Keen On America
2,159 episodes — Page 42 of 44
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
Chris Miller: Is It Possible That the Russians Are Now Winning the War in Ukraine?
Jul 1, 202232 min
Margaret Mitchell: Can Big Tech Be Reformed to Make It More Ethically Responsible In Its Development of Artificial Intelligence?
Jul 1, 202235 min
Robert Pearl: How the Seemingly Parallel Pandemics of Covid, Anxiety, and Gun Violence Are All Part of the Same Existential Crisis of American Healthcare
Jun 30, 202236 min
Debora Spar: How Social Media Is Killing Romantic Love and How Smart Machines Might Enable Us to Love Again
Jun 30, 202234 min
Baynard Woods: How a White Racist "Totalitarian" System Has Permeated All of American History and Why Reparations Might Be Its Only Fix
Jun 29, 202235 min
Emma Brodie on Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, a Love Affair So Melodic That It Had to Be Transformed Into Fiction
Jun 29, 202237 min
Jamie Bartlett on the Biggest Crypto Scam of All and the Heartless Bulgarian Cryptoqueen Behind It
Jun 29, 202241 min
Paul Thagard: Why Balance Is Essential in Our Vertiginous Age
Jun 29, 202231 min
Jenny Kleeman: What the End of Roe Might Tell us About the High Tech Future of Bird, Sex, Food, and Death
Jun 28, 202232 min
Peter Zeihan: Why the End of Globalization Is Just the Beginning of the Chaotic 2020s
Jun 28, 202243 min
Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague: Why the News About the Resilience of American Democracy Is Both Very Good and Very Bad
Jun 27, 202237 min
Steven Jones: What's the Point of Universities in Our Neo-Liberal Age of Radical Inequality and Fake News?
Jun 27, 202232 min
Kate Mangino: Why Boys, As Much as Girls, Benefit from Gender Equality At Home
Jun 27, 202234 min
Katherine Angel on One More Pro-Abortion Argument: Why Girls Need to Take Sexual Risks If They Are To Grow Up to Become Women
Jun 26, 202237 min
Alison Fairbrother on the Catch Within the Catch: How to Write a Feminist Novel About a Complicated Dad
Jun 23, 202234 min
Ben Tarnoff: Why Fixing the Internet Requires Political Struggle Rather Than Technological Innovation
Jun 23, 202240 min
Nelly Lahoud: Remembering Osama Bin Laden: Monster, Family Man, or Misguided Genius?
Jun 23, 202241 min
Dr. Natalie Petouhoff: Can Digital Technology Really Deliver More Human Empathy?
Jun 23, 202230 min
Lyndsie Bourgon: Why the Morality of Tree Stealing Is Not As Simple as Many Traditional Environmentalists Would Like to Think
Jun 23, 202235 min
Martin Puchner: How to Fix the Environment? A Four-Thousand-Year-Old Reading List for Confronting Our Climate Emergency
Jun 22, 202228 min
Dan Hampton: Why the World Owes America a Great Debt For Its Participation in the Second World War
Jun 22, 202234 min
Azeem Azhar: Why, In an Age of Exponential Technological Change, Does So Little Seem to Change in Politics?
Jun 22, 202233 min
Lisa Lewis: Why the Crisis of Teenage Anxiety Might Begin and End With Sleep Deprivation
Jun 22, 202221 min
Mark Lee Gardner: Rather Than Jefferson or Washington, Should Americans Be Celebrating Indigenous Leaders Like Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull As Their Greatest Historical Figures?
Jun 21, 202234 min
Chris Stokel-Walker on a Digital Brave New World: Are We Entertaining Ourselves to Death on TikTok?
Jun 21, 202231 min
Gian Volpicelli on the Crypto-Crash and Why the Party Might Finally Be Over
Jun 21, 202236 min
Stephen Wertheim: Why Joe Biden Should Be Supporting Sovereignty and Not Democracy in Ukraine
Jun 20, 202236 min
Bob Keefe: Can American Capitalism Really Be an Ally in the War Against Climate Change?
Jun 20, 202233 min
Introducing Intelligence Squared US
Jun 20, 202251 min
Britt Halvorson: How to Reimagine White Supremacy in the Heartland of the American Midwest
Jun 19, 202229 min
Garrett Graff: How Are Watergate and the January 6th Insurrection Similar? Nixon and Trump's Shared Paranoia and Isolation From the Outside World
Jun 18, 202236 min
Emma Jacobs: How Do We Define Adulthood in a Time When We've Created a Cult of Childhood?
Jun 18, 202228 min
Ewen Spencer on What Writers and Photographers Have in Common
Jun 17, 202229 min
Frank Smyth: Why the Next Three Years Could Be the Most Violent in American History Since Reconstruction
Jun 17, 202237 min
Juan Gonzalez: The Paradoxical History of Latinos in America
Jun 16, 202240 min
Nick Seabrook: How Gerrymandering Is Killing American Democracy
Jun 16, 202224 min
Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström: No, Sweden Isn't Perfect: On Racism, Xenophobia, and Not Even Feeding Your Own Guests
Jun 16, 202227 min
Jennifer Senior: How America's Rasputin, Steve Bannon, Is Simultaneously Clubbable and a Mortal Threat to the Republic
Jun 15, 202239 min
Ethan Lou: Is Today's Crypto Crash Terminal or Just Another Chapter in Its Inevitable Takeover of Our Financial System?
Jun 15, 202234 min
Christopher Leonard: How Today's Inflationary Crisis is Likely to Further Inflame Our Democratic Crisis
Jun 14, 202236 min
Simon Kuper: What Political Lessons Can We Learn From a Well-Run Football Club Like FC Barcelona?
Jun 14, 202236 min
Oliver Bullough: How Britain Became the Jeeves of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats, and Criminals
Jun 14, 202237 min