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Keen On America — 1000 episodes
An American Circus of Skulls: Paul Stob on Phrenology, the P.T. Barnum of Pseudosciences
How to Walk from Mumbai to San Francisco: Saumya Roy Navigates the Cracks in the American Dream
Kill Bill or Kill Keith? Why Using AI to Author Books Might Not Be in the Interest of Man
The Strange Death of the American Front Porch: Molly Brady on Land, Law, and the Lost Art of Neighborliness
How a Turkey Voted for Xmas: Ricardo Semler on Why One Boss Wants the End of All Bosses.
Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: Is Ben Barnes the Last Moderate Texan Democrat?
The American Way of Violence: Mike McIntire on Guns, Greed, and a Daily Trickle of Bloodshed
The Seduction of the American Mind: Emily Eakin on Her Life in French Theory
A $14 Billion Glitter Glue Gospel: Michael Blanding on the Wealthiest Christian Nationalist Family You've Never Heard Of
Homer's Hollywood Odyssey: Joel Christensen on How Christopher Nolan Gave Us the Odysseus We Deserve
Who Owns Intelligence? The Smart Wealth of Nations
Trump Points, Justice Shoots: Jonathan Rauch Looks Back (Without Anger) at the First Six Months of 2026
We All Hallucinate Reality: Turi Munthe on Why We Think What We Think
Who's Addicted to Addiction? Sally Satel on the Social Media Trials & America's Therapeutic Culture
The Art Restorer Who Came in From the Cold: Daniel Silva on Gabriel Allon, the Truest Fake Spy
A Time for Monsters: David Masciotra Looks Back in Anger at the First Six Months of 2026 in America
Ten Days That Didn’t Shake the World: Is it 1905 in AI Time?
From Istanbul With Love: Kaya Genç on How Turkey is Watching Trump's America
The End of the End of Geography: Mehran Gul on Why Innovation is Happening in America & China — but Nowhere Else
The Glory of Small Things: Ian Bogost on How To Be Enchanted by Diet Coke Cans & Plane Tickets
How the Democrats Screwed Bernie: Tad Devine on the 2016 Campaign, the Rigged Economy, and What’s at Stake in 2028
A Sudden Flicker of Light: Has David Thomson Fallen Out of Love With the Movies?
Was the Colonization of North America a Genocidal Project? David Silverman on the Tragic Fate of Native Americans
Universal Basic Capitalism: The Next American Revolution Or More Trickle Down Economics?
The United States of Oddity: Madeleine Schwartz on How the World Sees America at 250
America's Grand Faustian Bargain: Alexander Mikaberidze on How the Louisiana Purchase Made the United States
Dear America — Happy Fucking Birthday: Christopher Hooks on an Exhausted United States at 250
How We Disappear: Thomas Mullaney’s All-Too-Personal History of Information
If I Perish, I Perish: Katie Gaddini on the Army of Esthers Powering the American Right
Russian-American Confessions: Jamison Firestone on Putin’s Russia and a Criminal American Dad
The Apotheosis of Donald Trump? Peter Wehner on Madness, Mayhem and How Trump Eludes Shakespearean Tragedy
Payback’s a Bitch: AI Sovereign Wealth Funds, the Fake Andrew Keen, and America’s Inevitable Decline
Down the Democratic Drain: Justin Gest on How Migration Is Unintentionally Strengthening Authoritarianism Around the World
Is London Really Falling? Patrick Radden Keefe's Search for Truth in the Most Invisible of Cities
The Best and Worst Thing About America: Konstanty Gebert on the Interlibrary Loan and Yalta
We No Longer Dream of the United States: Bartosz Wieliński on America, Poland, and the Suicide of a Superpower
Let’s Agree to Disagree: Maciej Kisilowski on How to Save Democracy From Deplorables on All Sides
Life After GDP: Tim Jackson Returns to 1968 to Excavate a Post-Capitalist Future
Middlewomen: Laura McGrath on the 25 People Who Control American Fiction
What Makes Us Human? Kate O’Neill on the H Word, Verbal Slop, and the Meaning of Tech Humanism
Never Invite Sally Quinn: The Illustrious Washington Hostess on Ben Bradlee, Jill Biden and the Sexiness of Silence
Gerontocracy in America: Samuel Moyn on How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth
The Trouble with Trillionaires: Mordecai Kurz on Capitalism, Democracy, and the Second Gilded Age
The Vanishing Black Family: Delano Squires on Marriage, Moynihan, and the Crisis in Black America
A Century of Orations: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Listens to 2,500 Voices of the American Revolution
Up to the Stars and Down into the Gutter: Elon Musk's Ascent/Descent to SpaceX and White Nationalist Violence
No Statecraft for Old Men: Jack Watling on the New Rules of Power in a Chaotic World
The David Frum Show: Frum on Gatsby, Trump the Fascoid and What It Means to Be an American
Save San Francisco’s Soul: Jonathan Weber on Technology and Politics in the City By the Bay
Brooklyn Al Primo Posto: Vincent Coppola’s Magical Memoir of the Church, the Mafia and the Gowanus Canal
Trump Finally Gets the Priceless Book He Deserves: Ben Fountain on How Rasputin Swims the Potomac
The Unexceptional Exceptionalism of the United States: Michael Mandelbaum on the American Way of Foreign Policy
The Jeffrey Epstein of Antiquities: Matthew Campbell on the Man Who Got Away With Stealing the Gods,
D-Day for AI: How to Create an End Game That Will Benefit Everyone
Good Bobby, Bad Bobby: Evan Thomas on the Greatest Riddle in 20th Century American Politics
Why Football Saves Our Souls: Brian Bunk on the Collective Beauty of the World’s Most Popular Game
Get the F*** Out of Your House: Yotam Marom on How to Raise the Volume on the Politics of Powerlessness
Around the World in One Long Depression: Liaquat Ahamed on 1873 & the Making of the Global Economy
Drayton and Mackenzie: Alexander Starritt on How the 2008 Crash Ruined Everything
Ecocivilization and Our Discontents: Jeremy Lent on Why TINA Is Wrong
Anthropic Trounces OpenAI with Its Papal Pivot: Value Investing in Our AI Age
1776 as 1917: Sarah Pearsall's World History of the American Revolution
To Love or Hate the United States? Dominic Erdozain on the Problem of American Patriotism
Life of the Party: Joe Cunningham on How Democrats Lost America’s Trust and How They Can Win It Back
Is America Unfinished or Just Getting Started? Alexandra Natapoff on 250 Years of Justice and Injustice in the United States
Beyond the Lean Startup: Eric Ries on Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Ones Stay Great,
God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: Jasper Craven on the Damage West Point Has Done to American Boys
What Albert Camus Teaches Us About America: David Masciotra on a Country of Strangers,
Boy Meets Girl Meets AI Therapist: Fred Lunzer on Sike, Fictional Realism, and the Future of Love
Unvaccinated Under God: Kira Ganga Kieffer on Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America
How to Win a Trade War: Soumaya Keynes on Trump, China, and Her Great-Great-Uncle Maynard
Bad Entrepreneurs and Even Worse Artists: Does Capitalism Have a Future in the AI Age?
When California Was an Island: Peter Keating on the Cartography That Maps How We See the World
Don’t Use the F-Word: David Ost on Why the Red Pill, Not Fascism, Demystifies the Far Right
Don't Retire, Rewire: Michael Clinton's Longevity Nation
How to Watch the World Cup Like a Genius: Nick Greene on Why the Best Team Doesn’t Always Win
Can Keith Teare Convince Jonathan Rauch That AI Is Benign? That Was the Week, Special Edition
Athens vs Sparta: Adrian Goldsworthy on the Rivalry That Made the West
Sometimes Fixed Sometimes Fickle: Audun Dahl on Why Our Moral Judgements Are Always in Flux
From SEAL Sniper to Puddle Jumper: Brandon Webb on How to Raise Confident and Joyful Kids
The Sweatshop of the Meritocracy: Dylan Gottlieb on How the Yuppies Conquered America
Where Are the Firefighters? Jonathan Vigliotti on How Los Angeles Was Left to Burn
What Would You Do With the Last 19 Minutes of Your Life? Vincent Yu on an Apocalypse that Fizzled
A Nation of Strangers: Ece Temelkuran on Rebuilding Home in a Homeless World
That Sounds Incredibly Boring: Keith Teare's Vision of our Jobless AI Future
Hong Kong Burning: Simon Elegant on the 2019 Protests
Is London Really Falling? Bethanne Patrick on Patrick Radden Keefe, Freya India and the Collapse of Book Reviewing
Never Trust a Handsome Soldier: Becky Holmes on the Past, Present and Future of Fraud
The Mysterious Mr Murdaugh: James Lasdun on Why a Father Annihilated His Son
Why History Keeps Happening: Patrick Wyman on Human Failure and Success in Building Civilizations,
How Politicians Broke Our World: Ian Shapiro on Raising Ourselves Up After the Fall
Why the Future of Europe Is Wales: Glyn Morgan on the Rise and Fall of American Europe
Make Hungary (and America) Boring Again: Marc Loustau on Why Orbán Lost and How to Defeat Trump
Do We Really Want a No-Hands Job From Silicon Valley? Who Holds the Power in the Age of AGI
May Day, May Day: Jason Pack on the Unhappy War in Iran We All Want to Ignore
God Looks After Fools, Drunks and the United States: John Steele Gordon on How Information Technology United America
We Know You Can Pay a Million: Anja Shortland Illuminates the Dark Screen of Ransomware
The Deadliest of Plagues? Gary Slutkin on Violence as Our Most Contagious Disease
How Iraq Turned Some American Soldiers into Monsters: Helen Benedict on the Unintended Consequences of War
The Too Many Führers Problem: Steven J. Ross on the History of American Neo-Nazism
The Truth Is Paywalled and the Lies Are Free: Brewster Kahle on the Internet of Forgetting
Are White Men Really Smarter Than Everybody Else? Steve Phillips on Who Actually Runs America
Adulting: The Week That AI Finally Grew Up
A Terrible, Terrible Intimacy: Melvin Patrick Ely on Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong: Peter Wehner on Trump's Unholy War
The Revolutionary Center: Adrian Wooldridge on the Lost Genius of Liberalism
How to Be a Dissident: Gal Beckerman on Why Pessimism Is the Most Important Human Quality
The Eleventh Commandment: Jamie Metzl and GPT-5 Write a New Moral Code for Humanity
Friending the Machine: Victoria Hetherington on How to Fall in Love with Your Bot
