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Episode 2188: Build Baby Build - Jerusalem Demsas on how America can fix its housing crisis
At the debate last night, Kamala Harris opened her remarks by talking about the need for America to fix its housing crisis. And crisis it is, at leas…
2 years ago
Episode 2187: Josh Cowen on how radical right-wing billionaires are wrecking the American public school system
At the debate tonight, there probably won’t be much talk about American education. Which is a shame - at least according to Josh Cowen, author of Th…
2 years ago
Episode 2186: Branko Milanovic on the history of inequality in America from slavery to neo-liberalism
The Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic is one of the world’s leading authorities on inequality. In this KEEN ON America conversation, we ta…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2185: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi reveals his lucrative life on the streets of New York City as a citizen-sleuth
The Brooklyn based Rafil Kroll-Zaidi is a Princeton educated reporter formerly on the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine. And he is another kind of…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2184: Should Elon Musk be arrested for all the lies and hate on X?
Last Saturday, on our regular That Was The Week tech roundup, Keith Teare and I discussed the French decision to imprison Telegram founder Pavel Duro…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2183: Mimi Casteel on her life-long love affair with the American land
Last month we ran an interview with the Oregon based regenerative wine maker Mimi Casteel about fixing America one sip at a time. In addition, we rec…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2182: Andrew Leigh on how economics explains the world
Andrew Leigh is a minister in the Australian parliament with a doctorate in economics from Harvard. Unlike many academic economists, however, Leigh h…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2181: Piotr Smolar on his Bad Jew Grandaddy
Formerly Le Monde’s guy in Jerusalem, Piotr Smolar is now the senior correspondent for Le Monde in Washington, DC. He is also the grandson of Hersh S…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2180: Giles Milton on the WW2 Alliance between the US, Soviet Union & Britain which Won the War but Lost the Peace
Exactly 85 years ago today, on 3 September 1939, the Second World War officially began with Britain’s declaration of war against Germany. Russians mi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2179: Jacob Howland on what should be taught at a 21st century liberal university
Controversial things are happening on the campus of the University of Austin (UATX), the brand new anti-woke university designed to “dare” its studen…
2 years, 1 month ago