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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Ty McCormick on One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home
March 25, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Ty McCormick, the author of "Beyond the Sand and Sea", to share the story of one family of Somali refugees' 30 year odyssey to reach the United States. From escaping an impoverished life in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp, to winning a scholarship to study literature at Princeton, protagonist Asad Hussein embodies the strength of a family of Somali refugees who never lost faith in America. Ty McCormick is an editor at Foreign Affairs...
Tobey Pearl on Colonial Violence and America's First Murder Trial
March 24, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Tobey Pearl, the author of "Terror to the Wicked", to discuss the violence, war and oppression that shaped life in early America, as well as to share the story and impact of the first murder trial in the nation's history. Tobey Pearl earned degrees in law and international relations from Boston University and studied international law at the University of Hong Kong. She practiced law and taught at Emerson College. Terror to the Wicked is her ...
Michael Heller on Ownership and Property in Our Modern-Day
March 23, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Michael Heller, the co-author of "Mine!", to discuss the moral and legal intricacies of ownership, as well as to investigate how the parameters which define what property is have changed over time. One of the preeminent scholars working on private law theory today, Michael Heller writes and teaches about who gets what and why. His writings range over innovation and entrepreneurship, corporate governance, biomedical research policy, real estat...
Avi Loeb on Our First Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence
March 22, 2021 23:18 - 39 minutesAbraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author. He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988), and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books, including most recently, Extraterrestrial (Houghton Miff...
Sherry Turkle on How We Continue to Make Sense of the World Around Ourselves
March 18, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Sherry Turkle, the author of "The Empathy Diaries", to discuss perception vs. reality and the blurred lines that exist in between the two "perspectives". Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology an...
Ben Pring on Taming the Machines that Rule our Jobs
March 17, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Ben Pring, the author of "Monster", to discuss the impact of Big Tech on the fundamental aspects of society such as politics, work, the wider economy and surveillance. Ben Pring co-founded and leads Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work. Ben is a co-author of the best-selling and award-winning books, What To Do When Machines Do Everything (2017) and Code Halos; How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Ru...
Laurence Bergreen on Francis Drake the Pirate, Queen Elizabeth I and the Age of Empires
March 16, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Tom Bergreen, the author of "In Search of a Kingdom", to discuss the life and travels of Francis Drake, as well as his relationship with Queen Elizabeth I and the lasting impact that Drake's exploits had on modern British history. Laurence Bergreen is an award-winning biographer, historian, and chronicler of exploration. His books have been translated into over 25 languages worldwide. In May 2017, Roaring Brook Press, a division of Macmillan...
Roya Hakakian on Immigration
March 15, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Roya Hakakian, the author of "A Beginner's Guide to America", to discuss the unique experiences and range of emotions that immigrants experience when coming to and settling in to life in America. Roya Hakakian is a writer. Her opinion columns, essays and book reviews appear in English language publications like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and NPR’s All Things Considered, among many others. She has collaborated on over a dozen hour...
Albert Fox Cahn on a Society Under Surveillance
March 12, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Albert Fox Cahn, the founder and executive director of Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), to discuss the logistics and ethics behind proposed vaccine passports. Albert Fox Cahn is the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project’s ( S.T.O.P.’s) founder and executive director, a member of the Ashoka Fellowship Network, a fellow at the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at N.Y.U. School of Law, a member of the NYU Allia...
Nicholas Freudenberg on Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health
March 12, 2021 02:20 - 33 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Nicholas Freudenberg, the author of "At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health", to discuss the extent to which modern capitalism has contributed to public health crises like the coronavirus. Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at City University of New York School of Public Health and Director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. His research examines the impact of food and social policies on ...
Rosa Brooks on Going Inside the Closed World of Policing
March 10, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Georgetown professor Rosa Brooks on her new book, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City, and the relationship between the police and the population. Rosa Brooks is a law professor at Georgetown University and founder of Georgetown's Innovative Policing Program. From 2016 to 2020, she served as a reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department. She has worked previously at the Defense Department, the State Depar...
