Keen On
2,157 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month 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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Filip Doušek on a Radical Redefinition of Rationality
March 17, 2022 19:29 - 41 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Filip Doušek, the author of “Flock Without Birds: A Novel About the Illusions that Create Our World”. Filip Doušek is an AI and analytics expert. He was the founder and CEO of Strories.bi, one of the first startups in the world to automate big data analysis. The company was named a Gartner Cool Vendor and was acquired by Workday, Inc. The technology is getting fantastic traction and is still pioneering AI-powered analytics. Visit our website: ...
Susan MacKenty Brady: How Female Leadership Values Like Empathy Might Help End the War in Ukraine
March 17, 2022 16:59 - 40 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Susan Brady, the author of “Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership”. Susan Brady is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership at Simmons University and the first Chief Executive Officer of The Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership. As a relationship expert, leadership wellbeing coach, author, and speaker, Susan educates leaders and executives globally on fostering self-awareness...
Ken Croke: Why Evil Men Join Motorcycle Gangs and How To Take Them Down
March 16, 2022 11:18 - 41 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Ken Croke, the author of “Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang”. Over the course of Ken Croke's career, he has taken part in 1,000-plus undercover operations, including gang, drug and firearms trafficking cases. Today he is a security consultant for global corporations. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show l...
Katherine Sayre: The Spiritual Emptiness of Tony Hsieh, Silicon Valley’s Saddest Evangelist of Happiness
March 15, 2022 20:52 - 38 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Katherine Sayre, the author of “Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh”. Katherine Sayre covers gambling and Las Vegas for The Wall Street Journal, where she has worked since 2019. She previously reported for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, covering business before joining the investigative team. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitt...
Scott Carney: How an Environmental Apocalypse Caused the Genocidal Murder of 3 Million Bangladeshis
March 14, 2022 23:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Scott Carney, the author of “The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation”. Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney has worked in some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. His work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch ...
Jon Alexander: How to Fix Everything By Transforming Ourselves From Consumers Into Citizens
March 14, 2022 19:16 - 39 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jon Alexander, the co-author of “Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All of Us”. Jon Alexander co-founded the New Citizenship Project in 2014 with the mission of figuring out how to use his skills not just to sell stuff to Consumers, but to involve people in the decisions that affect their lives as Citizens. NCP have partnered with organizations and institutions including the Co-op, The Body Shop, National Trust, BBC, European Centra...
William Galston: Why Liberalism and Progressivism Are at Odds in Joe Biden’s Democratic Party
March 13, 2022 23:00 - 44 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by William Galston. William Galston holds a Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, where he serves as a Senior Fellow. A participant in six presidential campaigns, he served from 1993 to 1995 as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy. Galston is also an award-winning author and has appeared on all the principal television networks and is frequently interviewed on NPR. He writes a weekly column for the ...
Stephen M.R. Covey on the Crisis in Trust With Vladimir Putin
March 13, 2022 17:59 - 47 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Stephen M.R. Covey, the author of “Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others”. Stephen M.R. Covey is cofounder and CEO of CoveyLink and of the FranklinCovey Global Trust Practice, and a New York Times bestselling author. As a keynote speaker, author, and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, culture, and collaboration, Covey speaks to audiences around the world. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email And...
Viviana Zelizer: Why Everything You Think About Money Is Wrong
March 12, 2022 23:00 - 28 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Viviana Zelizer. Professor Viviana Zelizer has published books on the development of life insurance, the changing value of children, the place of money in social life and the economics of intimacy. She has also studied topics ranging from economic ethics to consumption practices. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: ht...
Yusaf Akbar: Rather Than Another World War, Why Ukraine Might the First Global War About Globalization Itself
March 12, 2022 13:00 - 38 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Yusuf Akbar. Yusaf Akbar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at the Central European University. His research interests are focused on three topics; the internationalization capabilities of SMEs into emerging markets, non-market strategies of multinational firms and strategic impacts of the Sharing Economy. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: ...
Ari Ezra Waldman on Big Tech’s Existential Threat to Our Privacy and Liberty
March 11, 2022 10:26 - 40 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Ari Waldman, the author of “Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power”. Ari Waldman studies asymmetrical power relations created and entrenched by law and technology, with particular focus on privacy, online harassment, free speech and the LGBTQ community. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on Linke...
Geo Maher: Why Ukrainian Resistance to the Russian Invasion Is a Kind of Anti-Colonial Eruption
March 10, 2022 10:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Geo Maher, the author of “Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance”. Geo Maher is an organizer, writer, radical political theorist and Visiting Associate Professor at Vassar College. His dispatches and academic articles have appeared in numerous publications and he appears and is quoted frequently in the media on subjects ranging from Venezuelan politics to the Occupy Movement. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/s...
