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Epiosde 2506: Are Google and Facebook screwed?
Are Google and Facebook screwed? That’s the question which Keith Teare asks in today’s That Was The Week tech newsletter. In our age of nationalist g…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2505: Sarah Kendzior on the Last American Road Trip
Few Americans have been as explicit in their warnings about Donald Trump than the St. Louis based writer Sarah Kendzior. Her latest book, The Last Am…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2502: Nick Troiano on how to protect American democracy from radical activists of both left & right
In yesterday’s show, the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explained how radical ideology is infecting our brains. Today, Unite America executive director …
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2501: Leor Zmigrod on how radical ideology is infecting our brains
Our brains are delicate things. That, at least, is the view of the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod, whose new book, The Ideological Brain, is a warning a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2500: Why I still believe in the American Dream
To celebrate our 2500th show, long time KEEN ON friend David Masciotra interviewed me about the current perilous situation in America. We discuss why…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2499: Thomas Levenson explains how modern scientific research has changed the world and saved tens of millions of lives
MIT professor Thomas Levenson is one of America’s most celebrated science writers and filmmakers. In his upcoming new book, So Very Small, Levenson c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2498: Andre M. Perry on the Black Power Scorecard
Brookings Senior Fellow Andre M. Perry has a new book out today which measures what he calls the “racial gap” in America and asks what we can do to c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2497: David Denby on America's most Eminent Jews
Who are the most symbolic mid 20th century American Jews? In Eminent Jews, New Yorker staff writer David Denby tells the remarkable stories of Leonar…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2496: Lily Scherlis on the soft skills crisis in America today
The Harper’s cover story this month is about the ever-softening soft skills of American workers. Written by Lily Scherlis, it suggests that today’s …
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2495: Why the World Isn't Ending, But the 'West' is
Lenin quipped that "there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." The post Liberation Day drama of early April …
1 year, 6 months ago