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Gary Gerstle: How Liz Truss, The Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and Joe Biden's Economic Policies Have All Contributed to the Decline, and Perhaps Even Death, of Neo-Liberalism in 2022

Christopher Leonard: Why Our Inflationary Crisis Might Not Be Over and How This Could Trigger a Broader Economic Collapse in 2023

Gary Marcus: Why We're Going to Need More Human Intelligence and More Liberal Arts Education In Our Imminent Age of AI

Julia Hobsbawm: Why the 2022 Trend of the Year Was Working From Home and How This Probably Won't Change in 2023

Toby Walsh on evil AI

Gary Marcus on the future of AI

Larry Downes on How the Federal Government Failed to Rein in Big Tech in 2022: Expect the Same Inaction in 2023

Peter Wehner: Why 2022 Might Represent the End of the Trump Era and What Might Replace It in 2023

America's Conservative Conscience

Elissa Epel: More Empathy, More Psychedelics, or More Grapefruit? How to Best Relieve Stress in 2023

Matthew Krogh on Why Watergate Will Never Die: The Moral Lessons of One of Nixon's White House Plumbers

Chris Miller: Why 2022 Was the Year of the Chip and the Three Great Unanswered Questions That Will Bedevil Us in 2023

Peter Coy: Why Inflation Dominated Our 2022 Economy and Why Everything Might Change in 2023

Martin Rees: Why 2022 Was a Triumphant Year for Science and What Needs to Happen in 2023 to Build Upon These Advances

Vivek Wadhwa on Modi, Indian Tech, and Kashmir: What America Gets Wrong About India

Rob Reich and Jeremy Weinstein on Political Regulation and a Moral Education: What Needs to Happen in 2023 to Reign in Big Tech

Jonathan Rauch: Why We Should Be Cautiously Optimistic About the Future of American Democracy, Especially If Joe Biden Doesn't Stand Again For President

Joanne McNeil: What Can We Learn About the AOL Experience of the 1990s to Make Today's Internet More User-Friendly and Civil?

Tony Hiss: No, We Aren't on the Verge of an Environmental Apocalypse: Why 2022 Was a Promising Year For the Planet and What We Need to Do in 2023 to Maintain This Progress

Maciej Kisilowski: How the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine Could Trigger a Nuclear Apocalypse and What We Need to Do in 2023 to Avert This Catastrophe

Lev Golinkin: Should Stanford and Harvard Really Be Naming Fellowships and Academic Chairs in Honor of Nazi War Criminals?

Charles Kupchan: Yes, 2022 Was a "Pivotal" Year in International Politics. Yet We Still Don't Know How the World Will Dramatically Tilt in 2023.

J. Bradford DeLong: How Joe Biden's "Supply Side Progressivism" Has Actually Made 2022 A Good Economic Year For Most Americans

Allison Gilbert on From Colleen Hoover to New York's New Wage Transparency Law: The Good News For Women About 2022

David Kirkpatrick: The Year That Elon Musk Became Vladimir Putin: How We Lost All Our Moral Illusions About Big Tech in 2022

Alejandro Crawford: How to Empower Truly Rebellious Entrepreneurs to Do Good in the World

Katherine Stewart: Why American Religious Nationalism is on the Rise in 2022—and How to Confront It in 2023

Mary Annaïse Heglar: The Case for Climate Reparations: Our Environmental Crisis Isn't a "Villainless Crime"

Orville Schell on China in 2022: A Crack in Xi Jinping's Leninist Authoritarianism?

Joshua Browder: Should We Celebrate Technology Which Enables the Disruption of Local Government?

Ewan Morrison on Against Nihilism: Why Belief in Anything is Better Than Nothing

Keith Teare on a Crypto Winter and the Dawn of the AI Age: How Silicon Valley Will Remember 2022

Weili Dai: How AI and the Metaverse Will Combine to Create a More "Efficient" Future

Maurice Saatchi: Finally Revealed… Why Some of Us Go to Heaven and Why Some of Us End Up in Hell

Stephen Bezruchka: Why America Needs a "Sputnik Moment" To Reform Its Radically Inegalitarian Healthcare System

Keith Teare: Are We on the Brink of a Magical AI Age in Which Talking With a Smart Machine Will Be Considered Both Normal and Essential?

Countress of Carnarvon on the Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

Ahmed White: What the Early 20th Century War on Radical Workers Tells Us About the Struggle Between Labor and Capital in America Today

Allegra Goodman : What Happens When a Novelist "Overparents" Their Characters? How a Fictional Creation Can Fight Back Against Their Helicopter Author`

Aaron De Smet: Why, In Our Age of Permanent Volatility, We Need to Foster a Zen-Like "Deliberate Calm"

Daniel Akst: Why World War II's Greatest Generation Should Be Celebrated As Much For Its Heroic Pacifism As For Its Selfless Sacrifice in Battle

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Why All Writers, Especially Novelists, Are Political: Which Is Why Novels Can Change the World

Esther Woolfson: The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures

Chloe Sorvino: How the Multi-Trillion Dollar Industrial Meat Complex is Bad For Our Species and Our Planet

Michael Kimmelman: Why New York Should Be Savored on Foot Rather Than From an Automobile

David Marchick: What Do FDR, Trump, and Lincoln Have in Common? The Worst Transitions of Presidential Power in American History

Samantha Vérant: How to Live in France and Write Novels About Fine Food and Wine

Bob Blaisdell on When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

Lynne Twist: What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

Max Bazerman: Crypto, #MeToo, Theranos, and January 6: How We Enable the Unethical

Martin Lund on How to Fight Racism? We Need More Books and Conversations About Whiteness

Paul Boross: How Humor is the Best Antidote to Theocracy In Both Politics and the Workplace

MinaLima on The Art of Designing the Graphics For the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beast Films

There's More to Life Than Politics: Orville Schell's Fictional Message to Xi Jinping

Kristin Keffeler: Why Do We Care About the Scions of Wealthy American Families Struggling to Find Purpose?

Josiah Ober: In a Time of Hostility Toward Reason and Science, What Can the Ancient Greeks Teach us About the Value of Rationality?

Michael J. Wolf: If AI, Web3.0, and the Metaverse Are Utopian Pipe Dreams, What Internet Innovation Can Actually Help Save the World?

Robert Draper on Weapons of Mass Distraction: How the Republican Party Lost Its Mind After the January 6 Insurrection

Bruce Davis: Do the Oscars Have a Future in an Age of Superhero Sequels and Prequels?

Shahan Mufti: How the 1977 Siege of Washington Marks the Beginning of Our Preoccupation With "Terrorist" Violence and Real-Time News

Andrew Koppelman: How American Libertarianism Became the Delusional Ideology of Greedy, Selfish Capitalists

Fred Hogge on An Icy Truth: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity and Destroy the Environment

Roger Ballen: Why Good Photography Should Get Underneath Our Skin and Assault Us

Michael P. Leiter: Why the Latest Battle Between Elon Musk and Twitter Works Is Part of a Bigger War About Burnout and the Need to Manage People's Relationships With Their Jobs

Gary Marcus: Why Smart Machines Will Probably Never Replicate the Human Act of Writing and How Writers Should View AI Suspiciously —"Like a Hawk"

Derek Lidow: Why Joshiah Wedgwood—And Not Andrew Carnegie, Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk—Is the Definition of a "Good Entrepreneur"

Heather Ford on Can We Trust Wikipedia? How to Nurture Truth in the Digital Age

Jeff Kosseff: What Exactly Is Section 230 and Why Was It So Essential in the Creation of the Internet?

