Keen On America
Episodes
Why Elections Aren't Always Democratic: Challenging American Political Science's Founding Myth
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s age of authoritarian plutocracy, the UCLA political theorist Natasha Piano argues that we need to rethink the supposed “elitist” scho...
The Virtuous Side Of Silicon Valley: How Jimmy Chen is Building Tech to Help the Poorest America
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yes, there still are some well meaning folks in Silicon Valley. Take, for example, Jimmy Chen, founder and CEO of Propel, an app designed to simplify ...
The Tragic Paradox of Survival in Auschwitz: The Mystery of Primo Levi
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can we ever really know Primo Levi? We know his books, of course, especially If This Is A Man, the astonishing account of his survival from Auschwitz....
A Known Unknown: Harry Freedman on Bob Dylan's Jewish Roots
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday, The Talking Heads, today, Dylan. The Great Man’s Jewish identity has long been overshadowed by his pantheistic status as American prophet...
Burning Down The House: Do The Talking Heads Still Matter?
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do The Talking Heads, the quinessential art school band of the East Village scene of the 1970’s, still matter? Very much so. At least according to t...
Why Being a 'Good Woman' Is Making Women (and Men) Miserable
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it really mean to be a “good woman”? For the controversial podcaster and writer Elise Loehnen, female goodness is a misery trap. And so ...
The Haves and The Have-Yachts: Evan Osnos Explores the Minds of the Ultrarich
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Let me tell you about the very rich”, Scott Fitzgerald once said. “They are different from you and me”. One way they are different, the New Y...
The Vampire Economy: How Private Equity is Sucking the Blood out of the American Dream
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It all began in 2019 at DeadSpin where Megan Greenwell was editor-in-chief. She had her dream job at the sports publication she'd always loved, leadin...
The Company That Ate the Web: Google's Quarter Century Journey from Bridge Builder to Web Destroyer
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
25 years after serving as the bridge between the Web 1.0 and 2.0 revolutions, Google stands at the vortex of another technological revolution. The com...
Long Live the NO KING: An Anti-Fascist Handbook on How to Resist Trump
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy NO KINGS DAY! Today, as nationwide protests sweep America, historian and activist Mark Bray argues that Trump and his MAGA movement represent a ...
An Existential Threat to American Freedom: Spike Cohen on Donald Trump's Betrayal of Libertarianism
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So what, exactly, is libertarianism? Spike Cohen, the Libertarian Party's 2020 vice presidential nominee, boils it down to "the principle of human res...
American Fascism: If You Close Your Eyes It Won't Go Away
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to Deborah Baker, author of Charlottesville: An American Story, America has become the Charlottesville of the Unite the Right Rally of Augus...
Postmodern Patrimonialism: Trump's Everything-Everywhere-All-At-Once Strategy as a Venture Capital Model of Politics
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Postmodern Patrimonialism. That’s the term Brookings Institution scholar Jonathan Rauch uses to describe Trump's second presidency, arguing it repre...
Beyond Left and Right: The Libertarian Vision of Freedom in America
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
FreedomFest, America’s annual celebration of libertarian values, begins tomorrow in Palm Springs. According to FreedomFest’s CEO Valerie Durham, t...
The Empire Strikes Back: Karen Hao on OpenAI as a Classic Colonial Power
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Hao has been warning us about Sam Altman’s OpenAI for a while now. In her bestselling Empire of AI, she argues that the Silicon Valley startup...
We Get the Non-Fiction We Deserve: From AI Empires to Wokeness Critiques to a Year Without Sex
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do we get the nonfiction we deserve? LATimes book critic Bethanne Patrick wrestles with this question through five new books that both mirror and addr...
Everything Is Possible, Nothing Is Inevitable: Why AI Might Be the Ultimate Scarcity Trap
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the promise of AI abundance Silicon Valley’s biggest lie? That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare argues that while AI will inevitably reduce hum...
The Prophet of Fake News: How a 1920s Thinker Predicted today's Trump vs Musk Farce
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No, I’m not amused. Today’s Trump vs Musk social media wrestling fiasco is one more example of how digital media is actually bemusing ourselves to...
