Keen On
2,157 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★ - 72 ratingsNobody asks sharper or more impertinent questions than Andrew Keen. In KEEN ON, Andrew cross-examines the world’s smartest people on politics, economics, history, the environment, and tech. If you want to make sense of our complex world, check out the daily questions and the answers on KEEN ON.
Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best-known technology and politics broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running show How To Fix Democracy and the author of four critically acclaimed books about the future, including the international bestselling CULT OF THE AMATEUR.
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Episodes
The Seven Best Novels of the Summer: Bethanne Patrick on the literature of love, nostalgia, young call girls and valiant women
August 09, 2023 21:59 - 33 minutes - 23 MBEPISODE 1643: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Bethanne Patrick, the LA Times book critic, about new fiction from Tania James, Colson Whitehead, Jenny Erpenbeck, Emma Cline, Jamel Brinkley and Luis Urrea Bethanne Patrick maintains a storied place in the publishing industry as a critic and as @TheBookMaven on Twitter, where she created the popular #FridayReads and regularly comments on books and literary ideas to over 200,000 followers. Her work appears frequently in the Los Angeles Ti...
The Subversive Story of the B-52s: Scott Creney on one of the most iconic bands in American popular musical history
August 08, 2023 18:54 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBEPISODE 1642: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Scott Creney, co-author of THE STORY OF THE B-52s, about one of the most subversive and iconic American pop music history Scott Creney is author of the work of creative nonfiction Dear Al-Qaeda: Letters to the World’s Most Notorious Terror Organization (Black Ocean). They have written about music, books, and film for Clash Music, The Fanzine, Collapse Board, and Ablaze!, among others, and contributed six entries to 101 Albums You Should Di...
Feeding the AI Beast: Michael Wooldridge on the vast quantities of online data that have trained ChatGPT to mimic human language
August 07, 2023 23:55 - 34 minutes - 24 MBEPISODE 1641: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Michael Wooldridge, author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF AI, about the vast quantities of online data, especially social media content, that have trained ChatGPT to mimic human language Michael John Wooldridge (born 26 August 1966) is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford. His main research interests is in multi-agent systems, and in particular, in the computational theory aspects of rational action in systems composed of mul...
Why America is Facing its greatest "Moral Moment "since the Civil War: Peter Wehner on the accountability of the Republican Party for Trump
August 07, 2023 19:17 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBEPISODE 1640: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the New York Times and Atlantic columnist Peter Wehner about why the 2024 election may present America with its greatest moral moment since the Civil War Peter Wehner is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum.His books include The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump, City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era, which he co-wrote with Michael J. Gerson, and Wealth and Ju...
Why We Need to Reoccupy Reality: Douglas Rushkoff on the Untethering of America between 2013 and 2023
August 06, 2023 16:22 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBEPISODE 1639: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the prolific futurist and tech critic, Douglas Rushkoff, about the false promises of social media and our need to engage with what he calls "reality reality" Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well...
How something really strange began to happen on social media in 2016
August 05, 2023 20:03 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBEPISODE 1638: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Tobias Rose-Stockwell, author of OUTRAGE MACHINE, about the checkered history of social media Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a writer, designer, technologist and media researcher whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, WIRED, NPR, the BBC, and on CNN. He is the author of the upcoming book Outrage Machine, which forcefully unpacks social media's influence on news, discourse and democracy. His research has been cited in the adoption of major...
Bonfire of the Unicorns: Keith Teare on the near apocalypse for Silicon Valley billion dollar valued start-ups ("unicorns") and the impact of this meltdown on the broader innovation economy
August 04, 2023 21:11 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBEPISODE 1637: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith describes a near apocalypse for Silicon Valley billion dollar valued start-ups ("unicorns") and the impact of this meltdown on the broader innovation economy Keith Teare is a Founder and CEO at SignalRank Corporation. Previously he was Executive Chairman at Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd - A UK based global investment company focused on startups at all stages. He was also previously found...
Get Out of My Way
August 04, 2023 18:01 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBEPISODE 1636: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Brooke Kroeger, author of UNDAUNTED, about how fearless women like Ida Wells, Martha Gellhorn and Joan Didion changed American journalism Brooke Kroeger is a journalist, professor emerita at NYU, and the author of six books, the latest of which is Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism, published by A.A. Knopf in May 2023. It explores how women have fared in American journalism’s most competitive and highly valued bastions, the o...
In Defense of the Abraham Accords
August 04, 2023 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBEPISODE 1634: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Aryeh Lightstone, author of LET MY PEOPLE KNOW, about what he believes was the "incredible story of Middle East peace" reflected by the 2020 deal between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates ARYEH LIGHTSTONE served as the Senior Advisor to U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman from 2017 to 2021. He played a critical role in advancing bilateral U.S.-Israel relations with a focus on 5G implementation, infrastructure expansion, ...
