Keen On America
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Trump-Epstein: Jason Pack on the Axis of Disorder
Feb 26, 202640 min
Stuck, Stuck, Stuck, Stuck: Maya Kornberg on Congress as a Four-Alarm Fire
Feb 25, 202641 min
No, It's Not Only Social Media: Ross Greene on Why Our Kids Aren't Okay
Feb 24, 202635 min
Fresh Hell at 3 AM: Peter Bale on the View of America From Down Under
Feb 23, 202638 min
Different Minds Are Great: David Oppenheimer on the Diversity Principle
Feb 22, 202636 min
The Silicon Gods Must Have Their Blood: How Public Venture Capital Might Kill Venture Capitalism
Feb 21, 202638 min
The Dangerous Myth of Neutrality Brian Soucek on Why Universities Should Take Sides
Feb 21, 202632 min
Progressive Populism Prevails: Charles Derber on How to Fight the Oligarchy
Feb 20, 202636 min
He Was Somebody: David Masciotra Remembers Jesse Jackson
Feb 19, 202640 min
Books Are Dying (Again): Bethanne Patrick on the Enshittification of the Book Biz
Feb 18, 202638 min
Protesting the Protesters: Bruce Robbins on the Protests over Vietnam, Gaza and Minneapolis
Feb 17, 202639 min
Mercy Costs Money: Emily Galvin Almanza on the Price of Criminal Justice in America
Feb 16, 202639 min
Two Years Till We're Cooked: The Death of White Collar Work and Other Human Things
Feb 15, 202643 min
What is Love? Paul Eastwick on the New Science of Attraction
Feb 14, 202638 min
Politics Without Politicians: Hélène Landemore's Case for Citizen Rule
Feb 13, 202646 min
Can Billionaire Backlash Save Democracy? Pepper Culpepper on our Age of Corporate Scandal
Feb 12, 202642 min
Yes, It's Fascism: Jon Rauch on Trump and the F Word
Feb 11, 202641 min
Californian True Crime: A Killing in Cannabis
Feb 10, 202637 min
Rage in the American Republic
Feb 9, 202646 min
Documenting America: How to See Beyond the Algorithm
Feb 8, 202633 min
Whoosh! That Really Was a Week in Tech: Winner-Take-All AI and the $1 Trillion Selloff
Feb 7, 202637 min
Catching More Than Passes From Bobby: Stephen Schlesinger on what RFK Can Still Teach America
Feb 6, 202649 min
Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance
Feb 5, 202638 min
To Catch a Fascist: The Ethics of Unmasking the Radical Right
Feb 4, 202638 min
How Meat Can Save the Planet: The Vegan Case
Feb 3, 202649 min
It's Always Exploding Somewhere: Why No Weapon Is Ever Perfect
Feb 2, 202641 min
Where's the Countercultural Outrage to Trump?
Feb 1, 202632 min
AI's Adolescent Crisis: And It's Still Just a Toddler
Jan 31, 202640 min
Running Away From America: The Rhodes Scholar Who Ran a Male Brothel in Bali
Jan 30, 202623 min
Your 2026 Reading List: Seven Books You Won't Want to Miss
Jan 29, 202641 min
Human Fracking: The $17 Trillion War for Your Attention
Jan 28, 202655 min
Fear and Fury: From Bernie Goetz to Kyle Rittenhouse
Jan 27, 202636 min
Who Needs Goliaths? Don't Write Off Europe's Army of Davids
Jan 26, 202630 min
Excited and Terrified: The Atlantic CEO on Journalism's AI Reckoning
Jan 25, 202628 min
64% and Counting: America's Venture Capital Dominance
Jan 24, 202634 min
From the Soil Up: Regenerating the Economy
Jan 24, 202617 min
Three Minutes to Midnight: How Europe is Running out of Time
Jan 22, 202640 min
Why Today's AI Boom Is No Dot-Com Bubble
Jan 21, 202629 min
Is It Game Over For Europe?
Jan 20, 202625 min
Why Europe Must Learn the Language of Power
Jan 19, 202623 min
The 1984 NYC Subway Vigilante: Self Defense or Racial Rage?
Jan 18, 202639 min
The Myth of Willpower: It's not YOU. It's THEM
Jan 17, 202641 min
Chinese Amorality vs. American Immorality
Jan 16, 202645 min
Why This Might Be Robert Redford's Most Prescient Movie
Jan 15, 202642 min
Can Swiftynomics Save America?
Jan 14, 202636 min
On Fire for the God Con
Jan 13, 202647 min
How Jefferson Seduced America
Jan 12, 202654 min
The Man Who Made Books Random
Jan 11, 202639 min
Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare
Jan 10, 202647 min
Old School Principles for the New Century: What if the Right isn't Wrong about Education?
Jan 9, 202635 min