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Episode 2013: Candida Moss on how Christian slaves helped write the Bible and why this will outrage some American evangelicals
In his 1887 polemic, On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche suggested that the idea of good and evil, of morality itself, might have been born by sl…
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Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism
Surveillance capitalism is ubiquitous. If we’re not being watched by Google or Facebook, then we are watching movies warning about how these digital …
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2011: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Peter Wehner
Few conservatives or Christians have stood up to Donald Trump with the coherence and bravery of The New York Times and Atlantic columnist Peter Wehne…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2010: How everyone, even business school professors, are joining the anti big tech church
Do we really need more jeremiads exposing the Randian greed of Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg & Travis Kalanick? Rob Lalka’s THE VENTURE ALCHEMISTS is …
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2009: Keith Teare on why Big Tech might be getting even BIGGER
All the tech news this week seems to be about how Big Tech is, for better or worse, getting BIGGER. There’s the Department of Justice anti-trust case…
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Episode 2008: Chris French on the Science of Weird S**t
As we approach Easter and Passover, it’s worth noting that our mainstream monotheistic creeds are based on a belief in what Professor Chris French, t…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2007: Bethanne Patrick's guide to a literary March madness
We would all be way more ignorant without omnivorous book critic and regular KEEN ON guest Bethanne Patrick. This month she recommends six new books …
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Episode 2006: Everything you wanted to know about sex but didn't have the imagination to ask
Warning: this is an adults-only show. David Baker, the Australian based author of The Shortest History of Sex, takes us through two billion years of …
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2005: Why the Pete Rose story is as much about the rise and fall of America as it is about the fate of Charlie Hustle
Even if it isn’t quite Spring, the professional baseball season begins today in, of all places, Korea. And to celebrate this premature rite, I spoke …
2 years, 6 months ago
EPISODE 2004: Jacob Heilbrunn on conservative America's 100 year romance with foreign dictators like Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Pinochet, Orban and Putin
In his new book AMERICA LAST: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators, Jacob Heilbrunn argues that American conservatives have always…
2 years, 6 months ago