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Episode 2095: Keith Teare on why the AI game in Silicon Valley might already be all over
Big Tech is getting even bigger. This was the week that NVIDIA joined Microsoft and Apple as a three trillion dollar company. And it’s also the week …
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2094: Joseph O'Neill on football as the ugly game of neo-colonial exploitation
The Euros start today and Copa America next week. So expect a slew of garbage about soccer/football as the “beautiful game” or, even more ludicrously…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2093: J. Albert Mann offers a Young Person's Guide to the History of American Labor
How to write a history of labor in the United States for young people? According to the award-winning author J. Albert Mann, a history of labor writt…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2092: Shane Burley on why Anti Zionism isn't Antisemitism
In episode 2082, James Kirchick suggested that being Jewish and being a Zionist should be of all of one thing. Shane Burley reverses this. The co-aut…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2091: Lilie Chouliaraki on the Weaponization of Victimhood
One fashionable English language word I’d like to blow up is “weaponization”. Another is “victimhood”. So I couldn’t resist talking the London Schoo…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2090: Meredith Broussard on the digital "revolution" of artificial unintelligence and inequality
Sixteen months feels like sixteen centuries in the history of digital technology. Last year, the NYU data scientist Meredith Broussard came on episod…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2089: D.W. Gibson celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Seattle's 1999 World Trade Organization protests
The Nineties are back in fashion. Last week on KEEN ON, Terry Anderson explained why the Nineties still matter. Next week, we are featuring a convers…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2088: Jeremy Utley on how to facilitate epiphanies
We are having a Stanford self-improvement sort of weekend. Yesterday, KEEN ON featured a conversation with two Stanford profs on how to acquire a ven…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2087: Alex Dang and Ilya Strebulaev on How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
Venture capitalists aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. For leftists, they are Trump supporting vultures, feasting on the rotting carcass of neo-liberalism…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 2086: Keith Teare on Silicon Valley's Trump-Biden dilemma
That Was The Week author and Silicon Valley based entrepreneur Keith Teare isn’t a great fan of either Trump or Biden. But as he notes in this week’s…
2 years, 3 months ago