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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Dr. Carl L. Hart on the Role of Drug Use in the Pursuit of Happiness in America
January 14, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew talks with Dr. Carl L. Hart about his new book, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear. Carl discusses the restrictions, benefits and dangers of recreational drug use in the United States of America. Between drug policy, the criminal justice system and racially-ordained liberties in America, Dr. Hart also condemns the country's treatment of drug users dependent upon their race. Dr. Carl L. Hart is the Chair of the Department of Psycholo...
Michael Lind on Class Warfare
January 13, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutesIn this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Michael Lind, the author of The New Class War, to discuss the recent riots in the nation's capital and to examine how it is that America arrived at such a violent and confrontational crossroads in its history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Johan Norberg: Why Do We Always Create "Us Vs. Them"?
January 12, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Johan Norberg, author of the new book Open: The Story of Human Progress Johan Norberg is an author, lecturer and filmmaker. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington DC and his books have been translated into twenty-five languages. His book Progress was an international bestseller and an Economist book of the year. Norberg regularly writes for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Reason and HuffPost. He spreads his time betwe...
Frederick M. Lawrence: What Makes Hate Crimes Different?
January 11, 2021 20:00 - 30 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Frederick M. Lawrence about his new book, Punishing Hate, and how shocking -- and unsurprising -- this week was with the Capitol riots. Frederick M. Lawrence is a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alexander Lee: If Anyone Can Make Sense of This Week, It's Machiavelli
January 09, 2021 00:00 - 39 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Alexander Lee, author of Machiavelli: His Life and Times, about the raid at the Capitol and why Machiavelli should be read and reread right now. Alexander Lee is a research fellow at the University of Warwick. He is the author of four acclaimed books, most recently Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy. He writes a regular column for History Today,and has contributed articles on a wide variety of historical and cultural subje...
Tom Bergin: Why Are Economic Theories Made by Governments Wrong
January 07, 2021 21:34 - 41 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Tom Bergin about his new book, Free Lunch Thinking, and what the United States -- and the world -- needs to do to set a path for a more considered future. Tom Bergin has reported on the energy industry for over twelve years, having previously worked as an oil broker. He is in charge of Reuters's coverage of the oil industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and his work has been published in The New York Times, The Times, The Wall Street Journal...
Elliott Young: How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System
January 05, 2021 17:00 - 36 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Elliott Young about his upcoming book, Forever Prisoners, and the immigration issue in the United States that still persists today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How To Fix the American Dream?
January 04, 2021 17:00 - 44 minutesThe Economist’s 2020 award for most-improved country went to Malawi, with New Zealand, Taiwan and Bolivia as runners-up. The United States of America, not surprisingly, didn’t rank - although the country was credited last year with developing a COVID vaccine in record time as well with voting out Donald Trump. So can America become the world’s most-improved country in 2021? How might it reinvent itself to become this year’s Malawi? Today, Andrew invites Kerri Arsenault, Carl Hoffman, Dale Mah...
Dale Maharidge: How Nothing Much Has Changed in America in 35 Years
January 01, 2021 21:00 - 36 minutesIn October 1995, the American writer Dale Maharidge - the co-author with the photo-journalist Michael Williamson of the 1985 book A Journey To Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass - got a call out of the blue from one of Bruce Springsteen’s people. It turned out that Springsteen had been so moved by A Journey to Nowhere that he had written two songs for his new album, The Ghost of Tom Joad about it: “Youngstown” and “New Timer”. 35 years and several award-winning (including a Pulitzer) boo...
Devon Price: Why Laziness Is A Lie
December 30, 2020 22:00 - 35 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks to author Devon Price about their new book, Laziness Does Not Exist. Dr. Devon Price is a social psychologist, writer, activist, and professor at Loyola University of Chicago's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Price's work has appeared in numerous publications such as Slate, The Rumpus, NPR, and HuffPost and has been featured on the front page of Medium numerous times. They live in Chicago, Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...
Daniel E. Lieberman: Why Do We Even Exercise?