Remembering a first Tweet with the same bewitching nostalgia as a first kiss
August 03, 2023 22:17 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBEPISODE 1634: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Bethanne Patrick, prolific on social media as @TheBookMaven, about her memories of Twitter's glory years and what she calls the "dopamine hangover" after 2012 Bethanne Patrick maintains a storied place in the publishing industry as a critic and as @TheBookMaven on Twitter, where she created the popular #FridayReads and regularly comments on books and literary ideas to over 200,000 followers. Her work appears frequently in the Los Angeles T...
Why 1968 was the year that broke American politics and how this could be repeated in 2024
August 03, 2023 20:12 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBEPISODE 1633: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Luke Nichter, author of THE YEAR THAT BROKE POLITICS, about 1968, the last year American politics got broken by economic, political and cultural upheaval Luke Nichter holds the H. Cavanaugh Endowed Chair in Presidential Studies at Chapman University. His area of specialty is the Cold War, the modern presidency, and U.S. political and diplomatic history, with a focus on the "long 1960s" from John F. Kennedy through Watergate. He has been a ...
Why Greta Gerwig's BARBIE is Cynical and Vapid
August 03, 2023 17:52 - 33 minutes - 38.3 MBEPISODE 1632: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Celeste Marcus, Managing Editor of Liberties Quarterly, about Greta Gerwig's complete failure in BARBIE to make a serious movie about women Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties. She is writing a biography of Chaim Soutine Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-runni...
Why So Many Smart People Are Turning Against Democracy
August 01, 2023 16:50 - 39 minutes - 45.5 MBEPISODE 1631: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jaroslav Anders, author of the Liberties essay "An Open Letter to an Enemy of Liberalism in my Native Land", about why, in his opinion, so many smart people are turning against democracy Jaroslaw Anders is a writer and translator specializing in Eastern European literature. He is the author of Between Fire and Sleep: Essays on Modern Polish Poetry and Prose. (June 2021) Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew ...
If We Can Be Taught How to Write, Then Why Not Also Be Educated in How to Love?
July 30, 2023 16:13 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBEPISODE 1630: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Laura Warrell, author of SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM, about writing, jazz, romance and whether novels are really schools for educating their readers about love. LAURA WARRELL is a contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Tin House Summer Workshop, and is a graduate of the creative writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in HuffPost, The Rumpus, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among othe...
How to go from a small handful of book sales to top of the bestseller list via a 16 second Tiktok
July 29, 2023 22:02 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBEPISODE 1629: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to MAIDENS OF THE CAVE author Lloyd Devereux Richards and his daughter Marguerite about the TikTok video that catapulted him from an unknown author to an overnight internet sensation Lloyd Devereux Richards was born in New York City and traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and Central America before attending law school. He previously served as a senior law clerk for an Indiana Court of Appeals judge, researching and writing drafts for doz...
How Landscape Architecture should get us to Pause and then Reconnect with Nature
July 29, 2023 17:55 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBEPISODE 1628: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to David Kamp, author of NATURE, DESIGN, AND HEALTH about How our despair about the environment should Be "clarifying" and why the job of the landscape architect is to make us intimate with nature David Kamp, FASLA, is the founding principal of Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, PC. His forty-year career involving practice, teaching, writing, and advocacy has been dedicated to promoting health through design with nature. A Harvard Loeb Fellow,...
Following the Dirty Money in Today's Globalized Entrepreneurial Underworld
July 29, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBEPISODE 1627: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Miles Johnson, the author of CHASING SHADOWS, about a true story of drugs, war and the secret world of international crime Miles Johnson is an investigative reporter for the FT. In over a decade working at the FT he has previously held roles as Rome Correspondent, Capital Markets Editor, Investment Editor and Hedge Fund Correspondent in London. He has also reported on the European debt crisis as Madrid Correspondent and on finance from Ne...
How the High Price of Money is Wrecking the Venture Capital Industry
July 28, 2023 21:25 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBEPISODE 1626: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith explains the connection between the rise in the price of money and the viability of the traditional tech investment ecosystem Keith Teare is a Founder and CEO at SignalRank Corporation. Previously he was Executive Chairman at Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd - A UK based global investment company focused on startups at all stages. He was also previously founder at the Palo Alto incubator, ...
