Sitemap - 2024 - Keen On

Episode 2255: Frank Vogl on whether Donald Trump 2.0 will be a semi-legal repeat of the Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX debacle

Episode 2254: Steven Levy on what has and hasn't surprised him about the last twenty years of tech history

Episode 2253: Andrew Keen revisits Cult of the Amateur

Episode 2252: Can the AI revolution decentralize our politics, culture and economy?

Episode 2251: Steven Robinson on how a band of activists beat Donald Trump and saved New York's West Side

Episode 2250: :John Markoff compares Steve Jobs with contemporary tech titans like Sam Altman and Elon Musk

Episode 2249: Peter Wehner on how American self-renewal is a wonder of the world

Episode 2248: F.H. Buckley on the case for Trumpism

Episode 2247: David Masciotra on how the Boss and the Dude can save America

Episode 2246: Jonathan Rauch on the catastrophic ordinariness of contemporary America

Episode 2245: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley and the Reinvention of American Government

Episode 2244: John Hagel on overcoming fear - his proudest achievement over the last 20 years

Episode 2243: Frank Furedi on why the West must fight for its History

Episode 2242: Gary Gerstle identifies the outlines of our Post Neoliberal Age

Episode 2241: Gary Shapiro on how to become a Pivot Guy

Episode 2240: Parmy Olson on the race for global AI supremacy between OpenAI and Deep Mind

Episode 2239: Good Morning America! AI, Trump and the Silicon Valley Future

Episode 2238: Juliana Tafur on how to put Humpty Dumpty (America) back to together again

Episode 2237: Vanessa Resier on Narcissistic Abuse - the disease that captures the spirit of our toxic times

Episode 2236: Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff on How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

Episode 2235: John Driscoll on why Kamala Harris lost

Episode 2234: Lauren Oyler on 2024 as America's first post internet election

Episode 2233: Paul Greenberg predicts a George Washington vs Donald Trump election in 2028

Episode 2242: Should anyone in Silicon Valley really care who wins the election?

Episode 2241: Daniel Susskind exposes the messy truth about the benefits of economic growth

Episode 2240: Jon Moynihan on how to fix the economy and create long term growth

Episode 2239: Has Halloween been rescheduled for November 5?

Episode 2238: Andrew J. Scott explains how to age with grace and wisdom

Episode 2237: Bethanne Patrick on new Fall Fiction to take your mind off you-know-what

Episode 2236: Stephen Riggio on the greatest Italian novel you've never heard of

Episode 2235: Peter Osnos on LBJ & McNamara - the Vietnam Partnership Bound to Fail

Episode 2234: Terrence Sejnowski asks whether our brains and AI are converging

Episode 2233: More than a Tool: How AI is becoming an independent actor in our world

Episode 2232: Mark Galeotti on whether Putin is a prisoner or a master of history

Episode 2231: Bill Adair on the Epidemic of Political Lying, why Republicans do it more, and how it could destroy American democracy

Episode 2230: Seth Godin on why we are all hard-wired for hope

Episode 2229: Robert Skidelsky worries about the Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Episode 2228: Bethanne Patrick on Al Pacino, the Queen, Bob Woodward and Ketanji Brown Jackson

Episode 2227: Allie Funk on how to Build Online Trust

Episode 2226: Why the Economics of our AI Age might be unlike all previous Tech Revolutions

Episode 2225: Katherine Epstein on how American Historians are Killing History

Episode 2224: Celeste Marcus on why the humanism of Agnieszka Holland's movies remain so relevant in our Trumpian age

Episode 2223: Brian Solis on how we need to reshape the future before it reshapes us

Episode 2222: David Edelman on the dangers and opportunities of personalized technology in our AI age

Episode 2221: Talia Lavin on how the Christian Right is Taking Over America

Episode 2220: Nobel Prize Winning Economist Simon Johnson on Technology & Inequality

Episode 2219: Joel Edward Goza on why Reparations is the Central Civil Rights Issue of the 2020s

Episode 2218: Timothy Shenk explains the fate of liberal politics in the illiberal age of Harris and Trump

Episode 2217: Why Google should hire Chris Lehane, Silicon Valley's Master of the Message

Episode 2216: Neal Baer on the Promise and Peril of CRISPR

Episode 2215: Tavis Smiley on why black men are more likely to vote for Donald Trump than black women

Episode 2214: Arlie Russell Hochschild on How to Listen to America

Episode 2213: Charles and Lily Bock on fathers, daughters and missing mothers

Episode 2212: Jim Wallis on the False White Gospel threatening America

Episode 2211: Why in the AI Age, Big Tech is going to get significantly BIGGER

Episode 2210: Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley explain how to design the future

