Keen On America

Episode 2182: Andrew Leigh on how economics explains the world

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Leigh is a minister in the Australian parliament with a doctorate in economics from Harvard. Unlike many academic economists, however, Leigh ha...

Episode 2181: Piotr Smolar on his Bad Jew Grandaddy

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Formerly Le Monde’s guy in Jerusalem, Piotr Smolar is now the senior correspondent for Le Monde in Washington, DC. He is also the grandson of Hersh ...

Episode 2180: Giles Milton on the WW2 Alliance between the US, Soviet Union & Britain which Won the War but Lost the Peace

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Exactly 85 years ago today, on 3 September 1939, the Second World War officially began with Britain’s declaration of war against Germany. Russians m...

Episode 2179: Jacob Howland on what should be taught at a 21st century liberal university

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Controversial things are happening on the campus of the University of Austin (UATX), the brand new anti-woke university designed to “dare” its stu...

Episode 2178: Bryan VanDyke on Humanist Nostalgia in our AI Age

01 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan VanDyke’s new dystopian AI novel, In Our Likeness, only came out today, but it has already over 1,400 reviews on Amazon and is currently their...

Episode 2177: Brazil vs X, France vs Telegram and the Brewing War between Big Tech & Government

31 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a big fight, perhaps even a war, about to break out between Big Tech and governments around the world. It’s been brewing for several years...

Episode 2176: Peter Phillips on why State Controlled Chinese Capitalism is more Humane than the Free Market American Model

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

According to the Californian political sociologist Peter Phillips, American capitalism is facing an existential crisis. In his new book, Titans of Cap...

Episode 2175: Tanya Gold on her Gay Romp through Jewish Poland

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Anglo-Jewish writer Tanya Gold went on holiday to Auschwitz and didn’t much like what she saw. She writes about the experience in “My Auschwit...

Episode 2174: David Lay Williams on how Economic Inequality has Shaped the History of Political Thought

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last year, we had a great conversation with Branko Milanovic, author of Visions of Inequality, about how classical economists like Smith, Riccardo, Ma...

Episode 2173: Pano Kanelos on How to Build a Liberal 21st Century University

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Something interesting is happening in downtown Austin. Next month, The University of Austin (UATX), a new undergraduate college claiming to “be dedi...

Episode 2172: Pedro Domingos on how AI can radically democratize American politics

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the author of the bestselling Master Algorithm, University of Washington professor Pedro Domingos is one of the world’s most respected AI experts...

Episode 2171: Frank Andre Guridy reimagines America through the history of its sports stadiums

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the DNC last week, the Warriors coach and former Bulls star Steve Kerr spoke of his excitement at his return to Chicago’s United Center, the home...

Episode 2170: Former U.S. Inspectors General, Glenn Fine, in defense of honest & accountable government

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As one of the victims of Donald Trump’s notorious 2020 dismissal of Inspector Generals, Glenn A. Fine — a longtime Inspector General of both the d...

Episode 2169: Why Both Teachers and Students Need AI

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“We don’t need no education”, Pink Floyd announced in 1979. “Teachers leave those kids alone”:We don't need no educationWe don’t need no ...

Episode 2168: KEEN ON America featuring William Deresiewicz

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

William Deresiewicz is a leading American writer best known as the author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a ...

Episode 2167: George Gilder on the Israel Test

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I have to admit that I’m always a little uncomfortable with non-Jews fetishizing the supposedly unique gifts & accomplishments of the Jewish people....

Episode 2166: Meredith Sumpter on how to make American Democracy more Democratic

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How to fix American democracy? It’s a question that, over the last couple of years, we’ve been addressing in my Bertelsmann Foundation supported H...

Episode 2165: A Meta Exec on why Corporations Should be in the Business of Social Engineering

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew C.M. Cooper is the author of the new book, The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business. He is also an Assoc...

Episode 2164: Keith Teare asks if Europe is Dying

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s ironic that Keith Teare, editor of That Was The Week newsletter, just spent two idyllic weeks in Europe, enjoying the Paris Olympics and London...

Episode 2163: David Masciotra on Kamala and America's "Harrisist" Moment

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are living in interesting political times. A month ago, the Presidential election appeared over. Today, however, it appears as if it’s barely beg...