Let’s Just Say It Out Loud: AI Is Not Dangerous
Read Fifty Books a Year: Deborah Kenny on Nurturing a Well-Educated Child
Cold Feet over the Cold War: Daniel Bessner on Why Cold War Liberalism Was Unamerican
From One Mad King to Another: Don Watson's Shortest History of the United States
Agency, Agency, Agency: Sophie Haigney on the Three Things All the Worst People Want
How Osama Bin Laden and Barron Trump Explain the World: Franklin Foer on Arsenal, the MAGA World Cup and an Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Biden’s Blue Authoritarianism: Stuart Schrader on How America’s Police Seized Power From Below
Forget Iran: Eyck Freymann on Taiwan, China, and Why America Keeps Hitting the Snooze Button,
Can I Say It? Jacob Mchangama on Our Global Crisis of Free Speech
Slippery Sam, Devious Dario, Honest Hassabis: Blowing Up Silicon Valley’s Cult of Personality
The Failure of Ultra-Stability: Robert Pearl on Why American Healthcare is Quietly Rationing Us to Death
Between Pride and Shame: Beverly Gage Gets in her Subaru & drives Across 250 Years of American History
The Many Faces of AI: Sebastian Mallaby on Demis Hassabis and the Quest to Read God’s Mind
More Embarrassing Than Sex: Alex Mayyasi on Why Money Talk Makes Us So Nervous
An Anticapitalist Mutiny: Noam Scheiber on the Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
Truth is Dead: Steven Rosenbaum on AI as a Spectacularly Good Liar
The Joe Biden Tragedy: Julian Zelizer on the Last New Deal President
We Shape Our AI, Thereafter It Shapes Us: How to Maintain Human Agency in Our Agentic Age
Stop, Don't Do That: Peter Edelman on What Bobby Kennedy Can Still Teach America
That's My Story, But Not Where It Ends: Robert Polito on Bob Dylan's Second Act
Does God Love Haiti? Dimitry Elias Léger on the Haitian Scorer of the Greatest Goal in US History
One Life in Nine World Cups: Simon Kuper on Football Fever and Why the Beautiful Game Still Matters
What If It’s a Bunch of Shit? Margaret Rutherford on the Relentless Camouflage of a Perfect Life
Perfection Is the Devil: Daniel Smith on Boredom, Envy, and Why Our Darkest Emotions Aren’t So Dark
At the Heart of the American Center: Corey Nathan on How to Talk Politics and Religion Without Killing Each other
Don’t Fight the Last War: Why Anthropic vs US Government Matters
Excessive Wealth Disorder: Glen Galaich on the $2 Trillion That Could Save Democracy
Bring the Friction Back: Stephen Balkam on Kids, Social Media, and Tech’s Big Tobacco Moment
How Stories Can Save Us: Colum McCann on Narrative Four, Einstein, Freud, and the Power of Empathy
Politics in the Age of Total Control: Jacob Siegel on the Information State that Came Home
America's Suez Moment? Soli Özel on Why Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again
How to Be Agreeably Disagreeable: Julia Minson on How to Argue with Your MAGA Father-in-Law
Let’s Ban Billionaires: Noam Cohen on the Know-It-Alls 2.0
Was St. Francis of Assisi the First Silicon Valley Critic? Dan Turello on 800-Years of Tech Anxiety
A Willing Philadelphia Story: Richard Vague on the Wealthiest & Most Invisible American Founding Father
Symbolic Capitalism vs. Symbolic Democracy: Will the $10 Trillion AI Startup Change Everything?
Nature's Last Dance: Natalie Kyriacou on Ecocide, Oiled Penguins, and Why We Need to Watch the Birds
What Came First: Stories or Language? Kevin Ashton on the Story of Stories
Have our iPhones Eaten our Brains? Nelson Dellis on Hacks to Restore our Focus and Boost our Memory
Hard Times Again? Jeff Boyd on Chicago, Charles Dickens and Curtis Mayfield
An Act of War? Brandeis President Arthur Levine on Trump’s University Policy
Is Elon Human? Charles Steel on the Curious Mind of Elon Musk
Why Dario Amodei Might Be the 21st Century’s First Real Leader
From Orphanage to Google Brain: David Sussillo on Heroin, Neural Networks and the Mysteries of the Heart
Murder on the Abortion Express: Amy Littlefield on Who Killed Roe
The Magical Realist United States: Jazmine Ulloa on El Paso as America’s New Ellis Island
Move Fast and Break the World: Jonathan Taplin on Trump as an Interregnum
So Are All Immigrants Manchurian Candidates? Peter Schweizer on How Mexico, China, and the Muslim Brotherhood Are Weaponizing Immigration
Gatsby Without the Romance: Michael Wolff on Why Trump and Epstein Are the Same Person
How to Reclaim the Internet: Olivier Sylvain on Platforms and Policy
No AI Good Guys? Andrew & Keith Ask If Altman Amodei, & Hegseth Have All Failed the Leadership Test
What Would Daniel Ellsberg Say About Iran? His Son Michael on America’s Most Famous Whistleblower
From the Muckers to the Mullahs: Christopher Clark on the Lessons of History
How To Fix Big Med: Halle Tecco and Robin Blackstone on American Healthcare and its Discontents
The Coming Storm: Odd Arne Westad Asks If We're On the Brink of World War Three
Racism as Entertainment: Rhae Lynn Barnes on Darkology and American Culture
A Chosen Land for a Chosen People? Matthew Avery Sutton on How Christianity Made America and America Remade Christianity
American Yellow Vests? Manissa Maharawal on the Fight Against Tech-Led Gentrification in San Francisco
Is Anthropic Wrong? Andrew vs. Keith on Amodei vs. Trump
Why You Can't Wear a Yellow Vest Anymore: Ida Susser on the Battle for Democracy in France
Was Henry Kissinger Evil? Tom Wells on the Kissinger Tapes
Trump-Epstein: Jason Pack on the Axis of Disorder
Stuck, Stuck, Stuck, Stuck: Maya Kornberg on Congress as a Four-Alarm Fire
No, It's Not Only Social Media: Ross Greene on Why Our Kids Aren't Okay
Fresh Hell at 3 AM: Peter Bale on the View of America From Down Under
Different Minds Are Great: David Oppenheimer on the Diversity Principle
The Silicon Gods Must Have Their Blood: How Public Venture Capital Might Kill Venture Capitalism
The Dangerous Myth of Neutrality Brian Soucek on Why Universities Should Take Sides
Progressive Populism Prevails: Charles Derber on How to Fight the Oligarchy
He Was Somebody: David Masciotra Remembers Jesse Jackson
Books Are Dying (Again): Bethanne Patrick on the Enshittification of the Book Biz
Protesting the Protesters: Bruce Robbins on the Protests over Vietnam, Gaza and Minneapolis
Mercy Costs Money: Emily Galvin Almanza on the Price of Criminal Justice in America
Two Years Till We're Cooked: The Death of White Collar Work and Other Human Things
What is Love? Paul Eastwick on the New Science of Attraction
Politics Without Politicians: Hélène Landemore's Case for Citizen Rule
Can Billionaire Backlash Save Democracy? Pepper Culpepper on our Age of Corporate Scandal
Yes, It's Fascism: Jon Rauch on Trump and the F Word
Californian True Crime: A Killing in Cannabis
Rage in the American Republic
Documenting America: How to See Beyond the Algorithm
Whoosh! That Really Was a Week in Tech: Winner-Take-All AI and the $1 Trillion Selloff
Catching More Than Passes From Bobby: Stephen Schlesinger on what RFK Can Still Teach America
Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance
To Catch a Fascist: The Ethics of Unmasking the Radical Right
How Meat Can Save the Planet: The Vegan Case
It's Always Exploding Somewhere: Why No Weapon Is Ever Perfect
Where's the Countercultural Outrage to Trump?
AI's Adolescent Crisis: And It's Still Just a Toddler
Running Away From America: The Rhodes Scholar Who Ran a Male Brothel in Bali
Your 2026 Reading List: Seven Books You Won't Want to Miss
Human Fracking: The $17 Trillion War for Your Attention
Fear and Fury: From Bernie Goetz to Kyle Rittenhouse
Who Needs Goliaths? Don't Write Off Europe's Army of Davids
Excited and Terrified: The Atlantic CEO on Journalism's AI Reckoning
64% and Counting: America's Venture Capital Dominance
From the Soil Up: Regenerating the Economy
Three Minutes to Midnight: How Europe is Running out of Time
Why Today's AI Boom Is No Dot-Com Bubble
Is It Game Over For Europe?
Why Europe Must Learn the Language of Power
The 1984 NYC Subway Vigilante: Self Defense or Racial Rage?
The Myth of Willpower: It's not YOU. It's THEM
Chinese Amorality vs. American Immorality
Why This Might Be Robert Redford's Most Prescient Movie
Can Swiftynomics Save America?
On Fire for the God Con
How Jefferson Seduced America
The Man Who Made Books Random
Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare
Old School Principles for the New Century: What if the Right isn't Wrong about Education?
Melting Ice & Vanishing Cultures: The Chilling Costs of the New Cold War in the Artic
Trump and 25th Amendment: Why Removal will NEVER happen
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The School of Misery: The Children of a Manufactured Miracle
WTF Will Happen in 2026?
Why Smart People Still Believe in God
The All-Collar Crisis: When White Collar Work Meets Blue-Collar Reality
Keen on America: Andrew Reflects on 2025 & 2026
The Istanbul Perspective: A Time for Monsters and Middle Powers
From Carney to Epstein: Orderers vs Disorderers in our Age of Upheaval
The China Paradox: Chris Schroeder on what America is Missing
That Was The Year in Tech: When Nothing Happened (except Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Morbid Symptoms Abundant: The Demolition of Pax Americana
From Munich to Mar-a-Lago: Is Trump Appeasing Putin in Ukraine?
Americans Actually Dislike Each Other: The Unsavory Truth Behind the Data
Cracked, Jagged and Leaderless: The World is No Longer Flat
2025: The AI Year Scripted by Gary Marcus in 2024
Justice is Round: Mussolini Couldn't Woo the World Cup, Neither Will Trump
Capitalism with a Nationalist Face: What Comes after Neoliberalism
Trump 0.2: The Failing Revolution
The Arrival of the American Future: Stephen Marche on the Crisis in 2025 United States
Bethanne's Best Books of 2025: Where Fact & Fiction Blur
2025 as the New 1925: Will Crypto be Trump's Teapot Dome Scandal?
Ray Suarez on 2025: America's Last Idealist Looks Back at a "Jaw-Dropping" Year
Hollywood's Last Dance: Time Warner and the Death of the American Dream Machine
Big Brother Down Under: Is it 1984 Already in Australia?
