Keen On America

How Landscape Architecture should get us to Pause and then Reconnect with Nature

29 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1628: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to David Kamp, author of NATURE, DESIGN, AND HEALTH about How our despair about the environment shoul...

Following the Dirty Money in Today's Globalized Entrepreneurial Underworld

29 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1627:  In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Miles Johnson, the author of CHASING SHADOWS, about a true story of drugs, war and the secret wo...

How the High Price of Money is Wrecking the Venture Capital Industry

28 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1626: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith explains the  connection between the rise in th...

Hot Reads for the Heatwave

28 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1625: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the LA Times book critic, Bethanne Patrick, who recommends five of the most interesting books publ...

The New York Street that Changed American Art Forever

28 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1624:  In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE SLIP, Prudence Peiffer, about Coenties Slip, an obscure street on the lower ti...

Why Springsteen's NEBRASKA Matters So Much

28 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1623: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Warren Zanes, author of DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE,  about the significance of the 1982 album both i...

A Real World War II Story: The Tragic Life of Ira Hayes

28 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1622: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Tom Holm, the author of IRA HAYES, about the Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price o...

In Praise of Valiant American Women

27 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1621: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Lena Andrews, author of VALIANT WOMEN, about the extraordinary American servicewomen who helped wi...

How Barbie Dolls Up the Plasticity of our Surreal Times

27 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1620: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Lithub movie critic Olivia Rutigliano about the gendered politics, anti-nostalgic aesthetics a...

Can the Men Be Saved?

26 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1619: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Ben Purkert, author of THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED, about the fate of masculinity at a time when our jo...

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

26 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1618: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jeff Jarvis, the author of THE GUTTENBERG PARENTHESIS about the lessons of the age of print for ou...

Why Julian Barnes Will Never Write a Memoir or Autobiography

25 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1617: In this second KEEN ON interview with Julian Barnes, the distinguished British writer, Andrew talks to Julian about growing up in Englan...

Why Conservatives Should Fear & Loathe AI

25 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1616: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Joe Allen, author of DARK AEON, about Transhumanism and the war against humanityJoe Allen has writ...

How To Be a Wise Teacher

25 Jul 2023

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Episode 1615: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Julian Barnes, author of ELIZABETH FINCH, about the polytheism of antiquity and how to become some...

The Netscape Moment When AI Gets a Brain

21 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1614: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith speculates on what will happen when AI acquires ...

Imaging the Animal World as Nature's Great Maintenance Crew

21 Jul 2023

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Episode 1613:  In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Keggie Carew, author of BEASTLY, about the terrible price we humans have paid for placing oursel...

Why the "very very excellent" OPPENHEIMER is a complicated film for our complex times

21 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1612: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Olivia Rutigliano, Senior Film Writer at Lithub, about both the historical and contemporary signif...

The Hidden History of American Democracy

21 Jul 2023

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Episode 1611:  In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Thom Hartmann,  America's #1 progressive talk show host and author of THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AME...

Episode 1610: Our Oppenheimer Moment

20 Jul 2023

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In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Greg Mitchell, author of THE BEGINNING OR THE END, about how Hollywood learned to stop worrying and love the bom...

Episode 1609: Why America Dominates the World

20 Jul 2023

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Episode 1609: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Sean A. Mirski, author of WE MAY DOMINATE THE WORLD, about ambition, anxiety and the rise of Ameri...

Episode 1608: The Fourth Turning is Here

20 Jul 2023

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Episode 1608: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Neil Howe, author of THE FOURTH TURNING IS HERE, how the seasons of history can help us overcome o...

Episode 1607: What Happens When Both Life and the Planet is Programmable?

19 Jul 2023

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Episode 1607: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Ted Anton, author of PROGRAMMABLE PLANET, about the brave new world of synthetic biology Ted Anto...

EPISODE 1606: On the "Moral Ambiguity" Surrounding the American Decision to Drop Two Nuclear Bombs on Japan

19 Jul 2023

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Episode 1606: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Evan Thomas, author of ROAD TO SURRENDER, about the three men - two Americans and one Japanese - b...