Episode 2162: Bethanne Patrick on the Hypocrite, Hitler's People and Hum

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What do Hum, Hitler’s People and The Hypocrite have in common? They are all recommended new books from KEEN ON’s best read regular guest, Los Ange...

Episode 2061: Mimi Casteel explains the how to fix America, one sip of wine at a time

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last month, we were in western Virginia talking to the pioneering regenerative farmer Joel Salatin about how American can fix itself one bite at a tim...

Episode 2160: Steve Benen on how the Republicans have become the Orwellian Party of Big Brother

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, which he wrote in 1948,George Orwell imagined the “Ministry of Truth” to be the central institution that Big Brother used...

Episode 2159: Richard J. Evans on how leading Nazis were, in some ways, just ordinary middle class Germans

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As author of the authoritative three volume Third Reich Trilogy, Richard J. Evans is probably the most respected scholar of Hitler’s Third Reich in ...

Episode 2158: Robin Bernstein on the Marriage of American Capitalism with the American Prison System

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In her new book, Freeman’s Challenge, the Harvard historian Robin Bernstein reveals the early 19th century origins of America’s for profit prison...

Episode 2157: Lindsey Cormack on How to Raise a Citizen

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In an America riven with both civic discord and ignorance, how can we nurture a next generation of responsibly informed citizens? That’s the all imp...

Episode 2156: James Muldoon exposes the hidden human labor powering the AI revolution

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are two core critiques of AI. The first is that it is an existential threat because it replaces humans with algorithms. The second is that AI is...

Episode 2155: David Daley Gets Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How democratic is American “democracy”. Dramatically less so that it was. That’s at least the rather worrying conclusion of David Daley, the aut...

Episode 2154: Shad White on Brett Favre's Mississippi Swindle

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shad White has an uncanny resemblance to J.D. Vance. Born in a tiny town in Mississippi, White went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, then Harvard Law Sc...

Episode 2153: Lola Milholland on Group Living and Other Deliciously Polyamorous Recipes

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If it’s lunchtime, it must be KEEN ON time. At least that’s what it seems, given the long menu of food guests recently on the show. First there wa...

Episode 2152: Peter Wehner on the Fate of "His" Republican Party

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Wehner is the conscience of American conservatism. Having worked in three Republican administrations, the ex Republican is now a regular contrib...

Episode 2151: Edmund Fawcett compares the Futures of Liberalism and Conservatism

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Were politics chess, liberals had white; they moved first. Conservatives had black; they countered liberalism’s opening moves. In time, the initiati...

Episode 2150: Jonathan Taplin on why American Exceptionalism lies in its Powers of Creativity

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So what’s exceptional about America? According to the writer, film producer and scholar Jonathan Taplin, American exceptionalism lies its uniquely g...

Episode 2149: How the Populist Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Much of the critical writing about authoritarianism warns that contemporary populism threatens democracy. But as Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein a...

Episode 2148: J. Doyne Farmer on how to Invent a Better Economics for a Better World

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1970’s, J. Doyne Farmer built the first wearable computer which he used to predict the game of roulette. While this didn’t make him particu...

Episode 2147: Matthew Warshauer on the Real Story of 9/11 (it's not what you think)

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

According to the historian Matthew Warshauer, there was no giant conspiracy on 9/11. The real story about September 11, 2001, he argues in his provoca...

Episode 2146: Sasha Issenberg on how to build more trust and transparency in American politics

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this year, the prolific American political journalist Sasha Issenberg came on the show to offer a playbook for winning elections in our disinf...

Episode 2145: Deesha Dyer explains how she undiplomatically rattled the entrenched culture of the White House

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many are called, but few are chosen. In her late twenties, Deesha Dyer was still in community college. By the age of 31, however, she had become Miche...

Episode 2144: Edward Ball on his own Family History of White Supremacy

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like to discover a Klansman in one’s own family? A few weeks ago, R. Derek Black, the son of a KKK Grand Wizard and an intimate family f...

Episode 2143: Andrea Freeman on Food Genocide and Oppression in the United States

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve been on a food & farming run this week. First, we talked with America’s “lunatic farmer,” Joel Salatin, about how regenerative agricult...

Episode 2142: Why the Kamala Harris campaign has all the strengths and weaknesses of a tech start-up

27 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While Kamala Harris has announced that she wants to become the first Silicon Valley President, Donald Trump is speaking today at Bitcoin2024 in Nashvi...

