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Episode 2085: KEEN ON America featuring Nick Bryant
The KEEN ON America series is supposed to feature conversations with prominent Americans about the post, present and future of their almost 250 year-…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2084: Terry H. Anderson on why the 1990's still matter so much
“The past is never dead”, William Faulkner quipped, “it’s not even past.” Angry white men, a disruptive internet, political gridlock in DC, right-wi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2083: Andrew Lipstein on the $15 Trillion 401(k) Doomsday that might trigger a global economic catastrophe
What goes up, comes down. As the Dow continues to hover at 40,000, something is inevitably going to burst the Wall Street’s current irrational exuber…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2082: James Kirchick explains why a chill has fallen over Jews in the American publishing industry
James Kirchick’s New York Times op-ed, “A Chill Has Fallen Over Jews in Publishing”, has elicited much controversy. I have to admit that I’m not enti…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2081: Robert Wolcott on how just-In-time technology is about to radical transform business, society and daily life
On yesterday’s show, Keith Teare mourned the scarcity of utopian thinking in Silicon Valley. But maybe Keith was looking on the wrong coast. Robert W…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2080: Keith Teare's defense of technological utopianism
If you want to insult somebody in Silicon Valley, call them a “utopian”. It suggests a fantastical mind unable or unwilling to come to terms with rea…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2079: Jeremy S. Adams on Lessons in Liberty from ten extraordinary Americans
Heroism might be out of fashion, but that hasn’t deterred Jeremy S. Adams from offering what he calls Lessons in Liberty from the lives of ten extrao…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2078: Spencer Kornhaber on our carnally confused age in which sex is always in our heads but not in our beds
We live in a erotically dissonant and carnally confused age. One the one hand, young people are having a lot less sex these days; on the other, they …
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2077: Kathleen DuVal on a Thousand Year History of Native Nations in North America
Is history, particularly the last thousand year history of North America, written by the victors? Perhaps. After all, as Kathleen DuVal, the author o…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2076: Sir Tim Lankester on the promise, failure and legacy of Margaret Thatcher's monetarist revolution
There will be a British general election on July 4. “The most consequential of our generation” no doubt many politicians will remind the voters. But …
2 years, 4 months ago