Episode 2209: Michael Morris on how the cultural instincts that divide us can also help bring us together

Episode 2208: Andrew Hill on the Financial Times' Six Best Business Books for 2024

Episode 2207: Barry Lynn on Liberal Democracy's Last Stand against Big Tech

Episode 2207: Martin Schmidt, President of Rensselaer Institute of Technology, on how Quantum Computing is about the change the world

Episode 2206: Josh McConkey on How to Be the American Weight Behind the Spear

Episode 2205: Edward Goldberg explains how the US Came to Lead (and Lose) the World

Episode 2204: Sharon McMahon on Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

Episode 2203 with Saad Mohseni: The best-informed person in the world about Afghanistan

Episode 2202: Ray Suarez on what it means to be an American in the 2020's

Episode 2201: Brigid Schulte on turning the daily grind of work into a more meaningful life

Episode 2200: Ryan Hampton on the reckless capitalism causing America's drug addiction crisis

Episode 2199: Anindya Ghose on Maximizing our Well-Being in the Age of AI

Episode 2198: Megan Hellerer exposes the "achievement lie" of how we think about our careers and lives

Episode 2197: Keith and Andrew on why, in our AI Age, Specialists will be the New Proletariat

Episode 2196: Michael Scott-Baumann on the unfolding catastrophe in Israel and Palestine

Episode 2195: Toby Walsh on why AI is finally ready to change everything

Episode 2194: Marietje Schaake explains how to save democracy from Silicon Valley

Episode 2193: Arthur Magida on what Americans can learn from a young forger who outfoxed the Nazis

Episode 2192: Mark Weinstein on how to restore our sanity online

Episode 2191: Why the future has to be built by innovators, rather than just hoped for by optimists

Episode 2190: Gary Marcus on How to Tame Silicon Valley's AI Barons

Episode 2189: Wilbur Ross on his mom, Donald Trump, King Charles, and Biden's "Lollipop Economy"

Episode 2188: Build Baby Build - Jerusalem Demsas on how America can fix its housing crisis

Episode 2187: Josh Cowen on how radical right-wing billionaires are wrecking the American public school system

Episode 2186: Branko Milanovic on the history of inequality in America from slavery to neo-liberalism

Episode 2185: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi reveals his lucrative life on the streets of New York City as a citizen-sleuth

Episode 2184: Should Elon Musk be arrested for all the lies and hate on X?

Episode 2183: Mimi Casteel on her life-long love affair with the American land

Episode 2182: Andrew Leigh on how economics explains the world

Episode 2181: Piotr Smolar on his Bad Jew Grandaddy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 2169: Why Both Teachers and Students Need AI

Episode 2168: KEEN ON America featuring William Deresiewicz

Episode 2167: George Gilder on the Israel Test

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

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

Episode 2164: Keith Teare asks if Europe is Dying

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

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 2157: Lindsey Cormack on How to Raise a Citizen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keen on America featuring Batya Ungar-Sargon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 2097: Keen On America featuring Francis S. Barry

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 2091: Lilie Chouliaraki on the Weaponization of Victimhood

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

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

Episode 2088: Jeremy Utley on how to facilitate epiphanies

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

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

Episode 2085: KEEN ON America featuring Nick Bryant

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

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

Episode 2082: James Kirchick explains why a chill has fallen over Jews in the American publishing industry

Episode 2081: Robert Wolcott on how just-In-time technology is about to radical transform business, society and daily life

Episode 2080: Keith Teare's defense of technological utopianism

Episode 2079: Jeremy S. Adams on Lessons in Liberty from ten extraordinary Americans

Episode 2078: Spencer Kornhaber on our carnally confused age in which sex is always in our heads but not in our beds

Episode 2077: Kathleen DuVal on a Thousand Year History of Native Nations in North America

Episode 2076: Sir Tim Lankester on the promise, failure and legacy of Margaret Thatcher's monetarist revolution

Episode 2075: Bethanne Patrick's six must-read new books for May

Episode 2074: Raghuram Rajan on why India must break the mold if it is become a prosperous 21st century economy

Episode 2073: Sulmaan Wasif Khan on the past, present and future conflict between America and China over Taiwan

Episode 2072: Keith Teare on Scarlett Johansson's voice and the creative promise/peril of AI

Episode 2071: Jehuda Reinharz on Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel who aspired to be a British aristocrat

Episode 2070: John R. MacArthur warns that reading digital screens might be shrinking our brains

