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Episode 2156: James Muldoon exposes the hidden human labor powering the AI revolution
There are two core critiques of AI. The first is that it is an existential threat because it replaces humans with algorithms. The second is that AI i…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2155: David Daley Gets Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
How democratic is American “democracy”. Dramatically less so that it was. That’s at least the rather worrying conclusion of David Daley, the author o…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2154: Shad White on Brett Favre's Mississippi Swindle
Shad White has an uncanny resemblance to J.D. Vance. Born in a tiny town in Mississippi, White went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, then Harvard Law S…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 2153: Lola Milholland on Group Living and Other Deliciously Polyamorous Recipes
If it’s lunchtime, it must be KEEN ON time. At least that’s what it seems, given the long menu of food guests recently on the show. First there was t…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 2152: Peter Wehner on the Fate of "His" Republican Party
Peter Wehner is the conscience of American conservatism. Having worked in three Republican administrations, the ex Republican is now a regular contri…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 2151: Edmund Fawcett compares the Futures of Liberalism and Conservatism
Were politics chess, liberals had white; they moved first. Conservatives had black; they countered liberalism’s opening moves. In time, the initiativ…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 2150: Jonathan Taplin on why American Exceptionalism lies in its Powers of Creativity
So what’s exceptional about America? According to the writer, film producer and scholar Jonathan Taplin, American exceptionalism lies its uniquely gl…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 2149: How the Populist Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future
Much of the critical writing about authoritarianism warns that contemporary populism threatens democracy. But as Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein …
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 2148: J. Doyne Farmer on how to Invent a Better Economics for a Better World
In the 1970’s, J. Doyne Farmer built the first wearable computer which he used to predict the game of roulette. While this didn’t make him particular…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 2147: Matthew Warshauer on the Real Story of 9/11 (it's not what you think)
According to the historian Matthew Warshauer, there was no giant conspiracy on 9/11. The real story about September 11, 2001, he argues in his provoc…
2 years, 2 months ago