Sitemap - 2021 - Keen On

Neil Richards on What Privacy Is, Why It Matters, and How We Can Protect It

Julian E. Zelizer on How Historians See Donald Trump's Presidency

Tim Marshall on the Power of Geography

Tracey Shors on How Trauma Impacts the Brain

Sarah Burns on the Fabulous Life of Perkins Harnly

Larry Downes on Taking Advantage of Modern Technology in Business

Roslyn Fuller on the Future of Democracy

Michael Kimmage on the Western Ideals that Once Shaped America

Bathsheba Demuth on the Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Liam Campling & Alejandro Colás on How the Sea Shaped Capitalism

Devi Lockwood on the Personal Impact of Climate Change Around the World

Claudia Goldin on Women's Journey to Close the Gender Wage Gap

Hala Alyan on the Sense of Displacement in the Middle East

Dorit Geva on Viktor Orbán's "Ordonationalist" Hungary

Kate Daniels on Poetry and Psychoanalysis

Keen On COVID-19

Rob Goodman on the Pursuit of Eloquence

Dr. Eric Topol on Ground Truths and COVID-19

David Mikics on Who Stanley Kubrick Really Was

The Failed Joe Biden Show

David Cay Johnston on Donald Trump and the Fleecing of America

Jonathan Karl on the Aftermath of the Trump Presidency

Frank Vogl on the Global Fight Against Corruption

Tanya Talaga on Cultural Genocide's Link to Indigenous Suicides

Jay Parini on His Encounter with Jorge Luis Borges

Gioia Diliberto on the Dark Side of Coco Chanel

David Bodanis on The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean

Neal Stephenson Reacts to the Metaverse and Global Warming

Thibault Manekin on Daring to Change the World

Jason Miklian on Crisis Management

Patrick Dean on Climbing America's Wildest Peak

Jordan Salama on Journeying Colombia's Magdalena River

Roderick Beaton on the Greek Revolution of 1821

Sam Quinones on Synthetic Drugs in America

Keeda Haynes on Her Journey from Prison to Politics

Kyla Schuller on the Trouble with White Women

Gaurav Bhatnagar on How to Manage Fear in the Workplace

Aviva Chomsky on Why Climate Justice Is Just As Important as Science

Nick Ochsner on the Country's Greatest Electoral Fraud

Kevin Birmingham on How Dostoevsky Came to Write Crime and Punishment

William Deresiewicz on an Alternative Anthropogeny

Mike Mattison and Ernest Suarez on the Literary Power of Blues-Fueled Songwriting

Kamal Al-Solaylee on Why We Go Back to Where We Come From

Paul Cartledge on the Forgotten Greek City that Shaped Modern Civilization

Caroline Chambers on Substack and Alternative Forms of Publishing

Keen On Chris Matthews, the Iraq War & Led Zeppelin

Bob Spitz on Led Zeppelin

Tom Clavin on the Imprisoned Airmen of Buchenwald

Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb on Four Women Philosophers who Broke the Mold

Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court vs. Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett

Ruben Gallego on the Fate of Lima Company During and After Iraq

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen on the History of Libraries

Omar Mouallem on the Unknown History of Islam Across the Americas

Ben Wilson on the Invention of the City

Theodore R. Johnson on Racism and America's Broken Promises

Celine-Marie Pascale on America's Deep Economic and Moral Crisis

Chris Matthews on His American Political Odyssey

Sandro Galea on Preventing the Next Pandemic

Joanna Chiu on the Human Cost of China's Growth

Stan Cox on Fixing Politics in Order to Fix the Planet

Peter T. Coleman on Life Beyond Trivial Divisions

Bill Burnett on Transforming Your Work Life

Jonathan Reisman M.D. on the Secrets of the Human Body

Ian Rosenberg on Understanding Contemporary Free Speech Issues in America

Introducing Smoke Screen: The Sellout

Brendan Borrell on the Inside Story of Operation Warp Speed

Pamela Paul on What We've Lost to the Internet

William Souder on the Life and Work of John Steinbeck

Margaret D. Jacobs on Our Troubled History of Injustice to Indigenous People

W. Ralph Eubanks on a Journey Through the Literary History of Mississippi

Josh Cohen on a Literary Guide to Life

Sebastian Junger on Freedom vs. Community

Ethan Lou on Crypto and the Bitcoin Boom

Armand D'Angour on What We Can Learn About Creative Thinking From the Ancient Greeks