Harriet A. Washington on the "Erosion" of Medical Consent in America
March 09, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Harriet A. Washington, the author of "Carte Blanche", to tackle the ethical issue of medical consent being abused in America. Unfortunately, minority groups and people of color are the most egregiously taken advantage of, even within the medical field and by those with a duty of care. Harriet A. Washington is a prolific science writer, editor and ethicist who is the author of the seminal Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation ...
Wendy Lower on Confronting the History and the Reality of The Holocaust
March 08, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On". Andrew is joined by Wendy Lower, the author of "The Ravine" to dive into some of the stories of the millions of individuals who were exterminated during the Holocaust, as well as to critique the actions and morals of those responsible for genocide. Wendy Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History and Director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College. She chairs the Academic Committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her res...
Carol Leonnig on Trump's Legacy and Where That Leaves America
March 05, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Carol Leonnig, the co-author of "A Very Stable Genius", to discuss the "return" of Donald Trump in the wake of his upcoming speech at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) and the former president's intentions to mount a campaign for the White House in 2024 as Carol prepares to write a sequel to "A Very Stable Genius". Carol Leonnig is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has worked at The Washington Post since 2000. She won the 20...
Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson on the Chibok Schoolgirls Kidnapping and Boko Haram
March 04, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On". Andrew is joined by Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson, the co-authors of "Bring Back Our Girls", to discuss the events of the 2014 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, as well as the wider issue of liberating women in Africa. Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw are Wall Street Journal Pulitzer Prize finalists and nominees who have covered Nigeria for more than a decade. Their work has been submitted for virtually every international reporting award. Two of the newspaper’s mos...
Kehinde Andrews on Systemic Racism
March 03, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Kehinde Andrews, the author of "The New Age of Empire", to discuss the history of racism and colonial exploitation. Kehinde is an academic, activist and author whose books include Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018). His first book was Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013). Kehinde led leading the development of the Black Studies degree and is director of the C...
Emma Brown on the Origins of Boys' Sexually Inappropriate Behavior
March 02, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Emma Brown, the author of "To Raise A Boy", to discuss the origins of sexually inappropriate behavior in boys and men, as well as considering what can be done preemptively during childhood to filter out predators. Emma Brown is a reporter on the investigative team. She worked as a wilderness ranger and as a middle-school math teacher before discovering journalism during an internship at High Country News, a magazine that covers the American W...
John Kampfner on "Why the Germans Do It Better"
March 01, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by John Kampfner, the author of "Why the Germans Do It Better", to discuss how Germany and the EU have botched their respective rollouts of the coronavirus vaccine compared to the UK which has dramatically turned the tables on their bitter struggle against the novel virus. As a rule however, John is convinced that Germany has a more grown up political culture than the UK and that over the last 75 years has been able to progress as a nation from i...
Adam Cohen on the Supreme Court's Perpetuation of Injustice in America
February 26, 2021 15:55 - 37 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Adam Cohen, the author of "Supreme Inequality", to discuss the dynamic of the Supreme Court that inherently and hypocritically serves the wealthy and further drives the inequality gap between them and the poor. Adam Cohen, who served as a member of the New York Times editorial board and as a senior writer for Time magazine, is the author of Supreme Inequality:The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, Imbeciles: The Supr...
Tim Harford on "Data Detectives" and Statistics
February 25, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Tim Harford, the author of "The Data Detective", to discuss the evolution of record keeping and statistics, as well as to consider whether or not data should ever be taken at face value. Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times. His long-running column, “The Undercover Economist”, reveals the economic ideas behind everyday experiences, while he also writes op-eds, interviews and long feature articles for the FT. He is an evan...
Annie Auerbach on the Flexible Working Economy
February 24, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Annie Auerbach, the author of "FLEX", to discuss the notion of a flexible working lifestyle and how it can empower women in particular to lead a healthier and happier work/life balance. Annie Auerbach is a New York Times bestselling author. She has written over 300 books for children, from board books to chapter books, and everything in between. Publishing clients include Scholastic, Disney Press, Warner Bros., HarperCollins, ABC Mouse, Litt...