Episode 2069: KEEN ON America featuring Bobi Conn

Episode 2068: Jacob Kushner on the National Socialist Underground's plot to kill German immigrants

Episode 2067: Jordan Elgrably on richly complex stories about the Middle East and North Africa mostly ignored by Western media

Episode 2066: Steven Johnson on the invention of dynamite, anarchist violence and the rise of the 20th century surveillance state

Episode 2065: Craig Whitlock explains how an overweight Malaysian contractor known as Fat Leonard bribed, bilked and seduced the U.S. Navy

Episode 2064: Chris Gavaler explains how How Stars Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Marvel determine how we view reality

Episode 2063: Rabbi Shai Held on why Judaism is really all about Love

Episode 2062: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Ali Velshi

Episode 2061: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi on Branson, Missouri, the most American town you've never heard of

Episode 2060: Ferdia Lennon on the tragicomedy of the Peloponnesian War

Episode 2059: Keith Teare on why critics of the iPad Crush advertisement are "haters of the future"

Episode 2058: Timothy Morton searches for a Christian Ecology that will get us out of our Planetary Hell

Episode 2057: KEEN ON America featuring R. Derek Black

Episode 2056: Kyle Paoletta exposes the 2024 Republican Primaries as "Farce"

Episode 2055: Michael Ignatieff on a history of his privileges

Episode 2054: Keith Teare follows the money of the online creative economy

Episode 2053: Vince Houghton on how the Cold War transformed Miami into America's most Covert City

Episode 2052: Bryan Caplan on the economic and philosophical case for the radical deregulation of the housing industry

Episode 2051: Mohamed Amer Meziane offers an ecological and racial history of seculization

Episode 250: Andrew J Scott on why we should care about old people

Episode 2049: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Samyr Laine

Episode 2048: Tobias Buck on the Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century

Episode 2047: Elisa New on Poetry in America

Episode 2046: David Faris on why American kids are all left these days

Episode 2045: Lisa Kaltenegger on the inevitability of the existence of non-human life somewhere in the Universe

Episode 2044: Warning! This KEEN ON conversation with Alex Edmans may contain lies

Episode 2043: Adam Kuper explains why our museums reveal much more about ourselves than about other people's cultures

Episode 2042: Robert Pearl MD explains how AI can regenerate the American medical system

Episode 2041: Dr. Judy Ho on how we can stop fucking ourselves up

Episode 2040: Matt Hern on the revolutionary potential of suburbia

Episode 2039: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Mark Danner

Episode 2038: Daniel Bessner on how the existential crisis of Hollywood's film & tv writers is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of America's professional elites

Episode 2037: Elliot Ackerman on the danger of mercenaries and the value of national service

Episode 2036: Stephen Marche, author of "The Next Civil War", on Alex Garland's new movie "Civil War"

Episode 2035: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Christopher Schroeder

Episode 2034: Dale Maharidge tells American liberals to look in the mirror to understand the Doom Loop now engulfing their country

Episode 2033: Batya Ungar-Sargon on how American elites have betrayed the country's working men and women

Episode 2032: Natalie Foster on how the arc of the 21st century American moral universe is bending toward justice

Episode 2031: New books from Salman Rushdie, Erik Larsen, Amor Towles, Mohamed Amer Meziane, Patric Gagne & Leif Enger

Episode 2030: KEEN OF AMERICA featuring Sara Paretsky

Episode 2029: How to House America?

Episode 2028: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Thelton Henderson

Episode 2027: Marc Hauser on giving children second chances to overcome trauma and lead happy lives

Episode 2026: Dr Damon Tweedy on today's struggle to center psychiatry and mental healthcare into the mainstream of the medical community

Episode 2025: On the eve of the eclipse, Christopher Cokinos illuminates the sun and moon's history and their future

Episode 2024: Sheryl Kaskowitz on how FDR and his New Deal team saved America from the Great Depression - one folk song at a time

Episode 2023: How the AI "bubble" isn't really a bubble and why Keith Teare might be emigrating to China

Episode 2022: Henk de Berg on the many similarities tying Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler

Episode 2021: Norman Ohler on Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Episode 2020: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Arlie Russell Hochschild

Episode 2019: Ismar Volic explains how mathematics can save American democracy from the Trump/Biden gerontocratic duopoly

Episode 2018: Becca Rothfeld's celebration of mess, appetite and sexual desire

Episode 2017: David Masciotra finds the pathologies of American Totalitarianism in Exurbia

Episode 2016: Stefan Simchowitz on why he may be the most loathed man in the contemporary art world

Episode 2015: Is Apple about to pull out of the European Union and did Sam Bankman-Fried really deserve his 25 year jail sentence?