The Boogeyman Speaks: Ibram X. Kendi on Why He's America's Most Controversial Anti-Racism Scholar
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Revered by some, vilified by others, Ibram X. Kendi is America's most controversial anti-racism scholar. In this wide-ranging and frank conversation, ...
We Get the Serial Killers & Heroes We Deserve: From a WW2 French Sisterhood to American Male Psychos
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do we get the serial killers & heroes we deserve? The always generous literary critic Bethanne Patrick uses five new non-fiction books to respond to t...
Drowning in Black Swans: Why Governance is Failing in our Age of Chaos
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Black swan events used to be considered as one-of-a-kind events signifying something rare and exceptional. Today, however, we may be drowning in black...
Frozen Dreams: How a Family Agricultural Empire Exposed the Dark Side of American Capitalism
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Popeye might have gotten strong from eating spinach, but for the family of C.F. Seabrook, New Jersey’s narcissistic patriarch of industrialized farm...
The Abundance Trap: Who Owns Our Future When Robots Do All the Work?
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare argues we're “accelerating” toward an age of “abundance” in which AI and automation will slash product...
The Revenge Addiction: How Trump's Vengeful Brand is America's Deadliest Drug
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Revenge has become Donald Trump’s brand. That, at least, is the view of James Kimmel Jr, author of The Science of Revenge, who argues that revenge h...
The Authoritarian Pincer: How Both Left and Right Threaten Free Speech in America
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not just the MAGA or the Woke crowd. According to Greg Lukianoff, CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), free speec...
F**k the Patriarchy: Tim Jackson's Path to a "Care" Economy
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As one of the most illustrious rock stars of the sustainability movement, Tim Jackson suggests that we must “f**k the patriarchy” to get beyond ca...
American Ruins: The Death of Expertise in Trump's Washington
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We Must Save the Books. That’s Michael Kimmage’s SOS message from Trumpian Washington in this issue of Liberties Quarterly. Kimmage, former direct...
Episode 2547: Paul Elie on Art, Faith and Sex in the 1980s
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How religious was the 80s creative scene? Very. At least according to Paul Elie, whose intriguing new cultural history, The Last Supper, charts the ar...
Episode 2546: Zaakir Tameez on the most unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who is the most unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction? According to Zaakir Tameez, it’s the abolitionist statesmen Charles Sumner...
Episode 2545: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling on the Death of Trust in Science
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. According to the Pulitzer finalist Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, the majority of Americans no longer trust sta...
Episode 2544: Marcus Alexander Gadson on the History of Sedition in the United States
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to the legal scholar Marcus Alexander Gadson, violence is central to the constitutional history of the United States. As American, in fact, ...
Episode 2543: Edward Luce on the Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who was America’s great power prophet during the Cold War? Perhaps not Henry Kissinger. In Zbig, Financial Times’ U.S. editor, Edward Luce, make...
Episode 2542: John Cassidy on Capitalism and its Critics
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday, the self-styled San Francisco “progressive” Joan Williams was on the show arguing that Democrats need to relearn the language of the Am...
Episode 2541: Joan Williams on How the Democrats Must Win Back the American Working Class
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are the Democrats losing the American working class? According to Joan Williams, it’s because they are failing to prioritize economic concerns o...
Episode 2540: Anna Malaika Tubbs Reveals the Secret History of American Patriarchy
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us, best selling writer Anna Malaika Tubbs reveals the secret history of American patriarchal valu...
Episode 2539: Marshall Poe on why Gaza is becoming Israel's Vietnam
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
History, Marshall Poe wrote in December 2023, shows that Israel will never win a “war of occupation”. Eighteen months later, with Israel on the br...
Episode 2538: Biden, Harris & the Exhausted Democratic Establishment
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So why did Harris lose in 2024? For one very big reason, according to the progressive essayist Bill Deresiewicz: “because she represented the exhaus...
Episode 2537: How to Survive our Age of Technological Mayhem
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“That he not busy being born is busy dying”, Dylan noted in “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”, his grim 1965 masterpiece about reinve...
Episode 2536: Is Spying an Un-American activity?
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is spying an un-American activity? Not according to Jeffrey Rogg, whose new book, The Spy and the State, tells the story of American intelligence from...
