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Episode 2126: Daniel Silva on why the Criminal Rich Collect the Masterpieces of Van Gogh, Vermeer and Picasso
Spy novelists often make excellent moralists and the American writer Daniel Silva, author of the Gabriel Allon series of best-selling thrillers, is a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 2125: Mike Maples on how to Break Patterns and Invent the Future
Earlier this week, I visited the offices of Floodgate Partners in Menlo Park to talk with its co-founding partner Mike Maples. As an early investor i…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 2124: Jeremy Kahn's Survival Guide for our AI Future
In episode 2022, That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare and I violently disagreed about the current AI boom. Keith, the eternal techno-optimist, thi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 2123: Mara Kardas-Nelson Reveals the Seductive Promise of Microfinance
The seductive promise of microfinance might have conveniently died in the Western media, but Muhammad Yunis’ alluring economic idea has actually wrea…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 2122: Is the AI Tech Boom of the 2020s a Repeat of the Wall Street Mania of the Roaring 1920s?
Last week, That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare and I discussed whether Silicon Valley has an AI Bubble Problem. And we return to the same subject…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2121: PR exec Phil Elwood confesses to building a "counter-narrative" for some of the worst humans on the planet
Memoirs are usually morally uplifting reads with happy endings. But Phil Elwood’s new memoir, All the Worst Humans, is a confession of how Elwood, as…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2120: Simon Reynolds on reasons to be cheerful about the AI cultural revolution
In 2011, Simon Reynolds is one of the world’s most prolific music journalists, came on KEEN ON to explain why the Internet has been bad for both mus…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2119: Diane McLain Smith offers a way to reunite America
Our second July 4 interview features Diane McLain Smith, author of Remaking the Space Between Us: How Citizens Can Work Together to Build a Better Fu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2118: Former Prosecutor Debbie Hines on Black Lives, White Justice and her Quest for Reform
As the former Assistant Attorney General for Maryland, one would expect Debbie Hines to be a strong supporter of the American criminal justice system…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2117: Celeste Marcus Exposes the Generational Crisis of American Liberalism
Last week’s horror show debate woke up a lot of progressive Americans. For Celeste Marcus, managing editor of Liberties Quarterly, Biden’s dismal per…
2 years, 3 months ago