Episode 2014: B. Janet Hibbs explains why not-so-young Americans are retreating home to their parents and the other certainties of their former childhood

Episode 2013: Candida Moss on how Christian slaves helped write the Bible and why this will outrage some American evangelicals

Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism

Episode 2011: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Peter Wehner

Episode 2010: How everyone, even business school professors, are joining the anti big tech church

Episode 2009: Keith Teare on why Big Tech might be getting even BIGGER

Episode 2008: Chris French on the Science of Weird Shit

Episode 2007: Bethanne Patrick's guide to a literary March madness

Episode 2006: Everything you wanted to know about sex but didn't have the imagination to ask

Episode 2005: Why the Pete Rose story is as much about the rise and fall of America as it is about the fate of Charlie Hustle

EPISODE 2004: Jacob Heilbrunn on conservative America's 100 year romance with foreign dictators like Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Pinochet, Orban and Putin

Episode 2003: Martin Sixsmith on Vladimir Putin and the return of history to Russia and the West

Episode 2002: Elaine Lin Hering gives voice to the "Unsilent Generation"

Episode 2001: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Adam Hochschild

Episode 2000: Keith Teare on why the Congressional attempt to ban TikTok is astonishingly dumb

Episode 1999: Sasha Issenberg offers a playbook for winning elections in our disinformation age

Episode 1998: Emily Raboteau on how to mother against "the apocalypse"

Episode 1997: Benjamin Shestakofsky reveals the inegalitarianism at the heart of the startup economy

Episode 1996: Frank H. McCourt, Jr explains why rebuilding the Internet is THE most important issue of our time

Episode 1995: Sam Daley-Harris explains how to reclaim American democracy

Episode 1994: Why 1924 was the year that Adolf Hitler became "Hitler" and what it teaches us about the crisis of American democracy in 2024

Episode 1993: Keith Teare on the Hobbesian war of all-against-all inside & outside Silicon Valley

Episode 1992: Andrew Cockburn explains how Dr. Strangelove has always been a feature - rather than a bug - of Silicon Valley

Episode 1991: Bethanne Patrick on how to disrupt the disruption of our revolutionary age

Episode 1990: James Kaplan on Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans and the making of the most miraculous jazz record of all time

Epiosode 1989: Travis Rieder explains why an ethically pure life is neither moral nor practical in our complex world

Episode 1988: How the Patty Hearst saga captured the paranoia of early 70's America

EPISODE 1977: Max Stearns on why a "Parliamentary America" is the best fix for the country's broken democratic system

Episode 1976: Keith Teare on the DEI Elephant in every Silicon Valley Boardroom

Episode 1975: Ira Shapiro explains how Mitch McConnell Betrayed America

EPISODE 1974: Getting beyond Oppenheimer

A Belated February Reading List

Navigating the labyrinth of Argentina's bankrupt economy

Why we remember and why we forget

Waking Up White

A Brave New World of AI, Virtual Reality and Memetic Culture

Against Marriage

Why the Shadows of Socrates still haunt us today

The forced erasure of gays from 20th century American life

The Biggest Liberal Loser or an Iconic Progressive?

In defense of geeky intellectuals

Why do we seem to have so little free time?

And the Oscar goes to.....

Unpacking the Facebook tragedy

Will Putin ever die?

Should Americans pursue virtue or happiness?

A Case for Reparations

Exposing Hollywood's most notorious interwar celebrity spy

What chance peace in Israel?

How to write a #1 global bestseller

How Tucker Carlson's Putin interview captures today's "new, new media" revolution

Uncovering the world's mightiest (and tiniest) narco-state

in defense of cultural liberalism

Do nations have psychologies and can they experience collective trauma?

After Rape

Born in Blood: Scott Gac explains why violence is the defining feature of American history

Can the American university survive the 21st century? Nicholas Dirks explains why American universities need to reinvent themselves in our winner-take-all age of social media and AI

How to Win the Global Battle to Power our Lives? Ernest Scheyder on the new economic war between China and the West to control critical minerals like lithium, copper and cobalt

Why Scientific Truth Might Be Infinitely Weirder Than Scientific Fiction: Mike Chen on "A Quantum Love Story"

Should Elon Musk have publicly visited Auschwitz? Keith Teare on Musk, X, Instagram and the breakdown of civility in our social media age

Why today's internet is simultaneously autocratic and plutocratic: Ehud Shapiro on the egalitarian architecture necessary to build genuine digital democracy