Rick Wartzman on Why Are Walmart Workers Still Broke? The Limits of a "Socially Conscious" American Capitalism That Still Won't Pay Its Employees a Living Wage

Matthew Campbell on Dead in the Water: The True Story of a Fake Hijacking and a Real Murder

Andrew Small on A Cold War Without Limits: The Chilling Story of China's Rupture With the West

Neal Gabler on You Don't Need to Be a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows: Ted Kennedy and the Rise of American Conservatism

Lucas Joppa: Why Both Government and Private Corporations Have Essential Roles in Confronting Global Warming

Jessica Todd Harper: Why Photography Can Be Fine Art and What Photographers Should Learn From Vermeer and Other 17th Century Dutch Artists

Isaac Stone Fish on America Second: Is It Really Possible That America's Elites Are Making China Stronger?

Daphne E. Jones on a Note to Donald Trump: This Is How to Become a Real Winner

Andrew Anagnost: How the Moral Sickness Afflicting Silicon Valley Might Be a Pandemic of Egoism

Peter Rawlinson: The Truth About Battery-Powered and Self-Driving Cars From the Engineer Who Invented the Tesla Model S and the Lucid Air

Edward J. Delaney on Cary Grant as The Acrobat: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn't Really Exist

Andrew S. Weiss on Super Unhero: Vladimir Putin, the Accidental Czar, Imagined Graphically

Ken Honda on How to Become a Zen Millionaire: The Japanese Art of Making Peace With Your Money

Mark Galeotti: How Putin Thinks Like a Warmongering 19th-Century Imperialist and Why Ukraine Will Be His Last Colonial War

Alexander Rose on The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Army

David Fenton on Lessons From Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator: Never Lie, Tell the Truth, Repeat Repeat Repeat

Ian Kershaw: The Eleven Men (and One Woman) Who Authored 20th-Century Europe

Richard McCarthy: What Japan Can Teach Urban Americans About Regenerating Rural Values and Practices

Steve Kemper: Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Avoided With More Skillful American Diplomacy?

Eduardo Halfon: Why "Writing" Has Nothing to Do With Being a "Writer"

Katherine Corcoran: How the 2012 Murder of a Mexican Journalist Should Be a Warning About Press Freedoms in America

Andrew Hill on the Sign of Our Financial Times: How 2022's Best Business Books Address the Challenges of Contemporary Global Capitalism

Shannon O'Neil on The Globalization Myth: Why Most Economics Is Regional

Travis Baldree: Want to Self-Publish Successfully? Write Fast, Leverage All Your Social Media Networks, and Prioritize Memorable Cover Art

KEEN ON Birds (no, not Twitter)

John Mulholland on Inside High Noon: Why the Classic 1952 Movie Is As Relevant in America Today As It Was 70 Years Ago

Ellis Cose on Reckoning on Race: Why Can't America Escape Its Racist Past?

Adam Mendelsohn on What Was It Like to Be a Jew in Lincoln's Armies: Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War

Colleen and John Darnell on Tutankhamun's Royal Mom and Dad: On Egypt's Golden Couple

Aric Prather on The Good Sleep Prescription: Stick Your Head in the Freezer, "Worry Early," and Stop Taking Your Smartphone to Bed

Maud Newton: How to Come to Terms With Troubling Ancestors

Isaac Fitzgerald: What's Wrong (And Right) With American Male Writers

Paul Tucker: What Chinese and American Statesmen Need to Do to Lessen Global Discord

Priyanka Kumar: How "Reading" Nature, Especially Birds, Enables Us to Transcend Ourselves

Ben Kesling: The Gut-Wrenching Story of One U.S. Army Unit's Experience in Afghanistan

Samantha Cole: How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex

RJ Andrews: Why the Future of Publishing For One Start-Up Entrepreneur is High-End and Analog Books That Visualize Data

Lenore Andreson: How California is Pioneering the Reform of the American Criminal Justice System

Claudia Lux: Imagining a Kafkaesque Hell in Which There Is Only Jägermeister to Drink and the Devil Is a Corporate Bureaucrat

Henrietta Harrison on the 18th-Century China Question: The Perils of Translating Between Qing China and the British Empire

Greg Melville: How Cemeteries Reveal America's Most Hidden and Often Deadliest History

Paul Sexton: Perhaps the Most Remarkable Thing About Charlie Watts Was Just How Remarkably Ordinary He Was

Colin L. Read on Not the People's Money: Uncovering Bitcoin's Catastrophic Economic and Environmental Cost

Karen Bakker: A Digital Dolittle? On Technology That Will Enable Us to Talk With Other Species… Including Plants and Trees

Maud Newton: How to Come to Terms With Troubling Ancestors

Evan Mandery: How Elite Colleges Divide, Disorient, and Diminish Us

Martin Rees on the Limits of Science: Why the Universe Might Be Too Complex For Humans to Ever Understand

Michael Stein on Accidental Kindness: A Doctor's Thoughts on the Importance of Empathy

KEEN ON Messi vs Ronaldo

John A. Farrell on How Ted Kennedy Became a Great Man When He Was Most Distanced From the U.S. Presidency

Mae Ngai on The Chinese Question: Gold Rushes, Migration, and the Global Politics and Economics of Race

Cody Keenan on Ten Days in June: On a Pivotal Moment in Barack Obama's "Battle" for America

Daniel Drache: Has Populism Won? Must Democratic Politics, on Both Left and Right, Be Populist Now?

Orly Lobel: Can Digital Technology Can Be Harnessed to Realize Equality, Inclusion, and a Brighter Future?

David Sax: Why, If We Want to Create a More Human World, the Future Must Be Analog

Jonathan Clegg on Messi, Ronaldo, and the Radical Remaking of the World's Game Over the Last 20 Years

Katie Hickman on Neither Heroines Nor Villains: The Brave-Hearted Women Who Settled the American West

Joseph Sassoon on A History of the Sassoons—One of the World's Great Global Merchant Families

Becca Andrews: How the Destruction of Roe v. Wade Undermines Fundamental American Rights

Vladislav M. Zubok on the Soviet Union Might Be Dead, But the Consequences of Its Disastrous Collapse Continue to Haunt Us

Emily Tamkin on Bad Jews: On American Jewish Politics and Identities

Nicci French on Two Minds, One Writer: How a Husband-and-Wife Have Strengthened Their Bond by Writing Psychological Thrillers About the "Twisty" Human Condition

Christine Wells on When 007 Was Female: A World War Two Novel About the Real Miss Moneypenny

Michael T. Hartney: Why American Teachers' Unions Are So Powerful and How This Hasn't Enriched Democracy or Improved Schooling in the United States Today

Robert T. Tally Jr. on Realizing History Through Fantasy Literature: Reclaiming Tolkien's Hobbit For the Left

Peter Robison: How Boeing's 737 Max Tragedy Offers a Parable About the Immorality of Late Stage Industrial Capitalism

Ann Hood: Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Really So Much More Fun in the Glamorous Age of Trans World Airlines and High Heeled Stewardesses?

KEEN ON Hysteria

Matthew F. Delmont: The Simultaneously Heroic and Shameful Story of African Americans' Involvement in World War II

David Welch: How General Motors CEO Mary Barra Is the Anti Elon Musk and How That Impacts Her Goal of Reinventing the Iconic American Car Manufacturer

Nicholas Dawidoff: How the Story of a 2006 Murder Captures the Tragic Complexity of Inequality, Class, and Violence in 21st-Century America

Kyle Spencer on Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot For Power

Trond Undheim: How Augmented Technology Can Revolutionize the 21st-Century Factory and Make Work More Productive and Meaningful

Timothy Shenk on Realigners: The Visionaries and Hacks Who Have Radically Transformed American Democracy

Veronica Roth on After Surveillance: Imagining a Post-Apocalyptic World in Which We Aren't Watched Anymore

Keith Boykin: How Quitting is the Essential First Step to a Life of Freedom—and Radical Change

Shadi Hamid: Is There a Problem of Democracy in the Middle East? Or Is the Problem With an American Misunderstanding of "Democracy"?

