Keen On America

Episode 2270: Craig Garnett on May 24, 2022 - Uvalde's Darkest Hour

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On May 24, 2022, a 18 year-old walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and shot to death 19 students and 2 teachers. In Uvalde’s Darkest...

Episode 2269: Michael Sayman looks forward to an AI age in which all our online interactions are with bots

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While many of us fear a future in which all our online interactions are with algorithms, the young Florida based programming prodigy, Michael Sayman, ...

Episode 2268: David Rowell on how new technology is making us dislike new music

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, we featured a conversation with Jonathan Taplin about the dearth of high quality contemporary music and movies. The music writer, David Row...

Episode 2267: Jonathan Taplin on the coming cultural renaissance in America

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A few months ago, I interviewed David Leonhardt, author of Ours Was the Shining Future, about the death of the American dream which, he argued, can be...

Episode 2266: Mr Musk, Mr Sacks and Mr Andreessen go to Washington

08 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the week that the price of Bitcoin rose above $100,000 and Trump appointed David Sacks as his “AI and Crypto Czar”, has Silicon Valley finally ...

Episode 2265: Jeff Jarvis on how to reclaim the internet from moguls, misanthropes and moral panics

07 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, we featured a conversation with Mozilla co-founder and Internet Hall of Famer, Mitchell Baker, one of the great champions of an open web. T...

Episode 2265: Internet Hall of Famer, Mitchell Baker, on the promise of an Open Web

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Few people deserve their place in the Internet Hall of Fame than Mozilla Chairwoman Mitchell Baker. Since co-founding the Mozilla Project in the late ...

Episode 2264: Robert Pearl demystifies the RFK Jr nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Few people are better at demystifying the byzantine complexities of the American healthcare system than the former CEO of Kaiser Permanente, Robert Pe...

Episode 2263: The Godmother of Silicon Valley on luck, love and fate

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If Silicon Valley has an official matriarch, it might be the Palo Alto based educator and writer Esther Wojcicki. Popularly known as the “Godmother ...

Episode 2262: Steve Blank on how to hack the 21st century

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Blank is one of Silicon Valley’s most persistent hackers. As the pioneer of the Lean Startup movement, Blank has changed how startups are buil...

Episode 2261: Douglas Rushkoff on why AI is the first native app for the internet

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If there’s a Marshall McLuhan for our digital age, then it might be the much published media theorist Douglas Rushoff. One of the founding evangelis...

Episode 2260: Andrew Keen evaluates the health of American democracy

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the presenter of the How to Fix Democracy show, which will be going into its seventh series next year, Andrew Keen has given much thought to the he...

Episode 2259: Idealab founder Bill Gross on what's he's learned over the last 20 years

30 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Few innovators have had a better front row seat on the internet revolution than Idealab chairman Bill Gross. Having founded Idealab in 1996, Gross has...

Episode 2258: Why the Democrats need to radically reimagine 21st century American government as a service or a platform

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s tech news is all about Elon Musk and Vivak Ramaswamy’s DOGE ambitions to supposedly reinvent the Federal government. But as That Was T...

Episode 2257: Kishore Mahbubani offers an undiplomatic introduction to our Asian Century

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If the 20th century was the American Century then, for Kishore Mahbubani, the controversial Singaporean writer and diplomat, the 21st century is the A...

Episode 2256: David Kirkpatrick on his twenty year odyssey from digital idealist to sceptic

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To conclude our trilogy of interviews with prominent tech journalists to celebrate the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the DLD Conference, today’s...

Episode 2255: Frank Vogl on whether Donald Trump 2.0 will be a semi-legal repeat of the Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX debacle

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a longtime journalist and the co-founder of Transparency International, myboldb friend Frank Vogl has always the nose for a good story. So it was p...

Episode 2254: Steven Levy on what has and hasn't surprised him about the last twenty years of tech history

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, we featured an interview with John Markoff, the legendary New York Times Silicon Valley correspondent. If Markoff has an East Coast equival...

Episode 2253: Andrew Keen revisits Cult of the Amateur

24 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this KEEN ON Andrew Keen special, guest host David Masciotra interviews Andrew about his controversial book Cult of the Amateur. While David genero...

Episode 2252: Can the AI revolution decentralize our politics, culture and economy?