Carolyn Chen on Why Big Tech is Now Also Big Religion
March 10, 2022 02:00 - 37 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Carolyn Chen, the author of “Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley”. Carolyn Chen is an associate professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, and Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on two areas: work and religion in contemporary America, and religion, race, and ethnicity, especially among Asian Americans. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.ke...
William Boyd: Chekhov Was Right: How Most People Do Indeed Live Their Real, Most Interesting Lives Under the Cover of Secrecy
March 09, 2022 22:53 - 42 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by William Boyd, the author of “Trio”. William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana and grew up there and in Nigeria. Boyd has received world-wide acclaim for his award-winning novels which have been translated into over thirty languages. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watc...
Thom Hartmann on Why Putin’s Ukraine Invasion and George W. Bush’s Iraq Invasion Are Both Oil Wars
March 09, 2022 11:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Thom Hartmann, the author of “The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy”. Thom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host whose shows are available in over a half-billion homes worldwide. He's the New York Times bestselling, 4-times Project Censored Award-winning author of 24 books in print in 17 languages on five conti...
Jennifer Sciubba on Why Demography Isn’t Destiny
March 08, 2022 22:30 - 35 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jennifer Sciubba, the author of “8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World”. Jennifer Sciubba is an internationally recognized expert in the field of demographic security. She frequently advises the public and private sectors on demographics. She is also affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Rising Power...
Brian Klaas: What a Scan of Vladimir Putin’s Power-Addled Brain Might Tell Us
March 08, 2022 20:53 - 43 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Brian Klaas, the author of “Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us”. Dr. Brian Klaas is an Associate Professor in Global Politics at University College London and a columnist for The Washington Post. Klaas is also a frequent television commentator and political consultant. Dr. Klaas is an expert on democracy, authoritarianism, US foreign policy, American politics more generally, political violence, and elections. Visit our website: ...
Helen Thompson: Is Vladimir Putin Returning the World to the Hard Times of the 1970s?
March 07, 2022 19:10 - 47 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Helen Thompson, the author of “Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century”. Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge. Her current research concentrates on the political economy of energy and the long history of the democratic, economic, and geopolitical disruptions of the twenty-first century. She is a regular panellist on Talking Politics and a columnist for the New Statesman. Visit our website: https://li...
Al Schmidt & Baoky Vu: Two Republican Takes on Why Many Republicans Have Turned Against Democracy
March 06, 2022 23:00 - 45 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Baoky Vu, the former vice-chair of the DeKalb county Board of Registration and Elections in Georgia. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watch the show live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lithub Watch the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiteraryHub/vi...
Renata Uitz: Is Ukraine the First Global Illiberalism Versus Liberalism War?
March 06, 2022 19:00 - 44 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Renáta Uitz, a co-editor of “Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism”. Renáta Uitz's major research interests lie in transition to and from constitutional democracy, the protection of individual autonomy and religious liberty. Her current work focuses on illiberal constitutional practices in the European Union and the normalization of illiberal constitutionalism around the world. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: a.keen@me....
Peter Osnos on the Non-fictional George Soros: Better Than Any Novel
March 06, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Peter Osnos, the author of “George Soros: A Life In Full”. Peter Osnos is an American journalist who is the founder of PublicAffairs Books. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/gatW6J8v Watch the show live on Facebook: https://lnkd.in/gjzVnTkY Watch the show on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gDwPgesS Subscrib...
Peter Pomerantsev: Why the Ukraine Isn't Really About the Ukraine
March 05, 2022 19:37 - 32 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Peter Pomerantsev, the author of "This Is Not Propaganda." Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics where he runs the Arena Initiative, dedicated to investigating the roots of disinformation and what to about them. He has testified on the challenges of information war to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, US Senate Fore...
Ian O'Connor on Coach K’s Lessons for Life Off the Basketball Court
March 05, 2022 16:35 - 39 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Ian O'Connor, the author of “Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski”. New York Times bestselling author Ian O'Connor is a sports columnist at the New York Post. He is a former ESPN.com, USA Today, and New York Daily News columnist who has finished in 1st place in 18 national writing contests conducted by the Golf Writers Association of America, the Associated Press Sports Editors, the Pro Football Writers of America, the National Assoc...
Chris Miller on the Politics of Putinomics in the Ukraine War
March 04, 2022 12:55 - 36 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Chris Miller, the author of “We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin”. Chris Miller is an Assistant Professor of International History at Tufts University. He also writes for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch ...
Elizabeth Greenwood on How to Find Love in an American Prison
March 04, 2022 01:00 - 29 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Elizabeth Greenwood, the author of “Love Lockdown: Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prisons”. Elizabeth Greenwood has taught writing at Columbia University, the New School, and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, the Norman Mailer Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, among others. Her work has appeared in The New York Times...
