Archive - Keen On America

Episode 2243: Nick Bryant on why Trump 2.0 is as historic as the Fall of the Berlin Wall

On toxic exceptionalism, Neville Chamberlain style appeasement & the grim end of the America we've known for 70 years

Feb 20 •

42:54

Episode 2242: Ian Goldin on the past, present and future of migration

The Shortest History of Migration: When, why and how humans move

Feb 19 •

44:24

Episode 2241: Gaia Bernstein on the Threat of AI Companions to Children

AI Companions as the New Frontier on Kids' Screen Addiction

Feb 18 •

38:37

Episode 2240: Ray Brescia on how our private lives have been politicized by social media

The Private is Political: Identity and Demcracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Feb 17 •

47:32

Episode 2239: Frank Vogl on why Trump's financial deregulation is likely to lead to another global economic crash

Why the 2020s might be a repeat of the 1920s

Feb 16 •

36:18

Episode 2238: What to make of J.D. Vance's speech at the Paris AI Summit

A Breath of Fresh Air or more MAGA Putridity?

Feb 15 •

37:05

Episode 2237: Matthew Karp explains how progressives can successfully bulldoze America

Why the Democrats have become the nerve center of American capitalism

Feb 14 •

48:33

Episode 2236: Colum McCann and Dianne Foley on what a mother said to her son's ISIS executioner

An American Mother's search for justice and forgiveness

Feb 13 •

48:57

Episodes 2235: Jeffrey Toobin on whether we all deserve second chances

The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy

Feb 12 •

43:38

Episode 2234: Walter Mosley on Easy Rawlins, King Oliver and the history of fictional black American detectives

Been Wrong So Long If Feels Like Right

Feb 11 •

37:46

Episode 2233: John Kay on why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong

Why business "leaders" don't matter and how 21st century corporations aren't even capitalist

Feb 10 •

45:49

Episode 2332: Greg Beato on what could go possibly RIGHT with our AI future

Why the AI revolution will be nothing like 1984

Feb 9 •

47:56

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