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Episode 2516: Jason Pack on the Trumpian Post-Apocalypse
Americans, it’s time to move to Europe! The American geo-strategist Jason Pack anticipated last week’s advice from Simon Kuper and moved to London a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2515: David A. Graham on how Project 2025 is Reshaping America
Don’t say we weren’t warned. Project 2025, the 2022 Heritage Foundation’s 900-page policy blueprint, unambiguously plotted out the strategy of the se…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2514: How to turn America into a Waymo Democracy
We are all Waymo Democrats now. That Was the Week’s Keith Teare and I appropriate Thomas Friedman’s controversial new term to dream of an American hi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2513: Adam Hochschild on how American History is Repeating itself, first as Tragedy, then as Trump
A year ago, the great American historian Adam Hochschild came on KEEN ON AMERICA to discuss American Midnight, his best selling account of the crisis…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2512: Adam Becker on AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Adam Becker’s new critique of Silicon Valley More Everything Forever should probably be entitled Less Nothing Never. The science journalist accuses S…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2511: Jemima Kelly on why she hasn't quite given up on America
In contrast with yesterday’s guest, the Paris based Financial Times writer Simon Kuper, the newspaper’s London based columnist Jemima Kelly hasn’t qu…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2510: Simon Kuper Celebrates the Death of the American Dream
It’s official. The American Dream is dead. And it’s been resurrected in Europe where, according to the FT columnist Simon Kuper, disillusioned Americ…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2509: David A. Bell on "The Enlightenment"
So what, exactly, was “The Enlightenment”? According to the Princeton historian David A. Bell, it was an intellectual movement roughly spanning the e…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2508: Jerry Avorn on America's addiction to prescribed drugs
Why is America so over-medicated? According to Harvard Medical School professor Jerry Avorn, author of Rethinking Medications, everything begins and …
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2507: Peter Leyden on How Trump is Unintentionally Making America Great Again.
Is America screwed? Not according to the former managing editor of Wired, Peter Leyden. The creator of the Substack newsletter The Great Progression,…
1 year, 5 months ago