Natasha Warikoo: Is Affirmative Action Fair? Thinking About College in Terms of the Public Good

Ryan O'Hanlon on the End of the Beautiful Game? How the Analytics Revolution Is Changing Soccer

Maybe Even Republicans and Democrats Can Agree On This One: How Dreaming Big Requires Both Self-Deprecating Humor and the Ability to Cry

Anna Badkhen on Today's Bright Unbearable Reality: We Need to Dream Differently

Gautam Mukunda on How to Pick an American President? Making the Most Consequential Decision in the World

Lisa Hajjar on Fighting Guantanamo: How Hundreds of Lawyers Successfully Challenged the Illegal Treatment of Prisoners Captured in the American War on Terror

Chris Miller on Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World Is Computer Chip Technology

Sean Connolly on How Irish Immigration Made the World Modern

Natasha Lance Rogoff on Muppets in Moscow: The Crazy Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia

Rita Katz: In Our Age of Internet-Born Terrorism, Should We Consider QAnon, ISIS, Proud Boys, and Individual School Shooters to All Be Terrorists?

Jerry Stahl on Which Nazi Concentration Camp Had the Best Cafeteria

Alice Wexler Remembers Her Father, Milton, An Unconventional and Controversial Freudian Psychoanalyst

Victor Pickard on Why American Democracy Can't Survive Without Reliable Journalism: How to Confront Our Misinformation SocietyVictor Pickard

Patrick House on How All Writers, Even Neuroscientists, Seek the Impossible: To Replicate Our Unique Interiority

Daniel Gross on What Makes a "Great" Banker? The Story of Edmond Safra, One of the Greatest Bankers of the 20th Century

Michael Bess on Climate, Pandemic, Artificial Intelligence, and Nukes: Identifying and Overcoming the Four Most Existential Threats to Humanity

KEEN ON Misery

Bruce Usher on Good News on the Climate Front: We Finally Have the Technologies to Confront the Crisis

Simon Morrison on the Life and Work of Stevie Nicks: A Great Artist or a Footnote to the Glory Years of the Sixties?

Mauro Porcini on the Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love With People

Tricia Hersey on How Best to Resist Capitalism and Racism? Wake Up, Rest, and Dream

Nora McInerny: Why America Needs a National "Bad Vibes Only" Day In Which We Can All Be Totally Miserable

Lecia Cornwall on That Fictional Summer in Berlin: When a British Aristocrat, and Her Camera, Revealed the Truth About the Nazi Regime

Michael Tomasky: No. Don't Laugh. Why Joe Biden, In His Embrace of Progressive Economics, Might Be the Next FDR or LBJ

Sean Kingsley on Confronting Colonial Amnesia: Dredging Up the Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Stacy Schiff: What Made Samuel Adams Both the Most Essential and the Least Understood Founding Father

Melissa Urban: Does Self Require Us to Be Selfish? How Setting Boundaries In Our Relationships Can Set Us Free

Thomas B. Pepinsky on Pandemic Politics in the Covid Age: Why American Democracy Has Been Infected By a Plague of Partisanship and How to Cure It

Adrian Geiges and Stefan Aust: How Xi Jinping Is the Most Powerful Man in the World and What This Means for the United States and Europe

Kay Harel on Examining Charles Darwin's Soul: A Singular Case of Biophilia

Lorraine H. Marchand: How Can We Democratize Economic Opportunity So That It's Not Just White Men Who Boast of Being "Innovators"?

Deborah Holt Larkin on More Real-Life Murder Stories: The Evil Mother-in-Law Who Organized One of California's Grisliest Killings

KEEN ON Suffering

Dale Kretz: What Progressives Can Learn From the General Failure of the American State to Address the Legacy of Slavery After the Civil War

Paul Magnone on How to Make Smart Business Decisions In Our Age of Big Data: Don't Rely Exclusively on Either Your Intuition or Your Information

Kieran Setiya: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way in a Life of Infirmity, Loneliness, and Failure

KEEN ON Maus Now

Nancy Marie Brown on the Wisdom of the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth

Hillary Chute on Maus Now: Why Art Spiegelman's Classic Remains As Relevant Today As It Was When First Serialized in 1980

Jennifer Brown: Can American Capitalism Be Radically Transformed by Leaders Who Create Inclusive Cultures Where Everyone Can Thrive?

Erika Hayasaki on Somewhere Sisters: The Complex Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family

Daniel Pick on Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control

Lynn Melnick: What Dolly Parton Can Teach Us About Surviving the Trauma of Drug Addiction and Sexual Violence

KEEN ON Onions

Allison Gilbert on Elsie Robinson, America's Most Popular Female Writer Who You've Never Heard Of

Bruce Carruthers on the Economy of Promises: How Trust, Power, and Credit Have Shaped America Over the Last Two Hundred Years

Ainslie Hogarth: A Profane, Insane, Hilarious, and Disgusting Horror Novel About a Mother-In-Law from Hell

Namwali Serpell on Grief and Its Association With Religion and Writing

Hafizah Augustus Geter on Personhood, Race, and Origin in America Today

Dr. Cindy McGovern: Why the First Lady of Sales Believes That the Word "Sales" Appears So Icky and Cringeworthy

Richard Reeves Identifies Today's Crisis of Masculinity and Explains How to Fix It

Geoffrey L. Cohen: Is There Really a "Science" of Belonging Which Enables Us to Create Connection and Bridge Divides?

Brian Michael Jenkins: Plagues and Their Aftermath: Why Recovering From Covid Is Really "Up to Us"

Thomas Orlik: Why the Chinese Economic "Bubble" Might Never Pop

Jamie Weiner: How Much Sympathy Should We Have for the Children of Privilege Who Have Lost Their Way in Life?

KEEN ON Kanye

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz: How the Upcoming Brazilian Presidential Election is a Referendum on Racism, Misogyny, and Military Rule

Michael Fabey: How American Shipyard Workers Might Offer Us Lessons on How to Re

Liza Lin: Why China's "New Kind" of Modern Surveillance Government Might Not Be Quite as Chilling as it Appears

Alex Jahangir: Covid Isn't Over and Won't Be Until We Fix Some of America's Fundamental Social and Cultural Problems

John Sides on the Bitter End: The 2020 Election and the Future of American Democracy

John U. Bacon on Winning Fairly: Lessons About Successful Leadership From a Real-Life Ted Lasso

Caryn Franklin & Keon West: How to Recognize and Undermine Sexism, Racism, and Other Corrosive Media Biases

Rina Raphael on the Wellness Scam: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the Cult of Self-Care

Brandi Collins-Dexter on Black Skinheads and Kanye West: Reflecting on the Democratic Party As the Natural Political Home of African Americans

Andrew Meier: A Defense of Aristocracy? How the American Morgenthau Dynasty Pursued an Ethic of Public Service

Lewis H. Ziska: How Rising CO2 Is Turning Life on Earth Into a Bad Science Fiction Movie

Amit Chaudhuri on Post-Realist Fiction: Why Realism Is No Longer an Adequate Novelistic Form for Describing the World

Phyllis Vine: Why the Next Major Civil Rights Movement Is Mental Health Activism

Kate Beaton on Why Ducks, Her Coming-Of-Age Memoir, Isn't Quite As "Desolate" or "Dismal" As Some Critics Have Suggested

Matthew Stewart: Why the 9.9% Is Running Our World and How the 91.1% Need to Fight Back Against This Aristocracy

KEEN ON Surreality

Mark LeVine on We'll Play Till We Die: The Role of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World

Sarah Kendzior: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Simultaneously Complacent and Paranoid

Kathryn and Ross Petras on Brains, Breasts, Bowels, and Bladders: A History of the World Through Body Parts

David Enrich: How Complicit Is Big Law in the Crimes and Misdemeanors of American Capitalism?