Episode 1605: Why the Habsburg Empire is as much a guide to our 21st Century Future as our 19th Century Past

19 Jul 2023

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Episode 1605: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Natasha Wheatley, the author of THE LIFE AND DEATH OF STATES, about the Central Europe and the tra...

Episode 1603: Can Diplomacy Save American Democracy?

19 Jul 2023

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Episode 1603: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to John Wood Jr, National Ambassador for Braver Angels, about the role of diplomacy, music and conver...

Episode 1603: Social Media For Dummies

18 Jul 2023

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Episode 1603: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Eric Yaverbaum, author of PR FOR DUMMIES, about Twitter, Threads and why even 62 year-old guys lik...

EPISODE 1602: How to Learn to Look So that We Become the World Itself

18 Jul 2023

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Episode 1602: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Christian Madsbjerg, author of LOOK, about how to pay attention in a distracted worldChristian Mad...

Episode 1601: Why Americans Still Can't Talk to Each Other About Politics

18 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1601: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Brookings Institute scholar, Jonathan Rauch, about the seemingly intractable political divisio...

Episode 1600: What a Cock Up!

18 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1600: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to S.C. Gwynne, author of HIS MAJESTY'S AIRSHIP, about the life and tragic death of the British R101 ...

Episode 1599: Black Americans, Civil Rights and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962

18 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1599: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to William Harris, the Director of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum,  about the complex civil...

Episode 1598: Goodbye, Eastern Europe

17 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1598: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jacob Mikanowski, author of GOODBYE, EASTERN EUROPE, about both the history and disappearance of w...

Episode 1597: Into the Bright Sunshine of Human Rights

17 Jul 2023

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Episode 1597: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Samuel G. Freedman, author of INTO THE BRIGHT SUNSHINE, about a a young Hubert Humphrey and the fi...

Episode 1596: How the Internet Has Become an Outrage Machine

17 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1596: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Tobias Rose-Stockwell, author of OUTRAGE MACHINE, about how social media has amplified discontent ...

Episode 1595: Why AI is Now the Analytical Brain AND the Creative Heart of our Economy

17 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1595: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Hilary Mason, co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door, about how Open Source AI might both democratize B...

EPISODE 1594: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral?

17 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1594: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the senior editor of the ATLANTIC magazine, Ross Andersen, about the ethics of AI technology and w...

Episode 1593: Why America's Blood-Sucking Super Rich Want to Live Forever

16 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1593: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks Daniel Hornsby, author of SUCKER, about how to how to radically reimagine an America without big tech...

Episode 1592: Risking Everything in Pursuit of Truth and Beauty

15 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1592: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Nishanth Injam, the author of THE BEST POSSIBLE EXPERIENCE, about leaving India, the misery of tec...

Episode 1591: Enabling a Conversation Between Rural and Urban America

15 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1591: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Amy Rowland, author of INSIDE THE WOLF, about small Southern town interlopers and imposters and ho...

Episode 1590: Talking to the Mafia about Michael Jackson, Donald Trump and Jimmy Hoffa

15 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1590: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Matt Birkbeck, author of THE LIFE WE CHOSE, about William "Big Billy" D'Elia and the last secrets ...

Episode 1589: Why Lina Khan and Gary Gensler Should Be Fired

14 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1589: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith explains why the Biden administration is against...

Episode 1588: A Real-Life Tragicomedy about our Destruction of the Earth

14 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1588: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks David Lipsky, the author of THE PARROT AND THE IGLOO, about climate and the conspiratorial science of...

Episode 1587: What America's current drug binge reveals about the post neoliberal 2020s

14 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1587: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Benjamin C. Fong, author of QUICK FIXES, about drugs in America, from Prohibition to the 21st cent...

Episode 1586: Why the Renaissance Still Haunts Us

14 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1586: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Maggie O'Farrell, author of THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, about childhood, art, money and marriage in 16t...