Episode 2141: Nicola Twilley on how Refrigeration has Transformed our Food, our Planet, and Ourselves

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A couple of days ago, America’s most controversial regenerative farmer, Joel Salatin, came on the show to explain how industrialized farming is kill...

Episode 2140: Kimberly Meyer on five refugee women's invention of a new American dream

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, we were in rural Virginia interviewing the pioneering regenerative farmer, Joel Salatin. Today, we are on an equally innovative farm in Hou...

Episode 2139: Joel Salatin explains how to fix America, one bite at a time

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As one of America’s most outspoken pioneers of regenerative agriculture, Joel Salatin is popularly known as The Lunatic Farmer. Others have accused ...

Keen on America featuring Batya Ungar-Sargon

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A hundred episodes ago, we had the author of Second Class, Batya Ungar-Sargon, on the show to talk specifically about how America’s elites have betr...

Episode 2137: Anne Snyder on how to morally repair and renew America

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of Biden’s resignation and the coronation of Kamala Harris, it’s likely that this year’s election will be particularly divisive and ...

KEEN ON America featuring Joshua Browder, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and great grandson of the US Communist Party leader

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As CEO of the AI start-up DoNotPay, Joshua Browder is one of Silicon Valley’s rising young entrepreneurs. Born in the UK and educated at Stanford, B...

Episode 2135: J. Malcolm Garcia on the humanity of San Francisco's homeless community

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lauded by KEEN ON favorites like Dave Eggers & Dale Maharidge, J. Malcolm Garcia might be the Studs Terkel of contemporary American literature. Having...

Episode 2134: Jonathan Rauch on Reinventing Liberalism in the 21st Century

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I was at the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference last week in DC where I bumped into an old friend and KEEN ON regular Jonathan Rauch. A Brooki...

Episode 2133: Ebony Reed on the Shameful Black-White Wealth Gap in America

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For all the “progress” in civil rights front over the last couple of generations, the wealth gap between white and black Americans hasn’t change...

episode 2132: Elle Reeve on how the darkest corners of the internet have poisoned society and captured American politics

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of the failed Trump assassination attempt by what seems to be a conventionally lonely and bullied young man, more and more Americans are a...

Episode 2131: Laurent Dubreuil's creative answer to whether AI can think creatively

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Trust a French literary theorist to think creatively about whether AI can think creatively. Laurent Dubreuil is a professor of French literature at Co...

Episode 2130: Renee DiResta on our Invisible Rulers Who Turn Lies into Reality

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I’m just back from the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference in DC which featured a lively discussion about digital misinformation between KEEN...

Episode 2129: Niobe Way on America's Crisis of Masculinity

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does America have problem with its boys and men? Yes, says author of Boys and Men, Richard Reeves, a previous guest on KEEN ON. Today’s guest, Niobe...

Episode 2128: Peter Hessler on what life is really like in Xi's China

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Few Americans know contemporary China better than Peter Hessler. The author of four prize winning books about life in China as well as the former Chin...

Episode 2127: Andrew O'Hagan goes up the Caledonian Road in search of Truth, Justice and a Man in Blue

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What a treat. LA Times book critic Bethanne Patrick and I got the opportunity to talk today with the great Andrew O’Hagan, author of Caledonian Road...

Episode 2126: Daniel Silva on why the Criminal Rich Collect the Masterpieces of Van Gogh, Vermeer and Picasso

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Spy novelists often make excellent moralists and the American writer Daniel Silva, author of the Gabriel Allon series of best-selling thrillers, is a ...

Episode 2125: Mike Maples on how to Break Patterns and Invent the Future

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this week, I visited the offices of Floodgate Partners in Menlo Park to talk with its co-founding partner Mike Maples. As an early investor in...

Episode 2124: Jeremy Kahn's Survival Guide for our AI Future

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 2022, That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare and I violently disagreed about the current AI boom. Keith, the eternal techno-optimist, thin...

Episode 2123: Mara Kardas-Nelson Reveals the Seductive Promise of Microfinance

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The seductive promise of microfinance might have conveniently died in the Western media, but Muhammad Yunis’ alluring economic idea has actually wre...