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Every digital tech revolution over the last forty years has promised decentralization but each one only seems to have recentralized power. So will the...

Episode 2251: Steven Robinson on how a band of activists beat Donald Trump and saved New York's West Side

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How to beat Trump? In his new book, Turf War, the architect Steven Robinson shows us how it can be done. In the late 1980s, a band of New York civic g...

Episode 2250: :John Markoff compares Steve Jobs with contemporary tech titans like Sam Altman and Elon Musk

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Former New York Times reporter John Markoff has been writing about Silicon Valley for almost a half century. In December 1993 the Pulitzer Prize winni...

Episode 2249: Peter Wehner on how American self-renewal is a wonder of the world

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Few Americans have been as consistently critical of Donald Trump’s morality than the New York Times and Atlantic columnist Peter Wehner. How to prev...

Episode 2248: F.H. Buckley on the case for Trumpism

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s hard to know if F.H. Buckley is keen on Donald Trump. On the one hand, Buckley and his wife wrote a number of speeches for Trump in his 2016 ca...

Episode 2247: David Masciotra on how the Boss and the Dude can save America

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So how can The Dude and The Boss save America? According to the cultural critic, David Masciotra, Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski and Bruce “The Boss”...

Episode 2246: Jonathan Rauch on the catastrophic ordinariness of contemporary America

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So was November 5 a moral catastrophe signaling the death knell of American liberalism or just another election in the turbulent history of American d...

Episode 2245: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley and the Reinvention of American Government

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“There is one winner regarding the most significant story this week,” Keith Teare writes in his That Was The Week technology newsletter. But, as h...

Episode 2244: John Hagel on overcoming fear - his proudest achievement over the last 20 years

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In association with our friends at Digital-Life-Design (DLD), Europe’s iconic annual tech conference which next January celebrates its twentieth ann...

Episode 2243: Frank Furedi on why the West must fight for its History

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The endless culture wars rage on. In his new book, The War Against the Past, the sociologist Frank Furedi believes that unless what he calls “the We...

Episode 2242: Gary Gerstle identifies the outlines of our Post Neoliberal Age

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, the Cambridge University historian Gary Gerstle was one of first people to recognize the c...

Episode 2241: Gary Shapiro on how to become a Pivot Guy

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gary Shapiro is my Pivot Guy. As the longtime CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, the organization that puts on Las Vegas’ annual CES, Gary ...

Episode 2240: Parmy Olson on the race for global AI supremacy between OpenAI and Deep Mind

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the race that will change the world. In Supremacy, one of the FT’s six short-listed best business book of the year, Bloomberg columnist Parmy...

Episode 2239: Good Morning America! AI, Trump and the Silicon Valley Future

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Might November 5 mark a new dawn for both Silicon Valley and America? Palo Alto based serial entrepreneur Keith Teare is ambivalent. In his That Was T...

Episode 2238: Juliana Tafur on how to put Humpty Dumpty (America) back to together again

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The election is over and, is spite of Trump’s clear victory, America remains as divided as ever. So how to put the country together again? Juliana T...

Episode 2237: Vanessa Resier on Narcissistic Abuse - the disease that captures the spirit of our toxic times

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If there’s a disease that captures the toxic spirit of our times, it’s what the therapist, Vanessa Resier, in her new book, calls Narcissistic Abu...

Episode 2236: Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff on How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

War is never pretty, but its privatized high tech future dominated by companies like Palintir and SpaceX is particularly chilling. In Unit X, their FT...

Episode 2235: John Driscoll on why Kamala Harris lost

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I did this interview with John Driscoll, co-author of Pay the People! Why Fair Pay is Good for Business and Great for America, earlier this week, assu...

Episode 2234: Lauren Oyler on 2024 as America's first post internet election

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren Oyler’s “Revenge Plot”, a literary diary of her trip to this year’s Republican convention in Milwaukee, is the cover story of this mont...

Episode 2233: Paul Greenberg predicts a George Washington vs Donald Trump election in 2028

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The good news is that the interminable 2024 election is almost done. The bad news is that the 2028 Presidential campaign - sure to be described as the...

Episode 2242: Should anyone in Silicon Valley really care who wins the election?

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This was the week of Techcrunch Disrupt, one of San Francisco’s biggest technology events of the year. That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare atten...