Walt Zuckerberg: If you like Disneyland, then you're gonna love Threads

08 Jul 2023

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Episode 1585: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss Threads and why it might turn...

Episode 1584: Learning from the Deepest Oceans about How Life Begun

05 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1584: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Laura Trethewey, author of THE DEEPEST MAP, about the high-stakes race to chart the world's oceans...

From Radical to Unifier to Martyr: C.W. Goodyear on James Garfield, the Most Pathologically Reasonable of American Presidents

04 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1583: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to C.W. Goodyear, the author of PRESIDENT GARFIELD, about James Garfield, the Most Pathologically Rea...

Episode 1582: A Terribly Serious History of Philosophy at Oxford

04 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1582: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of A TERRIBLY SERIOUS ADVENTURE, Nikhil Krishnan, about the history of philosophy at Ox...

KEEN ON Episode 1581: When a Czechoslovakian David Twice Beat the Soviet Goliath

04 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1581: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Ethan Scheiner, author of FREEDOM TO WIN, about the the courageous Czechoslovakian hockey team tha...

Episode 1580: The Albert Einstein Effect

03 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1580: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Benyamin Cohen, the author of THE EINSTEIN EFFECT, how the world's favorite genius got into our ca...

Episode 1579: Crime as a Catalyst for Social Change

03 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1579: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Sarah Weinman, editor of EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN,  true crime in our era of cultural, economic an...

The rise of Las Narcas - the drug ladies of Latin America

02 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1578: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Deborah Bonello, author of NARCAS, about the secret rise of women in Latin's America's drug cartel...

The Warnings of a Holocaust Scholar about Today's World of the Big Lie

01 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1577: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to John K. Roth, co-author of WARNINGS, about the Holocaust, the Ukraine and an endangered American d...

How to Tell the American Story

01 Jul 2023

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EPISODE 1576: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Sonali Kolhatkar, author of RISING UP, about the power of narrative in pursuing racial justice in ...

Phew! When AI ate the internet

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 1575: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss an astonishing week in tech w...

A Chilling Plot to Grab the World's Food and Water Resources

30 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1574: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Nate Halverson, the producer and lead reporter on the new documentary movie THE GRAB, about the mo...

How to Get Beyond the Shame of Sexual Violence

30 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1573: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Peace Adzo Medie, author of NIGHTBLOOM, about how to get beyond the shame of sexual violence in Af...

America's First Great Naturalist

30 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1572: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Patrick Dean, the author of NATURE'S MESSENGER, about Mark Catesby, America's First Great Naturali...

The Uncomfortable Truths Our Dogs Would Tell Us If They Could Talk

29 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1571: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Bill Boggs, the author of SPIKE UNLEASHED, about an America addiction to celebrity, drugs, sex and...

Why Novels Must Be More Believable than Non-Fiction Books

29 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1570: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE QUIET TENANT, about American serial killers and why fiction writing, in contrast...

Remembering Judy Garland, Michael Jackson, the Spice Girls and Stevie Wonder

28 Jun 2023

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Episode 1569: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Aisha Harris, author of WANNABE, about the pop culture that shaped both her and her generationFrom...

From Pizza and Meze to Ramen and Borscht: Unscrambling the Politics of National Dishes

28 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1568: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Anya von Bremzen, author of NATIONAL DISH, about popular foods ,like pizza and borscht, as forms o...

Is most of rural America really plotting to destroy democracy?

28 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1567: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to David Neiwert, the author of THE AGE OF INSURRECTION, about the radical right's assault on America...

On the Importance of Being Batshit Crazy

27 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1566: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Dan Schreiber, the author of THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING ELSE, about alien abductions, the importance...

American Whitelash: Wesley Lowery on the cost of progress in an increasingly multiracial America

27 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1565: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Wesley Lowery, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author of AMERICAN WHITELASH, about the c...

The American Dream of a "Tossed Salad": Luma Mufleh on reconciling her identity as a gay Muslim woman with an Arab-turned-American refugee

27 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1564: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Luma Mufleh, author of FROM HERE, about reconciling her identity as a gay Muslim woman with an Ara...