Joe Pompeo: What a Scandalous Double Murder in September 1922 Tells Us About America's Current Obsession With "Trume Crime"

Nicholas Kardaras: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Crisis and How Reading Plato Can Help Cure it

David Ambroz on Something All Americans Should Agree On: No Homeless Children and More Foster Kids in College Than in Jail

Lisa Genova: How Writers Can Use Both Memory and Forgetting to Improve Their Work

Kristin Beck: Why World War II Remains So Seductive to Novelists For Writing About Good and Evil

Luke Mogelson: How Seriously Should We Consider the January 6 Insurrection As a Threat to the American Republic?

Damien Lewis on a Profound Sense of Duty: What Josephine Baker Had in Common With Queen Elizabeth II

Andy Kroll on the Madness of Online Crowds: What the 2016 Murder of Seth Rich Tells Us About Our Conspiratorial Age

Kim Samuel: Should the Right to "Belong" Be Enshrined As a Sacred Human Right?

Jason Feifer on Darwin 2.0: How to Embrace Change, Adapt Fast, and Future Proof Both Your Career and Your Life

KEEN ON the end of the future

Michael Sayman: How the Gay Son of First-Generation Peruvian Immigrants Became the Most Influential Latino in Silicon Valley

Mark Bergen: Given YouTube's World Domination, Should the Google-Owned Video Platform Be More Aggressively Regulated and Controlled?

Douglas Rushkoff: What the Escape Fantasies of Tech Billionaires Reveal About Our Apocalyptic Age

Josh Chin: Why China's "Surveillance State" Is More Nuanced Than Either China Lovers or Haters Would Have Us Believe

Ross Dawson: How Can We Be Sure That This "Futurist" Author Isn't, In Fact, a Smart Machine?

David Livermore: How to Get Along With People That You Want to Eradicate

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell: Feminist or Feminine? A Twentieth-Century History of Skirts

Louise Perry: No More Sex? A "Feminist" Case Against the Sexual Revolution

Jonathan Darman: How FDR Learned to Be FDR: The Personal Crisis That Transformed Him Into a Historic Leader

A.M. Homes: Why American Novelists Need to Not Just Keep Up With But Also Overtake Reality

Helen Rappaport: In Search of Mary Seacole, a Quite Remarkable Black Cultural Icon

Neal Wooten on Life Growing Up on a Pig Farm in the Alabama Mountains: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Bill McGuire on Hothouse Earth: Why We've Only Got 90 Months Left to Save the Planet

That Was the Week in Tech: Why Substack Is a Bust, How Apple Can't Do AI, and Why China Is Thrashing the U.S. in Clean Tech Innovation

Solito: Javier Zamora's Memoir of His Unaccompanied Migration From El Salvador to California at the Age of Nine

Richard Winters, MD: Should Good "Leaders" Get Rid of the Idea of Leadership Itself?

KEEN ON Supreme Court Dicks

J. Bradford DeLong on Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Wealthy and Miserable 20th Century

Patricia A. Turner: What Can We Learn from Anti-Obama Trash Talk to Confront Racism in 21st-Century American Politics

Sterling Hawkins: Why "Discomfort" Might Be the Key To Not Just a Meaningful Life But Also a Happy Death

Bill George: Shut Up, Elon! Why Business Leaders Need to Get Off Social Media and Keep Their Views To Themselves

W. David Marx: Does Our Desire for Social Rank Determine Taste, Identity, Art, and Fashion?

Evan Puschak: On Public Benches, Superman, Blade Runner, and Other Stuff That Gives Life Meaning

Tim Higgins on the Tesla Story: Is Elon Musk the Hero, The Villain, or Just an Accidental Footnote to the Company's Remarkable Engineers and Workers?

Mansi Choksi on An Alternative Passage to India: Rebelling Against Conventional Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Modi's India

Dahlia Lithwick: Is There a Supreme Court Plot to Destroy America?

Dana Milbank: How the Republicans Have Become the Destructionist Party and How This Might Destroy American Democracy

Dimitris Xygalatas: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

Anna DeForest: How American Medicine, With Its Reliance on the Scientific "Data," Does Such a Bad Job of Dealing With Life's Greatest Mystery: Death

Mia Baytop Russell: How to Confront Corporate Burnout and Make Work Meaningful Again

Benjamin Cunningham: The Wife-Swapping Czech Double Agent Whose Sad Saga Captured the Nihilism of the Cold War Era

Phillip Levine: Why Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness Proposal Isn't the Solution to the Real Economic Injustices of the American College System

KEEN ON the Library of Babel

Christian Busch: Is the "Serendipity" of "Good Luck" Just More Neo-Liberal Pseudo-Science From Our Business School Elite?

Linda Villarosa: Why Racism Is the Deadliest Pandemic Afflicting Both African-American Lives and the Health of the Nation

Linda Kinstler: On How We Remember the Holocaust

Gary Weiss: What Donald Trump Might Have Learned From the Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

Anya Kamenetz on The Stolen Year: Kids, Covid, and the Catastrophic Cost of the Pandemic

William Deresiewicz: Can a Critic of "Wokeness" Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

Sinclair McKay on Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World

Dan Bouk on Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the U.S. Census

Jean Hanff Korelitz: Forget Politics: Why a Novelist's First Priority Is To Tell a Good Story

Kathleen Hale: What the Slenderman Stabbing Tragedy Tells Us About the State of Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in America

Laura Mason: How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

Graciela Mochkofsky on The Prophet of the Andes: A Latin American Journey to the Promised Land

KEEN ON 2042

Justin Gregg: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

Hans Greimel & William Sposato: Is the Carlos Ghosn Story Really a Parable About the Limits of Davos Man and the Globalized Neo-Liberal Order?

Edward Chancellor on the Real Story of Interest: How Low Interest Rates Are Bad For Everyone (Except Central Bankers)

Sean McLain: What Does the Carlos Ghosn Story Tell Us About Contemporary Japan?

Eli Saslow: How Covid Compounded All the Best and Worst Things About the America of the 2020s

Natasha Sizlo: How an LA Real-Estate Agent Went to Paris and Wrote a Memoir of Love, Loss, and Destiny

Mike Rothschild: Is QAnon a Threat to Civilization or Childish Distraction For the Digital Underclass?

Peter Coy: Why Economics Might Not Be the Dismal Science That We Love to Hate

Christopher Kolenda: What Afghan War Veterans Can Teach America About How to Listen Empathically To Our "Enemies"

Richard Vague on Wiping the Financial Slate Clean: The Case For a Debt Jubilee

Dean Schroeder: What Denver and the Danes Can Teach Silicon Valley About Innovating Local Government

KEEN ON Afghanistan

Brad Feld: The Tech Industry Isn't a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color

Kirk Wallace Johnson: How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK

Major Tom Schueman and Zainullah Zaki: Remembering the US War in Afghanistan and the Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter

Wendy Smith on Profit AND Social Responsibility? How Today's Leaders Should Confront Our Toughest Problems

Nick Kostov on the Carlos Ghosn Story: A Modern-Day Greek Tragedy or the Parable of a Shameless Criminal Mastermind?

Kate Finn: Today Is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. But What Should We Be Celebrating?

Elliot Ackerman: Why the American "Retreat" From Afghanistan Was a Giant Fuck-Up And How It Represents the Final Act of a Classic Five-Part Tragedy

Sabine Hossenfelder: An Existential Physicist Answers Life's Biggest Questions: Does God Exist? Is There Life in the Universe? Are We Living In a Simulated Reality?

Alan Murray: Tomorrow's Capitalism: Searching For that Elusive "Soul" of American Business

Anthony Marra: The Tools Which Allow Novelists to Create More "Realistic" Characters Than Those You See on the Screen

David Chalmers: If the World Itself Is a Giant Simulation, Then What's the Difference Between the Virtual Reality of Cyberspace and "Real Life"?

Liska Jacobs on The Pink Hotel: A California Novel Where You Can Check In But You Can't Check Out

Steven Thrasher: In the Age of Covid and Monkeypox, Should We Be Prioritizing the Health of the "Viral Underclass"?