Mount Rushmore: America's Most Monumental Contradiction
George Packer's Emergency: When Facts Fail, Turn to Fiction
How 9/11 Broke the News, Both Then and Now: CNN's Finest Hour Was Also Its Last
An Anglo-American Way of Troublemaking: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
How Capitalism Can Save Capitalism: The Case for Stakeholder Capitalism
2% of Americans are Homeless: America's Most Shameful Open Secret
A Code RED For Humanity: Forget 80/20 - the 95/5 Rule of our AI Age
Why "Progress" is Ruling Class Propaganda: The Dangerous Idea that Built Civilization and is Now Destroying it
Two VCs, No Filter: The Naked Truth about Elon Musk and Sam Altman
From Mongolia to Silicon Valley: A Venture Capitalist's American Dream
The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism
A Tale of Two Kellys: Peter Wehner on the Intellectual and Moral Decline of the American Right
Guantanamo: The Myth vs the Reality
The AI Race is a Myth: Why "Who's Winning" is the Wrong Question
Strategic Hibernation: A Business Survival Guide for Turbulent Times
Italian Football: The Art of Defense and The Soul of a Nation
From Feudal Lords to AI Billionaires: Capitalism's Thousand-Year Conquest of the World
Why Football's Greatest Player Might Be Its Most Boring: The Problem (Yawn) of Lionel Messi
Maradona, Pele or Messi: Who is the Greatest Footballer of All Times?
All Sparta, No Athens: The Decline and Fall of Empires
Where Does Abundance Come From? How to Reinvent a Fairer Future in our AI Age
The Zakaria Paradox: Fareed Zakaria on the Triumph of Reactionary Politics in Our Revolutionary Post-Industrial Age
How American Eugenics Fueled Nazi Euthanasia: Psychiatry's Forgotten Complicity in the Holocaust
Chris Matthews on Robert F. Kennedy: Ten Reasons Why Bobby Still Matters
One Battle After Another in Hollywood: Why Gen Z Has Abandoned Cinema and What It Says About American Culture
Student Debt as Modern American Serfdom: A Mother Stole $200,000 in Her Daughter's Name
Keen on Hispanic America: How Latino TV Networks Reshaped American Politics and Culture
Is There An Orchestrated Moral Panic Against AI? Or Is This Just Another Figment of a Paranoid Silicon Valley?
What Yogi Berra can teach Silicon Valley: From Tulip and Railway Manias to Dotcom and AI Bubbles
The Case for American Power: Why Hypocrisy is the Price of Idealism
Obama as Gorbachev and Trump as Yeltsin: How America is Like the Soviet Union Before Its Collapse
Dr Stranglove 2.0: Silicon Valley as the New Trillion Dollar Military-Industrial Complex
The Handmaid's Tale Is No Longer Fiction—Welcome to the Brave New MAGA World of Trad Wives and State Fecundity
From Pigeons to Polyamory: A New Yorker Cartoonist's Fix For American Loneliness
How Lawyers Created a Can't Do America: The Tragedy of Too Many Laws and Not Enough Innovation
Enstatification Over Enshittification: America as the New China
Six Books, One Story: The Closing of the American Century
Women Lie Too: A Smug San Francisco Intellectual Cross-Examines a Fearlessly Authentic Florida Psychologist
Beyond the New Deal: How the Left Must Reinvent Itself in a Populist Age
Why Tech Billionaires Are So Angry: Elon Musk and the Gilded Rage of Silicon Valley
The Bell Curve Author Takes God Seriously: But What if God Doesn't Take Him Seriously?
Dignity Has Never Been Photographed: More Balkan Ghosts for our Indignant Times
Democracy's Dangerous Flirtation with Autocracy: Michael McFaul on America's Abdication of Global Leadership
Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: Why Scientists Must succeed Where Politicians Fail
Why Our Fear of Technology Is Nothing New—And Why That Should Give Us Hope: From Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT
Not Even God Can Judge Tupac Shakur: How a White Suburban Sportswriter Found the Humanity and Tragedy Behind Hip-Hop’s Most Misunderstood Star
Fighting to Tell the Truth: Why every Film about War is an Anti-War Film
Between the River and the Sea: American Jews and the Soiling of the Zionist Dream
The Vinci Code: How AI is Turning Everyone into James Bond
Huawei vs Ericsson: How Huawei Turned Sweden's "Neutral" Tech Advantage Into a Cold War Liability
How Smart is the MAGA Intelligentsia? The Professors, Philosophers, and Trolls who Transformed Rage into a Winning Political Ideology
This Is Not a Browser—Did René Magritte Really Predict the End of the Web Age?
The Panic of the Intellectuals: From Ezra Pound to the Trumpagies of Today
How to Choke Your Enemy: Why America Turned the World Economy into its Weapon of Global Domination
All Religions Are Absurd Because We Are Absurd: How the Internet is Creating the First New Form of Religious Community in 250,000 Years
Why the Real Road to Serfdom Runs Through Silicon Valley: Tim Wu on the Extractive Economics of Platform Capitalism
Are We Still Fighting the Hundred Years War? Why Joan of Arc, Agincourt, and the Black Death Aren't Quite Dead
From Cancelled Students to Coddled Autocrats: The Crisis of Free Speech in America
The Deliveroo Effect: Why Instant Delivery Politics and Economics Is Harming Democracy and Making Us Miserable
A Giant Crypto Grift: Xbox Chief on His New Blockchain Thriller and Why Web3 Still Matters
An American Epidemic of Speculation: Bubble Blowing in Silicon Valley and Washington DC
Should a College be a Museum or a Startup? Why Universities Need to Teach Failure
American Advocates of Foreign Devils: How Rudy Giuliani and Hunter Biden Sold Access to US Foreign Policy
Sometimes We Need a Calamity: How to Save the American Experiment
The Frankenstein Version of Neo-Liberalism: When American Business Overtook Government
America as a Contradiction Trapped Inside an even Bigger Contradiction: Princeton Historian's Explanation for Everything, Everywhere All at Once
Jeffrey Archer: How Margaret Thatcher would have disciplined a Naughty Donald Trump
Sam Altman's Rigged Imperial Gambit: Too Important to Fail & Too Well-Financed to Go Public
America's Most Wounded Generation: Returning Home after World War II
AI Hype is a Feature, not a Bug: Why We Can't Trust Big Tech With Our Agentic Future
Springtime for Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers and Hucksters are Bamboozling the Media, the Markets and the Masses
Navigating around Christopher Columbus: The Nine Lives of the Genoese Sailor Who Became History's Greatest Saint and Sinner
41 Years for a Crime He Didn't Commit: Gary Tyler's Journey from Death Row to Freedom
Don't Be Yourself: Why the Cult of Authenticity Is Killing Not Just Your Career but Your Life
Two Freedoms and Two Americas: Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King's Incompatible Versions of Liberty
The Uberification of Academia: Why Adjunct Professors are Living in their Cars
How to Lose Loudly: What the Left can Learn from the NRA
More Than Chinatown: Bruce Lee and the Invention of Asian American Identity
The AI Pioneer Who Chose Purpose Over Profit: Jim Fruchterman on Why Big Tech Can't Be Trusted with Our Future
World Enemy Number One: Nazi Germany's Obsession with 'Judeo-Bolshevism'
The True Cost of Roadkill: Cars Have Caused 60 to 80 Million Deaths in the Last 100 Years
Is that $320,000 College Degree Really Worth It? The President of Brandeis on why Colleges Must Adapt or Become Irrelevant
The Dark Passions Driving American Politics: Why Liberals Must Acknowledge Anger, Fear, and the Lust for Domination
The AI Assistant That Knows Your Life Before You Do: The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End?
TRUMP IS NOT POPULAR: How a Sub 40% Approval Offers Hope for the Dems
The Idiocracy Trap: Why Smart Machines are making Humans Dumb & Dumber
Halfway to Hungary: Jonathan Rauch on the Authoritarian Playbook that Trump Borrowed from a Small, Landlocked Central European State
The Case Against the United Nations: The Israel Obsession, Rwanda, and the Haiti Peacekeeping Scandal
From Fentanyl to Fulfillment: How the Tuba Civil Rights Movement Can Save American Democracy
Kimmel-Kirk and the End of the Television Age: Why Free Speech Has Never Been Freer
A 107 Reasons to Dislike 107 Days: Kamala Harris Throws Everyone, Including Herself, Under the Bus
Gutted and Glutted: The Dire Economics of Podcasting in the AI Age
The Innovation Paradox Undermining the Digital Revolution: How Magical Technology Isn't Translating into Miraculous Economic Progress
Should Billionaires Be Banned? Why Extreme Wealth Might Be Incompatible with Democracy and the Survival of the Earth
Why Trump Might Be Right About Greenland: How a 57,000-Person Island Became Critical to 21st Century Geopolitics
The Unluckiest Generation: Confessions of a Millennial
Why Humans Have Such Big Brains (No, it's not Because of our Intelligence)
How Should Criminals be Punished? From Bentham's "Enlightened" Panopticon to the Universal Human Rights of Prisoners
Why Misogyny May Be America's Most Dangerous Ideology: The Role of the Manosphere in Political Assassinations and Mass Shootings
Rational Exuberance: Why $3 Trillion in AI Investment is Mathematical Certainty, not Madness
From Dodgers Top Draft Pick to Harvard Trained Middle Eastern Maven: Does the American Dream Still Exist?
We're Burning 500 Million Years of Earth's History in a Few Decades: So Stop Pretending Recycling Will Save the Planet
The Godfather of Security, Bruce Schneier, Rewires Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government and Citizenship
Here Comes the Sunstein: Cass Sunstein on Why American Liberalism Now Needs Defending More Than Ever
Can We Get To 2125? Humanity's Most Existential Threats Over the Next 100 Years
The Art of a Deal with the Devil: on Faustian Bargains from Shakespeare and Goethe to Thomas Mann and Donald Trump
When the United Nations Actually Mattered: Remembering the Burmese Schoolteacher who Ran the U.N. in its Glory Days
How Evil 'Big Car' Has Killed More People Than World War II
The Double Life of Robert McNamara: How America's 'Best and Brightest' Led the Nation into Vietnam While Knowing the War Was Unwinnable
The World's Worst Bet: How America Gambled Dumbly on Globalization and Lost
Demystify Science and Humanize Scientists: How to Rebuild Scientific Trust in our Angry MAHA Times
From Borges to Brain Scans: How our Minds Invent Reality
The Hypocrisy of Trump's War on Universities: How Wealthy Families Game the College Admission Process
Borders are Back, Baby: From Trump and Transylvania to Brexit and Bolivia's Navy
Beware of another Silicon Valley Win-Win-Win: Can users, publishers and tech companies really all benefit from the AI revolution?