Episode 2122: Is the AI Tech Boom of the 2020s a Repeat of the Wall Street Mania of the Roaring 1920s?

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare and I discussed whether Silicon Valley has an AI Bubble Problem. And we return to the same subject ...

Episode 2121: PR exec Phil Elwood confesses to building a "counter-narrative" for some of the worst humans on the planet

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Memoirs are usually morally uplifting reads with happy endings. But Phil Elwood’s new memoir, All the Worst Humans, is a confession of how Elwood, a...

Episode 2120: Simon Reynolds on reasons to be cheerful about the AI cultural revolution

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2011, Simon Reynolds is one of the world’s most prolific music journalists, came on KEEN ON to explain why the Internet has been bad for both mu...

Episode 2119: Diane McLain Smith offers a way to reunite America

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our second July 4 interview features Diane McLain Smith, author of Remaking the Space Between Us: How Citizens Can Work Together to Build a Better Fut...

Episode 2118: Former Prosecutor Debbie Hines on Black Lives, White Justice and her Quest for Reform

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the former Assistant Attorney General for Maryland, one would expect Debbie Hines to be a strong supporter of the American criminal justice system....

Episode 2117: Celeste Marcus Exposes the Generational Crisis of American Liberalism

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week’s horror show debate woke up a lot of progressive Americans. For Celeste Marcus, managing editor of Liberties Quarterly, Biden’s dismal ...

Episode 2116: Daniel Porterfield defends the personal and civic value of a college education

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last couple of years we’ve had multiple guests questioning the economic and moral value of a college education. But Daniel R. Porterfield, ...

Episode 2115: Dmitri Alperovitch on how America can beat China in the Second Cold War

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amongst the most bizarro thing about last week’s truly bizarre Presidential debate was how much Biden and Trump were in violent agreement on China. ...

Episode 2114: M. Steven Fish on why Trump's dominance-style politics will win in November (didn't anyone tell the Democrats?)

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of Biden’s pathetically dismal performance last week, it’s worth remembering that some progressive thinkers have been warning for mont...

Episode 2113: Does Silicon Valley have an AI Bubble Problem? Duh....

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does Silicon Valley have an AI bubble problem? That Was the Week’s Keith Teare, usually the most bullish of tech bulls, acknowledges that Silicon Va...

Episode 2112: The Woman Who Mistook A Stranger For Her Husband

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine accosting a stranger in a grocery store because you mistook him to be your husband? That was the fate of the Washington Post science reporter,...

Episode 2111: Tracy O'Neill's Return to South Korea to Discover her Birth Mother

29 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you liked Davy Chou’s excellent 2022 movie, Return to Seoul, then Tracy O’Neill’s new memoir, Woman of Interest, might be for you. Both movie...

Episode 2110: John Ganz on his German Jewish ghosts of resistance and exile

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The New York City based writer John Ganz appeared on episode 2099 talking about how American cracked up in the Nineties with the rise of neo-Nazis lik...

Episode 2109: Madhumita Murgia on why we are living in the dark shadow of AI

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whatever one thinks of the creative potential of AI, it’s definitely been great for metaphor makers. Yesterday, we had Shannon Vallor explaining why...

Episode 2108: Shannon Vallor on how to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

According to Shannon Vallor, a self-styled AI “ethicist”, artificial intelligence is a mirror. When we interact with the latest algorithms from Op...

Episode 2107: Matt Beane on How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are focusing on the impact of AI this week with interviews featuring Shannon Vallor, Matt Beane and Madhumita Murgia. First up Beane, who teaches T...

Episode 2106: Julie Satow remembers a time when Women ran Fifth Avenue

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Little has changed in America more dramatically over the last half century than the retail fashion industry. There was a time, Julie Satow tells us th...

Episode 2105: Alexandre Lefebvre explains why Liberalism is a Way of Life

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are those who believe that fighting for democracy is more important than defending the rather nebulous concept of “liberalism”. And then the...

Episode 2104: Thomas Hale on how to be a Transnationalist in an age of Nation-States

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

 It’s an odd world. Many of our most pressing political problems, particularly global warming, are long term, and yet we are still confined to the...

Episode 2103: Keith Teare explains why Silicon Valley is celebrating like it's 2027

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are we on the brink of technological “super intelligence”, machines that will be able to think and reason with infinitely more power than humans? ...