Dwyer Murphy: How to Write About the City? Go Out Without an iPhone

Isaac Saul: Yes, "Truth" Still Exists in the Misinformation Age, But It's Unlikely to Make Many of Us Happy

Nancy Jacobson and Ryan Clancy: How a 2024 Trump-Biden Rematch Would Be a "Black Swan" Moment For a Third Party Candidate

KEEN ON Nixon's America

Kevin Boyle: Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

Dan Fesperman: On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted By Its Grey History of Secrecy and Lies

Camper English: On the Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

Howard Wolk: Why America's Greatest Strength Is Its Entrepreneurial Edge and How This Might Even Fix the Crisis of the Environment, Inequality, and Healthcare

Christie Hunter Arscott: On Begin Boldly and How Courage Will Enable a Woman to Launch a Brilliant Career

Jeff Lerner: Should We Celebrate Or Be Suspicious of Self-Help Books Promise to Unlock Our "Dream Life"?

Gerd Gigerenzer: What Machines Can't Learn and Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

David Victor Has Good News on the Climate Front: Why Things Aren't Quite as Apocalyptic as Some Believe

Stefan Dercon on Africa As Las Vegas: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose in Gambling on Development

Touraj Parang: Can Tech Entrepreneurs Win the Start-Up Game Without Selling Out Morally?

Aggie Blum Thompson: Why It's So Much Easier to Write Good Fiction About Violence Than About Sex

Pablos Holman, A Message From a Deep Futurist: We Need Humans to Fix Things

KEEN ON the Metaverse

Darrell M. West; How Seriously Should We Take the Paranoia Amongst Our Educated Elite About the Crisis of America?

Simran Jeet Singh: What the Sikh Religion Can Teach Us About Disrupting Bias, Building Empathy, and Seeking Wisdom

Erika L. Sánchez: Why Risk-Taking, Rebellious Immigrants Capture the Spirit of What It Should Mean To Be a 21st Century "American"

Matthew Ball: How the Metaverse Will Revolutionize Everything and Why That Might Not Be Such a Bad Thing

Orna Ophir: How a Pathology of "Schizophrenia" Might Reflect a Broken Society As Much as a Broken Mind

Leah McLaren: A Daughter's Memoir of a Mom Who Passed Down Her Trauma and Made Their Lives Impossible to Disentangle

Alice Mah on Plastics, the One Word That Best Describes Our Global Environmental Crisis

Harald H.H.W. Schmidt: Why "The End of Medicine As We Know It" Will Make All of Us Healthier and Happier

Ariel Ezrachi: How Cities, Rather Than Big Tech, Should Be the Engine for a More Equitable Digital Future

Monique Roffey: The Common Sense of Magic Realism and Why The Mermaid of Black Conch is a "Caribbean Novel"

Maureen Perry-Jenkins on Work Matters: How Parents' Jobs Shape Children's Well-Being

Saleem H. Ali: Do We Need a Science Party to Confront Existential Problems Like Global Warming?

Ari Mittleman: Does Criticism of Israel Inevitably Make One Guilty of Antisemitism?

Albert Fox Cahn: How Digital Surveillance In a Post-Roe America Isn't Substantively Different From Xi's China or Putin's Russia

KEEN ON 2062

Donald Robertson: Why the Graphic Novel Is an Ideal Form to Capture the Timeless Philosophy of Stoicism

Jacob M. Grumbach: Why the Crisis of American Democracy Is As Much a State and Local As a National Problem

Karen Cerulo and Janet Ruane: How We Can't Escape Social Class, Gender, or Culture in How We Dream

Jared Del Rosso: Why All We Need to Become Whistleblowers in Exposing Both Political and Personal Injustice

Deborah Cadbury: The Remarkable Story of the Quaker Teacher Who Defied Hitler and Smuggled Her Entire School From Germany to England

Toby Walsh: If Our Superpower Is Human Empathy, Then Why the Hell Are We Trying to Teach Computers To Be Empathetic?

Richard Hasen: Can American Democracy Be Fixed By Making Political Speech More Expensive?

Ken Auletta: What Does the Harvey Weinstein Story Tell Us About the Culture of Silence in Hollywood and America?

Charles Sabel: To Fix the Climate We Need to Rewire the Economy, Our Democracy, and Our Brains

Michael Fertik: On Washington Irving, John Muir, Philip Dick, Jonathan Haidt and what America Has Uniquely Got Going For It

Aviva Rahmani: Why Telling Effective Stories About the Environment Requires Not Just Words But Also Visual Images and Even Music

Daniel S. Moak: Why America's Current War on Schools Is the Result of Fifty Years of Failed Federal Educational "Reforms"

KEEN ON An Immense World

Ed Yong: Why Perceiving Animal Senses Makes Us Empathetic Not Only to Other Creatures But Also to Each Other

KEEN ON Independence Day

Daniel Silva on How to Write a Bestselling Literary Spy Novel Every Year

Elisabeth Leake on How the Soviet and American Invasions of Afghanistan Are Comparable

Daniel Drezner on the End of Donald Trump, Green Tech, Apocalyptic Zombies: Why Americans Should Be Cheerful About the Future

Marianne Lewis: How Life's Toughest Problems Are Most Effectively Confronted By "Both/And Thinking"

Jason Kander: A Disturbing Autobiography From One of America's Most Candid Ex-Politicians and Soldiers

Brett Scott: Why Wall Street and Silicon Valley Want a Cashless Society and Why That Doesn't Benefit Us

Rebecca May Johnson's Homeric Wisdom For Cooks and Writers: You Just Have to Keep On "Doing It"

Jamie Susskind: How the Digital Republic Could Deepen Democracy and Compound Freedom in the 21st Century

Bernhard Poerksen: Can an "Editorial Society" Heal Our Digital Fever of Misinformation and Lies?

Max Holleran on NIMBYism vs YIMBYism: How to Reinvent the City to Solve the Homelessness Pandemic

Jonathan Rauch Contemplates (and Fears) a Post-Democratic America

Ian Buruma: What to Make of America On Its 246th Birthday

Daniel Birnbaum: Wassily Kandinsky and the Uncannily Contemporary Origins of 20th Century Abstract Art

George Monbiot on How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet

Verlyn Klinkenborg on How to Write Well About Nature: Simplify Language, Empathize With Other Creatures, and Use Your Eyes Like a Hawk

Elizabeth Sandifer: Why a Bloody End to Democracy in America Is Not Only Likely But Maybe Even Inevitable

Andrew Hodges on Alan Turing and Why One of the 20th Century's Most Iconic Figures Remains So Relevant in the 21st Century

Chris Miller: Is It Possible That the Russians Are Now Winning the War in Ukraine?

Margaret Mitchell: Can Big Tech Be Reformed to Make It More Ethically Responsible In Its Development of Artificial Intelligence?

KEEN ON The End of the World

Robert Pearl: How the Seemingly Parallel Pandemics of Covid, Anxiety, and Gun Violence Are All Part of the Same Existential Crisis of American Healthcare

Debora Spar: How Social Media Is Killing Romantic Love and How Smart Machines Might Enable Us to Love Again

Baynard Woods: How a White Racist "Totalitarian" System Has Permeated All of American History and Why Reparations Might Be Its Only Fix

Emma Brodie on Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, a Love Affair So Melodic That It Had to Be Transformed Into Fiction

Jamie Bartlett on the Biggest Crypto Scam of All and the Heartless Bulgarian Cryptoqueen Behind It

Paul Thagard: Why Balance Is Essential in Our Vertiginous Age

Jenny Kleeman: What the End of Roe Might Tell us About the High Tech Future of Bird, Sex, Food, and Death

Peter Zeihan: Why the End of Globalization Is Just the Beginning of the Chaotic 2020s

Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague: Why the News About the Resilience of American Democracy Is Both Very Good and Very Bad

Steven Jones: What's the Point of Universities in Our Neo-Liberal Age of Radical Inequality and Fake News?