Hot Reads for the Heatwave
July 28, 2023 19:17 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBEPISODE 1625: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the LA Times book critic, Bethanne Patrick, who recommends five of the most interesting books published this week Bethanne Patrick maintains a storied place in the publishing industry as a critic and as @TheBookMaven on Twitter, where she created the popular #FridayReads and regularly comments on books and literary ideas to over 200,000 followers. Her work appears frequently in the Los Angeles Times as well as in The Washington Post, NPR B...
The New York Street that Changed American Art Forever
July 28, 2023 17:32 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBEPISODE 1624: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE SLIP, Prudence Peiffer, about Coenties Slip, an obscure street on the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable modern artists who got their start there Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor, specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is Managing Editor of the Creative Team at MoMA, New York. She received her PhD from Harvard University. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University,...
Why Springsteen's NEBRASKA Matters So Much
July 28, 2023 16:05 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBEPISODE 1623: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Warren Zanes, author of DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, about the significance of the 1982 album both in Springsteen's career and the history of rock 'n roll Warren Zanes is the New York Times bestselling author of Petty: The Biography. As a member of the Del Fuegos, he has shared the stage with Bruce Springsteen, and continues to write and record music. Zanes holds a PhD in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester and prese...
A Real World War II Story: The Tragic Life of Ira Hayes
July 28, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBEPISODE 1622: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Tom Holm, the author of IRA HAYES, about the Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism Tom Holm is a professor emeritus of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Professor Holm has published over fifty articles, books, pamphlets, government reports, book reviews and essays, editorials, and book chapters. An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation with Muskogee Creek ancestry, Holm has served on numerous...
In Praise of Valiant American Women
July 27, 2023 18:59 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBEPISODE 1621: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Lena Andrews, author of VALIANT WOMEN, about the extraordinary American servicewomen who helped win World War II LENA ANDREWS is a military analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. She has a PhD in political science from MIT, specializing in international relations and security studies. She has spent more than a decade in foreign policy, having previously worked at the RAND Corporation and the United States Institute of Peace. Her firs...
How Barbie Dolls Up the Plasticity of our Surreal Times
July 27, 2023 17:12 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBEPISODE 1620: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Lithub movie critic Olivia Rutigliano about the gendered politics, anti-nostalgic aesthetics and Hollywood/Mattel economics of Greta Gerwig's hit new movie BARBIE Olivia Rutigliano is the Associate Editor of LitHub's CrimeReads vertical and the Senior Film Writer at LitHub. She is also a Contributing Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pub...
Can the Men Be Saved?
July 26, 2023 20:14 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBEPISODE 1619: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Ben Purkert, author of THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED, about the fate of masculinity at a time when our jobs are destroying our souls Ben Purkert’s debut novel, The Men Can’t Be Saved, is forthcoming from Abrams/Overlook in August 2023. His poetry collection, For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018), was named one of Adroit’s Best Poetry Books of the Year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate, Poetry, Ploughshares, K...
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
July 26, 2023 18:36 - 52 minutes - 60.4 MBEPISODE 1618: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jeff Jarvis, the author of THE GUTTENBERG PARENTHESIS about the lessons of the age of print for our internet age Jeff Jarvis is a national leader in the development of online news, blogging, the investigation of new business models for news, and the teaching of entrepreneurial journalism. He writes an influential media blog, Buzzmachine.com. He is author of “Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News” (CUNY Journalism Press, 2014)...
Why Julian Barnes Will Never Write a Memoir or Autobiography
July 25, 2023 21:06 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBEPISODE 1617: In this second KEEN ON interview with Julian Barnes, the distinguished British writer, Andrew talks to Julian about growing up in England, his lifelong romance with Europe and that "golden" generation of British writers Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England on January 19, 1946. He was educated at the City of London School from 1957 to 1964 and at Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he graduated in modern languages (with honours) in 1968. After graduation, he worked as ...
Why Conservatives Should Fear & Loathe AI
July 25, 2023 20:03 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBEPISODE 1616: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Joe Allen, author of DARK AEON, about Transhumanism and the war against humanity Joe Allen has written for Chronicles, The Federalist, Human Events, The National Pulse, Parabola, Salvo, and Protocol: The Journal of the Entertainment Technology Industry. He holds a master’s degree from Boston University, where he studied cognitive science and human evolution as they pertain to religion. As an arena rigger, he’s toured the world for rock n’ ...
How To Be a Wise Teacher
July 25, 2023 17:30 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBEpisode 1615: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Julian Barnes, author of ELIZABETH FINCH, about the polytheism of antiquity and how to become somebody who can pass on wisdom Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England on January 19, 1946. He was educated at the City of London School from 1957 to 1964 and at Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he graduated in modern languages (with honours) in 1968. After graduation, he worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary supple...