Episode 2535: Tim Minshall on How We Manufacture Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Walmart just announced it would be raising prices because of tariffs. So is that a good argument against Trump’s autarkic trade policies? Perhaps. B...
Episode 2534: Why Generative AI is a Technological Dead End
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Something doesn’t smell right about generative AI. Earlier this week, we had a featuring a former Google researcher who described large language mod...
Episode 2533: Leah Litman on the Bad Vibes of the Supreme Court
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s probably not news that today’s Supreme Court runs on crazy conservative grudges and even crazier patrimonial fringe theories. But according t...
Episode 2532: Mattea Kramer on how Addiction has replaced Apple Pie as the most American of things
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rather than apple pie, addiction might be defining quality of 21st century American life. That, at least, is the view of Mattea Kramer, author of Unte...
Episode 2531: Emily Bender and Alex Hanna on the AI Con
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is AI a big scam? In their co-authored new book, The AI Con, Emily Bender and Alex Hanna take aim at what they call big tech “hype”. They argue th...
Episode 2530 William Dalrymple on how Ancient India transformed the world
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The traditional notion of western civilization is premised on the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome. Other less Eurocentric historians, like the Silk ...
Episode 2529: Who is cheating whom in American universities?
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Who’s Cheating?” asks Keith Teare in his weekly summary of tech news. Keith is defending a Columbia University student who was punished for ope...
Episode 2528: Jason Riley on how racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not everyone will like this argument. Jason Riley, the Wall Street Journal columnist and author of The Affirmative Action Myth, argues that affirmativ...
Episode 2527: Mark Skousen on why Benjamin Franklin is the Greatest American
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin, the Chapman University economist Mark Skousen might be a bit biased. That said, Skousen makes an entertai...
Episode 2526: Keach Hagey on why OpenAI is the parable of our hallucinatory times
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Much has been made of the hallucinatory qualities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT product. But as the Wall Street Journal’s resident authority on OpenAI, Keac...
Episode 2525: Jocelyn Benson offers an morally purposeful alternative to Trumpism
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the ideological alternative to Trumpism? In The Purposeful Warrior, Michigan’s Democratic candidate for Governor, Jocelyn Benson, offers “...
Episode 2524: Martin Wolf on whether Trump's tariffs are as dumb as they seem
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are few more respected economic analysts in the world than the Financial Times Chief Economic Commentator Martin Wolf. Yesterday, we ran a conve...
Episode 2522: Edmund Fawcett on Trump as a Third Way between Liberalism and Conservatism
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been in London this week talking to America watchers about the current situation in the United States. First up is Edmund Fawcett, the longtime...
Episode 2521: Michael Stein on the Real Lives of the American Working Class
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s it like to have to work physically hard to make a living in America today? In A Living, the writer and physician Michael Stein shares convers...
Episode 2520: Larry Aldrich on what's Right with America
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does the United States of America still have anything going for it? According to the Arizona based Larry Aldrich, co-author of the upcoming What’s R...
Episode 2519: Is Criticism of Israel, by definition, Anti-Semitic?
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is any criticism of Israel, by definition, anti-semitic? Not according to Uri Kaufman who, in his new book American Intifada, examines what he calls t...
Episode 2518: 100 Days or 100 Years?
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s discussion with David Masciotra about the first hundred days of Trump 2.0 I made the (Freudian) error of referring to it as a “hundred ...
Episode 2517: Soli Ozel on the Light at the End of the Authoritarian Tunnel
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few analysts are more familiar with the politics of both contemporary Turkey and the United States than my old friend , the distinguished Turkish poli...
Episode 2516: Jason Pack on the Trumpian Post-Apocalypse
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Americans, it’s time to move to Europe! The American geo-strategist Jason Pack anticipated last week’s advice from Simon Kuper and moved to Londo...
Episode 2515: David A. Graham on how Project 2025 is Reshaping America
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t say we weren’t warned. Project 2025, the 2022 Heritage Foundation’s 900-page policy blueprint, unambiguously plotted out the strategy of t...
Episode 2514: How to turn America into a Waymo Democracy
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are all Waymo Democrats now. That Was the Week’s Keith Teare and I appropriate Thomas Friedman’s controversial new term to dream of an American...
