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Episode 2024: Sheryl Kaskowitz on how FDR and his New Deal team saved America from the Great Depression - one folk song at a time
In this KEEN ON show, the music historian Sheryl Kaskowitz, author of A CHANCE TO HARMONIZE, narrates how FDR and his team of New Dealers saved Ameri…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2023: How the AI "bubble" isn't really a bubble and why Keith Teare might be emigrating to China
Is there such a thing as an economic bubble? Not according to That Was The Week author Keith Teare who argues that all bubbles reflect innovation and…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2022: Henk de Berg on the many similarities tying Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler
Is Trump really like Hitler? Last month, we did a show with the Hitler scholar, Peter Range, who argued that the Adolf Hitler of 1924 had much in com…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2021: Norman Ohler on Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
In TRIPPED, his intriguing new history of drugs and postwar America, the German writer Norman Ohler makes LSD both a symbol and a metaphor for the hi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2020: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Arlie Russell Hochschild
How to put America back together? Few people have thought more about this Humpty Dumpty style challenge than Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of the …
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2019: Ismar Volic explains how mathematics can save American democracy from the Trump/Biden gerontocratic duopoly
Like all immigrants who fled to the U.S. to escape civil war, Ismar Volic has a deep personal appreciation for American democracy. And Volic - a Bosn…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2018: Becca Rothfeld's celebration of mess, appetite and sexual desire
Becca Rothfeld’s much heralded new collection, All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess, challenges the American Puritan values of self-c…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2017: David Masciotra finds the pathologies of American Totalitarianism in Exurbia
According to David Masciotra, the real battleground for the future of American democracy lies in that no-man’s land between suburban and rural Americ…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2016: Stefan Simchowitz on why he may be the most loathed man in the contemporary art world
The Daily Mail called him the “Sith Lord” of the art world, the New York Times annointed him as the art world’s Patron Satan”, while the Wall Street…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2015: Is Apple about to pull out of the European Union and did Sam Bankman-Fried really deserve his 25 year jail sentence?
Is it really conceivable that Apple will withdraw its products and services from the entire European Union? What might sound absurd is actually conce…
2 years, 6 months ago