Every Day, Computers are Making People Easier to Use: The Return of IN FORMATION
Is Roman Polanski really worth defending?
How Parents Have Become the Social Media in Their Kids' Lives: So Taking Away Phones Won't Alone Fix the Teen Mental Health Crisis
From Solitary to Silicon Valley: Shaka Senghor on America's Hidden Prisons
Why Even Sam Altman Wants to be Gary Marcus: From Son of Sam to Son of Gary in a single ChatGPT Release
Dr Strangelove Returns: Palantir and the New Military-Industrial-Digital Complex
MAGA Voters Aren't Stupid: That's Why They Don't Care What Right-Wing Podcasters Think
Getting Queerer Quicker: No, The Literary Man Isn't Disappearing—He's Just Not Longer White or Straight
Who Owns The Front Door? The Multi-Trillion Dollar Battle to Assemble the AI Jigsaw
From Mean Streets to Wall Street: How Trump, Koch, and the other Gods of New York Remade America
Move Fast and Fix the World: Here Comes the Sun in the Nick of Time
The Redistricting Apocalypse: How Chief Justice Roberts Let All the Evil Spirits out of American Democracy
Back to the Digital Future: Why the Future of AI Healthcare Might be a Return to the Gig Economy
From Scrubbing Toilets to Talking around the Water Cooler: Why AI Won't Kill the Jobs of Those Who Clean Up Our Mess
Nostalgia vs. Progress: The Left's Dilemma in Post-Industrial America
When AI Breaks Your Heart: The Week Nothing Changed in Silicon Valley
From Brazilian Model to Nuclear Advocate: How one Woman's Radical Climate Anxiety is Generating a "Rad Future"
Forget AI—How Bio-Threats and Network Collapse Are the Real Existential Threats to Humanity
AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton warns that We're Creating 'Alien Beings that "Could Take Over"
A Black Moses: The Quest for a Promised African-American Land in Oklahoma
America Never Was a Democracy—And That's Why It's Dying Now
That Frog in the Boiling Water is Us: Why Progress Won't Save Us From Climate Catastrophe
The Week AI Began to Act: The Dawn of an AI Stone Age in Which Machines Have Their Own Tools
Trump's Hot Summer of Disorder: How Short-Term Chaos is America's Long-Term Global Strategy
Why Julius Caesar was anything but Trumpian: How Rome's 'Dictator' Actually Saved Roman Democracy
The Resurrection of God: Why Europe's Bestselling Science Book Proves Materialism is Dead
Why Reports on the Death of the American Dream are Greatly Exaggerated
Why Podcasts Are Ruining Our Lives: On the Insidious Charm of Chat
The Chinese Communist School of Hard Knocks: How Xi Jinping's Father Shaped China's Current Tough Guy Leader
Going Soft on China: Is Xi Jinping really a Competitor, not an Enemy, of the United States?
Tech Insider Claims OpenAI Will Be Worth $10 Trillion: Has Silicon Valley Finally Gone Totally Bonkers?
Can Democrats Really Pull a Reagan? How the GOP's 1980 Playbook Could Work for Progressives in 2028
From Six Days of the Condor to American Sky: James Grady on Nostalgia and the American Dream
The Revolting Elites: How Christopher Lasch Predicted Trump and the Crisis of American Democracy
Confessions of a Meme Queen: I Created an Instagram Following to Trick People Into Letting Me Write a Book
The charming gay racist who invented modern American conservatism: Sam Tanenhaus on William F. Buckley's absurdly implausible contradictions
"AI Is Too Busy to Take Your Job: The Electrifying Truth about our AIgorithmic Future
The Death of the American Way of Work: How the United States Lost Its Grip on the Future
How Capitalism Turned Money into God: Paul Vigna on Buying the Almighty
AI as Dumb Waiter 2.0: Douglas Rushkoff on How Smart Technology Isn't Quite as Smart as It Claims
From Luther to Zuckerberg: Who killed Privacy?
Is Mohammed bin Salman a Tyrant or an Enlightened Despot? Karen Elliott House on MBS's Transformation of Saudi Arabia
Why America is Destroying Itself: Charles Derber on Sociocide and America's Social Suicide
A Satirist's Revenge on Wall Street: From Trading Hedge Funds to Telling Stories
Living in Teddy's Shadow: How Roosevelt's Sons Found Redemption—and Regret—in Their Quest for the Giant Panda
America's Heart of Moral Darkness: Peter Wehner on Trump's Apocalyptic Assault on African AIDS Victims
Breaking Down America's Everyday Walls: From Swimming Pools and SUVs to White Lives Matter Rallies
The AI Wedge: It's as Painful as it Sounds
Scale or Die: Why 2025 really is the Inflection Point That Changes Everything
249 Years Later: Is America Still Worth the Fireworks?
The Nazi Mind: 12 Warnings from History
Death of the American Dream: Terrence McCauley on why the Mob was behind the JFK Assassination
Why Everything is Propaganda: Connor Boyack's Libertarian Manifesto for July 4
From the Internet of Trolls to the Internet of Tolls: Has the Publishing Apocalypse Finally Arrived?
From Ghana to Goldman Sachs: Rachel Laryea on a Blueprint for Black Capitalism
The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Manufactured Racism in America
The Real Monkey Business: What the 1925 Scopes Trial was actually all about
The Michael Douglas Trap: What Is Wrong with Men
The $200 billion dilemma: Is Bill Gates helping or harming Africa?
The Architecture of Terror: Rafia Zakaria on Trump, Miller, Israel, Iran and Gaza
Why Elections Aren't Always Democratic: Challenging American Political Science's Founding Myth
The Virtuous Side Of Silicon Valley: How Jimmy Chen is Building Tech to Help the Poorest America
The Tragic Paradox of Survival in Auschwitz: The Mystery of Primo Levi
A Known Unknown: Harry Freedman on Bob Dylan's Jewish Roots
Burning Down The House: Do The Talking Heads Still Matter?
Why Being a 'Good Woman' Is Making Women (and Men) Miserable
The Haves and The Have-Yachts: Evan Osnos Explores the Minds of the Ultrarich
The Vampire Economy: How Private Equity is Sucking the Blood out of the American Dream
The Company That Ate the Web: Google's Quarter Century Journey from Bridge Builder to Web Destroyer
Long Live the NO KING: An Anti-Fascist Handbook on How to Resist Trump
An Existential Threat to American Freedom: Spike Cohen on Donald Trump's Betrayal of Libertarianism
American Fascism: If You Close Your Eyes It Won't Go Away
Postmodern Patrimonialism: Trump's Everything-Everywhere-All-At-Once Strategy as a Venture Capital Model of Politics
Beyond Left and Right: The Libertarian Vision of Freedom in America
The Empire Strikes Back: Karen Hao on OpenAI as a Classic Colonial Power
We Get the Non-Fiction We Deserve: From AI Empires to Wokeness Critiques to a Year Without Sex
Everything Is Possible, Nothing Is Inevitable: Why AI Might Be the Ultimate Scarcity Trap
The Prophet of Fake News: How a 1920s Thinker Predicted today's Trump vs Musk Farce
The Boogeyman Speaks: Ibram X. Kendi on Why He's America's Most Controversial Anti-Racism Scholar
We Get the Serial Killers & Heroes We Deserve: From a WW2 French Sisterhood to American Male Psychos
Drowning in Black Swans: Why Governance is Failing in our Age of Chaos
Frozen Dreams: How a Family Agricultural Empire Exposed the Dark Side of American Capitalism
The Abundance Trap: Who Owns Our Future When Robots Do All the Work?
The Revenge Addiction: How Trump's Vengeful Brand is America's Deadliest Drug
The Authoritarian Pincer: How Both Left and Right Threaten Free Speech in America
F**k the Patriarchy: Tim Jackson's Path to a "Care" Economy
American Ruins: The Death of Expertise in Trump's Washington
Episode 2547: Paul Elie on Art, Faith and Sex in the 1980s
Episode 2546: Zaakir Tameez on the most unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Episode 2545: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling on the Death of Trust in Science
Episode 2544: Marcus Alexander Gadson on the History of Sedition in the United States
Episode 2543: Edward Luce on the Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski
Episode 2542: John Cassidy on Capitalism and its Critics
Episode 2541: Joan Williams on How the Democrats Must Win Back the American Working Class
Episode 2540: Anna Malaika Tubbs Reveals the Secret History of American Patriarchy
Episode 2539: Marshall Poe on why Gaza is becoming Israel's Vietnam
Episode 2538: Biden, Harris & the Exhausted Democratic Establishment
Episode 2537: How to Survive our Age of Technological Mayhem
Episode 2536: Is Spying an Un-American activity?
Episode 2535: Tim Minshall on How We Manufacture Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
Episode 2534: Why Generative AI is a Technological Dead End
Episode 2533: Leah Litman on the Bad Vibes of the Supreme Court
Episode 2532: Mattea Kramer on how Addiction has replaced Apple Pie as the most American of things
Episode 2531: Emily Bender and Alex Hanna on the AI Con
Episode 2530 William Dalrymple on how Ancient India transformed the world
Episode 2529: Who is cheating whom in American universities?
Episode 2528: Jason Riley on how racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans
Episode 2527: Mark Skousen on why Benjamin Franklin is the Greatest American
Episode 2526: Keach Hagey on why OpenAI is the parable of our hallucinatory times
Episode 2525: Jocelyn Benson offers an morally purposeful alternative to Trumpism
Episode 2524: Martin Wolf on whether Trump's tariffs are as dumb as they seem
Episode 2522: Edmund Fawcett on Trump as a Third Way between Liberalism and Conservatism
Episode 2521: Michael Stein on the Real Lives of the American Working Class
Episode 2520: Larry Aldrich on what's Right with America
Episode 2519: Is Criticism of Israel, by definition, Anti-Semitic?
Episode 2518: 100 Days or 100 Years?
Episode 2517: Soli Ozel on the Light at the End of the Authoritarian Tunnel
Episode 2516: Jason Pack on the Trumpian Post-Apocalypse
Episode 2515: David A. Graham on how Project 2025 is Reshaping America
Episode 2514: How to turn America into a Waymo Democracy
Episode 2513: Adam Hochschild on how American History is Repeating itself, first as Tragedy, then as Trump
Episode 2512: Adam Becker on AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Episode 2511: Jemima Kelly on why she hasn't quite given up on America
Episode 2510: Simon Kuper Celebrates the Death of the American Dream
Episode 2509: David A. Bell on "The Enlightenment"
Episode 2508: Jerry Avorn on America's addiction to prescribed drugs
Episode 2507: Peter Leyden on How Trump is Unintentionally Making America Great Again.