Michael Lenox on "Decarbonizing" the Global Economy

Myisha Cherry on Anger as a Tool for Defeating Racism

Vanessa Veselka on what the Next American Revolution Might Look Like

Jean Becker on George H.W. Bush's Life After Presidency

Mary Beard on What We Can Learn from Images of Roman Autocrats

Vladimir Alexandrov on Boris Savinkov

Dorottya Rédai on LGBTQ Fairy Tales

Max Chafkin on the Dangerous Intersection of Tech and Politics

Fiona Hill on the Increasingly Russian Way of Life in America

Robbie Bach on Venture Terrorism

Daniel Sokatch on the Chronicle of Israel vs. Palestine

Parag Khanna on Humanity's Ever-Changing Map

Deborah Tuerkheimer on Credibility and Sexual Misconduct

Paul Bradley Carr on a Modern Murder Mystery

Kyle Harper on the Global History of Infectious Disease

Jennifer Higgie on the Forgotten Perspective of Women in Art

Helen Russell on Having a Healthy Relationship with Sadness

Matthew Pearl on the Kidnap and Rescue that Shaped America

Randall Kennedy on the Realities and Imaginaries of Race in America

David Kushner on Disruptors

What Do NFTs Have to Do with the Music Industry?

Eric J. Johnson on How Decisions are Made

Janine di Giovanni on the End of Christianity in its Historical Homeland

Talya Miron-Shatz on Choosing to Live a Healthier and Happier Life

Kinari Webb on Her Quest to Heal the World

Katharine Hayhoe on Having a New Conversation About Climate Change

Anne-Marie Slaughter on Radical Honesty as a Key to Growth

Joseph Weisberg on Russia and America, the Very Best of Enemies

Kristin Henning on the Foundations of Racist Policing in America

Mehran Sahami on the Sacrifices We're Making Because of Big Tech

Joshua Prager on the Life of "Jane Roe"

Stephen Davis on the Flight that Started the Gulf War

Jeanette Winterson on How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way We Live and Love

Sathnam Sanghera on Modern Britain's Imperialistic Foundations

Connor Towne O'Neill on the Ugly Legacy of White Supremacy

Jeremy Weinstein on Where Big Tech Went Wrong

Tom Nichols on the Rise of Illiberalism

Alec Ross on How Companies Govern our Lives

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser on The Man Who Ran Washington

Keith Boykin on Racism and Politics in America

Giulio Boccaletti on How Water Shapes Society

David Cutler on the Evolution of City Life

Azeem Azhar on Technology and the Exponential Gap

Edward Glaeser on the Evolution of City Life

Minal Bopaiah on Equity as the Foundation for Group Success

William M. Arkin on How the US Government Failed its Citizens on 9/11

Thom Hartmann on the Shameful History of American Healthcare

Dave Eggers on His Fight Against Big Data

Rob Reich on How to Control Technology

Philip Stephens on Not-So-Great Britain

Yanis Varoufakis on an Alternative to Capitalism

Michael Pye on the Rise and Fall of Antwerp as a "World City"

Mike Duncan on Defending the Principles of Liberty and Equality

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. on Leading your Organization into the Future

Eyal Press on the Immorality of "Dirty Work"

Julie Battilana on Understanding Power

Keen On Goes Live

Steve Killelea on Measuring and Understanding Peace

Steven Nadler on the Global Epidemic of Bad Thinking

Lawrence Shapiro on the Global Epidemic of Bad Thinking

William R. Stixrud on How to Talk to Teenagers

Ned Johnson on Communicating with Teenagers

Casey Schwartz on Adderall and the Modern Landscape of Attention

David Sumpter on the Mathematics of Winning at Life

Sergey Young on the Science and Ethics of Living to 200

Bill Steigerwald on Life Undercover as a Black Man in the Jim Crow South

William L. Silber on The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War, and Business

Christopher Gray on Hustling to the Top

Jonah Lehrer on the Science of Mystery

J. Chester Johnson on the Elaine Race Massacre

Emily Bass on America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa

Lauren Etter on the Vaping Generation

Lizzie Johnson on California's Deadly Camp Fire

Emily Oster on Parenting with Data

Matthew Zachary on How to Make Healthcare Suck Less

Lucy Jones on the Relationship Between the Natural World and the Human Psyche

Joe Keohane on the Benefits of Connecting with Strangers

Edward J. Watts on the Fall of the Roman Empire

Michael Knox Beran on WASP Culture

Sarah Damaske Lifts the Lid on America's Unemployment System

Jonathan Rapping on America's Broken Criminal Justice System and Mass Incarceration

