Keen On America
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America Never Was a Democracy—And That's Why It's Dying Now
Aug 11, 202543 min
That Frog in the Boiling Water is Us: Why Progress Won't Save Us From Climate Catastrophe
Aug 11, 202542 min
The Week AI Began to Act: The Dawn of an AI Stone Age in Which Machines Have Their Own Tools
Aug 9, 202530 min
Trump's Hot Summer of Disorder: How Short-Term Chaos is America's Long-Term Global Strategy
Aug 8, 202546 min
Why Julius Caesar was anything but Trumpian: How Rome's 'Dictator' Actually Saved Roman Democracy
Aug 8, 202547 min
The Resurrection of God: Why Europe's Bestselling Science Book Proves Materialism is Dead
Aug 6, 202537 min
Why Reports on the Death of the American Dream are Greatly Exaggerated
Aug 5, 202541 min
Why Podcasts Are Ruining Our Lives: On the Insidious Charm of Chat
Aug 4, 202543 min
The Chinese Communist School of Hard Knocks: How Xi Jinping's Father Shaped China's Current Tough Guy Leader
Aug 3, 202549 min
Going Soft on China: Is Xi Jinping really a Competitor, not an Enemy, of the United States?
Aug 2, 202535 min
Tech Insider Claims OpenAI Will Be Worth $10 Trillion: Has Silicon Valley Finally Gone Totally Bonkers?
Aug 1, 202544 min
Can Democrats Really Pull a Reagan? How the GOP's 1980 Playbook Could Work for Progressives in 2028
Jul 31, 202541 min
From Six Days of the Condor to American Sky: James Grady on Nostalgia and the American Dream
Jul 30, 202545 min
The Revolting Elites: How Christopher Lasch Predicted Trump and the Crisis of American Democracy
Jul 29, 202549 min
Confessions of a Meme Queen: I Created an Instagram Following to Trick People Into Letting Me Write a Book
Jul 28, 202539 min
The charming gay racist who invented modern American conservatism: Sam Tanenhaus on William F. Buckley's absurdly implausible contradictions
Jul 27, 202548 min
"AI Is Too Busy to Take Your Job: The Electrifying Truth about our AIgorithmic Future
Jul 26, 202547 min
The Death of the American Way of Work: How the United States Lost Its Grip on the Future
Jul 24, 202532 min
How Capitalism Turned Money into God: Paul Vigna on Buying the Almighty
Jul 22, 202544 min
AI as Dumb Waiter 2.0: Douglas Rushkoff on How Smart Technology Isn't Quite as Smart as It Claims
Jul 21, 202548 min
From Luther to Zuckerberg: Who killed Privacy?
Jul 19, 202553 min
Is Mohammed bin Salman a Tyrant or an Enlightened Despot? Karen Elliott House on MBS's Transformation of Saudi Arabia
Jul 16, 202554 min
Why America is Destroying Itself: Charles Derber on Sociocide and America's Social Suicide
Jul 15, 202540 min
A Satirist's Revenge on Wall Street: From Trading Hedge Funds to Telling Stories
Jul 13, 202528 min
Living in Teddy's Shadow: How Roosevelt's Sons Found Redemption—and Regret—in Their Quest for the Giant Panda
Jul 11, 202537 min
America's Heart of Moral Darkness: Peter Wehner on Trump's Apocalyptic Assault on African AIDS Victims
Jul 10, 202549 min
Breaking Down America's Everyday Walls: From Swimming Pools and SUVs to White Lives Matter Rallies
Jul 9, 202545 min
The AI Wedge: It's as Painful as it Sounds
Jul 7, 202543 min
Scale or Die: Why 2025 really is the Inflection Point That Changes Everything
Jul 5, 202536 min
249 Years Later: Is America Still Worth the Fireworks?
Jul 4, 202526 min
The Nazi Mind: 12 Warnings from History
Jul 3, 202552 min
Death of the American Dream: Terrence McCauley on why the Mob was behind the JFK Assassination
Jul 2, 202538 min
Why Everything is Propaganda: Connor Boyack's Libertarian Manifesto for July 4
Jul 2, 202553 min
From the Internet of Trolls to the Internet of Tolls: Has the Publishing Apocalypse Finally Arrived?
Jun 29, 202534 min
From Ghana to Goldman Sachs: Rachel Laryea on a Blueprint for Black Capitalism
Jun 28, 202544 min
The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Manufactured Racism in America
Jun 27, 202545 min
The Real Monkey Business: What the 1925 Scopes Trial was actually all about
Jun 26, 202543 min
The Michael Douglas Trap: What Is Wrong with Men
Jun 25, 202541 min
The $200 billion dilemma: Is Bill Gates helping or harming Africa?
Jun 24, 202546 min
The Architecture of Terror: Rafia Zakaria on Trump, Miller, Israel, Iran and Gaza
Jun 23, 202543 min
Why Elections Aren't Always Democratic: Challenging American Political Science's Founding Myth
Jun 22, 202548 min
The Virtuous Side Of Silicon Valley: How Jimmy Chen is Building Tech to Help the Poorest America
Jun 22, 202551 min
The Tragic Paradox of Survival in Auschwitz: The Mystery of Primo Levi
Jun 21, 202530 min
A Known Unknown: Harry Freedman on Bob Dylan's Jewish Roots
Jun 20, 202537 min
Burning Down The House: Do The Talking Heads Still Matter?
Jun 19, 202557 min
Why Being a 'Good Woman' Is Making Women (and Men) Miserable
Jun 18, 202544 min
The Haves and The Have-Yachts: Evan Osnos Explores the Minds of the Ultrarich
Jun 17, 202546 min
The Vampire Economy: How Private Equity is Sucking the Blood out of the American Dream
Jun 16, 202547 min
The Company That Ate the Web: Google's Quarter Century Journey from Bridge Builder to Web Destroyer
Jun 15, 202540 min
Long Live the NO KING: An Anti-Fascist Handbook on How to Resist Trump
Jun 14, 202544 min