Epiosde 2506: Are Google and Facebook screwed?
Episode 2505: Sarah Kendzior on the Last American Road Trip
Episode 2502: Nick Troiano on how to protect American democracy from radical activists of both left & right
Episode 2501: Leor Zmigrod on how radical ideology is infecting our brains
Episode 2500: Why I still believe in the American Dream
Episode 2499: Thomas Levenson explains how modern scientific research has changed the world and saved tens of millions of lives
Episode 2498: Andre M. Perry on the Black Power Scorecard
Episode 2497: David Denby on America's most Eminent Jews
Episode 2496: Lily Scherlis on the soft skills crisis in America today
Episode 2495: Why the World Isn't Ending, But the 'West' is
Episode 2494: Samuel George on US-Chinese rivalry for the world's most critical minerals
Episode 2493: David Rieff on the Woke Mind
Episode 2492: Daniel Bessner on how Trump is a natural outgrowth of FDR
Episode 2491: Richard Kreitner 0n 6 Jews, 7 Opinions and the American Civil War
Episode 2490: Stephen Witt explains the rise of NVIDIA and its relentless CEO Jensen Huang
Episode 2489: Gianna Toboni on whether Death Row Prisoners have the Right to Die With Dignity
Episode 2488: Diane Coyle on Measuring the Good Life
Episode 2487: Keach Hagey on Sam Altman's Superpower
Episode 2486: Bethanne Patrick on how our Facebook generation has gotten the Gatsby we deserve
Episode 2485: Paul Rice on why Tariffs are dumb
Episode 2484: David Masciotra on how every day has become April Fools Day in Trumpian America
Episode 2483: Peter Wehner on the ethical darkness that has fallen upon America
Episode 2482: Is AI really about to change the publishing industry?
Episode 2481: Jonathan Rauch on The Resistance to Trump 2.0
Episode 2480: Dr Andy Lazris on how Big Pharma controls the American healthcare system
Episode 2479: Brian Goldstone on the 4 million invisible homeless workers in America today
Episode 2478: Parag Khanna on the Countries Best Positioned to Win the 21st Century
Episode 2477: How Daniel Oppenheimer Learned That the Problem in his Marriage Was Himself
Episode 2476: William Deresiewicz on American Boys & Men
Episode 2475: Gregory Walton on how to achieve BIG change with small acts
Episode 2474: What Thomas Mann can teach America about how to save its democracy
Episode 2473: Is Europe about to become the World's 3rd Tech Superpower?
Episode 2472: Clay Risen on Joe McCarthy, Donald Trump and the Paranoid Style of American History
Episode 2471: Dan Brooks reveals the MAGA aesthetic
Episode 2470: Andrew Keen on the current state of American journalism
Episode 2469: Daryl Davis on His Life with the Klu Klux Klan
Episode 2468: David Masciotra on Trump's ravenous bigotry toward the trans community
Episode 2467: Will AI kill Apple?
Episode 2466: Sarah Vowell tells the Untold Story of Public Service
Episode 2464: Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works
Episode 2263: David Enrich on a secret campaign to murder the truth in America
Episode 2262: Jessica Pishko explains how the Democrats Built Trump's Police State
Episode 2261: Thor Hanson on why virtual reality can never replicate the natural world
Episode 2260: Felipe Torres Medina laughs and cries about the American immigration system
Episode 2259: Why AI is about to transform everyone (yes, even you) into a coder
Episode 2258: Joyce Chaplin on how Benjamin Franklin warmed up America
Episode 2257: Kevin Fagan on a San Francisco story of homelessness that will break your heart
Episode 2256: Meenakshi Ahamed on the meteoric rise of Indians in America
Episode 2255: Nicholas Lalla on Reviving the American Dream in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Episode 2254: Why Trump wants to be the Godfather
Episode 2253: John Lechner on the deadly role of Russian Mercenaries in Ukraine
Episode 2252: How to Unstick the Future
Episode 2251: Kristian Ronn on why, in the short term, we all might be dead
Episode 2250 Rebecca Haw Allensworth on America's Cult of the Professional
Episode 2249: Caroline Fleck on the Skill Set that will Change your Life
Episode 2248: Yoni Applebaum on why America is STUCK in a Crisis of Immobility
Episode 2247: Andrew Cockburn on Trump and Musk's Futile War Against the Deep State
Episode 2246: Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a carnival of hypocrisy
Episode 2245: Is it really "not hard" to be a billionaire these days?
Episode 2244: Tim Wu on how to decentralize capitalism
Episode 2243: Nick Bryant on why Trump 2.0 is as historic as the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Episode 2242: Ian Goldin on the past, present and future of migration
Episode 2241: Gaia Bernstein on the Threat of AI Companions to Children
Episode 2240: Ray Brescia on how our private lives have been politicized by social media
Episode 2239: Frank Vogl on why Trump's financial deregulation is likely to lead to another global economic crash
Episode 2238: What to make of J.D. Vance's speech at the Paris AI Summit
Episode 2237: Matthew Karp explains how progressives can successfully bulldoze America
Episode 2236: Colum McCann and Dianne Foley on what a mother said to her son's ISIS executioner
Episodes 2235: Jeffrey Toobin on whether we all deserve second chances
Episode 2234: Walter Mosley on Easy Rawlins, King Oliver and the history of fictional black American detectives
Episode 2233: John Kay on why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
Episode 2332: Greg Beato on what could go possibly RIGHT with our AI future
Episode 2331: The Week that Silicon Valley went from Woke to DOGE
Episode 2330: Eoin Higgins on how reactionary tech billionaires bought Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi
Episode 2329: Ethan Zuckerman on how the United States learned to love online censorship
Episode 2328: A gay Jewish atheist rides to the rescue of American Christianity
Episode 2327: John Lee Hooker Jr explains who gets to go to Heaven and who doesn't
Episode 2326: Mike Colias assesses the impact of Trump's Tariffs on the US Auto Industry
Episode 2325: Charles Piller on Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's
Episode 2324: Why we need some Sputnik Thinking on Wealth Redistribution in our AI Age
Episode 2223: Sophia Rosenfeld asks if our age of choice might also be an age of tyranny
Episode 2322: Andrew Lipstein on how to reinvent American masculinity
Episode 2321: Michael Ignatieff on why he's still (half) in love with the United States
Episode 2320: Nicholas Carr on how technologies of connection are tearing us apart
Episode 2319: Christopher DiCarlo on AI as the latest chapter in our long history of building an all-knowing God
Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the digital dystopia of platform capitalism
Episode 2317: Is Trump's America now an Oligarchy?
Episode 2316: Agnes Callard on how to learn from Socrates about questioning everything
Episode 2315: Andrew McAfee finds reasons to be cheerful about the next 20 years of our tech century
Episode 2314: Richard Socher on why AI might be good for humanity
Episode 2313: Esther Dyson on being the Aunt and Court jEsther of the Tech Industry
Episode 2312: Robert D. Kaplan on the decadence of Trump's America
Episode 2311: Martin Puchner looks forward to 2045 when the whole world will have access to high quality education
Episode 2310: Why Progressives must become "Yes People" on Technology
Episode 2309: Michal Kosinski on the corrosive impact of social media on democracy and freedom
Episode 2308: Kenneth Cukier mourns the biliousness of our Big Data age
Episode 2307: Ece Temelkuran on why she still retains faith in the future
Episode 2306: Albert Wenger on how to save the Internet, Capitalism and the Planet
Episode 2305: Kurt Gray explains why we fight about morality and politics
Episode 2304: Lisa Genova on the connection between bipolar disorder and standup comedy
Episode 2303: Isaac Stanley-Becker on a Europe without Borders
Episode 2302: Laurie Trautman on the Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders
Episode 2301: Nicholas Carr on how the Arc of Innovation Bends Towards Decadence
Episode 2300: Sandra Matz makes the Case for a Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
Episode 2299: Jill Kastner explains why everything old is new again in international politics
Episode 2298: Adam Chandler on the fatal contradiction at the heart of American capitalism
Episode 2297: Louis Ferrante on why the Mafia Killed JFK
Episode 2296: Adi Jaffe on how to free yourself from addiction forever
Episode 2295: Paula Whyman on how to save the American environment - one wild mountaintop at a time
Episode 2294: Larry Downes' non-MAGA plan to shrink the Federal bureaucracy
Episode 2293: David Masciotra on why Kamala Harris should have gone on the Joe Rogan show
Episode 2292: Chris Schroeder on how America now swims in an ocean of black swans
Episode 2291: Michael Scott-Baumann on the hopelessness of the Palestinian situation
Episode 2290: Marshall Poe on why 2024 was a bad year for most podcasters
Episode 2289: Gary Marcus on how Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is, in the long run, inevitable
Episode 2288: Simon Kuper on the chilling parallels between MAGA America and Apartheid South Africa
Episode 2287: Joseph O'Neill explains how to resist contemporary Fascism
Episode 2286: Seth Rogovoy on why A Complete Unknown, the new Dylan biopic, is a complete failure
Episode 2285: Toby Walsh on the revolutionary promise and peril of AI in 2025
Episode 2284: Soli Ozel on the possibility of a 2025 "Pax Hebraica" in the Middle East
Episode 2283: Jonathan Rauch's six key moments of 2024
Episode 2282: Adam Kirsch on the nonsense of "Settler Colonialism"
Episode 2281: Parmy Olson on why Google DeepMind will trump OpenAI in 2025
Episode 2280: Who will win the multi trillion dollar race for AI supremacy in 2025?