Patrick Wyman on the "Great Divergence" between Western Europe and the Rest of the Globe

Sheera Frenkel on Facebook's Fall from Grace

Melinda Wenner Moyer on How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes

Maureen Farrell on the Spectacular Meltdown of WeWork

Richard Leider on Growing into Yourself with Age

Robert Draper on the Decision to Invade Iraq

Gian Volpicelli on Cryptocurrency

Jason Mott's Meta Book Tour

How To Fix Democracy Live Session with Ben Rhodes

Juan Cole on Peace, War and the Prophet Muhammad

Adrian Wooldridge on Why We Should Renew Meritocracy

David Gessner on the Social Distancing Lifestyle

Leidy Klotz on a Revolution in Problem-Solving

Simon Clark on Fraud Mastermind Arif Naqvi

Mary Gauthier on the Artistry of Songwriting

John Hagel on the Psychology of Change

Peter Sterling on Homeostasis vs. Allostasis

David Potter on the Radical Origins of Change

Susan Paterno on the College Admission Industry

Adam Serwer on Trump's America and its Legacy of Cruelty

Mick LaSalle on Movies and the Californian Dream

Elisa Gabbert on the Truth, Beauty and Pain of Living in Today's World

Kishore Mahbubani on the Tense Relationship between China and America

Lucy Foulkes on Defining and Dealing with Mental Illness

Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko on the QAnon Rabbit Hole

Sabrina Horn on Leadership and Authentic Business Practices

Jonathan Rauch on the Challenge to Distinguish Fact from Fiction in America

Amit Katwala on the Next Computer Revolution

George Packer on Overcoming Injustices and Divides in a Failing America

Nichola Raihani on the Science of Cooperation

George Zarkadakis on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Post-Pandemic World

Robert Pearl on How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients

Ron Friedman on the Other Path to Success

Asako Serizawa on the Cycle and Influence of Family History

Bryan Burrough on the Real Story of the Alamo

Joshua Yaffa on Chasing Dreams in Putin's Russia

Stephen M. Fleming on Metacognition, the Science of Self-Awareness

Tim Madigan and Hilary Beard on Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre

Sumbul Ali-Karamali on Islamic Law

Paula Stone Williams on Her Journey from Paul to Paula

Lauren Aguirre on Opioids and Memories

Kathy Wang on Women in Tech, Silicon Valley and the American Dream

Daniel Levin on the Underground Industry of War

J.B. MacKinnon on a World Without Shopping

Robert McKee on the Design of a Character Universe

Tim Jackson on the Destructively Broken Nature of Capitalism

Brad Stone on The Rise and Rise of Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Thomas Dyja on the Evolution of New York City

Barton Gellman on the Invasion of Americans' Privacy

Zachary Karabell on the rise of American Capitalism

John Judis on the Influence of Recession, War and Pollution on Modern Politics

Barrett Swanson on Finding Stability After America's Political and Economic Collapse

Andy Norman on How to Avoid Bad Ideas and Transcend the Herd Mentality

Jon Levy on Leveraging Influence, Reputation and Community to Achieve Your Goals

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Our Duty to Protect Women from the Sexual Abuse Crisis in Europe

Nathan Bomey on Forging Connections in the Face of Today's Culturally Polarizing Narrative

Natasha Lennard on How to Live a Non-Fascist Life in a Modern-Day Minefield

Josh Linkner on the Small Moments of Creativity that Inspire Big Change

Kenneth Cukier & Francis de Véricourt on Humanity's Best Path Through the Dark Times Ahead

Jonathan Taplin on the Rock-and-Roll Lifestyle of Yesteryear

Niall Ferguson on the Increasing Levels of Human Incompetence when Handling Disasters