The Netscape Moment When AI Gets a Brain
July 21, 2023 21:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBEPISODE 1614: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith speculates on what will happen when AI acquires a memory about us Keith Teare is a Founder and CEO at SignalRank Corporation. Previously he was Executive Chairman at Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd - A UK based global investment company focused on startups at all stages. He was also previously founder at the Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs. Archimedes was the original incubator for T...
Imaging the Animal World as Nature's Great Maintenance Crew
July 21, 2023 17:52 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBEpisode 1613: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Keggie Carew, author of BEASTLY, about the terrible price we humans have paid for placing ourselves above other species Keggie Carew is the author of DADLAND which won the 2016 COSTA biography award. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. Keggie was born in Gibraltar and has lived in West Cork, Barcelona, Texas, Auckland, and London. She now lives in Wiltshire with her husband where they have a small nature reserve. Her lates...
Why the "very very excellent" OPPENHEIMER is a complicated film for our complex times
July 21, 2023 15:38 - 40 minutes - 37 MBEPISODE 1612: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Olivia Rutigliano, Senior Film Writer at Lithub, about both the historical and contemporary significance of Christopher Nolan's new movie Olivia Rutigliano is the Associate Editor of LitHub's CrimeReads vertical and the Senior Film Writer at LitHub. She is also a Contributing Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Polit...
The Hidden History of American Democracy
July 21, 2023 04:02 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBEpisode 1611: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Thom Hartmann, America's #1 progressive talk show host and author of THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, about how Americans can rediscover humanity's ancient way of living Thom Hartmann is an award-winning author, international lecturer, teacher, and psychotherapist. His books have been written about in Time magazine, he has been on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, and he has been featured as a guest on numerous radio an...
Episode 1610: Our Oppenheimer Moment
July 20, 2023 21:30 - 30 minutes - 21 MBIn this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Greg Mitchell, author of THE BEGINNING OR THE END, about how Hollywood learned to stop worrying and love the bomb Greg Mitchell’s books include The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (The New Press) as well as The Tunnels; The Campaign of the Century, winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady, a New York Times Notable Book; So Wrong for ...
Episode 1609: Why America Dominates the World
July 20, 2023 19:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBEpisode 1609: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Sean A. Mirski, author of WE MAY DOMINATE THE WORLD, about ambition, anxiety and the rise of America as both a regional hegemon and global colossus Sean A. Mirski is a lawyer and US foreign policy scholar who has worked on national security issues across multiple U.S. presidential administrations. A term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he currently practices national security, foreign relations, and appellate law at Arnold & Po...
Episode 1608: The Fourth Turning is Here
July 20, 2023 18:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBEpisode 1608: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Neil Howe, author of THE FOURTH TURNING IS HERE, how the seasons of history can help us overcome our current economic, political, cultural and generational crisis Neil Howe is an acclaimed historian, economist, and demographer and the bestselling author (with William Strauss) of The Fourth Turning, as well as over a dozen books on demographic and social change. The nation’s leading thinker on today’s generations—who they are, what motivate...
Episode 1607: What Happens When Both Life and the Planet is Programmable?
July 19, 2023 21:58 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBEpisode 1607: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Ted Anton, author of PROGRAMMABLE PLANET, about the brave new world of synthetic biology Ted Anton is professor of English at DePaul University. He is the author of several books and has written for Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and Publishers Weekly. His latest book is PROGRAMMABLE PLANET (2023) Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentato...
EPISODE 1606: On the "Moral Ambiguity" Surrounding the American Decision to Drop Two Nuclear Bombs on Japan
July 19, 2023 20:06 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBEpisode 1606: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Evan Thomas, author of ROAD TO SURRENDER, about the three men - two Americans and one Japanese - behind the countdown to the end of World War II Evan Thomas is the author of nine books: The Wise Men (with Walter Isaacson), The Man to See, The Very Best Men, Robert Kennedy, John Paul Jones, Sea of Thunder, The War Lovers, Ike’s Bluff, and Being Nixon. John Paul Jones and Sea of Thunder were New York Times bestsellers. Thomas was a writer, ...
Episode 1605: Why the Habsburg Empire is as much a guide to our 21st Century Future as our 19th Century Past
July 19, 2023 18:05 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBEpisode 1605: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Natasha Wheatley, the author of THE LIFE AND DEATH OF STATES, about the Central Europe and the transformation of modern sovereignty from empire to democracy Assistant Professor of History at Princeton, Natasha Wheatley is an historian of modern European and international history, with broad interests in intellectual and legal history, Central Europe, and the history of international law. Her book The Life and Death of States: Central Europ...
Episode 1603: Can Diplomacy Save American Democracy?
