Keen On America
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Enstatification Over Enshittification: America as the New China
Nov 9, 202538 min
Six Books, One Story: The Closing of the American Century
Nov 8, 202539 min
Women Lie Too: A Smug San Francisco Intellectual Cross-Examines a Fearlessly Authentic Florida Psychologist
Nov 8, 202534 min
Beyond the New Deal: How the Left Must Reinvent Itself in a Populist Age
Nov 7, 202546 min
Why Tech Billionaires Are So Angry: Elon Musk and the Gilded Rage of Silicon Valley
Nov 6, 202540 min
The Bell Curve Author Takes God Seriously: But What if God Doesn't Take Him Seriously?
Nov 5, 202546 min
Dignity Has Never Been Photographed: More Balkan Ghosts for our Indignant Times
Nov 4, 202542 min
Democracy's Dangerous Flirtation with Autocracy: Michael McFaul on America's Abdication of Global Leadership
Nov 3, 202552 min
Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: Why Scientists Must succeed Where Politicians Fail
Nov 2, 202527 min
Why Our Fear of Technology Is Nothing New—And Why That Should Give Us Hope: From Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT
Nov 1, 202538 min
Not Even God Can Judge Tupac Shakur: How a White Suburban Sportswriter Found the Humanity and Tragedy Behind Hip-Hop’s Most Misunderstood Star
Oct 31, 202536 min
Fighting to Tell the Truth: Why every Film about War is an Anti-War Film
Oct 30, 202539 min
Between the River and the Sea: American Jews and the Soiling of the Zionist Dream
Oct 29, 202553 min
The Vinci Code: How AI is Turning Everyone into James Bond
Oct 28, 202547 min
Huawei vs Ericsson: How Huawei Turned Sweden's "Neutral" Tech Advantage Into a Cold War Liability
Oct 27, 202541 min
How Smart is the MAGA Intelligentsia? The Professors, Philosophers, and Trolls who Transformed Rage into a Winning Political Ideology
Oct 26, 202543 min
This Is Not a Browser—Did René Magritte Really Predict the End of the Web Age?
Oct 25, 202540 min
The Panic of the Intellectuals: From Ezra Pound to the Trumpagies of Today
Oct 25, 202548 min
How to Choke Your Enemy: Why America Turned the World Economy into its Weapon of Global Domination
Oct 24, 202551 min
All Religions Are Absurd Because We Are Absurd: How the Internet is Creating the First New Form of Religious Community in 250,000 Years
Oct 23, 202555 min
Why the Real Road to Serfdom Runs Through Silicon Valley: Tim Wu on the Extractive Economics of Platform Capitalism
Oct 22, 202539 min
Are We Still Fighting the Hundred Years War? Why Joan of Arc, Agincourt, and the Black Death Aren't Quite Dead
Oct 22, 202544 min
From Cancelled Students to Coddled Autocrats: The Crisis of Free Speech in America
Oct 21, 202534 min
The Deliveroo Effect: Why Instant Delivery Politics and Economics Is Harming Democracy and Making Us Miserable
Oct 20, 202544 min
A Giant Crypto Grift: Xbox Chief on His New Blockchain Thriller and Why Web3 Still Matters
Oct 19, 202539 min
An American Epidemic of Speculation: Bubble Blowing in Silicon Valley and Washington DC
Oct 19, 202544 min
Should a College be a Museum or a Startup? Why Universities Need to Teach Failure
Oct 18, 202539 min
American Advocates of Foreign Devils: How Rudy Giuliani and Hunter Biden Sold Access to US Foreign Policy
Oct 17, 202541 min
Sometimes We Need a Calamity: How to Save the American Experiment
Oct 16, 202542 min
The Frankenstein Version of Neo-Liberalism: When American Business Overtook Government
Oct 15, 202541 min
America as a Contradiction Trapped Inside an even Bigger Contradiction: Princeton Historian's Explanation for Everything, Everywhere All at Once
Oct 14, 202545 min
Jeffrey Archer: How Margaret Thatcher would have disciplined a Naughty Donald Trump
Oct 13, 202541 min
Sam Altman's Rigged Imperial Gambit: Too Important to Fail & Too Well-Financed to Go Public
Oct 12, 202545 min
America's Most Wounded Generation: Returning Home after World War II
Oct 11, 202546 min
AI Hype is a Feature, not a Bug: Why We Can't Trust Big Tech With Our Agentic Future
Oct 10, 202544 min
Springtime for Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers and Hucksters are Bamboozling the Media, the Markets and the Masses
Oct 9, 202542 min
Navigating around Christopher Columbus: The Nine Lives of the Genoese Sailor Who Became History's Greatest Saint and Sinner
Oct 8, 202546 min
41 Years for a Crime He Didn't Commit: Gary Tyler's Journey from Death Row to Freedom
Oct 7, 202546 min
Don't Be Yourself: Why the Cult of Authenticity Is Killing Not Just Your Career but Your Life
Oct 6, 202543 min
Two Freedoms and Two Americas: Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King's Incompatible Versions of Liberty
Oct 5, 202553 min
The Uberification of Academia: Why Adjunct Professors are Living in their Cars
Oct 4, 202546 min
How to Lose Loudly: What the Left can Learn from the NRA
Oct 4, 202540 min
More Than Chinatown: Bruce Lee and the Invention of Asian American Identity
Oct 3, 202540 min
The AI Pioneer Who Chose Purpose Over Profit: Jim Fruchterman on Why Big Tech Can't Be Trusted with Our Future
Oct 2, 202544 min
World Enemy Number One: Nazi Germany's Obsession with 'Judeo-Bolshevism'
Oct 1, 202553 min
The True Cost of Roadkill: Cars Have Caused 60 to 80 Million Deaths in the Last 100 Years
Sep 30, 202553 min
Is that $320,000 College Degree Really Worth It? The President of Brandeis on why Colleges Must Adapt or Become Irrelevant
Sep 29, 202536 min
The Dark Passions Driving American Politics: Why Liberals Must Acknowledge Anger, Fear, and the Lust for Domination
Sep 28, 202546 min
The AI Assistant That Knows Your Life Before You Do: The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End?
Sep 27, 202537 min
TRUMP IS NOT POPULAR: How a Sub 40% Approval Offers Hope for the Dems
Sep 26, 202554 min