William J. Bernstein on Financial Crowds
February 23, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by William J. Bernstein, the author of "The Delusions of Crowds", to discuss Bitcoin and the Gamestop/Robinhood saga, as well to touch upon subjects like ISIS and even conspiracy groups like QAnon. William J. Bernstein is a neurologist, co-founder of Efficient Frontier Advisors, an investment management firm, and has written several titles on finance and economic history. He has contributed to the peer-reviewed finance literature and has written...
Andrew Keen Reflects on Rush Limbaugh and Texas and Looks Forward to Life After COVID
February 22, 2021 05:00 - 16 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew reflects on a week in which Rush Limbaugh passed away, extreme cold weather rocked Texas and the coronavirus continued to ravage the globe. Named as one of the "100 Most Connected Men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution. He has written five books including the best-selling Cult of the Amateur, The Internet Is Not The Answer and How To Fix The Future. He directed and wrote...
Ben Boyer on Life During the Coronavirus
February 22, 2021 01:30 - 28 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Ben Boyer, the Chairman and co-Founder of R-Zero, to weigh in on the right and wrong steps taken so far during during the Coronavirus pandemic, as well as to explain how economic and other infrastructural policies can help protect jobs and lives moving forward. Ben Boyer focuses on consumer and related investments with an emphasis on vertical applications and network effect businesses. He loves partnering with product oriented CEOs who solve ...
Heather McGhee on Institutionalized Racism
February 20, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Heather McGhee, the author of "The Sum of Us", to discuss racial inequality in the United States of America and to explore the notion that institutionalized racism has hamstrung the development of black communities so badly to the point where the concept of bettering a black person or community is to hurt the white community. Heather C. McGhee joined Demos in 2002 and served as its president from 2014 through June, 2018. A recognized thought ...
Darby Fox on Teenagers' Attitudes and their Relationships with their Parents
February 19, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Darby Fox, the author of "Rethinking Your Teenager", to discuss the moral and biological state of teenagers. Darby Fox has been a therapist for over 20 years providing individual and group therapy in both non-profit and private settings. She currently divides her time between pro-bono work for Horizon's, a non-profit agency working with at-risk kids, and private practice. She received a BA from Middlebury College, graduating cum laude in Soc...
Daniella Ballou-Aares on How to Fix American Democracy
February 18, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Daniella Ballou-Aares, the CEO of the Leadership Now Project, to discuss the current state of democracy in America post Donald Trump's presidency. Daniella Ballou-Aares is a Senior Advisor based in the Washington, DC office. She advises leaders who seek to build innovative organizations, thrive in uncertain times and launch new ventures to transform their sectors. Daniella joined Dalberg’s founding team in 2004 and has served in a variety of ...
Kenneth Cukier on "Big Data" and the Coronavirus
February 17, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Kenneth Cukier, the author of "Big Data", to discuss the role that big data can play to combat the coronavirus and how it could even be used prevent a future pandemic. Kenneth Cukier is a Senior Editor at The Economist, and host of its weekly podcast on technology. He is also an associate fellow at Said Business School at Oxford, researching artificial intelligence. Kenn is the coauthor of “Big Data: A Revolution That Transforms How We Live, ...
Andrew Keen Reflects on the Value and the Future of Work
February 16, 2021 05:00 - 17 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew reflects on some his recent guests' perspectives on both the notion of and the future of work. Named as one of the "100 Most Connected Men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution. He has written five books including the best-selling Cult of the Amateur, The Internet Is Not The Answer and How To Fix The Future. He directed and wrote the 2020 movie “How To Fix Democracy” and is ...
Sara Horowitz on Job Insecurity and "Mutualism" in America
February 15, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Sara Horowitz, the author of Mutualism, to discuss job security and insecurity in America, as well as to examine whether or not trade unions can still succeed in today's capitalist society. Sara Horowitz is the founder and a former Executive Director of Freelancers Union. She has been an innovative leading voice of the growing freelance economy, creating solutions for the new workforce for over two decades. Sara founded Freelancers Union in 1995...