July 19, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBEpisode 1603: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to John Wood Jr, National Ambassador for Braver Angels, about the role of diplomacy, music and conversation in getting Americans of different political persuasions to begin talking to one another again John Wood Jr. started as an opinion columnist for USA TODAY in May 2022. He is also National Ambassador for Braver Angels; America's largest bipartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to the work of political depolarization. Prior to that Wo...
Episode 1603: Social Media For Dummies
July 18, 2023 21:58 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBEpisode 1603: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Eric Yaverbaum, author of PR FOR DUMMIES, about Twitter, Threads and why even 62 year-old guys like himself need to be on social media Eric Yaverbaum, CEO of Ericho Communications, is a communications, media, and public relations expert with over 41 years in the industry, having co-founded Jericho Communications and served as President from 1985 until its successful sale in 2006. Eric has worked with a wide-range of top-of-their-industry c...
EPISODE 1602: How to Learn to Look So that We Become the World Itself
July 18, 2023 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBEpisode 1602: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Christian Madsbjerg, author of LOOK, about how to pay attention in a distracted world Christian Madsbjerg is cofounder of the consulting firm ReD Associates. He writes, speaks, and teaches widely on the practical application of the human sciences. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Financial Times, The Washington Post, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He lives in New York City with his family. “Look - How to Pay Att...
Episode 1601: Why Americans Still Can't Talk to Each Other About Politics
July 18, 2023 17:51 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBEPISODE 1601: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Brookings Institute scholar, Jonathan Rauch, about the seemingly intractable political divisions in America and how we can all discover our braver angels to learn to talk to one another again Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institute and the author of eight books and many articles on public policy, culture, and government. He is a contributing writer of The Atlantic and recipient of ...
Episode 1600: What a Cock Up!
July 18, 2023 15:55 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBEPISODE 1600: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to S.C. Gwynne, author of HIS MAJESTY'S AIRSHIP, about the life and tragic death of the British R101 airship, the world's largest flying machine S.C. “Sam” Gwynne is the author of two acclaimed books on American history: Empire of the Summer Moon, which spent 82 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Texas and Oklahoma book prizes; and Rebel ...
Episode 1599: Black Americans, Civil Rights and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962
July 18, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBEPISODE 1599: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to William Harris, the Director of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, about the complex civil rights records of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt William Harris is Director for the Roosevelt (Franklin) Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the...
Episode 1598: Goodbye, Eastern Europe
July 17, 2023 22:13 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBEPISODE 1598: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jacob Mikanowski, author of GOODBYE, EASTERN EUROPE, about both the history and disappearance of what we once knew as "Eastern Europe" JACOB MIKANOWSKI is a historian, a freelance journalist and a critic. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Aeon, Cabinet, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, The New York Times, newyorker.com, The Point, The Awl, Atlas Obscura, Slate and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He l...
Episode 1597: Into the Bright Sunshine of Human Rights
July 17, 2023 20:20 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBEpisode 1597: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Samuel G. Freedman, author of INTO THE BRIGHT SUNSHINE, about a a young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights within the Democratic party Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A former columnist for The New York Times and a professor at Columbia University, he is the author of the nine acclaimed books, and is currently at work on his tenth, which will be about Hubert Humphrey, Civil Rights, and t...
Episode 1596: How the Internet Has Become an Outrage Machine
July 17, 2023 18:17 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBEPISODE 1596: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Tobias Rose-Stockwell, author of OUTRAGE MACHINE, about how social media has amplified discontent and disrupted democracy - and what we can do about it Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a writer, technologist and media researcher who explores the effects of social media on society and democracy. Tobias’s work has been featured in major outlets such as FastCompany, Quartz, Medium, NPR, the BBC and many others. As a media researcher, he has advised t...
Episode 1595: Why AI is Now the Analytical Brain AND the Creative Heart of our Economy
July 17, 2023 16:09 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBEPISODE 1595: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Hilary Mason, co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door, about how Open Source AI might both democratize Big Tech and empower writers in the creation of role playing games Hilary Mason is the co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door, a role-playing AI platform. She was previously the Founder of Fast Forward Labs, a machine intelligence research company, and the Data Scientist in Residence at Accel as well as the Chief Scientist at bitly. She also co-foun...
EPISODE 1594: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral?
July 17, 2023 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBEPISODE 1594: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the senior editor of the ATLANTIC magazine, Ross Andersen, about the ethics of AI technology and whether we should trust our new overlords of Silicon Valley with this radically disruptive technology Ross Andersen is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the science, technology, and health sections. Prior to joining The Atlantic in 2015, he was the deputy editor of Aeon magazine, and before that, he was the science editor of th...