Episode 2102: Peter S. Goodman on How the World Ran Out of Everything

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times’ Global Economics correspondent, is one of America’s most innovative and outspoken journalists. He was on KEE...

Episode 2101: Bethanne Patrick's six new books to reach on the porch or beach this June

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bethanne Patrick, the world’s best read woman and KEEN ON’s official literary maven, has six recommended new books to read this June. Three non-fi...

Episode 2100: Banning Lyon's remarkable memoir of trauma, healing and the outdoors

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Back in August 2021, we did a show featuring the British psychologist Lucy Jones, about how nature maintains our sanity. Jones’ thesis is born out ...

Episode 2099: John Ganz on how America cracked up in the early 1990s

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s becoming more and more self-evident that the Nineties matter. John Ganz’s important new book, When the Clock Broke, focuses on how, in the ea...

Episode 2098: Guy Lawson gets us inside the biggest scandal in the history of college sports

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 2065, we discussed the Malaysian contractor, Leonard Glenn Francis (aka: Fat Leonard) about the biggest recent scandal in the US navy. But,...

Episode 2097: Keen On America featuring Francis S. Barry

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As America braces itself for the upcoming Presidential election, a growing army of coastal commentators are agonizing over the health of the country’...

Episode 2096: Sasha Vasilyuk uncovers Ukraine secretive history by digging into the Soviet past

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of a “major Summit” on Ukraine which neither the Russians nor the Chinese attended, the war remains as murky and inconclusive as ever....

Episode 2095: Keith Teare on why the AI game in Silicon Valley might already be all over

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Big Tech is getting even bigger. This was the week that NVIDIA joined Microsoft and Apple as a three trillion dollar company. And it’s also the week...

Episode 2094: Joseph O'Neill on football as the ugly game of neo-colonial exploitation

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Euros start today and Copa America next week. So expect a slew of garbage about soccer/football as the “beautiful game” or, even more ludicrou...

Episode 2093: J. Albert Mann offers a Young Person's Guide to the History of American Labor

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How to write a history of labor in the United States for young people? According to the award-winning author J. Albert Mann, a history of labor writte...

Episode 2092: Shane Burley on why Anti Zionism isn't Antisemitism

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 2082, James Kirchick suggested that being Jewish and being a Zionist should be of all of one thing. Shane Burley reverses this. The co-auth...

Episode 2091: Lilie Chouliaraki on the Weaponization of Victimhood

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

 One fashionable English language word I’d like to blow up is “weaponization”. Another is “victimhood”. So I couldn’t resist talking the ...

Episode 2090: Meredith Broussard on the digital "revolution" of artificial unintelligence and inequality

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sixteen months feels like sixteen centuries in the history of digital technology. Last year, the NYU data scientist Meredith Broussard came on episode...

Episode 2089: D.W. Gibson celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Seattle's 1999 World Trade Organization protests

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Nineties are back in fashion. Last week on KEEN ON, Terry Anderson explained why the Nineties still matter. Next week, we are featuring a conversa...

Episode 2088: Jeremy Utley on how to facilitate epiphanies

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are having a Stanford self-improvement sort of weekend. Yesterday, KEEN ON featured a conversation with two Stanford profs on how to acquire a vent...

Episode 2087: Alex Dang and Ilya Strebulaev on How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Venture capitalists aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. For leftists, they are Trump supporting vultures, feasting on the rotting carcass of neo-liberal...

Episode 2086: Keith Teare on Silicon Valley's Trump-Biden dilemma

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

That Was The Week author and Silicon Valley based entrepreneur Keith Teare isn’t a great fan of either Trump or Biden. But as he notes in this week’...

Episode 2085: KEEN ON America featuring Nick Bryant

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The KEEN ON America series is supposed to feature conversations with prominent Americans about the post, present and future of their almost 250 year-o...

Episode 2084: Terry H. Anderson on why the 1990's still matter so much

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“The past is never dead”, William Faulkner quipped, “it’s not even past.” Angry white men, a disruptive internet, political gridlock in DC,...

Episode 2083: Andrew Lipstein on the $15 Trillion 401(k) Doomsday that might trigger a global economic catastrophe

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What goes up, comes down. As the Dow continues to hover at 40,000, something is inevitably going to burst the Wall Street’s current irrational exube...