Kate Mangino: Why Boys, As Much as Girls, Benefit from Gender Equality At Home

Katherine Angel on One More Pro-Abortion Argument: Why Girls Need to Take Sexual Risks If They Are To Grow Up to Become Women

KEEN ON Parallel Dystopias

Alison Fairbrother on the Catch Within the Catch: How to Write a Feminist Novel About a Complicated Dad

Ben Tarnoff: Why Fixing the Internet Requires Political Struggle Rather Than Technological Innovation

Nelly Lahoud: Remembering Osama Bin Laden: Monster, Family Man, or Misguided Genius?

Dr. Natalie Petouhoff: Can Digital Technology Really Deliver More Human Empathy?

Lyndsie Bourgon: Why the Morality of Tree Stealing Is Not As Simple as Many Traditional Environmentalists Would Like to Think

Martin Puchner: How to Fix the Environment? A Four-Thousand-Year-Old Reading List for Confronting Our Climate Emergency

Dan Hampton: Why the World Owes America a Great Debt For Its Participation in the Second World War

Azeem Azhar: Why, In an Age of Exponential Technological Change, Does So Little Seem to Change in Politics?

Lisa Lewis: Why the Crisis of Teenage Anxiety Might Begin and End With Sleep Deprivation

Mark Lee Gardner: Rather Than Jefferson or Washington, Should Americans Be Celebrating Indigenous Leaders Like Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull As Their Greatest Historical Figures?

Chris Stokel-Walker on a Digital Brave New World: Are We Entertaining Ourselves to Death on TikTok?

Gian Volpicelli on the Crypto-Crash and Why the Party Might Finally Be Over

Stephen Wertheim: Why Joe Biden Should Be Supporting Sovereignty and Not Democracy in Ukraine

Bob Keefe: Can American Capitalism Really Be an Ally in the War Against Climate Change?

Introducing Intelligence Squared US

Britt Halvorson: How to Reimagine White Supremacy in the Heartland of the American Midwest

Garrett Graff: How Are Watergate and the January 6th Insurrection Similar? Nixon and Trump's Shared Paranoia and Isolation From the Outside World

Emma Jacobs: How Do We Define Adulthood in a Time When We've Created a Cult of Childhood?

Ewen Spencer on What Writers and Photographers Have in Common

KEEN ON Hard Times

Frank Smyth: Why the Next Three Years Could Be the Most Violent in American History Since Reconstruction

Juan Gonzalez: The Paradoxical History of Latinos in America

Nick Seabrook: How Gerrymandering Is Killing American Democracy

Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström: No, Sweden Isn't Perfect: On Racism, Xenophobia, and Not Even Feeding Your Own Guests

Jennifer Senior: How America's Rasputin, Steve Bannon, Is Simultaneously Clubbable and a Mortal Threat to the Republic

Ethan Lou: Is Today's Crypto Crash Terminal or Just Another Chapter in Its Inevitable Takeover of Our Financial System?

Christopher Leonard: How Today's Inflationary Crisis is Likely to Further Inflame Our Democratic Crisis

Simon Kuper: What Political Lessons Can We Learn From a Well-Run Football Club Like FC Barcelona?

Oliver Bullough: How Britain Became the Jeeves of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats, and Criminals

James Kirchick on the Hidden History of Gay Washington

Nabil Ayers: Why Writing an Autobiography Is More Like Recording an Album Than Making a Single

Rebekah Caruthers: How We Can Use the January 6th Insurrection to Create a More Perfect American Democracy

Gene Andrew Jarrett on Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Caged Bird That Sang

Nicole Eustace: What the Murder of an Indigenous American in 1722 Tells Us About the Dark Origins of the United States

Chloe Maxmin: Why the Democrats Need to Start Listening to Rural America

Imagine America as a "Parent Nation": Utopian Nonsense or Realizable Possibility?

KEEN ON History

Gary Shapiro on How Both Political Parties Are Undermining America's Greatest Strength: Innovation

Charlie Robertson on Curing Global Poverty: More Education, More Electricity

Nandita Dinesh: How Brechtian Theater Can Help Americans Talk to One Another Again

Note to Elon Musk: Stop Wasting Your Billions on Twitter and Invest Them in Curing Cancer

Ian Morris: Why Geography Explains Everything From Brexit to Cuba to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Jefferson Morley: Why Watergate Is Intimately Bound Up With the CIA's Role in the JFK Assassination

Samit Basu: Why India, and Not China or the US, Represents the Most Chilling Vision of Our High-Tech Dystopian Future

Abi Morgan: How to Write a Memoir About Personal Catastrophe Without Sounding Pitiful

Victoria Finlay on Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

John Allore: How a Brother's Determination to Find His Sister's Killer Lead Him to a Canadian Serial Killer

Ada Ferrer: How the 300-Year-Old Cuba-America Relationship Could Have Been Written By a Latin American Novelist

Bo Seo: How Good Debate Can Save Democracy

Julie Lythcott-Hains: How to Successfully Grow Up and Become an Adult

KEEN ON Social Media

Peter Wehner: Why a Post-Trump America Remains Very Sick and How to Improve Its Health

Kimberly Wolf: Why Fathers Need to Talk Talk Talk to Their Daughters

Anna Malaika Tubbs: How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

Hopwood DePree: What One American Learnt From Restoring His Family's English Castle

Aaron Friedberg: Why China, Not Russia, Is Our Greatest Threat And What We Should Do About It

Sasha Issenberg: What America's Long Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage Can Teach Us About the Possibility of Gun Control

Erin Swan: How a First Novel About America's Vanished Earth Took 6 Years to Write and 30 Years to Plan

Nirit Weiss-Blatt: Why the Techlash Has Gone Too Far

Helene Munson on Hitler's Boy Soldiers: Can Germans Ever Forget the Second World War?

Kerri Arsenault and Bathsheba Demuth: How to Tell Effective Stories About the Environment

Jon Taffer: Why the Real Power of Conflict Is About Respect Rather Than Violence

Joshua Browder: Should We Celebrate Technology Which Enables the Disruption of Local Government?

Hal Weitzman: Why Delaware Is At the Root of Everything That Is Wrong With America

George Stevens, Jr.: Remembering (And Mourning) The Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington D.C.

Dov Seidman: How to Make American Capitalism Moral (Or, At Least, Try To)

Marcus Buckingham: Why Work Sometimes Does, Indeed, Love Us Back

Arthur Grace: Photographing Communism(s) and What Life Really Looked Like in Cold War Eastern Europe

Eboo Patel: Field Notes on How to Build a Diverse Democracy in America

Ousman Umar: I'm the Luckiest Person in the World Because I Have Two Families, One Black and One White

Phil Klay on Rebuilding the American Citizen in an Age of Endless, Invisible War

Mark Esper: The Surrealism of Life as Secretary of Defense in the Trump Regime

Lise Vesterlund on The No Club and How to Put a Stop to Women's Dead End Work

Jon Mooallem: How to Make Sense of Profound Arbitrariness in a World That Is Suppose to Make Sense

Charlotte Mullins: Finally a History of Art That Includes Female and Non-White Artists

Glenda Gilmore: The Significance of Romare Bearden's Art in the American Canon

Gregg Barak: On the Persistent and Unambiguous Criminality of Donald J. Trump

Maurice Stucke: How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation and How to Fight Back

Francis Fukuyama: Are We At the End of the History of Liberalism?

Andrew Leon Hanna: How the World's Refugees Are 25 Million Sparks of Innovation and Humanity

Finally Some Good News: Why We Might All Be Altruistic Creatures

KEEN ON Nobody

James Zimring: How Math Distorts Our Thinking

Leslie Fenwick: How the Legacy of Jim Crow Still Infects American Schools

Jim Shepard on Why the Covid Pandemic Might Only Be Phase One in the Destruction of the World

Tessa West: How to Identify and Detoxify Jerks at Work

Jo-Ann Mort: How Poets Could Bring Peace to Israel and Palestine

Michael Blanding: Was Shakespeare a Plagiarist?