Robert Wringham on Why Work and Consumerism Will Always Be Interlocked
February 11, 2021 01:00 - 39 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Robert Wringham on his new book, I'm Out: How to Make an Exit, and the crisis of work today. Humorist Robert Wringham was born in Dudley, England in 1982 and now lives between Glasgow, Scotland and Montreal, Canada. He considers himself to be among the world's most indolent people but has somehow written three books, is the editor of New Escapologist magazine and sometimes writes for publications like The Idler, Playboy, and Splitsider. Learn more ab...
Laurence Rees on Hitler, Stalin and Dictatorship
February 09, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Laurence Rees, the author of "Hitler and Stalin", to discuss the regimes of history's most notorious dictators. Laurence Rees is a former Head of BBC TV History Programmes, as well as the founder, writer and producer of WW2History.com, which won 'Best in Class' awards in both the Education and Reference categories at the Interactive Media Awards. His latest book, 'Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War', was published by Vik...
Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Western Society
February 08, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Joseph Henrich, the author of "The WEIRDest People in the World", to discuss how strange and exceptional Western society is when compared with most of the world. Joseph Henrich is Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His theoretical work focuses on how natural selection has shaped human learning and how this in turn influences cultural evolution and culture-gene coevolution. This work has explored the evolution of co...
Roy Richard Grinker on How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
February 05, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Roy Richard Grinker on his new book, Nobody's Normal, which examines the attitudes toward mental illness throughout history. Roy Richard Grinker, Ph.D. is Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University and Editor-in-chief of Anthropological Quarterly. He is the author of Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness (NY: W.W. Norton, January 2021), among other books. Grinker was born and raised in Chicago where his fath...
Sarah Jaffe on Why Doing What You Love May Backfire On You
February 04, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Sarah Jaffe about her new book, Work Won't Love You Back, and what love means in the twenty-first century. Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center fellow and an independent journalist covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. Jaffe is the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and many others. Sh...
Alan Lightman on Humans' "Beginnings" and the Cosmos
February 03, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Alan Lightman, the author of "Probable Impossibilities", to consider humankind's role within nature and the universe as a whole. Lightman was born in Memphis Tennessee in 1948, son of Richard Lightman, a movie theater owner, and Jeanne Garretson, a dancing teacher and volunteer Braille typist. From an early age, he was entranced by both science and the arts and, while in high school, began independent science projects and writing poetry. He w...
Robert Paarlberg on Food Politics
February 02, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew Keen is joined by Robert Paarlberg, the author of Resetting the Table, to discuss food politics. Robert puts the current state of agriculture and health in America under the microscope in an attempt to predict the future of Americans' relationships with food. Robert Paarlberg does most of his research and consulting in the area of international food and agricultural policy, especially in Africa and the developing world. This topic connects Robert both to hi...
Raja Rajamannar on "The Fifth Paradign", Marketing and the Future of Consumerism
February 01, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew Keen talks with Raja Rajamannar about his new book, Quantum Marketing: Mastering the New Marketing Mindset for Tomorrow's Consumers. In the book, Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing Officer of Mastercard, shares breakthrough, frontier strategies to navigate the challenges marketers face to thrive in a modern business world that is changing with unprecedented speed and disruption. A member of the Mastercard's Management Committee, Raja draws upon his breadth o...
Dr. Jillian Hernandez on the "Aesthetics of Excess"
January 29, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew talks with Dr. Jillian Hernandez about her book, "Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment". Dr. Jillian Hernandez is a scholar, community arts educator, curator, and creative. Her work is inspired by Black and Latinx life and imagination, and is invested in challenging how working-class bodies, sexualities, and cultural practices are policed through gendered tropes of deviancy and respectability. She studies Blackness and...
Alana Newhouse on the "Flatness" of Our Future
January 28, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew talks with Alana Newhouse, the author of "Everything is Broken" and the founder and editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine. Alana Newhouse was born in 1976 and grew up in Lawrence, New York. She is a graduate of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, a 1997 graduate of Barnard College, and a 2002 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Alana Newhouse is the editor in chief of Tablet, a daily online magazine of Jewish new...