Danielle Citron: Why Online Privacy Should Be a Core Civil Right
March 03, 2022 20:00 - 37 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Danielle Citron, the author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace”. Danielle Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law and Caddell and Chapman Professor of Law at UVA, where she writes and teaches about privacy, free expression and civil rights. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on ...
Joby Warrick on Russia’s Syrian Intervention as a Model for the Ukrainian War
March 03, 2022 17:00 - 39 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Joby Warrick, the author of “Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World”. Joby Warrick has served with the Washington Post's investigative and national security teams, and currently writes about the Middle East, terrorism and weapons proliferation. He is also an award-winning author. Before joining The Post, Warrick covered the fall of communism in Eastern Europe as a UPI corresponde...
Michael Kazin: Has the Democratic Party Got a Future?
March 03, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Michael Kazin, the author of “What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party”. Michael Kazin is a Professor in the Department of History at Georgetown University. He is an expert in U.S. politics and social movements, 19th and 20th centuries. Kazin is emeritus co-editor of "Dissent," a leading magazine of the American left since 1954. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History and the Con...
Charles Spencer: How the History of Britain Would Be Dramatically Different Without the Sinking of the White Ship in 1120
March 03, 2022 00:00 - 44 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Charles Spencer, the author of “The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream”. Charles Spencer worked for the American TV network NBC News for a decade from 1986, as an on-air correspondent, and wrote his own scripts for his pieces for the TODAY Show. Charles Spencer has since presented for the History Channel, and has been interviewed in his capacity as an expert historian on several occasions by the BBC. A bestsellin...
Kathy Gilsinan on the Different Kinds of War We're Facing Right Now
March 02, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Kathy Gilsinan, the author of “The Helpers: Profiles from the Front Lines of the Pandemic”. Kathy Gilsinan is a contributing writer at the Atlantic, where she has reported on national security and contributed to its extensive and acclaimed coronavirus coverage. She was previously an editor at World Politics Review. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twit...
Maciej Kisilowski & Inna Melnykovska on the West's Moral Failure in the Ukrainian Invasion
March 02, 2022 02:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Inna Melnykovska and Maciej Kisilowski, authors of "Administrategy." Inna Melnykovska is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Political Economy at the Political Science Department at Central European University. Inna's research is about the interaction of global, regional and local forces in the shaping of modern political regimes and economic systems in developing countries. Maciej Kisilowski is a frequent commentator on issues of political-...
Jackie Higgins on What Animals Reveal About Our Senses
March 02, 2022 00:24 - 37 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jackie Higgins, the author of “Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses”. Jackie Higgins is a television documentary director and writer. In her first job at Oxford Scientific Films, she made wildlife films for a decade, for BBC stands such as The Natural World and Wildlife on One, as well as for Channel 4, National Geographic and The Discovery Channel. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: [email protected]...
J.D. Dickey on the Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson’s America
March 01, 2022 19:00 - 45 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by J.D. Dickey, the author of “The Republic of Violence: The Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson’s America”. J.D. Dickey is a New York Times bestselling author and writer of narrative nonfiction about American history, society and culture. In addition to his nonfiction work, he has penned short stories for print and the web, and been featured on several literary venues. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: a.keen@me...
John Scalzi: Are We At a "F*ck You" Moment in World History With Ukraine?
March 01, 2022 02:00 - 37 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by John Scalzi, the author of “The Kaiju Preservation Society”. John Michael Scalzi is an award-winning science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He has also written non-fiction books and columns on diverse topics such as finance, video games, films, astronomy, writing and politics, and served as a creative consultant for the TV series Stargate Universe. Visit our website: https://lithub.co...
Tomáš Sedláček on the Plea of the Economists 4U
February 27, 2022 23:00 - 31 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Tomáš Sedláček, the author of “Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street”. At the age of 24, Tomáš Sedláček became an economic advisor of Czech president Václav Havel. Later he became a member of the National Economic Council, advisory body to the Czech Prime Minister. During his fellowship at Yale University, Yale Economic Review ranked him among five hot young minds in economics. He currently wo...
Can the Economics of Sanctions Be an Effective Way of Fighting Back Against the Military Invasion of Ukraine?
February 27, 2022 23:00 - 31 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Tomáš Sedláček, the author of “Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street”. At the age of 24, Tomáš Sedláček became an economic advisor of Czech president Václav Havel. Later he became a member of the National Economic Council, advisory body to the Czech Prime Minister. During his fellowship at Yale University, Yale Economic Review ranked him among five hot young minds in economics. He currently wo...
Alan Judd on One of the Most Fascinating Mysteries of the Elizabethan Age
February 27, 2022 18:47 - 32 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Alan Judd, the author of “A Fine Madness: A Christopher Marlowe Murder Mystery”. Alan Judd is the author of eleven novels and two biographies. He previously served as a soldier in the British army and as a diplomat in the Foreign Office. Judd is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won numerous awards including the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Heinemann Award. He currently writes for The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. Visi...