Charles Dellheim: How Jews Made the Art World Modern

Vegard Skirbekk: Why We Need to Bring Down Global Birth Dates and Have Fewer Children

Rowan Hooper: How to Save the World For Just a Trillion Dollars

KEEN ON Authenticity

Levi Vonk: The Moral Case for Demilitarizing the Southern Border

Nick Marx: Can Conservatives Be Funny?

Danica Roem: Why We Should Judge All Politicians Through the Prism of Authenticity

Sam W. Haynes: How Everyone—Left and Right—Has Misrepresented the History of Texas

Alice Sherwood: Should We Really Want to Reclaim "Reality" in Our Counterfeit World?

Tripp Mickle: How Apple Appears to Have Lost Its Soul in the Post-Steve Jobs Era

Scott Hershovitz: How to Nurture the Philosopher In All Our Kids

John A. List: Why Quitting Good Ideas Is Often a Winning Strategy

John Higgs: What William Blake Might Tell Us About Our Transhuman Future

Emily Bingham: How "My Old Kentucky Home" Is a Sonic Monument to a Segregated America

Sy Montgomery: How Hawks Teach Us a Different Way to Love

Rebecca Schiller: How to Write a Literary Memoir About Neurodivergency

Edward Sullivan: How Authentic Conversation Can Unlock Our Creativity, Our Purpose, and Our Happiness

WHY MUSK & TWITTER DESERVE EACH OTHER

Lis Wiehl: Why Robert Hanssen Was America's Most Damaging Spy

Toni Bentley on George Balanchine, the Man Who Loved Women

David Kirkpatrick: From Tragedy to Farce: On the Changing Story of Facebook

Joel Simon: How the Infodemic Is Making the World Sicker and Less Free

Richard Overy: Has the Second World War Ended Yet?

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: Why Free Access Is the Key to Fixing Big Tech Monopolies

John Thornhill: What Do Startup Entrepreneurs and Authors Have in Common?

Mickey Huff: Can We Trust Anything We Read in the Media These Days?

C. Fred Bergsten: Why Trump and Biden Are Dangerously Wrong About China

Who is REALLY running the world?

Introducing Storybound

Natasha Lunn: Is Talking About Love a Female Thing?

Yascha Mounk on the Paradoxes of American Patriotism in the Black Community

David De Jong: Why the Evil Legacy of Nazi Billionaires Remains Very Much Alive in Germany Today

Matt Richtel: Why Most of Us Are Terrified of Being Creative

Steven Kotler: Should We Relish a "Post-Human" Future in Which We Will Be Able to Fully Empathize With Trees, Plants, and Other Creatures?

Joseph Weisberg: The Chilling Similarities Between Bush's Invasion of Iraq and Putin's Invasion of Ukraine

Mary Laura Philpott: Why the Best Non-Fictional Writing Requires the Art of a Fiction Writer

Charlie Eaton: How Ivory Tower Bankers Are Plundering Our Universities

Charles Kupchan: Why Putin Might Be Right in Opposing the Growth of NATO

Christopher Blattman: The Five Reasons Why Putin Went to War in Ukraine

Not So KEEN ON Elon Musk

Christine Emba: SEX SEX SEX: Why We're Not Having It and Why That's Bad

Dan Brooks: How Social Media Might Be Simultaneously Destroying Both Comedy and Morality

Matthew E. Kahn: Why Going Remote at Work Can Save Both Our Cities and Our Souls

Mary Ann Sieghart: Why It's In Everyone's Interest (Even Men) to Take Women More Seriously

Victoria Wellman: Is It Ethical to Get a Speechwriter to Write Your Wedding Speech?

J. David McSwane: Exposing the COVID Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita: Why China, Russia and Iran Aren't Democracies

Jeff Rosenthal: Can Only Rich People Afford to Think Big, Chase Dreams, and Build Community?

Beena Ammanath: How AI Can Finally Solve the Problem of Diversity

Elizabeth Popp Berman: Why Thinking Like an Economist Might Be a Form of Madness

Christine Porath: How Mastering Community Requires Us to Also Master Civility

Maddie Anstruther & Anya Gera on Slow News and the Importance of Young Voices

What comes after neoliberalism?

Donald Cohen: How the Looting of Public Goods Is Destroying American Democracy

Eugene Linden: Why the Path to a Livable Future Is Becoming Narrower and Narrower

Sameet Mehta: Why We Live in the Age of Cyber Warfare Without Even Knowing It

Mark Arsenault: How America's Foremost Propagandist of Entry into World War One Was an Imposter

Jonathan Haskel: How to Fix the Future of Our Intangible Economy

Ben McGrath: "Riverman": A Poignantly American Non-Fictional Novel

Julia Hobsbawm: Will the Nowhere Office Turn Us Into Nowhere People

Gary Gerstle: What Exactly Is "Neo-liberalism" and What Should Replace Our Current Neoliberal Order?

Julissa Arce: Why Being American Shouldn't Require Cultural Assimilation

Barbara Kellerman: Are Most Books About "Leadership" a Scam?

Not Far From Brideshead: On the Sad Glitter of Oxford Between the Wars

Daisy Pitkin: How Women (and Moths) Are Leading Today's Struggle to Unionize Workers

Matti Friedman: The Biblical Story of Leonard Cohen's October 1973 Resurrection in the Sinai Desert

Sally Hayden: Exposing the 21st Century Slave Trade on the Shores of the Mediterranean

John W. Reid: Why We Need to Save Big Forests If We Are To Save the Planet

Lawrence R. Jacobs: Why Trump is More of a Symptom Than a Cause of Today's Crisis of American Democracy

Daniel Horowitz: What Shark Tank Tells Us About the Unreality of Life in America

Marie Yovanovitch: Why Trump Might Be More Like Putin Than We'd Like to Think

Daniel Yergin: Who Will Reap the Economic and Political Rewards of Putin's Ukraine Folly?

Guillermo Martínez: Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Poirot, Jorge Luis Borges, and the Mathematical Art of the Great Detective Novel

Monica Guzmán: How to Have Fearless Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

Tony Hiss: Why Rescuing the Planet Requires Us to Give Back Half the Land to Nature

Michael Ignatieff: Why We Can't Take the Nuclear Option Off the Table in Ukraine

Keen On Forgetting

Keith Ferrazzi: What Politicians Can Learn from Corporate CEOs About Making the World a Better Place

Jeff Deutsch: Why Good Bookstores Might Not Actually Be "Stores"

John Markoff: Why Stewart Brand Is the Most Prescient Tech Visionary You've Never Heard Of

Mary Childs: Did Bond King Bill Gross Break American Capitalism?

Justin Gest: How to Avoid Civil War in America By Creating a Post-Racial Civic Identity

Brandon Presser: Travel Truth #1: It Doesn't Matter How Far We Go, We'll Never Escape Ourselves

Chandler Baker: Why Good Husbands Should ALWAYS Carry the Laundry Upstairs

Kyleigh Leddy: Breaking the Silence On the Mental Illness Pandemic Afflicting American Young Women

Steven Pifer: The Truth About Ukraine, From the Former U.S. Ambassador in Ukraine

How To Fix Capitalism

Justin E.H. Smith: Why the Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

Filip Doušek on a Radical Redefinition of Rationality

Susan MacKenty Brady: How Female Leadership Values Like Empathy Might Help End the War in Ukraine

Ken Croke: Why Evil Men Join Motorcycle Gangs and How To Take Them Down

Katherine Sayre: The Spiritual Emptiness of Tony Hsieh, Silicon Valley's Saddest Evangelist of Happiness

Scott Carney: How an Environmental Apocalypse Caused the Genocidal Murder of 3 Million Bangladeshis

Jon Alexander: How to Fix Everything By Transforming Ourselves From Consumers Into Citizens

William Galston: Why Liberalism and Progressivism Are at Odds in Joe Biden's Democratic Party

Stephen M.R. Covey on the Crisis in Trust With Vladimir Putin

Viviana Zelizer: Why Everything You Think About Money Is Wrong

Yusaf Akbar: Rather Than Another World War, Why Ukraine Might the First Global War About Globalization Itself

Ari Ezra Waldman on Big Tech's Existential Threat to Our Privacy and Liberty

Who Runs the World?

