Keen On America
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Gerd Gigerenzer: What Machines Can't Learn and Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
Aug 4, 202234 min
David Victor Has Good News on the Climate Front: Why Things Aren't Quite as Apocalyptic as Some Believe
Aug 2, 202226 min
Stefan Dercon on Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development
Aug 2, 202242 min
Touraj Parang: Can Tech Entrepreneurs Win the Start-Up Game Without Selling Out Morally?
Aug 2, 202234 min
Aggie Blum Thompson: Why It's So Much Easier to Write Good Fiction About Violence Than About Sex
Aug 1, 202229 min
Pablos Holman, A Message From a Deep Futurist: We Need Humans to Fix Things
Jul 30, 202238 min
Darrell M. West; How Seriously Should We Take the Paranoia Amongst Our Educated Elite About the Crisis of America?
Jul 29, 202239 min
Simran Jeet Singh: What the Sikh Religion Can Teach Us About Disrupting Bias, Building Empathy, and Seeking Wisdom
Jul 29, 202230 min
Erika L. Sánchez: Why Risk-Taking, Rebellious Immigrants Capture the Spirit of What It Should Mean To Be a 21st Century "American"
Jul 28, 202234 min
Matthew Ball: How the Metaverse Will Revolutionize Everything and Why That Might Not Be Such a Bad Thing
Jul 28, 202234 min
Orna Ophir: How a Pathology of "Schizophrenia" Might Reflect a Broken Society As Much as a Broken Mind
Jul 27, 202236 min
Leah McLaren: A Daughter's Memoir of a Mom Who Passed Down Her Trauma and Made Their Lives Impossible to Disentangle
Jul 27, 202233 min
Alice Mah on Plastics, the One Word That Best Describes Our Global Environmental Crisis
Jul 27, 202233 min
Harald H.H.W. Schmidt: Why "The End of Medicine As We Know It" Will Make All of Us Healthier and Happier
Jul 26, 202243 min
Ariel Ezrachi: How Cities, Rather Than Big Tech, Should Be the Engine for a More Equitable Digital Future
Jul 25, 202246 min
Monique Roffey: The Common Sense of Magic Realism and Why The Mermaid of Black Conch is a "Caribbean Novel"
Jul 18, 202229 min
Maureen Perry-Jenkins on Work Matters: How Parents' Jobs Shape Children's Well-Being
Jul 18, 202235 min
Saleem H. Ali: Do We Need a Science Party to Confront Existential Problems Like Global Warming?
Jul 17, 202226 min
Ari Mittleman: Does Criticism of Israel Inevitably Make One Guilty of Antisemitism?
Jul 16, 202227 min
Albert Fox Cahn: How Digital Surveillance In a Post-Roe America Isn't Substantively Different From Xi's China or Putin's Russia
Jul 15, 202234 min
Donald Robertson: Why the Graphic Novel Is an Ideal Form to Capture the Timeless Philosophy of Stoicism
Jul 14, 202237 min
Jacob M. Grumbach: Why the Crisis of American Democracy Is As Much a State and Local As a National Problem
Jul 13, 202230 min
Karen Cerulo and Janet Ruane: How We Can't Escape Social Class, Gender, or Culture in How We Dream
Jul 13, 202227 min
Jared Del Rosso: Why All We Need to Become Whistleblowers in Exposing Both Political and Personal Injustice
Jul 13, 202226 min
Deborah Cadbury: The Remarkable Story of the Quaker Teacher Who Defied Hitler and Smuggled Her Entire School From Germany to England
Jul 13, 202239 min
Toby Walsh: If Our Superpower Is Human Empathy, Then Why the Hell Are We Trying to Teach Computers To Be Empathetic?
Jul 12, 202231 min
Richard Hasen: Can American Democracy Be Fixed By Making Political Speech More Expensive?
Jul 12, 202237 min
Ken Auletta: What Does the Harvey Weinstein Story Tell Us About the Culture of Silence in Hollywood and America?
Jul 12, 202237 min
Charles Sabel: To Fix the Climate We Need to Rewire the Economy, Our Democracy, and Our Brains
Jul 12, 202228 min
Michael Fertik: On Washington Irving, John Muir, Philip Dick, Jonathan Haidt and what America Has Uniquely Got Going For It
Jul 11, 202247 min
Aviva Rahmani: Why Telling Effective Stories About the Environment Requires Not Just Words But Also Visual Images and Even Music
Jul 10, 202229 min
Daniel S. Moak: Why America's Current War on Schools Is the Result of Fifty Years of Failed Federal Educational "Reforms"
Jul 9, 202239 min
Ed Yong: Why Perceiving Animal Senses Makes Us Empathetic Not Only to Other Creatures But Also to Each Other
Jul 8, 202230 min
Daniel Silva on How to Write a Bestselling Literary Spy Novel Every Year
Jul 8, 202233 min
Elisabeth Leake on How the Soviet and American Invasions of Afghanistan Are Comparable
Jul 8, 202236 min
Daniel Drezner on the End of Donald Trump, Green Tech, Apocalyptic Zombies: Why Americans Should Be Cheerful About the Future
Jul 8, 202231 min
Marianne Lewis: How Life's Toughest Problems Are Most Effectively Confronted By "Both/And Thinking"
Jul 8, 202228 min
Jason Kander: A Disturbing Autobiography From One of America's Most Candid Ex-Politicians and Soldiers
Jul 8, 202239 min
Brett Scott: Why Wall Street and Silicon Valley Want a Cashless Society and Why That Doesn't Benefit Us
Jul 7, 202242 min
Rebecca May Johnson's Homeric Wisdom For Cooks and Writers: You Just Have to Keep On "Doing It"
Jul 7, 202238 min
Jamie Susskind: How the Digital Republic Could Deepen Democracy and Compound Freedom in the 21st Century
Jul 6, 202237 min
Bernhard Poerksen: Can an "Editorial Society" Heal Our Digital Fever of Misinformation and Lies?
Jul 6, 202243 min
Max Holleran on NIMBYism vs YIMBYism: How to Reinvent the City to Solve the Homelessness Pandemic
Jul 6, 202230 min
Jonathan Rauch Contemplates (and Fears) a Post-Democratic America
Jul 6, 202247 min
Ian Buruma: What to Make of America On Its 246th Birthday
Jul 5, 202238 min
Daniel Birnbaum: Wassily Kandinsky and the Uncannily Contemporary Origins of 20th Century Abstract Art
Jul 5, 202226 min
George Monbiot on How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet
Jul 4, 202240 min
Verlyn Klinkenborg on How to Write Well About Nature: Simplify Language, Empathize With Other Creatures, and Use Your Eyes Like a Hawk
Jul 2, 202234 min
Elizabeth Sandifer: Why a Bloody End to Democracy in America Is Not Only Likely But Maybe Even Inevitable
Jul 2, 202235 min
Andrew Hodges on Alan Turing and Why One of the 20th Century's Most Iconic Figures Remains So Relevant in the 21st Century
Jul 1, 202246 min