Episode 2241: Daniel Susskind exposes the messy truth about the benefits of economic growth

02 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, we featured a conversation with the British pro-market Conservative, Jon Moynihan, who is unambiguously in favor of economic growth. But Da...

Episode 2240: Jon Moynihan on how to fix the economy and create long term growth

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Not everyone believes in the promise of economic growth. We’ve done KEEN ON shows in the past with “degrowth” advocates like Tim Jackson and Jas...

Episode 2239: Has Halloween been rescheduled for November 5?

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Maybe Halloween is a bit early this year. As Jason Pack, the host of the excellent Disorder podcast notes, a Trump victory on Tuesday would be a horro...

Episode 2238: Andrew J. Scott explains how to age with grace and wisdom

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Can one age with grace and wisdom? Yes, according to Andrew J. Scott, author of the Longevity Imperative, one of the six books on the Financial Times’...

Episode 2237: Bethanne Patrick on new Fall Fiction to take your mind off you-know-what

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, the Los Angeles Times book critic, Bethanne Patrick, came on the show to talk about the best new non-fiction books for the Fall. Today she ...

Episode 2236: Stephen Riggio on the greatest Italian novel you've never heard of

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are few more passionate bibliophiles than those who have dedicated their lives to the publishing business. Take, for example, Stephen Riggio, th...

Episode 2235: Peter Osnos on LBJ & McNamara - the Vietnam Partnership Bound to Fail

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are few men politically or intellectually smarter than President Lyndon Johnson and his defense secretary Robert McNamara. So how did LBJ and Mc...

Episode 2234: Terrence Sejnowski asks whether our brains and AI are converging

27 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the longtime collaborator of the 2024 Nobel laureates John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, Terrence Sejnowski is one of America’s most distinguishe...

Episode 2233: More than a Tool: How AI is becoming an independent actor in our world

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Not only is the AI revolution really happening, but its Large Language Model technology is becoming an independent actor in the world. Rather than the...

Episode 2232: Mark Galeotti on whether Putin is a prisoner or a master of history

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From the introduction of North Korean troops into the war in Ukraine to a budding friendship with Elon Musk, Putin continues to make strange headlines...

Episode 2231: Bill Adair on the Epidemic of Political Lying, why Republicans do it more, and how it could destroy American democracy

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Politifact founder, Duke University professor and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Bill Adair certainly isn’t the first person to raise the alarm a...

Episode 2230: Seth Godin on why we are all hard-wired for hope

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In February 2011, I had the maven of mavens, Seth Godin, on the show to discuss the end of the industrial age. “So why are you so popular?” I aske...

Episode 2229: Robert Skidelsky worries about the Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New books about the impact of AI on the human condition are two a penny. But it’s rare to have an AI book by such a prominent author as Robert Skide...

Episode 2228: Bethanne Patrick on Al Pacino, the Queen, Bob Woodward and Ketanji Brown Jackson

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are some seriously heavyweight new non-fiction books this Fall including memoirs by Al Pacino and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as an intriguin...

Episode 2227: Allie Funk on how to Build Online Trust

20 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last October, we featured a conversation with Kian Vesteinsson, co-author of Freedom House’s 2023 FREEDOM ON THE NET report, about the repressive po...

Episode 2226: Why the Economics of our AI Age might be unlike all previous Tech Revolutions

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The conventional way of thinking about digital technology revolutions is akin to thinking about how to build a house. First we build the foundation, t...

Episode 2225: Katherine Epstein on how American Historians are Killing History

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Early today, we posted a conversation with Celeste Marcus, LIBERTIES Quarterly managing editor, about her hard-hitting “Hate Lands” essay in the F...

Episode 2224: Celeste Marcus on why the humanism of Agnieszka Holland's movies remain so relevant in our Trumpian age

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the Fall 2024 issue of Liberties Quarterly, managing editor Celeste Marcus writes about the great Polish movie director Agnieszka Holland. Marcus a...

Episode 2223: Brian Solis on how we need to reshape the future before it reshapes us

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do we shape the future or does it shape us? That’s the core question in Brian Solis’ new book, Mindshift which provides lessons for corporate exec...

Episode 2222: David Edelman on the dangers and opportunities of personalized technology in our AI age

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a longtime Harvard Business School professor and the former chief marketing officer at Aetna, David C. Edelman is all too familiar with both the da...