December 25, 2020 01:00 - 36 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks to Daniel E. Lieberman about his new book, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding. Daniel E. Lieberman is Edwin M. Lerner Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He is the author of the national best seller The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brian David Johnson: How Do We Rediscover the Future in 2021?
December 23, 2020 19:16 - 40 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks to Brian David Johnson about his new book, The Future You, and how to create a future post-pandemic. The future is Brian David Johnson's business. He is a professor of practice at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and a Futurist and Fellow at Frost & Sullivan. From 2009 to 2016, he was Intel Corporation’s first-ever futurist. Johnson has more than 40 patents, and he has been published in many consumer and trade publica...
Reporting on Human Suffering in COVID Times
December 22, 2020 22:00 - 44 minutesThe COVID news remains disturbingly bleak. Deaths in the US are over 300,000 with Tennessee as “ground zero” and California running out of ICU beds. The suffering behind these numbers is obviously heartbreaking. So how should journalists be telling the world about this human misery? On today's episode, Andrew spoke today with Lesley Blume, the author of the excellent FALL OUT: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World. The U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August...
Lesley Blume: Reporting on Human Suffering in COVID Times
December 22, 2020 22:00 - 44 minutesThe COVID news remains disturbingly bleak. Deaths in the US are over 300,000 with Tennessee as “ground zero” and California running out of ICU beds. The suffering behind these numbers is obviously heartbreaking. So how should journalists be telling the world about this human misery? On today's episode, Andrew spoke today with Lesley Blume, the author of the excellent FALL OUT: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World. The U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August...
Rod Dreher: Should Conservatives Become Martyrs?
December 21, 2020 22:00 - 32 minutes“The Last Days of Donald Trump” show is careening toward its final, farcical episode. Part Jacques Clouseau and Chauncey Gardiner, Trump continues to channel his inner Peter Sellers into a preposterous mash-up of Being There and The Return of the Pink Panther. Today, even Pat Robertson - yes, that Pat Robertson who once argued COVID would go away if we stopped going to gay weddings - acknowledged that Trump “lives in alternate reality” and is “very erratic.” But for all the absurdity of this ...
Should Conservatives Become Martyrs?
December 21, 2020 22:00 - 32 minutes“The Last Days of Donald Trump” show is careening toward its final, farcical episode. Part Jacques Clouseau and Chauncey Gardiner, Trump continues to channel his inner Peter Sellers into a preposterous mash-up of Being There and The Return of the Pink Panther. Today, even Pat Robertson - yes, that Pat Robertson who once argued COVID would go away if we stopped going to gay weddings - acknowledged that Trump “lives in alternate reality” and is “very erratic.” But for all the absurdity of this ...
Evan Osnos: The American Romance of Joe Biden
December 19, 2020 00:00 - 43 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Evan Osnos about his new book, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now, and who really is Joe Biden. This episode is brought to you by MagicSpoon. Go to magicspoon.com/keenon and use the code KEENON for free shipping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nicholas Christakis: How Covid-19 Will Change the Way We Live
December 17, 2020 23:00 - 39 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Nicholas Christakis about his new book, Apollo's Arrow, and his own study on the spread of Covid-19 around the world -- and why we need to look at it broadly. Nicholas A. Christakis is a physician and sociologist who explores the ancient origins and modern implications of human nature. He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, where he is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, in the Departments of Sociology, Medicine, Ecology and...
Chris Goodall: Why We Should Be Encouraged About Joe Biden's Climate Policy
December 16, 2020 22:00 - 26 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Chris Goodall about his new book, What We Need to Do Now, and what a zero carbon future looks like. Chris Goodall is the author of several successful books and writer for Guardian Environment Network and other energy websites, such as Abundance and The Ecologist. His latest book, The Switch, covers the unstoppable rise of solar power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elliott Currie: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
December 16, 2020 00:00 - 31 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Elliott Currie about his new book, A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America, and looking at the alarming numbers in the context of Covid-19. Elliott Currie is the author of Crime and Punishment in America, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and of numerous other acclaimed works on crime, juvenile delinquency, drug abuse, and social policy. He is a professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of Cal...
