Keen On America
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James Kirchick on the Hidden History of Gay Washington
Jun 13, 202242 min
Nabil Ayers: Why Writing an Autobiography Is More Like Recording an Album Than Making a Single
Jun 13, 202233 min
Rebekah Caruthers: How We Can Use the January 6th Insurrection to Create a More Perfect American Democracy
Jun 13, 202221 min
Gene Andrew Jarrett on Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Caged Bird That Sang
Jun 12, 202237 min
Nicole Eustace: What the Murder of an Indigenous American in 1722 Tells Us About the Dark Origins of the United States
Jun 11, 202224 min
Chloe Maxmin: Why the Democrats Need to Start Listening to Rural America
Jun 11, 202223 min
Imagine America as a "Parent Nation": Utopian Nonsense or Realizable Possibility?
Jun 11, 202233 min
Gary Shapiro on How Both Political Parties Are Undermining America's Greatest Strength: Innovation
Jun 10, 202235 min
Charlie Robertson on Curing Global Poverty: More Education, More Electricity
Jun 9, 202232 min
Nandita Dinesh: How Brechtian Theater Can Help Americans Talk to One Another Again
Jun 9, 202228 min
Note to Elon Musk: Stop Wasting Your Billions on Twitter and Invest Them in Curing Cancer
Jun 8, 202235 min
Ian Morris: Why Geography Explains Everything From Brexit to Cuba to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Jun 8, 202229 min
Jefferson Morley: Why Watergate Is Intimately Bound Up With the CIA's Role in the JFK Assassination
Jun 8, 202225 min
Samit Basu: Why India, and Not China or the US, Represents the Most Chilling Vision of Our High-Tech Dystopian Future
Jun 7, 202229 min
Abi Morgan: How to Write a Memoir About Personal Catastrophe Without Sounding Pitiful
Jun 7, 202234 min
Victoria Finlay on Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
Jun 6, 202230 min
John Allore: How a Brother's Determination to Find His Sister's Killer Lead Him to a Canadian Serial Killer
Jun 5, 202233 min
Ada Ferrer: How the 300-Year-Old Cuba-America Relationship Could Have Been Written By a Latin American Novelist
Jun 4, 202246 min
Bo Seo: How Good Debate Can Save Democracy
Jun 4, 202242 min
Julie Lythcott-Hains: How to Successfully Grow Up and Become an Adult
Jun 3, 202239 min
Peter Wehner: Why a Post-Trump America Remains Very Sick and How to Improve Its Health
Jun 3, 202238 min
Kimberly Wolf: Why Fathers Need to Talk Talk Talk to Their Daughters
Jun 2, 202234 min
Anna Malaika Tubbs: How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America
Jun 2, 202234 min
Hopwood DePree: What One American Learnt From Restoring His Family's English Castle
Jun 2, 202228 min
Aaron Friedberg: Why China, Not Russia, Is Our Greatest Threat And What We Should Do About It
Jun 1, 202232 min
Sasha Issenberg: What America's Long Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage Can Teach Us About the Possibility of Gun Control
Jun 1, 202233 min
Erin Swan: How a First Novel About America's Vanished Earth Took 6 Years to Write and 30 Years to Plan
May 31, 202225 min
Nirit Weiss-Blatt: Why the Techlash Has Gone Too Far
May 31, 202230 min
Helene Munson on Hitler's Boy Soldiers: Can Germans Ever Forget the Second World War?
May 30, 202228 min
Kerri Arsenault and Bathsheba Demuth: How to Tell Effective Stories About the Environment
May 29, 202230 min
Jon Taffer: Why the Real Power of Conflict Is About Respect Rather Than Violence
May 28, 202225 min
Hal Weitzman: Why Delaware Is At the Root of Everything That Is Wrong With America
May 26, 202227 min
George Stevens, Jr.: Remembering (And Mourning) The Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington D.C.
May 25, 202233 min
Dov Seidman: How to Make American Capitalism Moral (Or, At Least, Try To)
May 24, 202232 min
Marcus Buckingham: Why Work Sometimes Does, Indeed, Love Us Back
May 24, 202228 min
Arthur Grace: Photographing Communism(s) and What Life Really Looked Like in Cold War Eastern Europe
May 24, 202235 min
Eboo Patel: Field Notes on How to Build a Diverse Democracy in America
May 23, 202235 min
Ousman Umar: I'm the Luckiest Person in the World Because I Have Two Families, One Black and One White
May 23, 202227 min
Phil Klay on Rebuilding the American Citizen in an Age of Endless, Invisible War
May 20, 202238 min
Mark Esper: The Surrealism of Life as Secretary of Defense in the Trump Regime
May 19, 202234 min
Lise Vesterlund on The No Club and How to Put a Stop to Women's Dead End Work
May 18, 202229 min
Jon Mooallem: How to Make Sense of Profound Arbitrariness in a World That Is Suppose to Make Sense
May 17, 202235 min
Charlotte Mullins: Finally a History of Art That Includes Female and Non-White Artists
May 16, 202239 min
Glenda Gilmore: The Significance of Romare Bearden's Art in the American Canon
May 16, 202229 min
Gregg Barak: On the Persistent and Unambiguous Criminality of Donald J. Trump
May 15, 202234 min
Maurice Stucke: How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation and How to Fight Back
May 15, 202244 min
Francis Fukuyama: Are We At the End of the History of Liberalism?
May 14, 202236 min
Andrew Leon Hanna: How the World's Refugees Are 25 Million Sparks of Innovation and Humanity
May 14, 202231 min
Finally Some Good News: Why We Might All Be Altruistic Creatures
May 13, 202234 min
James Zimring: How Math Distorts Our Thinking
May 12, 202235 min