Why Writing a Book is an Act of Free Will: Kevin Mitchell on free agency and how evolution gave us free will

Why Does Everything Need To Be About Race? Keith Boykin on Claudine Gay, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and why the real function of racism is distraction

Suburbia and American Disillusionment: Benjamin Herold on the unravelling of both America's suburbs and the American dream

The War for Israel's Soul: Bernard Avishai on the age old battle in Israel between globalists and messianic Zionists

A Winston Churchill for our TikTok age? Simon Shuster on Volodymyr Zelensky, the workaholic improv politician who needs to be loved by his Ukrainian people

A venture capitalist imagines a world after capital: Albert Wenger on work, leisure and the environment in the AI age

In Trouble With Gender: Alex Byrne explores slippery sex facts and factual gender fictions

Can AI produce genuine culture? Martin Puchner on the future of artistic creativity in the age of the smart machine

Radically reinventing America in upstate New York: Susan Danzinger on how to effectively put philosophy into action

Why Generative AI represents an existential threat to the creative community: Ed Newton-Rex warns about the dire consequences of generative AI companies "scraping" data without acknowledging its creators

The Cult of the Algorithm: Hilary Mason peers behind the hidden door of AI, gaming and storytelling

What killed capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis' murder mystery about the death of capitalism and our descent into "techno feudalism"

Yes, there is an alternative to free market capitalism (and, no, it's not socialism): Nick Romeo on how to build a just economy

Don't Trust Us: Frank Vogl exposes the marketing scammers behind the increasingly mainstream success of cryptocurrency

Why there might be a ghost in all our smart machines: Kenneth Cukier on AI, spirituality and a new humanism in our digital age

Unlocking and decrypting 2024: Azeem Azhar on AI's impact on politics, economics and society in the coming year

The Wicked Art of the Gothic Thriller: Abbott Kahler on writing unnerving literature about unnerving times

10 must read books for 2024: Bethanne Patrick on intriguing fiction and non-fiction to read in the new year

Is the current AI boom just another Silicon Valley bubble? John Thornhill separates the truth from the fiction of today's AI hysteria

Confessions of a Disillusioned Social Scientist: Brian Klaas on why we are all random accidents of chance and chaos

How foreign lobbyists in America threaten democracy around the world: Casey Michel on the dirty overseas money sloshing around both sides of American politics

Should you have sex with your robot?

Should you have sex with your robot? Eve Herold on our narcissistic echo-chamber culture in which we are falling in love with our robots (ie: ourselves)

How American healthcare is rigged against ethical doctors and poor patients: Dr Robert Pearl explains how the system can be reformed in 2024

Why a future of digitally connected brains is now on the horizon: PJ Caldas on the networked tsunami that is about to transform all our realities

What happens when AI "drifts"? Dominique Shelton Leipzig offers protection from the high-risk dangers of algorithmic malfunction

Turning writing into a habit that lasts: Bec Evans on how to start and finish books and why binge writing isn't a bad habit

Why all crises of capitalism are caused by moral failures: Colin Mayer on the social responsibility of business in every industry, from oil to tobacco to genetic engineering and AI

That Will Be The Year: Keith Teare predicts the major political, economic and technological developments for 2024

How to learn to tell the truth about ourselves: Dr .Annie Zimmerman explains how therapy can allow us to break free from old patterns and transform our lives

The Illusion of More: David Newhoff explains why we don't need GenerativeAI to make good art

Eyeless in Digital Gaza: Eryk Salvaggio sifts through the debris of our AI age in which we can no longer trust anything we see

What it's like to be a Russian these days: Marzio G. Mian ventures behind the new Iron Curtain to find caviar, counterculture and a reborn cult of Stalin

Why Impeachment remains an Indelible Stain on the Presidencies of Nixon, Clinton and Trump: Michael J. Gerhardt's guide for engaged citizens to the the law of Presidential impeachment

How to break out of the tyranny of the travel search box: Rafat Ali on the impact of AI on the travel industry

Why OpenAI has an Uber problem

Why OpenAI has an Uber problem: Tim O'Reilly explains how all successful companies depend on successful ecosystems

A former mobster's history of organized crime in America

A former mobster reveals the history of organized crime in America: Louis Ferrante charts the meteoric rise of the Mafia from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America

We've Been Here Before: Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin offer both radically new and historically trusted strategies for resisting neo-liberalism

On our nostalgia for vinyl records and authoritarian political leaders

On our nostalgia for vinyl records and authoritative political leaders