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Episode 2044: Warning! This KEEN ON conversation with Alex Edmans may contain lies
In a “post-truth” world, who should we trust? According to Alex Edmans, one of the UK’s hottest business school professors, you should trust him enou…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2043: Adam Kuper explains why our museums reveal much more about ourselves than about other people's cultures
Museums, the distinguished anthropologist Adam Kuper argues in his new book Museums of Other People, are actually mirrors of ourselves. Rather than r…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2042: Robert Pearl MD explains how AI can regenerate the American medical system
There are few people more adept at navigating America’s labyrinthine medical system than Robert Pearl. Yale medical degree, Stanford University profe…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2041: Dr. Judy Ho on how we can stop f*****g ourselves up
Dr Judy Ho has a new book entitled The New Rules of Attachment: How to Heal Your Relationships, Reparent Your Inner Child, and Secure Your Life Visio…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2040: Matt Hern on the revolutionary potential of suburbia
The suburbs haven’t got a great press recently on KEEN ON. First there was Benjamin Herold, author of Disillusioned, who found the dead body of the A…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2039: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Mark Danner
In his early opposition to the Iraq war and other overseas misadventures in Bosnia, Haiti and El Salvador, Mark Danner is one of the most respected o…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2038: Daniel Bessner on how the existential crisis of Hollywood's film & tv writers is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of America's professional elites
Harper’s has a great cover story this month entitled “The Life and Death of Hollywood” by the intellectual historian, podcast and general muckraker …
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2037: Elliot Ackerman on the danger of mercenaries and the value of national service
Elliot Ackerman has an intriguing essay in this issue of Liberties Quarterly on the use and abuse of mercenaries throughout history. Linking the hist…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2036: Stephen Marche, author of "The Next Civil War", on Alex Garland's new movie "Civil War"
I have to admit I absolutely HATED Alex Garland’s new movie Civil War. I found it annoyingly trite, self-evidently packaged for an ahistorical cinema…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2035: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Christopher Schroeder
Part of the purpose of our new KEEN ON AMERICA series is to (re)discover what it means to be an American. Many of the wisest observers of American li…
2 years, 5 months ago