The 20th Century Corporation: Richard Langlois on the cultural and economic history of the modern American business enterprise

27 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1563: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Richard Langlois, author of THE CORPORATION AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, about the cultural and econ...

Pricing the Priceless: Paula DiPerna on how to quantify the planet and solve the climate crisis

26 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1562: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Paula DiPerna, author of PRICING THE PRICELESS, about how to quantify the planet, solve the climat...

Why 80% Isn't Good Enough: Matt Higgins imagines how the publishing industry and writers will be impacted by the coming AI storm

26 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1561: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Matt Higgins, the author of BURN THE BOATS, about how the publishing industry and writers will be ...

The Middle Eastern Maze: Itamar Rabinovich on Israel, the Palestinians and an inglorious seventy-five year history of mostly failed peace initiatives

26 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1560: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Itamar Rabinovich, the author of MIDDLE EASTERN MAZE, about the history of the Arab-Israeli confli...

A Teacher's Journey: Adam Bessie's graphically dystopian take on education in the digital age of COVID and AI

26 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1559: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Adam Bessie, the author of GOING REMOTE, about his dystopian journey during COVID, as a community ...

Fireworks Every Night: Beth Raymer on her delightfully delusional father, male homelessness and why Florida "just is America"

25 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1558: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Beth Raymer, the author of FIREWORKS EVERY NIGHT, about her delusionally delightful father, male h...

The End of the Game: Roger Ballen on the existential ecological psychodrama of the destruction of African wildlife

24 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1557: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the South African based photographer artist Roger Ballen about the existential ecological psychodr...

Becoming Fully Me: Bethanne Patrick about how she escaped her double depression and wrote a memoir about it

23 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1556: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks Bethanne Patrick, the author of LIFE B, about how she escaped her double depression and wrote a memoi...

Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World: Christian Cooper on birding, the flight of freedom and how we must positively bend the arc of justice

23 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1554: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Christian Cooper, author of BETTER LIVING THROUGH BIRDING, about his lifelong love affair with bir...

Why Big Tech is Getting Even Bigger: Keith Teare on how the biggest tech companies now control our economic and political fates

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 1542: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss the venture capital crisis an...

From Queer to Gay to Queer: James Kirchick on why he believes the theory of "queerness" is a "parasite" on the gay rights movement

22 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1553: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to  James Kirchick, the author of the Liberties journal essay "From Queer to Gay to Queer", on why h...

How to Get Rid of Rich White Men: Garrett Neiman on uprooting the old boy's club in order to transform America

22 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1552: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Garrett Neiman, author of RICH WHITE MEN about how tob uproot the old boy's club in order to trans...

A Queer American Life: R.K. Russell on being black and bi-sexual in the National Football League

22 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1551: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to R.K. Russell, the author of THE YARDS BETWEEN US, about being black and bi-sexual in the National ...

Winner Sells All: Jason Del Rey on the quarter century Amazon vs Walmart war for our wallets, bodies and souls

22 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1550: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to WINNER SELLS ALL author, Jason Del Rey, about the quarter century Amazon vs Walmart war for our wa...

Animal Spirits: Jackson Lears on the American Pursuit of vitality from Walt Whitman and William James to Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump

22 Jun 2023

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Episode 1549: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to Jackson Lears, author of ANIMAL SPIRITS, the American Pursuit of vitality from Walt Whitman and...

How to Think Like a Philosopher: Peter Cave on the scholars, dreamers and sages who can teach us how to live

21 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1548: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to Peter Cave, the author of HOW TO THINK LIKE A PHILOSOPHER, about the scholars, dreamers and sag...

France and Marc Chagall in World War Two: Stephen Kiernan on the redemptive power of art to reconstruct a broken nation

21 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1547: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Stephen Kiernan, the author of THE GLASS CHATEAU, France and Marc Chagall in World War Two and on ...

