Archive - Keen On America

The Michael Douglas Trap: What Is Wrong with Men

Episode 2575: Jessa Crispin on Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity and how Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything

22 hrs ago •

40:59

The $200 billion dilemma: Is Bill Gates helping or harming Africa?

Episode 2574: Armin Rosen on why Bill Gates Isn't Popular in Kenya

Jun 24 •

46:16

The Architecture of Terror: Rafia Zakaria on Trump, Miller, Israel, Iran and Gaza

Episode 2573: Silencings: The Transformation of the American Public Sphere

Jun 23 •

43:58

Why Elections Aren't Always Democratic: Challenging American Political Science's Founding Myth

Episode 2572: Natasha Piano on the Democratic Elitism of Pareto, Mosca and Gramsci

Jun 22 •

48:26

The Virtuous Side Of Silicon Valley: How Jimmy Chen is Building Tech to Help the Poorest America

Episode 2571: How Propel Is Simplifying Food Assistance for the most vulnerable Americans

Jun 22 •

51:56

The Tragic Paradox of Survival in Auschwitz: The Mystery of Primo Levi

Episode 2570: Joseph Olshan on Levi, Suicide and Human Unknowability

Jun 21 •

30:52

A Known Unknown: Harry Freedman on Bob Dylan's Jewish Roots

Episode 2569: Dylan's Jewish Journey from Hibbing to Greenwich Village

Jun 20 •

37:27

Burning Down The House: Do The Talking Heads Still Matter?

Episode 2568: Jonathan Gould on how the East Village Scene of the 70s Created David Byrne and The Talking Heads

Jun 19 •

57:26

Why Being a 'Good Woman' Is Making Women (and Men) Miserable

Episode 2567: Elise Loehnen on Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness

Jun 18 •

44:34

The Haves and The Have-Yachts: Evan Osnos Explores the Minds of the Ultrarich

Episode 2566: Dispatches from our Age of Flamboyant Oligarchy

Jun 17 •

46:11

The Vampire Economy: How Private Equity is Sucking the Blood out of the American Dream

Episode 2565: Megan Greenwell on the Bad Companies Produced by Private Equity

Jun 16 •

47:08

The Company That Ate the Web: Google's Quarter Century Journey from Bridge Builder to Web Destroyer

Episode 2564: The Existential Threat to Google: How AI Mode Breaks the Web's 20-Year Bargain

Jun 15 •

40:49

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