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Episode 2299: Jill Kastner explains why everything old is new again in international politics
Everything old is new again in international politics. According to Jill Kastner, co-author of A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2298: Adam Chandler on the fatal contradiction at the heart of American capitalism
What’s wrong with the U.S. economy? Not much according to Wall Street. But according to Adam Chandler, author of 99% Perspiration: A New Working Hist…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2297: Louis Ferrante on why the Mafia Killed JFK
This is a good one. Former mobster Louis Ferrante discusses the second volume of his history of the American mafia, Borgata: Clash of Titans, coveri…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2296: Adi Jaffe on how to free yourself from addiction forever
Addiction specialist and former meth addict Dr. Adi Jaffe challenges everything we take for granted about addiction and recovery. Opening our KEEN ON…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2295: Paula Whyman on how to save the American environment - one wild mountaintop at a time
Paula Whyman's journey from bug-obsessed city kid to mountaintop conservationist is an inspiring environmental tale. Now the owner of a 200-acre Virg…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2294: Larry Downes' non-MAGA plan to shrink the Federal bureaucracy
It’s not just the MAGA crowd who are concerned with government waste and inefficiency. In a convincing Wall Street Journal op-ed, best-selling tech a…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2293: David Masciotra on why Kamala Harris should have gone on the Joe Rogan show
Remember that time in 1977 when Jesse Jackson debated KKK grand wizard David Duke on national tv? As David Masciotra reminds us, it was one of those …
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2292: Chris Schroeder on how America now swims in an ocean of black swans
Avid reader, global investor and German Marshall Fund chair Chris Schroeder, who devoured around 150 books in 2024, engages in a spirited New Year di…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2291: Michael Scott-Baumann on the hopelessness of the Palestinian situation
While most of us can at least hope for a happy new year in 2025, the same can’t be true for the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank. That, at leas…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 2290: Marshall Poe on why 2024 was a bad year for most podcasters
Marshall Poe runs the New Books Network, a podcasting platform incorporating over 25,000 individual podcasts from thousands of podcasters and many mi…
1 year, 9 months ago