The Purple Presidency 2024: C. Owen Paepke on how voters can reclaim the White House for "bipartisan" governance

10 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1546: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to C. Owen Paepke, the author of THE PURPLE PRESIDENCY 2024, about how voters can reclaim the White H...

Things You Wanted to Say But Never Did: Geloy Concepcion on his confessional photographic journal on Instagram

09 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1545: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Geloy Concepcion, author of THINGS YOU WANTED TO SAY BUT NEVER DID, about his confessional photogr...

The Datapreneurs: Bob Muglia on why we should trust the promise of AI and its creators to build a better human future

09 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1544: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to DATAPRENEURS author Bob Muglia about why we should trust the promise of AI and its creators to bui...

Against Nostalgia: Mark Lilla on why progressives should reject nostalgia in thinking about both the past and future

09 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1543: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to author of THE ONCE AND FUTURE LIBERAL, Mark Lilla, about why progressives must liberate themselves...

In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss why Keith was wrong in last week's show about Apple's new Vision Pro and how this revolutionary device might once again change everything

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 1542: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss the venture capital crisis an...

A Radical Amerikan Family: Santi Elijah Holley on the Shakurs - from the Black Panthers to Tupac

09 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1541: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Santi Elijah Holley, the author of AN AMERICAN FAMILY, about the Shakurs - from the Black Panthers...

The Good Enough Job: Simone Stolzoff on how to reclaim our life from work

08 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1540: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Simone Stolzoff, the author of THE GOOD ENOUGH JOB, on how we can reclaim our lives from workSimon...

The Three Ages of Water: Peter Gleick on the prehistoric past, imperiled present and hopeful future of water

08 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1539: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE THREE AGES OF WATER, Peter Gleick, about the prehistoric past, imperiled present...

My Hijacking: Martha Hodes on her memoir of forgetting

08 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1538: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of MY HIJACKING, Martha Hodes, about her memorable (and forgettable) experience of bein...

Imagine a City: Mark Vanhoenacker writes a love letter from the sky to the world's greatest cities

08 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1537: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the author of IMAGINE A CITY, Mark Vanhoenacker, about his love affair, as a pilot, with the wo...

As Rich as a Digital Croesus: Trevor Traina imagines a super app in which we can store all our Web3 data

08 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1536: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the KresusLabs founder and CEO Trevor Traina about his super app in which, he claims, we will stor...

In Defense of Big Girls: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan asks whether the American Republic was founded on anti-fat people principles

07 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1535: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of BIG GIRL, about whether the American Republic was founded on ant...

The Overlooked Americans: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett on the resilience of rural America and it means for the future of the country

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 1534: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, the author of THE OVERLOOKED AMERICANS, about the resilience of rural Am...

Donna Cleanwell Leaves Home: Ana Castillo on her "truth seeking" fictional characters and her amusement at being considered the "grande dame of Chicana literature"

07 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1533: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks with Ana Castillo, author of DONNA CLEANWELL LEAVES HOME, on her "truth seeking" fictional characters...

Conversations with Your Future Self: Hal Hershfield on how to escape the tyranny of the present and make tomorrow better today

07 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1532: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Hal Hershfield, the author of YOUR FUTURE SELF, about how to escape the tyranny of the present and...

The Chile Project: Sebastian Edwards on the story of the Chicago Boys and the downfall of neoliberalism

07 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1531: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE CHILE PROJECT, Sebastian Edwards, about the story of the Chicago Boys and the do...

The Siberian Job: John Kleinheinz on how he got rich in post-communist Russia and what that experience taught him about the value of free markets and democracy

06 Jun 2023

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EPISODE 1530: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the inspiration behind THE SIBERIAN JOB, John Kleinheinz, on how he got rich in post communist Rus...

Crime and Punishment for the Jews: Paul Goldberg on "The Dissident", his new Cold War mystery about a group of refuseniks in Moscow in 1976

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 1529: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE DISSIDENT, Paul Goldberg, about Detente, Kissinger, the Y-word and the similarit...