Episode 2279: Why 2024 will be remembered as the year before 2025
Episode 2278: Max Stier on the Essential Value of the American Federal Government
Episode 2277: From “Science” to Atrocity - The Seductive History of Eugenics
Episode 2276: Byrne Hobart on Booms, Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Episode 2275: Jeff Jarvis on how the world has changed over the last 20 years
Episode 2274: Bethanne Patrick's Favorite Non-Fiction Books of 2024
Episode 2273: Bethanne Patrick's Best Five Favorite Novels of 2024
Episode 2272: Mark Lilla on why ignorance is bliss
Episode 2271: Keith Teare on why he's fallen in love with Elon Musk
Episode 2270: Craig Garnett on May 24, 2022 - Uvalde's Darkest Hour
Episode 2269: Michael Sayman looks forward to an AI age in which all our online interactions are with bots
Episode 2268: David Rowell on how new technology is making us dislike new music
Episode 2267: Jonathan Taplin on the coming cultural renaissance in America
Episode 2266: Mr Musk, Mr Sacks and Mr Andreessen go to Washington
Episode 2265: Jeff Jarvis on how to reclaim the internet from moguls, misanthropes and moral panics
Episode 2265: Internet Hall of Famer, Mitchell Baker, on the promise of an Open Web
Episode 2264: Robert Pearl demystifies the RFK Jr nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services
Episode 2263: The Godmother of Silicon Valley on luck, love and fate
Episode 2262: Steve Blank on how to hack the 21st century
Episode 2261: Douglas Rushkoff on why AI is the first native app for the internet
Episode 2260: Andrew Keen evaluates the health of American democracy
Episode 2259: Idealab founder Bill Gross on what's he's learned over the last 20 years
Episode 2258: Why the Democrats need to radically reimagine 21st century American government as a service or a platform
Episode 2257: Kishore Mahbubani offers an undiplomatic introduction to our Asian Century
Episode 2256: David Kirkpatrick on his twenty year odyssey from digital idealist to sceptic
Episode 2255: Frank Vogl on whether Donald Trump 2.0 will be a semi-legal repeat of the Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX debacle
Episode 2254: Steven Levy on what has and hasn't surprised him about the last twenty years of tech history
Episode 2253: Andrew Keen revisits Cult of the Amateur
Episode 2252: Can the AI revolution decentralize our politics, culture and economy?
Episode 2251: Steven Robinson on how a band of activists beat Donald Trump and saved New York's West Side
Episode 2250: :John Markoff compares Steve Jobs with contemporary tech titans like Sam Altman and Elon Musk
Episode 2249: Peter Wehner on how American self-renewal is a wonder of the world
Episode 2248: F.H. Buckley on the case for Trumpism
Episode 2247: David Masciotra on how the Boss and the Dude can save America
Episode 2246: Jonathan Rauch on the catastrophic ordinariness of contemporary America
Episode 2245: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley and the Reinvention of American Government
Episode 2244: John Hagel on overcoming fear - his proudest achievement over the last 20 years
Episode 2243: Frank Furedi on why the West must fight for its History
Episode 2242: Gary Gerstle identifies the outlines of our Post Neoliberal Age
Episode 2241: Gary Shapiro on how to become a Pivot Guy
Episode 2240: Parmy Olson on the race for global AI supremacy between OpenAI and Deep Mind
Episode 2239: Good Morning America! AI, Trump and the Silicon Valley Future
Episode 2238: Juliana Tafur on how to put Humpty Dumpty (America) back to together again
Episode 2237: Vanessa Resier on Narcissistic Abuse - the disease that captures the spirit of our toxic times
Episode 2236: Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff on How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Episode 2235: John Driscoll on why Kamala Harris lost
Episode 2234: Lauren Oyler on 2024 as America's first post internet election
Episode 2233: Paul Greenberg predicts a George Washington vs Donald Trump election in 2028
Episode 2242: Should anyone in Silicon Valley really care who wins the election?
Episode 2241: Daniel Susskind exposes the messy truth about the benefits of economic growth
Episode 2240: Jon Moynihan on how to fix the economy and create long term growth
Episode 2239: Has Halloween been rescheduled for November 5?
Episode 2238: Andrew J. Scott explains how to age with grace and wisdom
Episode 2237: Bethanne Patrick on new Fall Fiction to take your mind off you-know-what
Episode 2236: Stephen Riggio on the greatest Italian novel you've never heard of
Episode 2235: Peter Osnos on LBJ & McNamara - the Vietnam Partnership Bound to Fail
Episode 2234: Terrence Sejnowski asks whether our brains and AI are converging
Episode 2233: More than a Tool: How AI is becoming an independent actor in our world
Episode 2232: Mark Galeotti on whether Putin is a prisoner or a master of history
Episode 2231: Bill Adair on the Epidemic of Political Lying, why Republicans do it more, and how it could destroy American democracy
Episode 2230: Seth Godin on why we are all hard-wired for hope
Episode 2229: Robert Skidelsky worries about the Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Episode 2228: Bethanne Patrick on Al Pacino, the Queen, Bob Woodward and Ketanji Brown Jackson
Episode 2227: Allie Funk on how to Build Online Trust
Episode 2226: Why the Economics of our AI Age might be unlike all previous Tech Revolutions
Episode 2225: Katherine Epstein on how American Historians are Killing History
Episode 2224: Celeste Marcus on why the humanism of Agnieszka Holland's movies remain so relevant in our Trumpian age
Episode 2223: Brian Solis on how we need to reshape the future before it reshapes us
Episode 2222: David Edelman on the dangers and opportunities of personalized technology in our AI age
Episode 2221: Talia Lavin on how the Christian Right is Taking Over America
Episode 2220: Nobel Prize Winning Economist Simon Johnson on Technology & Inequality
Episode 2219: Joel Edward Goza on why Reparations is the Central Civil Rights Issue of the 2020s
Episode 2218: Timothy Shenk explains the fate of liberal politics in the illiberal age of Harris and Trump
Episode 2217: Why Google should hire Chris Lehane, Silicon Valley's Master of the Message
Episode 2216: Neal Baer on the Promise and Peril of CRISPR
Episode 2215: Tavis Smiley on why black men are more likely to vote for Donald Trump than black women
Episode 2214: Arlie Russell Hochschild on How to Listen to America
Episode 2213: Charles and Lily Bock on fathers, daughters and missing mothers
Episode 2212: Jim Wallis on the False White Gospel threatening America
Episode 2211: Why in the AI Age, Big Tech is going to get significantly BIGGER
Episode 2210: Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley explain how to design the future
Episode 2209: Michael Morris on how the cultural instincts that divide us can also help bring us together
Episode 2208: Andrew Hill on the Financial Times' Six Best Business Books for 2024
Episode 2207: Barry Lynn on Liberal Democracy's Last Stand against Big Tech
Episode 2207: Martin Schmidt, President of Rensselaer Institute of Technology, on how Quantum Computing is about the change the world
Episode 2206: Josh McConkey on How to Be the American Weight Behind the Spear
Episode 2205: Edward Goldberg explains how the US Came to Lead (and Lose) the World
Episode 2204: Sharon McMahon on Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History
Episode 2203 with Saad Mohseni: The best-informed person in the world about Afghanistan
Episode 2202: Ray Suarez on what it means to be an American in the 2020's
Episode 2201: Brigid Schulte on turning the daily grind of work into a more meaningful life
Episode 2200: Ryan Hampton on the reckless capitalism causing America's drug addiction crisis
Episode 2199: Anindya Ghose on Maximizing our Well-Being in the Age of AI
Episode 2198: Megan Hellerer exposes the "achievement lie" of how we think about our careers and lives
Episode 2197: Keith and Andrew on why, in our AI Age, Specialists will be the New Proletariat
Episode 2196: Michael Scott-Baumann on the unfolding catastrophe in Israel and Palestine
Episode 2195: Toby Walsh on why AI is finally ready to change everything
Episode 2194: Marietje Schaake explains how to save democracy from Silicon Valley
Episode 2193: Arthur Magida on what Americans can learn from a young forger who outfoxed the Nazis
Episode 2192: Mark Weinstein on how to restore our sanity online
Episode 2191: Why the future has to be built by innovators, rather than just hoped for by optimists
Episode 2190: Gary Marcus on How to Tame Silicon Valley's AI Barons
Episode 2189: Wilbur Ross on his mom, Donald Trump, King Charles, and Biden's "Lollipop Economy"
Episode 2188: Build Baby Build - Jerusalem Demsas on how America can fix its housing crisis
Episode 2187: Josh Cowen on how radical right-wing billionaires are wrecking the American public school system
Episode 2186: Branko Milanovic on the history of inequality in America from slavery to neo-liberalism
Episode 2185: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi reveals his lucrative life on the streets of New York City as a citizen-sleuth
Episode 2184: Should Elon Musk be arrested for all the lies and hate on X?
Episode 2183: Mimi Casteel on her life-long love affair with the American land
Episode 2182: Andrew Leigh on how economics explains the world
Episode 2181: Piotr Smolar on his Bad Jew Grandaddy
Episode 2180: Giles Milton on the WW2 Alliance between the US, Soviet Union & Britain which Won the War but Lost the Peace
Episode 2179: Jacob Howland on what should be taught at a 21st century liberal university
Episode 2178: Bryan VanDyke on Humanist Nostalgia in our AI Age
Episode 2177: Brazil vs X, France vs Telegram and the Brewing War between Big Tech & Government
Episode 2176: Peter Phillips on why State Controlled Chinese Capitalism is more Humane than the Free Market American Model
Episode 2175: Tanya Gold on her Gay Romp through Jewish Poland
Episode 2174: David Lay Williams on how Economic Inequality has Shaped the History of Political Thought
Episode 2173: Pano Kanelos on How to Build a Liberal 21st Century University
Episode 2172: Pedro Domingos on how AI can radically democratize American politics
Episode 2171: Frank Andre Guridy reimagines America through the history of its sports stadiums
Episode 2170: Former U.S. Inspectors General, Glenn Fine, in defense of honest & accountable government
Episode 2169: Why Both Teachers and Students Need AI
Episode 2168: KEEN ON America featuring William Deresiewicz
Episode 2167: George Gilder on the Israel Test
Episode 2166: Meredith Sumpter on how to make American Democracy more Democratic
Episode 2165: A Meta Exec on why Corporations Should be in the Business of Social Engineering
Episode 2164: Keith Teare asks if Europe is Dying
Episode 2163: David Masciotra on Kamala and America's "Harrisist" Moment
Episode 2162: Bethanne Patrick on the Hypocrite, Hitler's People and Hum
Episode 2061: Mimi Casteel explains the how to fix America, one sip of wine at a time
Episode 2160: Steve Benen on how the Republicans have become the Orwellian Party of Big Brother
Episode 2159: Richard J. Evans on how leading Nazis were, in some ways, just ordinary middle class Germans
Episode 2158: Robin Bernstein on the Marriage of American Capitalism with the American Prison System
Episode 2157: Lindsey Cormack on How to Raise a Citizen
Episode 2156: James Muldoon exposes the hidden human labor powering the AI revolution
Episode 2155: David Daley Gets Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
Episode 2154: Shad White on Brett Favre's Mississippi Swindle
Episode 2153: Lola Milholland on Group Living and Other Deliciously Polyamorous Recipes
Episode 2152: Peter Wehner on the Fate of "His" Republican Party
Episode 2151: Edmund Fawcett compares the Futures of Liberalism and Conservatism
Episode 2150: Jonathan Taplin on why American Exceptionalism lies in its Powers of Creativity
Episode 2149: How the Populist Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future
Episode 2148: J. Doyne Farmer on how to Invent a Better Economics for a Better World
Episode 2147: Matthew Warshauer on the Real Story of 9/11 (it's not what you think)
Episode 2146: Sasha Issenberg on how to build more trust and transparency in American politics
Episode 2145: Deesha Dyer explains how she undiplomatically rattled the entrenched culture of the White House
Episode 2144: Edward Ball on his own Family History of White Supremacy
Episode 2143: Andrea Freeman on Food Genocide and Oppression in the United States
Episode 2142: Why the Kamala Harris campaign has all the strengths and weaknesses of a tech start-up
Episode 2141: Nicola Twilley on how Refrigeration has Transformed our Food, our Planet, and Ourselves
Episode 2140: Kimberly Meyer on five refugee women's invention of a new American dream
Episode 2139: Joel Salatin explains how to fix America, one bite at a time
Keen on America featuring Batya Ungar-Sargon
Episode 2137: Anne Snyder on how to morally repair and renew America
KEEN ON America featuring Joshua Browder, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and great grandson of the US Communist Party leader
Episode 2135: J. Malcolm Garcia on the humanity of San Francisco's homeless community
Episode 2134: Jonathan Rauch on Reinventing Liberalism in the 21st Century
Episode 2133: Ebony Reed on the Shameful Black-White Wealth Gap in America
episode 2132: Elle Reeve on how the darkest corners of the internet have poisoned society and captured American politics
Episode 2131: Laurent Dubreuil's creative answer to whether AI can think creatively
Episode 2130: Renee DiResta on our Invisible Rulers Who Turn Lies into Reality
Episode 2129: Niobe Way on America's Crisis of Masculinity
Episode 2128: Peter Hessler on what life is really like in Xi's China
Episode 2127: Andrew O'Hagan goes up the Caledonian Road in search of Truth, Justice and a Man in Blue
Episode 2126: Daniel Silva on why the Criminal Rich Collect the Masterpieces of Van Gogh, Vermeer and Picasso
Episode 2125: Mike Maples on how to Break Patterns and Invent the Future
Episode 2124: Jeremy Kahn's Survival Guide for our AI Future
Episode 2123: Mara Kardas-Nelson Reveals the Seductive Promise of Microfinance
Episode 2122: Is the AI Tech Boom of the 2020s a Repeat of the Wall Street Mania of the Roaring 1920s?