Candacy Taylor: Race Relations Still Have a Long Way to Go in America
December 15, 2020 00:00 - 30 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Candacy Taylor about her new book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America, the history of the Green Book, and how far we still have to go when it comes to race relations in America. Candacy Taylor is an award-winning author, photographer and cultural documentarian. Her work has been featured in over 50 media outlets including the New Yorker and The Atlantic. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants including ...
Jason Hickel: How Degrowth Will Save the World
December 13, 2020 19:34 - 31 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Jason Hickel about his latest book, Less Is More, and what a post-capitalist economy could look like. Dr. Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. He serves on the Statistical Advisory Panel for the UN Human Development Report 2020, the...
David Paul Kuhn: When the White Working Class Turned Against Liberalism
December 13, 2020 01:00 - 38 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with David Paul Kuhn about his new book, The Hardhat Riot, and the connections between 1970 and our present moment. David Paul Kuhn is an author, reporter, and political analyst. He has served as a senior and chief political writer across the political-media landscape, from Politico to RealClearPolitics to CBS News, as well as written for the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, National Review, New Republic, and...
Peter Beinart: Is America's Role of Leadership in the World Over?
December 12, 2020 01:00 - 32 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with columnist Peter Beinart about America's loss of world leadership in a post-Trump world. Peter Beinart is professor of journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and professor of political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a contributor to The Atlantic, a columnist for Jewish Currents, and a CNN political commentator. His first book, “The Good Fight,” was published by HarperCollins in 2006. His second book, “The Icarus Synd...
Peter Beinert: Is America's Role of Leadership in the World Over?
December 12, 2020 01:00 - 32 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with columnist Peter Beinert about America's loss of world leadership in a post-Trump world. Peter Beinart is professor of journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and professor of political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a contributor to The Atlantic, a columnist for Jewish Currents, and a CNN political commentator. His first book, “The Good Fight,” was published by HarperCollins in 2006. His second book, “The Icarus Synd...
Timothy Egan: Following the Road to Faith
December 10, 2020 05:00 - 37 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Timothy Egan about his latest book, The Pilgrimage to Eternity, and how the act of walking ties us to the earth. Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of eight books, most recently The Immortal Irishman, a New York Times bestseller. His book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time, won a National Book Award for nonfiction and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a New York Times Notable Book, a Washington State Book Award w...
Robert Kolker on the Strengths and Weaknesses of the American Family
December 09, 2020 13:00 - 36 minutesOn today's episode, Robert Kolker discusses his latest book, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family. ROBERT KOLKER is the New York Times bestselling author of Lost Girls, named one of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books and one of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2013. As a journalist, his work has appeared in New York magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, O magazine, and Men's Journal. He is a National Magazine Award finalist and...
Paul Jankowski on Our Long Winter
December 09, 2020 01:00 - 41 minutesOn Keen On, Andrew talks with Paul Jankowski about his latest book, All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War. Paul Jankowski is the Raymond Ginger Professor of History at Brandeis University. His many publications include Stavinksy: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue, Shades of Indignation: Political Scandals in France, Past and Present, and most recently, Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...
Kim Ghattas on Black Wave and the Unraveling of the Modern Middle East
December 08, 2020 03:35 - 42 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Kim Ghattas about her new book, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East. Kim Ghattas is an Emmy-award winning journalist and writer who covered the Middle East for twenty years for the BBC and the Financial Times. She has also reported on the U.S State Department and American politics, and is the author of The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut...
K. Sabeel Rahman: The Stock Market Is Not the Economy
December 05, 2020 20:00 - 26 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with K. Sabeel Rahman, president of Demos, about why we need to challenge the privatization in America of the last 30 years. K. Sabeel Rahman is an Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and President of Demos. He previously has been a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (2017), and a Fellow at New America. Rahman has worked extensively with policymakers, funders, and advocacy groups in developing strat...
