Keen On America
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Between Pride and Shame: Beverly Gage Gets in her Subaru & drives Across 250 Years of American History
Apr 10, 202636 min
The Many Faces of AI: Sebastian Mallaby on Demis Hassabis and the Quest to Read God’s Mind
Apr 9, 202654 min
More Embarrassing Than Sex: Alex Mayyasi on Why Money Talk Makes Us So Nervous
Apr 8, 202648 min
An Anticapitalist Mutiny: Noam Scheiber on the Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
Apr 7, 202643 min
Truth is Dead: Steven Rosenbaum on AI as a Spectacularly Good Liar
Apr 6, 202647 min
The Joe Biden Tragedy: Julian Zelizer on the Last New Deal President
Apr 5, 202647 min
We Shape Our AI, Thereafter It Shapes Us: How to Maintain Human Agency in Our Agentic Age
Apr 4, 202641 min
Stop, Don't Do That: Peter Edelman on What Bobby Kennedy Can Still Teach America
Apr 3, 202641 min
That's My Story, But Not Where It Ends: Robert Polito on Bob Dylan's Second Act
Apr 2, 202646 min
Does God Love Haiti? Dimitry Elias Léger on the Haitian Scorer of the Greatest Goal in US History
Apr 1, 202633 min
One Life in Nine World Cups: Simon Kuper on Football Fever and Why the Beautiful Game Still Matters
Mar 31, 202650 min
What If It’s a Bunch of Shit? Margaret Rutherford on the Relentless Camouflage of a Perfect Life
Mar 31, 202641 min
Perfection Is the Devil: Daniel Smith on Boredom, Envy, and Why Our Darkest Emotions Aren’t So Dark
Mar 30, 202639 min
At the Heart of the American Center: Corey Nathan on How to Talk Politics and Religion Without Killing Each other
Mar 29, 202637 min
Don’t Fight the Last War: Why Anthropic vs US Government Matters
Mar 28, 202634 min
Excessive Wealth Disorder: Glen Galaich on the $2 Trillion That Could Save Democracy
Mar 28, 202642 min
Bring the Friction Back: Stephen Balkam on Kids, Social Media, and Tech’s Big Tobacco Moment
Mar 27, 202638 min
How Stories Can Save Us: Colum McCann on Narrative Four, Einstein, Freud, and the Power of Empathy
Mar 26, 202643 min
Politics in the Age of Total Control: Jacob Siegel on the Information State that Came Home
Mar 25, 202650 min
America's Suez Moment? Soli Özel on Why Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again
Mar 25, 202633 min
How to Be Agreeably Disagreeable: Julia Minson on How to Argue with Your MAGA Father-in-Law
Mar 24, 202638 min
Let’s Ban Billionaires: Noam Cohen on the Know-It-Alls 2.0
Mar 23, 202641 min
Was St. Francis of Assisi the First Silicon Valley Critic? Dan Turello on 800-Years of Tech Anxiety
Mar 22, 202638 min
A Willing Philadelphia Story: Richard Vague on the Wealthiest & Most Invisible American Founding Father
Mar 21, 202633 min
Symbolic Capitalism vs. Symbolic Democracy: Will the $10 Trillion AI Startup Change Everything?
Mar 20, 202642 min
Nature's Last Dance: Natalie Kyriacou on Ecocide, Oiled Penguins, and Why We Need to Watch the Birds
Mar 19, 202637 min
What Came First: Stories or Language? Kevin Ashton on the Story of Stories
Mar 19, 202646 min
Have our iPhones Eaten our Brains? Nelson Dellis on Hacks to Restore our Focus and Boost our Memory
Mar 18, 202646 min
Hard Times Again? Jeff Boyd on Chicago, Charles Dickens and Curtis Mayfield
Mar 17, 202633 min
An Act of War? Brandeis President Arthur Levine on Trump’s University Policy
Mar 16, 202647 min
Is Elon Human? Charles Steel on the Curious Mind of Elon Musk
Mar 15, 202643 min
Why Dario Amodei Might Be the 21st Century’s First Real Leader
Mar 14, 202640 min
From Orphanage to Google Brain: David Sussillo on Heroin, Neural Networks and the Mysteries of the Heart
Mar 13, 202635 min
Murder on the Abortion Express: Amy Littlefield on Who Killed Roe
Mar 13, 202644 min
The Magical Realist United States: Jazmine Ulloa on El Paso as America’s New Ellis Island
Mar 12, 202636 min
Move Fast and Break the World: Jonathan Taplin on Trump as an Interregnum
Mar 11, 202636 min
So Are All Immigrants Manchurian Candidates? Peter Schweizer on How Mexico, China, and the Muslim Brotherhood Are Weaponizing Immigration
Mar 10, 202628 min
Gatsby Without the Romance: Michael Wolff on Why Trump and Epstein Are the Same Person
Mar 9, 202632 min
How to Reclaim the Internet: Olivier Sylvain on Platforms and Policy
Mar 8, 202643 min
No AI Good Guys? Andrew & Keith Ask If Altman Amodei, & Hegseth Have All Failed the Leadership Test
Mar 7, 202643 min
What Would Daniel Ellsberg Say About Iran? His Son Michael on America’s Most Famous Whistleblower
Mar 7, 202639 min
From the Muckers to the Mullahs: Christopher Clark on the Lessons of History
Mar 5, 202651 min
How To Fix Big Med: Halle Tecco and Robin Blackstone on American Healthcare and its Discontents
Mar 4, 20261h 7m
The Coming Storm: Odd Arne Westad Asks If We're On the Brink of World War Three
Mar 3, 202641 min
Racism as Entertainment: Rhae Lynn Barnes on Darkology and American Culture
Mar 3, 202634 min
A Chosen Land for a Chosen People? Matthew Avery Sutton on How Christianity Made America and America Remade Christianity
Mar 2, 202638 min
American Yellow Vests? Manissa Maharawal on the Fight Against Tech-Led Gentrification in San Francisco
Mar 1, 202638 min
Is Anthropic Wrong? Andrew vs. Keith on Amodei vs. Trump
Feb 28, 202640 min
Why You Can't Wear a Yellow Vest Anymore: Ida Susser on the Battle for Democracy in France
Feb 28, 202636 min
Was Henry Kissinger Evil? Tom Wells on the Kissinger Tapes
Feb 27, 202634 min