Karl Sjogren on Reimagining Capitalism at the DNA Level
February 27, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Karl Sjogren, the author of “The Fairshare Model: A Performance-Based Capital Structure for Venture-Stage Initial Public Offerings”. Karl Sjogren was CEO and co-founder of a company, Fairshare, that was a front-runner for the modern concept of crowdfunding. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www...
Akash Kapur on Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
February 26, 2022 20:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Akash Kapur, the author of “Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville”. Akash Kapur is an award-winning author and journalist whose writing has appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic, The Economist, Granta, The Hindu, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Outlook, and The Wall Street Journal. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: htt...
Christine Montross on Mental Health vs. the American Incarceration System
February 26, 2022 16:41 - 34 minutesHosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Christine Montross, the author of Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration. Dr. Christine Montross, a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in General Nonfiction, is an associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical Sc...
Scott Reynolds Nelson on How Cheap American Grain Toppled the World’s Largest Empires
February 26, 2022 00:05 - 34 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Scott Reynolds Nelson, the author of “Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World”. Scott Reynolds Nelson is a history professor at the University of Georgia and an award-winning author. He writes about 19th-century US history including the history of slavery and Reconstruction. He also writes about international finance, the history of science, and global commodities. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email An...
Neil Lanctot on How and Why the United States Emerged Onto the World Stage
February 25, 2022 19:40 - 37 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Neil Lanctot, the author of “The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future”. Neil Lanctot, Ph.D. is a historian and author. His books have received attention like front cover treatment by the New York Times Book Review, as well as critical acclaim from publications like the Los Angeles Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Philadelphia Daily News and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Lanctot's writing has als...
Jamie Beaton on Demystifying the Competitive World of Elite College Admissions
February 24, 2022 17:00 - 39 minutesn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jamie Beaton, the author of “Accepted!: Secrets to Gaining Admission to the World's Top Universities ”. Jamie Beaton is the co-founder and CEO of Crimson Education. In this role Jamie now helms a company dedicated to levelling the playing field in world leading university admissions. Jamie was also one of the youngest in the world to be accepted to Stanford’s Graduate School of Business at age 20. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-typ...
Dwight Chapin on the Life and Administration of Richard Nixon
February 24, 2022 10:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Dwight Chapin, the author of “The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide”. Dwight L. Chapin served as the secretary and deputy assistant to President Richard M. Nixon from 1969 to 1973. As Nixon’s personal aide during the 1968 presidential campaign, Chapin crisscrossed the country at Nixon’s side, rising to become one of the president’s senior White House staffers and closest confidantes. In 1974 Chapin was convicted of two count...
Marc David Baer on the Ottoman Empire's Enduring Impact on Europe and the World
February 24, 2022 01:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Marc David Baer, the author of “The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs”. Marc David Baer is professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also an award-winning author. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watch the ...
Laura Shin on the History of Ethereum and the 2017 ICO Craze
February 23, 2022 18:00 - 32 minutesHosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Laura Shin, the author of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze. Laura Shin is a writer, crypto journalist, and podcaster. A former senior editor at Forbes, she left the magazine in 2018 to commit to h...
Moisés Naím on the Global Spread of Authoritarianism and Its Dangers
February 23, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Moisés Naím, the author of “The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century”. Moisés Naím is an internationally-syndicated columnist and best-selling author. In 2011, he launched Efecto Naím, an innovative weekly television program highlighting surprising world trends with visually-striking videos, graphics and interviews with world leaders which is widely watched in Latin America today. Dr. Naím gained intern...
Thomas Insel on What a Better Path to Mental Health Might Look Like
February 22, 2022 08:00 - 51 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Thomas Insel, the author of “Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health”. Thomas Insel is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who led the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 until November 2015. Prior to becoming Director of NIMH, he was the founding Director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for research on oxytocin and vasopressin, two pept...
Erica Katz on the High-Stakes World of Art Forgery
February 21, 2022 23:31 - 34 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Erica Katz, the author of “Fake: A Novel”. Erica Katz is the pseudonym for a graduate of Columbia Law School who began her career at a major Manhattan law firm. A native of New Jersey, she now lives in New York City, where she’s employed at another large law firm. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: [email protected] Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: ht...
Patrick Strickland on How the Citizens of a Small Arizona Border Town Stood Up to Anti-Immigrant Militias and Vigilantes
February 20, 2022 20:00 - 32 minutesIn this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Patrick Strickland, the author of “Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands”. Patrick Strickland is an author, journalist, and editor. Patrick has reported from more than 15 countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. He has written about migration, the rise of the far right, armed conflict, labor rights, humanitarian catastrophes, poverty, and environmental disasters, among other issues. Vi...