Gabrielle Glaser on Adoption in America
January 26, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew talks with Gabrielle Glaser about her new book, "American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption." During the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle fell in love and became pregnant. Her enraged family sent her to a mat...
David Hardin on the Flint, Michigan "Water Crisis"
January 25, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by David Hardin, the author of Standpipe, to discuss the origin and fallout of the Flint, Michigan water crisis. David Hardin is a Michigan poet, writer, and artist. His work has appeared in 3 Quarks Daily, Prague Review, Drunken Boat, Hermes Poetry Journal, Dunes Review, Epigraph Magazine, Loose Change, Burningwood Literary Journal, ARDOR, Carolina Quarterly, Madison Review, the 2014 Bear River. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...
Alex Vitale on Police Brutality
January 22, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Alex S. Vitale, the author of The End of Policing, to discuss the history of policing and mass-incarceration in America, as well as to examine the roots and consequences of police brutality in the United States. Alex exposes the political agendas over time that have enabled racial profiling and fueled police violence towards people of color. Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at ...
Stephen Marche on Biden's Impossible Task to Unite America
January 21, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Stephen Marche, the author of America's Next Civil War, to discuss President Joe Biden's potential to bring peace to America, as well as to examine what major obstacles to diplomacy exist in the country today. In the wake of Joe Biden's inauguration is another civil war impending? Stephen Marche is a novelist, essayist and cultural commentator. He is the author of half a dozen books, including The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women...
James Suzman on the Origins and History of "Work"
January 20, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew talks with anthropologist James Suzman about his new book, Work: A Deep History, From the Stone Age to the Age of Robots. With a head full of Laurens van der Post and half an anthropology degree from St Andrews University under his belt, James Suzman hitched a ride into Botswana’s eastern Kalahari in June 1991. He has been working with the Bushmen ever since. He remains involved in a number of Kalahari initiatives through the Cambridge based research and...
Peter Gumbel on Personal and National "Identity"
January 19, 2021 05:00 - 36 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Peter Gumbel, the author of Citizens of Everywhere, to discuss the fallout from Brexit, as well as to examine the history of culture in Britain and wider-spread Europe. Peter Gumbel is a British writer and editor based in Paris. He has spent most of his career as a journalist for US publications including the Wall Street Journal, Time, and Fortune. He is the author of four books on France, including a best-selling critique of the French educati...
James Goldgeier and Bruce W. Jentleson on America's New Role in the World Under Joe Biden
January 18, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution James Goldgeier and Professor Bruce W. Jentleson of Duke University, to discuss where America sits in the pecking order when it comes to global superpowers, as well as to consider the influence and appropriacy of its foreign policy. James Goldgeier is a Robert Bosch Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and a Professor at the School of Interna...
Simon Winchester on Land Ownership
January 17, 2021 05:00 - 36 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Simon Winchester, author of Land, to discuss the origin, history and modern-day notion of land ownership. Simon Winchester, OBE, a British writer, journalist and broadcaster, was born in north London on 28th September 1944, the only child of Bernard and Andrée Winchester (née deWael). Though not Catholic, he was educated first at a boarding convent in Bridport, Dorset and later at Hardye’s School, Dorchester, Dorset – where he achieved the dub...
Kenneth R. Rosen on the Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs
January 16, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Kenneth R. Rosen, the author of Troubled, to discuss the brutal emotional, physical, and sexual abuse carried out in America's behavioral treatment programs. Kenneth R. Rosen is a senior editor and correspondent at Newsweek based in Italy. He is a contributing writer at WIRED, and the journalist-in-residence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the author of two books of narrative nonfiction, an incoming Executive-in-Residenc...
Jessica Bruder on the "Sharing Economy"
January 15, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutesIn this episode of "Keen On", Andrew talks with Jessica Bruder about her book "Nomadland", which is the basis for the 2021 film starring Frances McDormand. Jessica Bruder is a journalist and New America fellow who writes about subcultures and social issues. For her book Nomadland, she spent months living in a camper van, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing and hit the road full time, enabling them to travel from job to job and carve out a place for themselves in a...