Episode 2513: Adam Hochschild on how American History is Repeating itself, first as Tragedy, then as Trump
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago, the great American historian Adam Hochschild came on KEEN ON AMERICA to discuss American Midnight, his best selling account of the crisis ...
Episode 2512: Adam Becker on AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Becker’s new critique of Silicon Valley More Everything Forever should probably be entitled Less Nothing Never. The science journalist accuses ...
Episode 2511: Jemima Kelly on why she hasn't quite given up on America
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In contrast with yesterday’s guest, the Paris based Financial Times writer Simon Kuper, the newspaper’s London based columnist Jemima Kelly hasn’...
Episode 2510: Simon Kuper Celebrates the Death of the American Dream
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s official. The American Dream is dead. And it’s been resurrected in Europe where, according to the FT columnist Simon Kuper, disillusioned Ame...
Episode 2509: David A. Bell on "The Enlightenment"
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So what, exactly, was “The Enlightenment”? According to the Princeton historian David A. Bell, it was an intellectual movement roughly spanning th...
Episode 2508: Jerry Avorn on America's addiction to prescribed drugs
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is America so over-medicated? According to Harvard Medical School professor Jerry Avorn, author of Rethinking Medications, everything begins and e...
Episode 2507: Peter Leyden on How Trump is Unintentionally Making America Great Again.
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is America screwed? Not according to the former managing editor of Wired, Peter Leyden. The creator of the Substack newsletter The Great Progression, ...
Epiosde 2506: Are Google and Facebook screwed?
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are Google and Facebook screwed? That’s the question which Keith Teare asks in today’s That Was The Week tech newsletter. In our age of nationalis...
Episode 2505: Sarah Kendzior on the Last American Road Trip
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few Americans have been as explicit in their warnings about Donald Trump than the St. Louis based writer Sarah Kendzior. Her latest book, The Last Ame...
Episode 2502: Nick Troiano on how to protect American democracy from radical activists of both left & right
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In yesterday’s show, the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explained how radical ideology is infecting our brains. Today, Unite America executive director...
Episode 2501: Leor Zmigrod on how radical ideology is infecting our brains
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our brains are delicate things. That, at least, is the view of the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod, whose new book, The Ideological Brain, is a warning ab...
Episode 2500: Why I still believe in the American Dream
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate our 2500th show, long time KEEN ON friend David Masciotra interviewed me about the current perilous situation in America. We discuss why ...
Episode 2499: Thomas Levenson explains how modern scientific research has changed the world and saved tens of millions of lives
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MIT professor Thomas Levenson is one of America’s most celebrated science writers and filmmakers. In his upcoming new book, So Very Small, Levenson ...
Episode 2498: Andre M. Perry on the Black Power Scorecard
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brookings Senior Fellow Andre M. Perry has a new book out today which measures what he calls the “racial gap” in America and asks what we can do t...
Episode 2497: David Denby on America's most Eminent Jews
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who are the most symbolic mid 20th century American Jews? In Eminent Jews, New Yorker staff writer David Denby tells the remarkable stories of Leonard...
Episode 2496: Lily Scherlis on the soft skills crisis in America today
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Harper’s cover story this month is about the ever-softening soft skills of American workers. Written by Lily Scherlis, it suggests that today’...
Episode 2495: Why the World Isn't Ending, But the 'West' is
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lenin quipped that "there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." The post Liberation Day drama of early April 2...
Episode 2494: Samuel George on US-Chinese rivalry for the world's most critical minerals
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In late February in DC, I attended the US premiere of the Bertelsmann Foundation of North America produced documentary “Lithium Rising”, a movie a...
Episode 2493: David Rieff on the Woke Mind
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a small world. The great David Rieff came to my San Francisco studio today for in person interview about his new anti-woke polemic Desire and ...
Episode 2492: Daniel Bessner on how Trump is a natural outgrowth of FDR
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liberals won’t like it, but according to the Seattle based historian and podcaster Daniel Bessner, Trump’s wannabe imperial presidency is a “na...
Episode 2491: Richard Kreitner 0n 6 Jews, 7 Opinions and the American Civil War
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Question: What was the position of 19th century American Jews to the Civil War and Slavery? Answer: Complicated. Very complicated.Painfully and, in so...