Seth Goldenberg on the Philosophy of Asking Deeper Questions in Order to Grow

Ali Tamaseb on What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

Sarah Kendzior on the Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

Ron Brownstein on How 1974 Transformed Pop Culture and Politics

Suneel Gupta on What Makes Someone Take a Chance on You

Phoebe S.K. Young on the Hidden History of Camping in America

Cameron Blevins on a New Perspective on the Postal Service

David Stasavage on the Fall and Rise of Democracy

Vanessa O'Brien on the Journey to the Top of the World's Highest Mountains

Matt Feeney on a Defense of Family in a Competitive Age

Fern Schumer Chapman on Sibling Estrangement and the Road to Reconciliation

Blake Smith on The Woke Meritocracy

Paul Greenberg on Trimming Your Carbon Footprint

Mustafa Akyol on Islamic Enlightenment

Nichole Perlroth on The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Ximena Vengoechea on Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection

Chris Bail on How to Make Our Social Media Platforms Less Polarizing

Sara Kamali on Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the US

Judy Batalion on The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

Noa Tishby on the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Nancy Giordano on The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger

Davarian L. Baldwin on How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

Caitlin Ring Carlson on the History of Addressing Hate Speech

Ty McCormick on One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home

Tobey Pearl on Colonial Violence and America's First Murder Trial

Michael Heller on Ownership and Property in Our Modern-Day

Avi Loeb on Our First Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Sherry Turkle on How We Continue to Make Sense of the World Around Ourselves

Ben Pring on Taming the Machines that Rule our Jobs

Laurence Bergreen on Francis Drake the Pirate, Queen Elizabeth I and the Age of Empires

Roya Hakakian on Immigration

Albert Fox Cahn on a Society Under Surveillance

Nicholas Freudenberg on Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health

Rosa Brooks on Going Inside the Closed World of Policing

Harriet A. Washington on the "Erosion" of Medical Consent in America

dispatches from the future

Wendy Lower on Confronting the History and the Reality of The Holocaust

Carol Leonnig on Trump's Legacy and Where That Leaves America

Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson on the Chibok Schoolgirls Kidnapping and Boko Haram

Kehinde Andrews on Systemic Racism

Emma Brown on the Origins of Boys' Sexually Inappropriate Behavior

John Kampfner on "Why the Germans Do It Better"

Adam Cohen on the Supreme Court's Perpetuation of Injustice in America

Tim Harford on "Data Detectives" and Statistics

Annie Auerbach on the Flexible Working Economy

William J. Bernstein on Financial Crowds

Andrew Keen Reflects on Rush Limbaugh and Texas and Looks Forward to Life After COVID

Ben Boyer on Life During the Coronavirus

Heather McGhee on Institutionalized Racism

Darby Fox on Teenagers' Attitudes and their Relationships with their Parents

Daniella Ballou-Aares on How to Fix American Democracy

Kenneth Cukier on "Big Data" and the Coronavirus

Andrew Keen Reflects on the Value and the Future of Work

Sara Horowitz on Job Insecurity and "Mutualism" in America

Robert Wringham on Why Work and Consumerism Will Always Be Interlocked

Laurence Rees on Hitler, Stalin and Dictatorship

Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Western Society

Roy Richard Grinker on How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Sarah Jaffe on Why Doing What You Love May Backfire On You

Alan Lightman on Humans' "Beginnings" and the Cosmos

Robert Paarlberg on Food Politics

Raja Rajamannar on "The Fifth Paradign", Marketing and the Future of Consumerism

Dr. Jillian Hernandez on the "Aesthetics of Excess"

Alana Newhouse on the "Flatness" of Our Future

Gabrielle Glaser on Adoption in America

David Hardin on the Flint, Michigan "Water Crisis"

Alex Vitale on Police Brutality

Stephen Marche on Biden's Impossible Task to Unite America

James Suzman on the Origins and History of "Work"

Peter Gumbel on Personal and National "Identity"

James Goldgeier and Bruce W. Jentleson on America's New Role in the World Under Joe Biden

Simon Winchester on Land Ownership

Kenneth R. Rosen on the Failed Promise of America's Behavioral Treatment Programs

Jessica Bruder on the "Sharing Economy"

Dr. Carl L. Hart on the Role of Drug Use in the Pursuit of Happiness in America

Michael Lind on Class Warfare

Johan Norberg: Why Do We Always Create "Us Vs. Them"?

Frederick M. Lawrence: What Makes Hate Crimes Different?

Alexander Lee: If Anyone Can Make Sense of This Week, It's Machiavelli

Tom Bergin: Why Are Economic Theories Made by Governments Wrong

Elliott Young: How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System

How To Fix the American Dream?

Dale Maharidge: How Nothing Much Has Changed in America in 35 Years