Episode 2121: PR exec Phil Elwood confesses to building a "counter-narrative" for some of the worst humans on the planet
Episode 2120: Simon Reynolds on reasons to be cheerful about the AI cultural revolution
Episode 2119: Diane McLain Smith offers a way to reunite America
Episode 2118: Former Prosecutor Debbie Hines on Black Lives, White Justice and her Quest for Reform
Episode 2117: Celeste Marcus Exposes the Generational Crisis of American Liberalism
Episode 2116: Daniel Porterfield defends the personal and civic value of a college education
Episode 2115: Dmitri Alperovitch on how America can beat China in the Second Cold War
Episode 2114: M. Steven Fish on why Trump's dominance-style politics will win in November (didn't anyone tell the Democrats?)
Episode 2113: Does Silicon Valley have an AI Bubble Problem? Duh....
Episode 2112: The Woman Who Mistook A Stranger For Her Husband
Episode 2111: Tracy O'Neill's Return to South Korea to Discover her Birth Mother
Episode 2110: John Ganz on his German Jewish ghosts of resistance and exile
Episode 2109: Madhumita Murgia on why we are living in the dark shadow of AI
Episode 2108: Shannon Vallor on how to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
Episode 2107: Matt Beane on How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines
Episode 2106: Julie Satow remembers a time when Women ran Fifth Avenue
Episode 2105: Alexandre Lefebvre explains why Liberalism is a Way of Life
Episode 2104: Thomas Hale on how to be a Transnationalist in an age of Nation-States
Episode 2103: Keith Teare explains why Silicon Valley is celebrating like it's 2027
Episode 2102: Peter S. Goodman on How the World Ran Out of Everything
Episode 2101: Bethanne Patrick's six new books to reach on the porch or beach this June
Episode 2100: Banning Lyon's remarkable memoir of trauma, healing and the outdoors
Episode 2099: John Ganz on how America cracked up in the early 1990s
Episode 2098: Guy Lawson gets us inside the biggest scandal in the history of college sports
Episode 2097: Keen On America featuring Francis S. Barry
Episode 2096: Sasha Vasilyuk uncovers Ukraine secretive history by digging into the Soviet past
Episode 2095: Keith Teare on why the AI game in Silicon Valley might already be all over
Episode 2094: Joseph O'Neill on football as the ugly game of neo-colonial exploitation
Episode 2093: J. Albert Mann offers a Young Person's Guide to the History of American Labor
Episode 2092: Shane Burley on why Anti Zionism isn't Antisemitism
Episode 2091: Lilie Chouliaraki on the Weaponization of Victimhood
Episode 2090: Meredith Broussard on the digital "revolution" of artificial unintelligence and inequality
Episode 2089: D.W. Gibson celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Seattle's 1999 World Trade Organization protests
Episode 2088: Jeremy Utley on how to facilitate epiphanies
Episode 2087: Alex Dang and Ilya Strebulaev on How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
Episode 2086: Keith Teare on Silicon Valley's Trump-Biden dilemma
Episode 2085: KEEN ON America featuring Nick Bryant
Episode 2084: Terry H. Anderson on why the 1990's still matter so much
Episode 2083: Andrew Lipstein on the $15 Trillion 401(k) Doomsday that might trigger a global economic catastrophe
Episode 2082: James Kirchick explains why a chill has fallen over Jews in the American publishing industry
Episode 2081: Robert Wolcott on how just-In-time technology is about to radical transform business, society and daily life
Episode 2080: Keith Teare's defense of technological utopianism
Episode 2079: Jeremy S. Adams on Lessons in Liberty from ten extraordinary Americans
Episode 2078: Spencer Kornhaber on our carnally confused age in which sex is always in our heads but not in our beds
Episode 2077: Kathleen DuVal on a Thousand Year History of Native Nations in North America
Episode 2076: Sir Tim Lankester on the promise, failure and legacy of Margaret Thatcher's monetarist revolution
Episode 2075: Bethanne Patrick's six must-read new books for May
Episode 2074: Raghuram Rajan on why India must break the mold if it is become a prosperous 21st century economy
Episode 2073: Sulmaan Wasif Khan on the past, present and future conflict between America and China over Taiwan
Episode 2072: Keith Teare on Scarlett Johansson's voice and the creative promise/peril of AI
Episode 2071: Jehuda Reinharz on Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel who aspired to be a British aristocrat
Episode 2070: John R. MacArthur warns that reading digital screens might be shrinking our brains
Episode 2069: KEEN ON America featuring Bobi Conn
Episode 2068: Jacob Kushner on the National Socialist Underground's plot to kill German immigrants
Episode 2067: Jordan Elgrably on richly complex stories about the Middle East and North Africa mostly ignored by Western media
Episode 2066: Steven Johnson on the invention of dynamite, anarchist violence and the rise of the 20th century surveillance state
Episode 2065: Craig Whitlock explains how an overweight Malaysian contractor known as Fat Leonard bribed, bilked and seduced the U.S. Navy
Episode 2064: Chris Gavaler explains how How Stars Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Marvel determine how we view reality
Episode 2063: Rabbi Shai Held on why Judaism is really all about Love
Episode 2062: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Ali Velshi
Episode 2061: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi on Branson, Missouri, the most American town you've never heard of
Episode 2060: Ferdia Lennon on the tragicomedy of the Peloponnesian War
Episode 2059: Keith Teare on why critics of the iPad Crush advertisement are "haters of the future"
Episode 2058: Timothy Morton searches for a Christian Ecology that will get us out of our Planetary Hell
Episode 2057: KEEN ON America featuring R. Derek Black
Episode 2056: Kyle Paoletta exposes the 2024 Republican Primaries as "Farce"
Episode 2055: Michael Ignatieff on a history of his privileges
Episode 2054: Keith Teare follows the money of the online creative economy
Episode 2053: Vince Houghton on how the Cold War transformed Miami into America's most Covert City
Episode 2052: Bryan Caplan on the economic and philosophical case for the radical deregulation of the housing industry
Episode 2051: Mohamed Amer Meziane offers an ecological and racial history of seculization
Episode 250: Andrew J Scott on why we should care about old people
Episode 2049: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Samyr Laine
Episode 2048: Tobias Buck on the Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
Episode 2047: Elisa New on Poetry in America
Episode 2046: David Faris on why American kids are all left these days
Episode 2045: Lisa Kaltenegger on the inevitability of the existence of non-human life somewhere in the Universe
Episode 2044: Warning! This KEEN ON conversation with Alex Edmans may contain lies
Episode 2043: Adam Kuper explains why our museums reveal much more about ourselves than about other people's cultures
Episode 2042: Robert Pearl MD explains how AI can regenerate the American medical system
Episode 2041: Dr. Judy Ho on how we can stop f*****g ourselves up
Episode 2040: Matt Hern on the revolutionary potential of suburbia
Episode 2039: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Mark Danner
Episode 2038: Daniel Bessner on how the existential crisis of Hollywood's film & tv writers is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of America's professional elites
Episode 2037: Elliot Ackerman on the danger of mercenaries and the value of national service
Episode 2036: Stephen Marche, author of "The Next Civil War", on Alex Garland's new movie "Civil War"
Episode 2035: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Christopher Schroeder
Episode 2034: Dale Maharidge tells American liberals to look in the mirror to understand the Doom Loop now engulfing their country
Episode 2033: Batya Ungar-Sargon on how American elites have betrayed the country's working men and women
Episode 2032: Natalie Foster on how the arc of the 21st century American moral universe is bending toward justice
Episode 2031: New books from Salman Rushdie, Erik Larsen, Amor Towles, Mohamed Amer Meziane, Patric Gagne & Leif Enger
Episode 2030: KEEN OF AMERICA featuring Sara Paretsky
Episode 2029: How to House America?
