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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

International anarchy, murderous crime lords and the 21st century nation-state: Miles Johnson explains how the violence of today's international criminal gangs mirror the authoritarian politics of our age

How AI can fix the future of healthcare, education and climate: Mark Minevich imagines a planet positively powered by AI

Among the Criminal Bros: Max Marshall on a Fraternity crime story that reflects the rigged system of money and power in 21st century America

The victory of the gut over reason: Kevin Casas-Zamora worries about the fragile state of democracy around the world in 2023

On the Dire State of the Free Press in 2024: Andy Lee Roth explains how "solutions journalism" offers a more truthful alternative to corporate owned media in America today

Why AI will radically disrupt traditional internet search engines: Keith Teare on Google, OPenAI and the crisis of online search economics

How collaborating on #CrimeTime strengthened this couple's marriage: Jeneva Rose and Drew Pyne discuss their TikTok driven crime mystery based on an actual robbery in their Chicago apartment building

Is there really rampant anti-semitism at elite American universities like Columbia? Shai Davidai on what these universities should be doing to confront anti-semitism and foster a two-state peace between Israelis and Palestinians

The 19th century American explorer who exposed the brutality of the Russian imperial system: Gregory Wallance on the original George Kennan and his epic journey through the frozen heart of Russia

Wall Street's Assault on Democracy: Georges Ugeux explains how today's financial markets exacerbate inequalities, create unsustainable government debt and foment authoritarianism

Getting to Know Ella Fitzgerald Through Her Music: Judith Tick on the canonical jazz singer who transformed both American song and culture

Five of the Non-Fictional Best: Bethanne Patrick picks her favorite non-fiction books for 2023

How Not To Age: Dr Michael Greger offers a simple dietary approach to getting healthier as we get older

Why it's time stop declaring war on everything: David Keen on the "Wreckonomics" of how we now find ourselves locked into so many failed economic, environmental and political policies

How our brains mirror the history of human evolution: Min W. Jung on the neuroscience of imagination and abstract thinking

A Return to Normal Abnormality in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare on why even some of the most highly capitalized AI start-ups are now running out of runway and will not survive

In Praise of Ineffective Altruism: Amy Schiller on how philanthropy went wrong and how to fix it

Should we let go of Philip Roth? Hannah Gold gets into Roth's mind, his hands and his followers

In Defense of Trash Talk: Rafi Kohan on Muhammed Ali, Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Elon Musk and why talking smack is as old as the Bible

Why even the smartest machine vision won't eliminate bias: Jill Walker Rettberg on how algorithms are changing the way we see and are seen by the world

When Language Was Up For Grabs: Ben Lerner warns against falling in love once again with the promise of digital technology to democratize language

The First Neo-Liberal or the Last Conservative? Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman, the most controversial American economist of the 20th century

Why American humor isn't really being cancelled by the woke police: Kliph Nesteroff's history of showbiz and its perennial culture wars

Why all great geniuses are also rebels: Bulent Atalay on how Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Newton, Beethoven and Einstein all shared similarly transgressive minds

The Closing of the American Conservative Mind: Peter Wehner on the nihilism of the evangelical right in America today

We live our lives in small details: Lauren Grodstein on why she changed her mind about writing a novel about the Holocaust

Why the "Words of Cesar Chavez" still matter: Peter Slen on the labor leader, Christian Socialist and voice of Hispanic America

The book that transformed how Americans think about economics: Peter Slen on the impact of Rose and Milton Friedman's 1980 defense of free market capitalism, "Free to Chose"

In defense of digital education: William B. Eimicke on how to level the learning curve and create a more inclusive and connected university

Is the current Gazan ceasefire a mirage?Jason Pack on Qatar, Iran, Biden, Hamas, Israel and the road to order in the disordered Middle East

Ten Ways of Winning Differently in the AI Age: Kate Bravery's truths about work, skills and education in the smart machine epoch

Digital Lennonism: Marga Hoek imagines how tech can solve some of the world's greatest challenges

The Last Ships from Hamburg: Steven Ujifusa on the race to save Russia's Jews on the eve of World War I

OpenAI , Sam Altman and the new war over capitalism in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare on the moral fight over technological progress triggered by the OpenAI brouhaha

Eight brilliant books to give this Xmas: Bethanne Patrick's list of literary gifts that will delight even the most discerning reader

The Shame of America's Six Million Homeless People: Kevin F. Adler on the forgotten humanity and broken systems causing today's American homelessness crisis

Why only humans can imagine the future: Margaret Heffernan on art, creative uncertainty and the insatiability of AI moguls like Sam Altman

How to protect our all-too-human superpower of creative thinking: Viktor Mayer-Schonberger on the guardrails needed to regulate big data companies like OpenAI

A Uniquely Glittering Literary Club: Christopher De Hamel on the remarkable people behind a thousand years of medieval manuscripts

So what, exactly, is "equality"? Darrin McMahon on the history, from antiquity to today, of this most elusive idea

Why women might make better spies than men: Anna Pitoniak on the art of espionage and the tradecraft of the spy novelist