan Fesperman: On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted By Its Grey History of Secrecy and Lies

Camper English: On the Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

Howard Wolk: Why America's Greatest Strength Is Its Entrepreneurial Edge and How This Might Even Fix the Crisis of the Environment, Inequality, and Healthcare

Christie Hunter Arscott: On Begin Boldly and How Courage Will Enable a Woman to Launch a Brilliant Career

Jeff Lerner: Should We Celebrate Or Be Suspicious of Self-Help Books Promise to Unlock Our "Dream Life"?

Hans Greimel & William Sposato: Is the Carlos Ghosn Story Really a Parable About the Limits of Davos Man and the Globalized Neo-Liberal Order?