Keen On America
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The Idiocracy Trap: Why Smart Machines are making Humans Dumb & Dumber
Sep 25, 202546 min
Halfway to Hungary: Jonathan Rauch on the Authoritarian Playbook that Trump Borrowed from a Small, Landlocked Central European State
Sep 24, 202544 min
The Case Against the United Nations: The Israel Obsession, Rwanda, and the Haiti Peacekeeping Scandal
Sep 24, 202548 min
From Fentanyl to Fulfillment: How the Tuba Civil Rights Movement Can Save American Democracy
Sep 23, 202540 min
Kimmel-Kirk and the End of the Television Age: Why Free Speech Has Never Been Freer
Sep 22, 202537 min
A 107 Reasons to Dislike 107 Days: Kamala Harris Throws Everyone, Including Herself, Under the Bus
Sep 21, 202553 min
Gutted and Glutted: The Dire Economics of Podcasting in the AI Age
Sep 20, 202546 min
The Innovation Paradox Undermining the Digital Revolution: How Magical Technology Isn't Translating into Miraculous Economic Progress
Sep 19, 202546 min
Should Billionaires Be Banned? Why Extreme Wealth Might Be Incompatible with Democracy and the Survival of the Earth
Sep 18, 202549 min
Why Trump Might Be Right About Greenland: How a 57,000-Person Island Became Critical to 21st Century Geopolitics
Sep 17, 202537 min
The Unluckiest Generation: Confessions of a Millennial
Sep 16, 202540 min
Why Humans Have Such Big Brains (No, it's not Because of our Intelligence)
Sep 15, 202537 min
How Should Criminals be Punished? From Bentham's "Enlightened" Panopticon to the Universal Human Rights of Prisoners
Sep 14, 202554 min
Why Misogyny May Be America's Most Dangerous Ideology: The Role of the Manosphere in Political Assassinations and Mass Shootings
Sep 13, 202548 min
Rational Exuberance: Why $3 Trillion in AI Investment is Mathematical Certainty, not Madness
Sep 12, 202538 min
From Dodgers Top Draft Pick to Harvard Trained Middle Eastern Maven: Does the American Dream Still Exist?
Sep 12, 202552 min
We're Burning 500 Million Years of Earth's History in a Few Decades: So Stop Pretending Recycling Will Save the Planet
Sep 11, 202538 min
The Godfather of Security, Bruce Schneier, Rewires Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government and Citizenship
Sep 10, 202544 min
Here Comes the Sunstein: Cass Sunstein on Why American Liberalism Now Needs Defending More Than Ever
Sep 9, 202546 min
Can We Get To 2125? Humanity's Most Existential Threats Over the Next 100 Years
Sep 9, 202542 min
The Art of a Deal with the Devil: on Faustian Bargains from Shakespeare and Goethe to Thomas Mann and Donald Trump
Sep 8, 202538 min
When the United Nations Actually Mattered: Remembering the Burmese Schoolteacher who Ran the U.N. in its Glory Days
Sep 7, 202556 min
How Evil 'Big Car' Has Killed More People Than World War II
Sep 6, 202536 min
The Double Life of Robert McNamara: How America's 'Best and Brightest' Led the Nation into Vietnam While Knowing the War Was Unwinnable
Sep 5, 202558 min
The World's Worst Bet: How America Gambled Dumbly on Globalization and Lost
Sep 4, 202543 min
Demystify Science and Humanize Scientists: How to Rebuild Scientific Trust in our Angry MAHA Times
Sep 3, 202541 min
From Borges to Brain Scans: How our Minds Invent Reality
Sep 3, 202545 min
The Hypocrisy of Trump's War on Universities: How Wealthy Families Game the College Admission Process
Sep 2, 202539 min
Borders are Back, Baby: From Trump and Transylvania to Brexit and Bolivia's Navy
Sep 1, 202538 min
Beware of another Silicon Valley Win-Win-Win: Can users, publishers and tech companies really all benefit from the AI revolution?
Aug 31, 202545 min
Every Day, Computers are Making People Easier to Use: The Return of IN FORMATION
Aug 30, 202547 min
Is Roman Polanski really worth defending?
Aug 30, 202532 min
How Parents Have Become the Social Media in Their Kids' Lives: So Taking Away Phones Won't Alone Fix the Teen Mental Health Crisis
Aug 29, 202548 min
From Solitary to Silicon Valley: Shaka Senghor on America's Hidden Prisons
Aug 28, 202534 min
Why Even Sam Altman Wants to be Gary Marcus: From Son of Sam to Son of Gary in a single ChatGPT Release
Aug 27, 202535 min
Dr Strangelove Returns: Palantir and the New Military-Industrial-Digital Complex
Aug 26, 202535 min
MAGA Voters Aren't Stupid: That's Why They Don't Care What Right-Wing Podcasters Think
Aug 25, 202541 min
Getting Queerer Quicker: No, The Literary Man Isn't Disappearing—He's Just Not Longer White or Straight
Aug 24, 202541 min
Who Owns The Front Door? The Multi-Trillion Dollar Battle to Assemble the AI Jigsaw
Aug 23, 202544 min
From Mean Streets to Wall Street: How Trump, Koch, and the other Gods of New York Remade America
Aug 22, 202540 min
Move Fast and Fix the World: Here Comes the Sun in the Nick of Time
Aug 21, 202543 min
The Redistricting Apocalypse: How Chief Justice Roberts Let All the Evil Spirits out of American Democracy
Aug 20, 202535 min
Back to the Digital Future: Why the Future of AI Healthcare Might be a Return to the Gig Economy
Aug 19, 202540 min
From Scrubbing Toilets to Talking around the Water Cooler: Why AI Won't Kill the Jobs of Those Who Clean Up Our Mess
Aug 18, 202543 min
Nostalgia vs. Progress: The Left's Dilemma in Post-Industrial America
Aug 17, 202556 min
When AI Breaks Your Heart: The Week Nothing Changed in Silicon Valley
Aug 16, 202543 min
From Brazilian Model to Nuclear Advocate: How one Woman's Radical Climate Anxiety is Generating a "Rad Future"
Aug 15, 202545 min
Forget AI—How Bio-Threats and Network Collapse Are the Real Existential Threats to Humanity
Aug 14, 202537 min
AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton warns that We're Creating 'Alien Beings that "Could Take Over"
Aug 13, 202521 min
A Black Moses: The Quest for a Promised African-American Land in Oklahoma
Aug 12, 202543 min