Episode 2490: Stephen Witt explains the rise of NVIDIA and its relentless CEO Jensen Huang
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Witt’s last book was entitled How Music Got Free. His latest, The Thinking Machine, a history of NVIDIA and its CEO Jensen Huang, might have...
Episode 2489: Gianna Toboni on whether Death Row Prisoners have the Right to Die With Dignity
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Should death row prisoners have the right to demand to be executed? In her debut book The Volunteer, Bay Area journalist Gianna Toboni exposes the abs...
Episode 2488: Diane Coyle on Measuring the Good Life
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to measure the good life? According to Cambridge University’s Professor of Public Policy, Diane Coyle, quantifying progress doesn’t involve tr...
Episode 2487: Keach Hagey on Sam Altman's Superpower
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keach Hagey’s upcoming new biography of OpenAI's Sam Altman is entitled The Optimist. But it could alternatively be called The Salesman. The Wall St...
Episode 2486: Bethanne Patrick on how our Facebook generation has gotten the Gatsby we deserve
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to the LA Times book critic Bethanne Patrick, every generation gets the Gatsby it deserves. And our generation, the social media generation,...
Episode 2485: Paul Rice on why Tariffs are dumb
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It might be Liberation Day today, but according to Paul Rice, founder of US Fair Trade and author of Every Purchase Matters, Trump’s tariffs are dum...
Episode 2484: David Masciotra on how every day has become April Fools Day in Trumpian America
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy April Fools, everyone! Although, according to cultural critic David Masciotra every day in Trump 2.0 America is now April Fool's Day. KEEN ON AM...
Episode 2483: Peter Wehner on the ethical darkness that has fallen upon America
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is an important interview. I’ve always thought of the political essayist Peter Wehner as representing the conscience of conservative, religious...
Episode 2482: Is AI really about to change the publishing industry?
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare believes that the publishing industry is about to be dramatically swept away by AI. I’m not sure. Here, for ...
Episode 2481: Jonathan Rauch on The Resistance to Trump 2.0
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has Signalgate triggered a credible resistance movement to Trump 2.0? Brookings scholar and Atlantic columnist Jonathan Rauch isn’t particularly opt...
Episode 2480: Dr Andy Lazris on how Big Pharma controls the American healthcare system
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This isn’t exactly the radical message one would expect from a primary physician from Columbia, Maryland. But according to Dr Andy Lazris, co-author...
Episode 2479: Brian Goldstone on the 4 million invisible homeless workers in America today
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amidst all the chaos and hysteria of Trump 2.0, some things in America never change. As the Atlanta based journalist Brian Goldstone notes in There Is...
Episode 2478: Parag Khanna on the Countries Best Positioned to Win the 21st Century
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Which countries are best positioned to thrive in the 21st century? No, it’s not Denmark. Nor China. According to Parag Khanna, the Singapore based g...
Episode 2477: How Daniel Oppenheimer Learned That the Problem in his Marriage Was Himself
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The writer Daniel Oppenheimer and his wife, Jessica, have been going to marriage therapy for many years. But, as he confessed in a recent New York Tim...
Episode 2476: William Deresiewicz on American Boys & Men
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few observers are more insightful than the critic William Deresiewicz at identifying the changing landscape of American culture. In my latest conversa...
Episode 2475: Gregory Walton on how to achieve BIG change with small acts
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to achieve BIG change with small acts? According to the Stanford psychologist Gregory Walton, this requires what, in his new book, he dubs Ordinar...
Episode 2474: What Thomas Mann can teach America about how to save its democracy
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, we featured a conversation with Red Scare author Clay Risen about Joe McCarthy, Donald Trump and the Paranoid Style of American History. ...
Episode 2473: Is Europe about to become the World's 3rd Tech Superpower?
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is Europe about to become the World's Third Tech Superpower? In our regular That Was The Week round-up of tech news, Keith Teare says NO!, arguing tha...
Episode 2472: Clay Risen on Joe McCarthy, Donald Trump and the Paranoid Style of American History
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
American history, Clay Risen reminds us, has an uncanny knack of repeating itself. In Red Scare, his important new book about blacklists, McCarthyism ...