Talia Stroud: The Role of Public Space in the Digital Age
December 05, 2020 01:00 - 27 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Talia Stroud, co-director of Civic Signals, about rebuilding and re-stimulating public digital spaces -- and whether it's possible to make digital spaces feel like community or civic initiatives. Talia Stroud is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the School of Journalism, as well as the founding and current Director of the Center for Media Engagement in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. The Ce...
Lucas Chancel: Why Does Helping the Poor Often Hurt the Environment?
December 04, 2020 01:00 - 29 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Lucas Chancel about his new book, Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment, and the inequalities that become apparent during moments of crisis. Lucas Chancel is co-director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics and coeditor of the World Inequality Report 2018. A lecturer at Sciences Po, he is also Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations. Learn more about y...
Lucas Chancel: Why Does Helping the Poor Often Hurts the Environment?
December 04, 2020 01:00 - 29 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Lucas Chancel about his new book, Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment, and the inequalities that become apparent during moments of crisis. Lucas Chancel is co-director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics and coeditor of the World Inequality Report 2018. A lecturer at Sciences Po, he is also Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations. Learn more about y...
Carl Safina: The More You Understand, the More Humility You Acquire
December 03, 2020 01:00 - 33 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Carl Safina, author of the new book, Becoming Wild, and our values that are destructive and dehumanizing to the earth and our own species. Carl Safina's work has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won Orion, Lannan, and National Academies literary awards as well as the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. Safina is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the 10-par...
Julian E. Zelizer: The Legacy of Newt Gingrich and the Era of Partisan Warfare
December 02, 2020 01:00 - 32 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Julian E. Zelizer about his new book, Burning Down the House, and how Newt Gingrich launched our current era of partisan warfare -- and why Trump is the culmination of this. Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a CNN Political Analyst. His most recent books are Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (co-authored with Kevin Kruse) and The Fierce ...
Rick Perlstein: How 1980 Changed Modern Politics
December 01, 2020 01:00 - 36 minutesOn today's episode, Rick Perlstein discusses his new book, Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980, and how the birth of modern American conservatism happened before Ronald Reagan. Rick Perlstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan; Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by over a dozen publications; and Before t...
Mauro F. Guillen: After Coronavirus, How Do We Prepare For What's Next?
November 30, 2020 01:00 - 31 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with professor and thinker Mauro F. Guillen about his new book, 2030, global trends to keep an eye on, and what the future holds after the pandemic. Mauro F. Guillén is one of the most original thinkers at the Wharton School, where he holds the Zandman Professorship in International Management and teaches in its flagship Advanced Management Program and many other courses for executives, MBAs, and undergraduates. An expert on global market trends, he is a sough...
Edmund Fawcett: The Fight For Conservatism Today
November 28, 2020 01:00 - 39 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Edmund Fawcett, author of the new book Conservatism, about the fight for a tradition of order and stability and for who is the true conservative, which continues today. Edmund Fawcett worked at The Economist for more than three decades, serving as its chief correspondent in Washington, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels, as well as its European and literary editor. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, the New State...
Peter Osnos: Publishing Will Never Die
November 26, 2020 01:00 - 31 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Peter Osnos, founder of PublicAffairs, about the recent news that Bertelsmann, the parent of Penguin Random House, will purchase Simon & Schuster and why this does not mean the Amazonization of the publishing industry. Between 1966-1984 Peter Osnos was a reporter and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and served as the newspaper's foreign and national editor. From 1984-1996 he was Vice President, Associate Publisher and senior editor at Ra...
Brian Christian: Does Proposition 25 Symbolize the Great Ethical Questions of the Future?
November 24, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutesOn todays episode, Andrew Keen talks with Brian Christian about his new book, The Alignment Problem, and the question at the intersection of computer science, ethics, and the law that determines whether a statistical tool can be fair. Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, which was named a Wall Street Journal bestseller, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a New Yorker favorite book of the year. He is the author, with Tom Griffiths, of Algorithms to Live By, a #1 Audible be...
