Keen On America
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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
An Existential Threat to American Freedom: Spike Cohen on Donald Trump's Betrayal of Libertarianism
Jun 13, 202557 min
American Fascism: If You Close Your Eyes It Won't Go Away
Jun 12, 202540 min
Postmodern Patrimonialism: Trump's Everything-Everywhere-All-At-Once Strategy as a Venture Capital Model of Politics
Jun 11, 202545 min
Beyond Left and Right: The Libertarian Vision of Freedom in America
Jun 10, 202542 min
The Empire Strikes Back: Karen Hao on OpenAI as a Classic Colonial Power
Jun 9, 202546 min
We Get the Non-Fiction We Deserve: From AI Empires to Wokeness Critiques to a Year Without Sex
Jun 8, 202541 min
Everything Is Possible, Nothing Is Inevitable: Why AI Might Be the Ultimate Scarcity Trap
Jun 7, 202543 min
The Prophet of Fake News: How a 1920s Thinker Predicted today's Trump vs Musk Farce
Jun 6, 202548 min
The Boogeyman Speaks: Ibram X. Kendi on Why He's America's Most Controversial Anti-Racism Scholar
Jun 5, 202542 min
We Get the Serial Killers & Heroes We Deserve: From a WW2 French Sisterhood to American Male Psychos
Jun 4, 202536 min
Drowning in Black Swans: Why Governance is Failing in our Age of Chaos
Jun 3, 202544 min
Frozen Dreams: How a Family Agricultural Empire Exposed the Dark Side of American Capitalism
Jun 3, 202542 min
The Abundance Trap: Who Owns Our Future When Robots Do All the Work?
Jun 1, 202534 min
The Revenge Addiction: How Trump's Vengeful Brand is America's Deadliest Drug
May 31, 202543 min
The Authoritarian Pincer: How Both Left and Right Threaten Free Speech in America
May 30, 202541 min
F**k the Patriarchy: Tim Jackson's Path to a "Care" Economy
May 29, 202552 min
American Ruins: The Death of Expertise in Trump's Washington
May 28, 202543 min
Episode 2547: Paul Elie on Art, Faith and Sex in the 1980s
May 27, 202547 min
Episode 2546: Zaakir Tameez on the most unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
May 26, 202538 min
Episode 2545: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling on the Death of Trust in Science
May 25, 202540 min
Episode 2544: Marcus Alexander Gadson on the History of Sedition in the United States
May 24, 202535 min
Episode 2543: Edward Luce on the Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski
May 23, 202538 min
Episode 2542: John Cassidy on Capitalism and its Critics
May 22, 202548 min
Episode 2541: Joan Williams on How the Democrats Must Win Back the American Working Class
May 21, 202542 min
Episode 2540: Anna Malaika Tubbs Reveals the Secret History of American Patriarchy
May 20, 202544 min
Episode 2539: Marshall Poe on why Gaza is becoming Israel's Vietnam
May 19, 202538 min
Episode 2538: Biden, Harris & the Exhausted Democratic Establishment
May 18, 202538 min
Episode 2537: How to Survive our Age of Technological Mayhem
May 17, 202536 min
Episode 2536: Is Spying an Un-American activity?
May 17, 202539 min
Episode 2535: Tim Minshall on How We Manufacture Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
May 16, 202543 min
Episode 2534: Why Generative AI is a Technological Dead End
May 15, 202536 min
Episode 2533: Leah Litman on the Bad Vibes of the Supreme Court
May 14, 202539 min
Episode 2532: Mattea Kramer on how Addiction has replaced Apple Pie as the most American of things
May 13, 202538 min
Episode 2531: Emily Bender and Alex Hanna on the AI Con
May 12, 202543 min
Episode 2530 William Dalrymple on how Ancient India transformed the world
May 11, 202543 min
Episode 2529: Who is cheating whom in American universities?
May 10, 202537 min
Episode 2528: Jason Riley on how racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans
May 9, 202544 min
Episode 2527: Mark Skousen on why Benjamin Franklin is the Greatest American
May 8, 202547 min
Episode 2526: Keach Hagey on why OpenAI is the parable of our hallucinatory times
May 7, 202539 min
Episode 2525: Jocelyn Benson offers an morally purposeful alternative to Trumpism
May 7, 202542 min
Episode 2524: Martin Wolf on whether Trump's tariffs are as dumb as they seem
May 5, 202520 min
Episode 2522: Edmund Fawcett on Trump as a Third Way between Liberalism and Conservatism
May 3, 202534 min
Episode 2521: Michael Stein on the Real Lives of the American Working Class
May 2, 202546 min
Episode 2520: Larry Aldrich on what's Right with America
May 1, 202545 min
Episode 2519: Is Criticism of Israel, by definition, Anti-Semitic?
Apr 30, 202542 min
Episode 2518: 100 Days or 100 Years?
Apr 30, 202534 min