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Episode 2106: Julie Satow remembers a time when Women ran Fifth Avenue
Little has changed in America more dramatically over the last half century than the retail fashion industry. There was a time, Julie Satow tells us t…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2105: Alexandre Lefebvre explains why Liberalism is a Way of Life
There are those who believe that fighting for democracy is more important than defending the rather nebulous concept of “liberalism”. And then there …
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2104: Thomas Hale on how to be a Transnationalist in an age of Nation-States
It’s an odd world. Many of our most pressing political problems, particularly global warming, are long term, and yet we are still confined to the h…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2103: Keith Teare explains why Silicon Valley is celebrating like it's 2027
Are we on the brink of technological “super intelligence”, machines that will be able to think and reason with infinitely more power than humans? Acc…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2102: Peter S. Goodman on How the World Ran Out of Everything
Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times’ Global Economics correspondent, is one of America’s most innovative and outspoken journalists. He was on KEEN O…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2101: Bethanne Patrick's six new books to reach on the porch or beach this June
Bethanne Patrick, the world’s best read woman and KEEN ON’s official literary maven, has six recommended new books to read this June. Three non-ficti…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2100: Banning Lyon's remarkable memoir of trauma, healing and the outdoors
Back in August 2021, we did a show featuring the British psychologist Lucy Jones, about how nature maintains our sanity. Jones’ thesis is born out i…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2099: John Ganz on how America cracked up in the early 1990s
It’s becoming more and more self-evident that the Nineties matter. John Ganz’s important new book, When the Clock Broke, focuses on how, in the early…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2098: Guy Lawson gets us inside the biggest scandal in the history of college sports
In episode 2065, we discussed the Malaysian contractor, Leonard Glenn Francis (aka: Fat Leonard) about the biggest recent scandal in the US navy. But…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2097: Keen On America featuring Francis S. Barry
As America braces itself for the upcoming Presidential election, a growing army of coastal commentators are agonizing over the health of the country’…
2 years, 3 months ago