Steve Coll: How to Fix America's Foreign Policy Post-Trump
November 24, 2020 01:00 - 32 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Steve Coll about what Donald Trump gets from contesting Joe Biden's presidential victory and the damage to foreign policy Trump's administration has caused. Steve Coll, a staff writer, is the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and reports on issues of politics, intelligence, and national security in the United States and abroad. For the magazine, he has written about the education of Osama bin Laden, secret negotiations ...
Tom Zoellner: How Hard Is It to Write About America?
November 23, 2020 01:00 - 27 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Tom Zoellner about his new book, The National Road: Dispatches from a Changing America, and reporting from the America today, full of divide and anger -- but, also, hope. TOM ZOELLNER is the author and co-author of eight previous nonfiction books, the politics editor of The Los Angeles Review of Books, an associate professor of English at Chapman University and a visiting professor of English at Dartmouth College. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic...
Charles A. Kupchan: The Full History of American Isolationism
November 21, 2020 01:00 - 32 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with professor Charles A. Kupchan about his new book, Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World, and what lies ahead for the Biden administration. Charles A. Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2014 to 2017, Kupchan served in the Obama administration as Special Assistant t...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: How Can We Stop All the Strongmen?
November 20, 2020 01:00 - 26 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat about her new book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, and the history of "strongmen" like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an internationally acclaimed historian, speaker, and political commentator for the Atlantic, CNN, the Washington Post, and other publications. She is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...
Alan Hirsch: Right Now Is Not an Election Crisis, But a Manufactured Political Crisis
November 18, 2020 01:00 - 24 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Alan Hirsch, professor and author of A Short History of Presidential Election Crises, about why this current moment is not the fifth presidential election crisis. Alan Hirsch, Instructor in the Humanities and Chair of the Justice and Law Studies program at Williams College, is the author of a number of books including Impeaching the President: Past, Present, and Future (City Lights) and For the People: What the Constitution Really Says About Your Rights (...
David Thomson: Why Real Life Right Now Is More Like the Movies
November 17, 2020 01:00 - 27 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, discusses his life in film and why Trump is trying to replace reality. David Thomson has taught film studies at Dartmouth College, has served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival, and has been a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Nation, Movieline, The New Republic, and Salon. His other books include “Have You Seen . . . ?”: A ...
Kermit Pattison: The Quest for the Origins of the Human Species
November 16, 2020 01:00 - 32 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Kermit Pattison, author of Fossil Men, on answering the ultimate question: Where did we humans come from? Kermit Pattison is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Fast Company, and Inc., among many other publications. He spent more a decade doing research for Fossil Men, a large portion of which was spent in the field in Ethiopia with the team that discovered Ardi. This is his first book. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Learn mo...
Frank "Gus" Biggio: What Should Biden Do in Afghanistan?
November 15, 2020 01:00 - 24 minutesOn today's episode, Frank "Gus Biggio, author of The Wolves of Helmand: A View from Inside the Den of Modern War, discusses modern warfare and his own experience in Afghanistan. Frank ("Gus") Biggio served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps from mid-1993 until December 1997 after graduating from Denison University. After his initial service, he returned to his native Ohio to attend law school at Case Western Reserve University. Biggio then lived and worked in New York City and W...
PJ O'Rourke: Is It Hard Being a Satirist These Days?
November 14, 2020 00:00 - 32 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with satirist PJ O'Rourke about his new book, A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land. P. J. O'Rourke has written nineteen books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. He is a regular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, a contributing writer for the Washington Post editorial page, and the editor in chief...
Erin Brockovich Is Charging Into the Abyss
November 13, 2020 00:29 - 32 minutesOn today's episode, Andrew talks with Erin Brockovich about her new book, Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do about It, and our current climate crisis. ERIN BROCKOVICH is the president of Brockovich Research & Consulting and the founder of the Erin Brockovich Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to educate and empower communities in their fight for clean water. She is the coauthor of Take It from Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win and has ...