Keen On America
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One Battle After Another in Hollywood: Why Gen Z Has Abandoned Cinema and What It Says About American Culture
Nov 19, 202543 min
Student Debt as Modern American Serfdom: A Mother Stole $200,000 in Her Daughter's Name
Nov 18, 202538 min
Keen on Hispanic America: How Latino TV Networks Reshaped American Politics and Culture
Nov 17, 202534 min
Is There An Orchestrated Moral Panic Against AI? Or Is This Just Another Figment of a Paranoid Silicon Valley?
Nov 16, 202546 min
What Yogi Berra can teach Silicon Valley: From Tulip and Railway Manias to Dotcom and AI Bubbles
Nov 15, 202543 min
The Case for American Power: Why Hypocrisy is the Price of Idealism
Nov 14, 202540 min
Obama as Gorbachev and Trump as Yeltsin: How America is Like the Soviet Union Before Its Collapse
Nov 13, 202546 min
Dr Stranglove 2.0: Silicon Valley as the New Trillion Dollar Military-Industrial Complex
Nov 13, 202532 min
The Handmaid's Tale Is No Longer Fiction—Welcome to the Brave New MAGA World of Trad Wives and State Fecundity
Nov 12, 202535 min
From Pigeons to Polyamory: A New Yorker Cartoonist's Fix For American Loneliness
Nov 11, 202541 min
How Lawyers Created a Can't Do America: The Tragedy of Too Many Laws and Not Enough Innovation
Nov 10, 202543 min
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