Episode 2028: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Thelton Henderson
Episode 2027: Marc Hauser on giving children second chances to overcome trauma and lead happy lives
Episode 2026: Dr Damon Tweedy on today's struggle to center psychiatry and mental healthcare into the mainstream of the medical community
Episode 2025: On the eve of the eclipse, Christopher Cokinos illuminates the sun and moon's history and their future
Episode 2024: Sheryl Kaskowitz on how FDR and his New Deal team saved America from the Great Depression - one folk song at a time
Episode 2023: How the AI "bubble" isn't really a bubble and why Keith Teare might be emigrating to China
Episode 2022: Henk de Berg on the many similarities tying Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler
Episode 2021: Norman Ohler on Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
Episode 2020: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Arlie Russell Hochschild
Episode 2019: Ismar Volic explains how mathematics can save American democracy from the Trump/Biden gerontocratic duopoly
Episode 2018: Becca Rothfeld's celebration of mess, appetite and sexual desire
Episode 2017: David Masciotra finds the pathologies of American Totalitarianism in Exurbia
Episode 2016: Stefan Simchowitz on why he may be the most loathed man in the contemporary art world
Episode 2015: Is Apple about to pull out of the European Union and did Sam Bankman-Fried really deserve his 25 year jail sentence?
Episode 2014: B. Janet Hibbs explains why not-so-young Americans are retreating home to their parents and the other certainties of their former childhood
Episode 2013: Candida Moss on how Christian slaves helped write the Bible and why this will outrage some American evangelicals
Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism
Episode 2011: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Peter Wehner
Episode 2010: How everyone, even business school professors, are joining the anti big tech church
Episode 2009: Keith Teare on why Big Tech might be getting even BIGGER
Episode 2008: Chris French on the Science of Weird S**t
Episode 2007: Bethanne Patrick's guide to a literary March madness
Episode 2006: Everything you wanted to know about sex but didn't have the imagination to ask
Episode 2005: Why the Pete Rose story is as much about the rise and fall of America as it is about the fate of Charlie Hustle
EPISODE 2004: Jacob Heilbrunn on conservative America's 100 year romance with foreign dictators like Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Pinochet, Orban and Putin
Episode 2003: Martin Sixsmith on Vladimir Putin and the return of history to Russia and the West
Episode 2002: Elaine Lin Hering gives voice to the "Unsilent Generation"
Episode 2001: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Adam Hochschild
Episode 2000: Keith Teare on why the Congressional attempt to ban TikTok is astonishingly dumb
Episode 1999: Sasha Issenberg offers a playbook for winning elections in our disinformation age
Episode 1998: Emily Raboteau on how to mother against "the apocalypse"
Episode 1997: Benjamin Shestakofsky reveals the inegalitarianism at the heart of the startup economy
Episode 1996: Frank H. McCourt, Jr explains why rebuilding the Internet is THE most important issue of our time
Episode 1995: Sam Daley-Harris explains how to reclaim American democracy
Episode 1994: Why 1924 was the year that Adolf Hitler became "Hitler" and what it teaches us about the crisis of American democracy in 2024
Episode 1993: Keith Teare on the Hobbesian war of all-against-all inside & outside Silicon Valley
Episode 1992: Andrew Cockburn explains how Dr. Strangelove has always been a feature - rather than a bug - of Silicon Valley
Episode 1991: Bethanne Patrick on how to disrupt the disruption of our revolutionary age
Episode 1990: James Kaplan on Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans and the making of the most miraculous jazz record of all time
Epiosode 1989: Travis Rieder explains why an ethically pure life is neither moral nor practical in our complex world
Episode 1988: How the Patty Hearst saga captured the paranoia of early 70's America
EPISODE 1977: Max Stearns on why a "Parliamentary America" is the best fix for the country's broken democratic system
Episode 1976: Keith Teare on the DEI Elephant in every Silicon Valley Boardroom
Episode 1975: Ira Shapiro explains how Mitch McConnell Betrayed America
EPISODE 1974: Getting beyond Oppenheimer
A Belated February Reading List
Navigating the labyrinth of Argentina's bankrupt economy
Why we remember and why we forget
Waking Up White
A Brave New World of AI, Virtual Reality and Memetic Culture
Against Marriage
Why the Shadows of Socrates still haunt us today
The forced erasure of gays from 20th century American life
The Biggest Liberal Loser or an Iconic Progressive?
In defense of geeky intellectuals
Why do we seem to have so little free time?
And the Oscar goes to.....
Unpacking the Facebook tragedy
Will Putin ever die?
Should Americans pursue virtue or happiness?
A Case for Reparations
Exposing Hollywood's most notorious interwar celebrity spy
What chance peace in Israel?
How to write a #1 global bestseller
How Tucker Carlson's Putin interview captures today's "new, new media" revolution
Uncovering the world's mightiest (and tiniest) narco-state
in defense of cultural liberalism
Do nations have psychologies and can they experience collective trauma?
After Rape
Born in Blood: Scott Gac explains why violence is the defining feature of American history
Can the American university survive the 21st century? Nicholas Dirks explains why American universities need to reinvent themselves in our winner-take-all age of social media and AI
How to Win the Global Battle to Power our Lives? Ernest Scheyder on the new economic war between China and the West to control critical minerals like lithium, copper and cobalt
Why Scientific Truth Might Be Infinitely Weirder Than Scientific Fiction: Mike Chen on "A Quantum Love Story"
Should Elon Musk have publicly visited Auschwitz? Keith Teare on Musk, X, Instagram and the breakdown of civility in our social media age
Why today's internet is simultaneously autocratic and plutocratic: Ehud Shapiro on the egalitarian architecture necessary to build genuine digital democracy
Why Writing a Book is an Act of Free Will: Kevin Mitchell on free agency and how evolution gave us free will
Why Does Everything Need To Be About Race? Keith Boykin on Claudine Gay, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and why the real function of racism is distraction
Suburbia and American Disillusionment: Benjamin Herold on the unravelling of both America's suburbs and the American dream
The War for Israel's Soul: Bernard Avishai on the age old battle in Israel between globalists and messianic Zionists
A Winston Churchill for our TikTok age? Simon Shuster on Volodymyr Zelensky, the workaholic improv politician who needs to be loved by his Ukrainian people
A venture capitalist imagines a world after capital: Albert Wenger on work, leisure and the environment in the AI age
In Trouble With Gender: Alex Byrne explores slippery sex facts and factual gender fictions
Can AI produce genuine culture? Martin Puchner on the future of artistic creativity in the age of the smart machine
Radically reinventing America in upstate New York: Susan Danzinger on how to effectively put philosophy into action
Why Generative AI represents an existential threat to the creative community: Ed Newton-Rex warns about the dire consequences of generative AI companies "scraping" data without acknowledging its creators
The Cult of the Algorithm: Hilary Mason peers behind the hidden door of AI, gaming and storytelling
What killed capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis' murder mystery about the death of capitalism and our descent into "techno feudalism"
Yes, there is an alternative to free market capitalism (and, no, it's not socialism): Nick Romeo on how to build a just economy
Don't Trust Us: Frank Vogl exposes the marketing scammers behind the increasingly mainstream success of cryptocurrency
Why there might be a ghost in all our smart machines: Kenneth Cukier on AI, spirituality and a new humanism in our digital age
Unlocking and decrypting 2024: Azeem Azhar on AI's impact on politics, economics and society in the coming year
The Wicked Art of the Gothic Thriller: Abbott Kahler on writing unnerving literature about unnerving times
10 must read books for 2024: Bethanne Patrick on intriguing fiction and non-fiction to read in the new year
Is the current AI boom just another Silicon Valley bubble? John Thornhill separates the truth from the fiction of today's AI hysteria
Confessions of a Disillusioned Social Scientist: Brian Klaas on why we are all random accidents of chance and chaos
How foreign lobbyists in America threaten democracy around the world: Casey Michel on the dirty overseas money sloshing around both sides of American politics
Should you have sex with your robot?
Should you have sex with your robot? Eve Herold on our narcissistic echo-chamber culture in which we are falling in love with our robots (ie: ourselves)
How American healthcare is rigged against ethical doctors and poor patients: Dr Robert Pearl explains how the system can be reformed in 2024
Why a future of digitally connected brains is now on the horizon: PJ Caldas on the networked tsunami that is about to transform all our realities
What happens when AI "drifts"? Dominique Shelton Leipzig offers protection from the high-risk dangers of algorithmic malfunction
Turning writing into a habit that lasts: Bec Evans on how to start and finish books and why binge writing isn't a bad habit
Why all crises of capitalism are caused by moral failures: Colin Mayer on the social responsibility of business in every industry, from oil to tobacco to genetic engineering and AI
That Will Be The Year: Keith Teare predicts the major political, economic and technological developments for 2024
How to learn to tell the truth about ourselves: Dr .Annie Zimmerman explains how therapy can allow us to break free from old patterns and transform our lives
The Illusion of More: David Newhoff explains why we don't need GenerativeAI to make good art
Eyeless in Digital Gaza: Eryk Salvaggio sifts through the debris of our AI age in which we can no longer trust anything we see
What it's like to be a Russian these days: Marzio G. Mian ventures behind the new Iron Curtain to find caviar, counterculture and a reborn cult of Stalin
Why Impeachment remains an Indelible Stain on the Presidencies of Nixon, Clinton and Trump: Michael J. Gerhardt's guide for engaged citizens to the the law of Presidential impeachment
How to break out of the tyranny of the travel search box: Rafat Ali on the impact of AI on the travel industry
Why OpenAI has an Uber problem
Why OpenAI has an Uber problem: Tim O'Reilly explains how all successful companies depend on successful ecosystems
A former mobster's history of organized crime in America
A former mobster reveals the history of organized crime in America: Louis Ferrante charts the meteoric rise of the Mafia from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America
We've Been Here Before: Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin offer both radically new and historically trusted strategies for resisting neo-liberalism
On our nostalgia for vinyl records and authoritative political leaders
Why predicting the future of tech is for fools: Keith Teare looks back at 2023 and gives some hints as to what might happen in 2024
Digging into the crate of Roman history: Hari Kunzru on our nostalgia for vinyl records and the reappearance of ethnic nationalism in Italy
How everyone, even Benjamin Netanyahu, has a soul: Noa Yedlin explains why literary humor isn't a funny thing and imagines the kind of character Netanyahu might be in a novel
Why bankers represents both the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of American capitalism: Gerard Epstein on how to bust the bankers' club and create a more equitable financial system for the rest of us
Against the chronic short-termism that undermines how we think about money and value: Charles Crowson explains why time really matters in economics
Why 2023 was the year in which we finally got to converse with AI: Kevin Surace explains why creative artists must master AI technology in 2024
The KEEN ON 2023 Fiction Awards: Bethanne Patrick's six favorite novels of the year
In Defense of Henry Kissinger's "pragmatic realism": Charles Kupchan critiques the illusional idealism that he believes has undermined American foreign policy over the last decade
Why the 21st Century will be the Asian Century: Kishore Mahbubani on the end of Western domination and the rise of Asian societies, economies and philosophies