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Episode 2168: KEEN ON America featuring William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz is a leading American writer best known as the author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2167: George Gilder on the Israel Test
I have to admit that I’m always a little uncomfortable with non-Jews fetishizing the supposedly unique gifts & accomplishments of the Jewish people. …
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2166: Meredith Sumpter on how to make American Democracy more Democratic
How to fix American democracy? It’s a question that, over the last couple of years, we’ve been addressing in my Bertelsmann Foundation supported How …
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2165: A Meta Exec on why Corporations Should be in the Business of Social Engineering
Andrew C.M. Cooper is the author of the new book, The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business. He is also an Asso…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2164: Keith Teare asks if Europe is Dying
It’s ironic that Keith Teare, editor of That Was The Week newsletter, just spent two idyllic weeks in Europe, enjoying the Paris Olympics and London …
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2163: David Masciotra on Kamala and America's "Harrisist" Moment
We are living in interesting political times. A month ago, the Presidential election appeared over. Today, however, it appears as if it’s barely begu…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2162: Bethanne Patrick on the Hypocrite, Hitler's People and Hum
What do Hum, Hitler’s People and The Hypocrite have in common? They are all recommended new books from KEEN ON’s best read regular guest, Los Angeles…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2061: Mimi Casteel explains the how to fix America, one sip of wine at a time
Last month, we were in western Virginia talking to the pioneering regenerative farmer Joel Salatin about how American can fix itself one bite at a ti…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2160: Steve Benen on how the Republicans have become the Orwellian Party of Big Brother
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, which he wrote in 1948,George Orwell imagined the “Ministry of Truth” to be the central institution that Big Brother used to…
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Episode 2159: Richard J. Evans on how leading Nazis were, in some ways, just ordinary middle class Germans
As author of the authoritative three volume Third Reich Trilogy, Richard J. Evans is probably the most respected scholar of Hitler’s Third Reich in t…
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