Geo Maher: Why Ukrainian Resistance to the Russian Invasion Is a Kind of Anti-Colonial Eruption

Carolyn Chen on Why Big Tech is Now Also Big Religion

William Boyd: Chekhov Was Right: How Most People Do Indeed Live Their Real, Most Interesting Lives Under the Cover of Secrecy

Thom Hartmann on Why Putin's Ukraine Invasion and George W. Bush's Iraq Invasion Are Both Oil Wars

Jennifer Sciubba on Why Demography Isn't Destiny

Brian Klaas: What a Scan of Vladimir Putin's Power-Addled Brain Might Tell Us

Helen Thompson: Is Vladimir Putin Returning the World to the Hard Times of the 1970s?

Al Schmidt & Baoky Vu: Two Republican Takes on Why Many Republicans Have Turned Against Democracy

Renata Uitz: Is Ukraine the First Global Illiberalism Versus Liberalism War?

Peter Osnos on the Non-fictional George Soros: Better Than Any Novel

Why Ukraine isn't really about Ukraine

Peter Pomerantsev: Why the Ukraine Isn't Really About the Ukraine

KEEN ON The Ukraine

Ian O'Connor on Coach K's Lessons for Life Off the Basketball Court

Chris Miller on the Politics of Putinomics in the Ukraine War

Elizabeth Greenwood on How to Find Love in an American Prison

Danielle Citron: Why Online Privacy Should Be a Core Civil Right

Joby Warrick on Russia's Syrian Intervention as a Model for the Ukrainian War

Michael Kazin: Has the Democratic Party Got a Future?

Charles Spencer: How the History of Britain Would Be Dramatically Different Without the Sinking of the White Ship in 1120

Kathy Gilsinan on the Different Kinds of War We're Facing Right Now

Maciej Kisilowski & Inna Melnykovska on the West's Moral Failure in the Ukrainian Invasion

Jackie Higgins on What Animals Reveal About Our Senses

J.D. Dickey on the Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson's America

John Scalzi: Are We At a "F*ck You" Moment in World History With Ukraine?

Can the Economics of Sanctions Be an Effective Way of Fighting Back Against the Military Invasion of Ukraine?

Alan Judd on One of the Most Fascinating Mysteries of the Elizabethan Age

Akash Kapur on Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

Christine Montross on Mental Health vs. the American Incarceration System

Scott Reynolds Nelson on How Cheap American Grain Toppled the World's Largest Empires

Neil Lanctot on How and Why the United States Emerged Onto the World Stage

Jamie Beaton on Demystifying the Competitive World of Elite College Admissions

Dwight Chapin on the Life and Administration of Richard Nixon

Marc David Baer on the Ottoman Empire's Enduring Impact on Europe and the World

Laura Shin on the History of Ethereum and the 2017 ICO Craze

Moisés Naím on the Global Spread of Authoritarianism and Its Dangers

Thomas Insel on What a Better Path to Mental Health Might Look Like

Erica Katz on the High-Stakes World of Art Forgery

Patrick Strickland on How the Citizens of a Small Arizona Border Town Stood Up to Anti-Immigrant Militias and Vigilantes

Jamie Susskind on How Digital Technology Will Transform Politics and Society

Nomi Stolzenberg on How a Group of American Hasidic Jews Established Its Own Local Government

Alexander Zaitchik on the Fight to Produce Lifesaving Medicines

Gal Beckerman on Looking to the Past to Help Us Imagine a Different Future

Angela Stent on How Putin Created a Paranoid and Polarized World

David Robert Grimes on How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

Roni Cohen-Sandler on Raising Self-Reliant Teenage Girls in the Age of the Internet

Eric Pliner on What To Do When the Algorithm Doesn't Have the Answer

Amy Webb on How Synthetic Biology Will Change Our Lives

Garrett Hongo on His Audio Obsession

Jeff Rosenblum on How Brands Can Grow Exponentially and Create Communities

Jason Pack on the Conflict in Libya as an Example of Geopolitical Failure

Five Ways to Make the World a Better Place

Scott Meslow on Why Romantic Comedies Matter

Eric Protzer on Populism and Economic Unfairness

Roman Krznaric on How to be Remembered as Good Ancestors

Benjamin Lorr on the Secret Life of Groceries

Cat Jarman on the True Provenance of an Ancient Piece of Jewelry

Dara Horn on How Jewish History is Exploited to Flatter the Living

Erich Schwartzel on Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

Antonia Fraser on the 19th-Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

Linda Hirshman on How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

Laura Kipnis on How Covid Has Reshaped Our Concepts of Dating, Love & Sex

Colette Brooks on the Dangers of Misremembering Our Past

A.J. Baime on Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret

John Abramson on Big Pharma's Goals Versus Medical Ethics

Larry Miller on His Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom

Daniel Yergin on the New Map of Energy and Geopolitics

William Dalrymple on the First Global Corporate Power

5 Reasons Why We Might Be Fu*ked

Dave Pell on the Maddening Hell That Was the 2020 News Cycle

Christopher Leonard on How Quantitative Easing is Imperiling the US Economy

Michael L. Walker on the Emotional and Physical Experience of Doing Time in Jail

John E. Douglas on the Mind and Crimes of Serial Killer Larry Gene Bell

KEEN ON Maeve Higgins

Jacob Ward on Artificial Intelligence and Its Threat to Humanity

Sebastian Mallaby on How Silicon Valley is Shaping Innovation and the Economy

Thomas J. Main on How Improved Identity Politics Can Restore Our Trust in Government

Maeve Higgins on The Work in Progress That Is America

Albert Wenger on How to Live in the World After Capital

Michael Waldman on the Fight to Vote

Christopher Schroeder on Crypto, Web3 & The Global Unleashing

KEEN ON Web3

Patricia Roberts-Miller on an Objective Examination of Racism

Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the Political and Cultural Legacy of Winston Churchill

Barbara Bloemink on One of the 20th Century's Most Significant and Progressive Artists

Casey Michel on the Unregulated Economy Posing a Threat to Democracy

David S. Rudolf on the Dark Side of America's Criminal Justice System

Randall Kennedy on the Evolution of the N-Word

Michael Brooks on How Mathematics Shapes Our World

Dave Infante on the World of Booze

RESTORING GLOBAL WHITE PRIVILEGE

Margaret O'Mara on How Historians See Donald Trump's Presidency

Chandran Nair on the Pervasive Global Reach of White Privilege

Peter S. Goodman on How the Super-Rich Have Changed 21st-Century Life

Gary John Bishop on Coping with Whatever Challenges Life Throws Your Way

Tareq Azim on Building a Healthy Relationship with Fear

Lea Ypi on Coming of Age Amid Political Upheaval

Mikhaila Peterson on Her Podcasting Journey

Brad Taylor on the End of Days

Stephen Marche on the Possible Collapse of a Fiercely Divided America

Amelia Pang on the Chinese Slave Labor Camps Supplying the West

Leonard Mlodinow on the Science of Feelings

Barbara F. Walter on the Increasing Likelihood of a Second Civil War in the US

Wendy Syfret on How a Meaningless Life Can Make You Truly Happy

Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko on the Search for Faith and Happiness

Bruce Clark on the 3,000-Year Story of the Birthplace of Western Civilization

Meredith Haggerty on Heir Mail

Tom Vanderbilt on Why We Should Never Stop Learning

Keen On 2022