Episode 2221: Talia Lavin on how the Christian Right is Taking Over America

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, we featured an interview with the leftist American theologian, Jim Wallis, who warned about the false white gospel of contemporary Christia...

Episode 2220: Nobel Prize Winning Economist Simon Johnson on Technology & Inequality

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 2024 winners of the Nobel prize for Economics were announced this morning. One of the winners was the MIT economist Simon Johnson, who, as the co...

Episode 2219: Joel Edward Goza on why Reparations is the Central Civil Rights Issue of the 2020s

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this week, the prominent African-American broadcaster and writer, Tavis Smiley, came on the show to voice his support for Reparations to corre...

Episode 2218: Timothy Shenk explains the fate of liberal politics in the illiberal age of Harris and Trump

12 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In her quest for the White House, it seems as if Kamala Harris is doing everything in her power to disassociate herself with liberal ideas. So what, e...

Episode 2217: Why Google should hire Chris Lehane, Silicon Valley's Master of the Message

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a strange week in tech. The Nobel prizes in both Chemistry and Physics went to prominent former or current Googlers, and yet the tech news...

Episode 2216: Neal Baer on the Promise and Peril of CRISPR

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a Harvard trained pediatrician as well as television writer and producer, Neal Baer has particularly interesting take on the moral, policy and ethi...

Episode 2215: Tavis Smiley on why black men are more likely to vote for Donald Trump than black women

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why are black men more likely to vote for Donald Trump than black women? According to Tavis Smiley, the syndicated radio host and best selling author ...

Episode 2214: Arlie Russell Hochschild on How to Listen to America

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is an important conversation. Few Americans are better skilled at listening than the UC Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. The author...

Episode 2213: Charles and Lily Bock on fathers, daughters and missing mothers

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In December 2008, Lily Bock, the daughter of the novelist Charles Bock, was born. But Bock, the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Beauti...

Episode 2212: Jim Wallis on the False White Gospel threatening America

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

American Christianity appears in a state of disrepair, perhaps even imminent civil war. On the one hand, of course, we have the evangelical right who ...

Episode 2211: Why in the AI Age, Big Tech is going to get significantly BIGGER

05 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Might future multi-trillion dollar AI platforms like OpenAI represent not just the end of the app age but also of economic competition itself? As That...

Episode 2210: Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley explain how to design the future

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley both teach at Stanford’s interdisciplinary d.school. They are also the joint authors of Assembling Tomorrow, an int...

Episode 2209: Michael Morris on how the cultural instincts that divide us can also help bring us together

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, I interviewed The Financial Times’ Andrew Hill about the FT’s best six business books of the year. Today, I talk to Michael Morris, the...

Episode 2208: Andrew Hill on the Financial Times' Six Best Business Books for 2024

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Financial Times has just announced their short list of the best six business books of 2024. Authors include KEEN ON regulars like Andrew Scott as ...

Episode 2207: Barry Lynn on Liberal Democracy's Last Stand against Big Tech

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While many fear that Trump offers an existential threat to American democracy, Barry C. Lynn believes that the real danger comes from big tech compani...

Episode 2207: Martin Schmidt, President of Rensselaer Institute of Technology, on how Quantum Computing is about the change the world

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Finally a tech show not about AI. Martin Schmidt is the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as well a distinguished technologist in hi...

Episode 2206: Josh McConkey on How to Be the American Weight Behind the Spear

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Josh McConkey’s new book, Be the Weight Behind the Spear, is about how to fix America. McConkey, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for Congress...

Episode 2205: Edward Goldberg explains how the US Came to Lead (and Lose) the World

28 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is there anyone who still believes in America as a force for good in the world today? There’s that doddery old cold warrior Joe Biden, of course, an...

Episode 2204: Sharon McMahon on Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Instagram superstar and “Here’s Where It Gets Interesting” podcast host Sharon McMahon has been dubbed America’s government teacher. In her fi...

Episode 2203 with Saad Mohseni: The best-informed person in the world about Afghanistan

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Back in April 2011, Saad Mohseni was made one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world. And who exactly is that, you might ask. I have to ...

Episode 2202: Ray Suarez on what it means to be an American in the 2020's

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are few more authoritative American journalists than the longtime NPR and PBS host Ray Suarez. So it was a real treat to sit down with Ray earli...

Episode 2201: Brigid Schulte on turning the daily grind of work into a more meaningful life

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you work too hard? Is it ruining your life? If so, then you may want to look at Brigid Schulte’s new book, Over Work, an exploration of why Ameri...

Episode 2200: Ryan Hampton on the reckless capitalism causing America's drug addiction crisis

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Few people are more familiar with America’s drug addiction crisis than Ryan Hampton. A former addict himself as well as the author of three books on...

Episode 2199: Anindya Ghose on Maximizing our Well-Being in the Age of AI

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Not everyone fears that AI revolution represents an existential event for humanity. Anindya Ghose, the Heinz Riehl Professor of Business at NYU’s il...

Episode 2198: Megan Hellerer exposes the "achievement lie" of how we think about our careers and lives

21 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Working on Sheryl Sandberg’s team at Google, Megan Hellerer - who had just graduated top of her Stanford class - was on the fast track to become a y...

Episode 2197: Keith and Andrew on why, in our AI Age, Specialists will be the New Proletariat

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this week, I interviewed the Australian AI expert Toby Walsh about Google’s new NotebookLM, a seemingly magical AI product that creates beli...

Episode 2196: Michael Scott-Baumann on the unfolding catastrophe in Israel and Palestine

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last year, Michael Scott-Baumann, author of The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine and a peace activist at the Balfour Project, came on the show...

Episode 2195: Toby Walsh on why AI is finally ready to change everything

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The AI revolution, long in hype but short in practice, is finally beginning to happen. In today’s WSJ, the tech writer Joanna Stern introduces her o...

Episode 2194: Marietje Schaake explains how to save democracy from Silicon Valley

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is the final episode of a trilogy of critical conversations about the digital revolution. Earlier this week, Gary Marcus explained how to tame Si...

Episode 2193: Arthur Magida on what Americans can learn from a young forger who outfoxed the Nazis

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

And still they come. Every week, it seems, there’s a new book celebrating resistance to Nazism. The latest is Two Wheels to Freedom, Arthur J. Magid...

Episode 2192: Mark Weinstein on how to restore our sanity online

15 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Early social media pioneer Mark Weinstein is deeply disturbed by the current state of social media. He’s not alone of course, but in his new book, R...

Episode 2191: Why the future has to be built by innovators, rather than just hoped for by optimists

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, KEEN ON featured a conversation with the technologist Gary Marcus about how we can ensure that AI works for us. Today, on our regular That ...

Episode 2190: Gary Marcus on How to Tame Silicon Valley's AI Barons

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Few artificial intelligence experts have been as outspoken or prescient as the author and entrepreneur Gary Marcus. In his new book, Taming Silicon Va...

Episode 2189: Wilbur Ross on his mom, Donald Trump, King Charles, and Biden's "Lollipop Economy"

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As Donald Trump’s 79 year-old Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross was the oldest first-time Cabinet appointee in American history. Ross’ mom, howe...

Episode 2188: Build Baby Build - Jerusalem Demsas on how America can fix its housing crisis

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the debate last night, Kamala Harris opened her remarks by talking about the need for America to fix its housing crisis. And crisis it is, at least...

Episode 2187: Josh Cowen on how radical right-wing billionaires are wrecking the American public school system

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the debate tonight, there probably won’t be much talk about American education. Which is a shame - at least according to Josh Cowen, author of T...

Episode 2186: Branko Milanovic on the history of inequality in America from slavery to neo-liberalism

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic is one of the world’s leading authorities on inequality. In this KEEN ON America conversation, we t...

Episode 2185: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi reveals his lucrative life on the streets of New York City as a citizen-sleuth

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Brooklyn based Rafil Kroll-Zaidi is a Princeton educated reporter formerly on the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine. And he is another kind of ...

Episode 2184: Should Elon Musk be arrested for all the lies and hate on X?

07 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last Saturday, on our regular That Was The Week tech roundup, Keith Teare and I discussed the French decision to imprison Telegram founder Pavel Durov...

Episode 2183: Mimi Casteel on her life-long love affair with the American land

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last month we ran an interview with the Oregon based regenerative wine maker Mimi Casteel about fixing America one sip at a time. In addition, we reco...