Daniel Hornsby on how to radically reimagine an America without big tech's feudal aristocracy
37 min
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Episode 1592: Risking Everything in Pursuit of ...
Nishanth Injam on leaving India, the misery of tech work and the subversive nature of memories
36 min
160
Episode 1591: Enabling a Conversation Between R...
Amy Rowland on slaying the ghosts of a violent and racist past
32 min
161
Episode 1590: Talking to the Mafia about Michae...
Matt Birkbeck on William "Big Billy" D'Elia and the last secrets of America's most powerful Mafia family
36 min
162
Episode 1589: Why Lina Khan and Gary Gensler Sh...
EPISODE 1589: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith explains why the Biden administration is against both wealth creation and innovation
43 min
163
Episode 1588: A Real-Life Tragicomedy about our...
David Lipsky on the 25 hucksters, zealots and crackpots behind climate denial
38 min
164
Episode 1587: What America's current drug binge...
Benjamin Fong on drugs in America from Prohibition to today's libertarian rave culture
39 min
165
Episode 1586: Why the Renaissance Still Haunts Us
Maggie O'Farrell on childhood, art, money and marriage in 16th Century Florence
30 min
166
Walt Zuckerberg: If you like Disneyland, then y...
Episode 1585: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss Threads and why it might turn out to be the Disneyland of social media
37 min
167
Episode 1584: Learning from the Deepest Oceans ...
Laura Trethewey on the race to chart the world's oceans and discover our deepest secrets
32 min
168
From Radical to Unifier to Martyr: C.W. Goodyea...
EPISODE 1583: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to C.W. Goodyear, the author of PRESIDENT GARFIELD, about James Garfield, the most pathologically reasonable of American Presidents
31 min
169
Episode 1582: A Terribly Serious History of Phi...
Nikhil Krishnan on why the Oxford philosophers of the first half of the 20th century still matter today
37 min
170
KEEN ON Episode 1581: When a Czechoslovakian Da...
Ethan Scheiner on the courageous Czechoslovakian hockey team that successfully fought the Soviets for the soul of its people
31 min
171
Episode 1580: The Albert Einstein Effect
Benyamin Cohen on how the world's favorite genius has gotten into our cars, our bathrooms and our minds
33 min
172
Episode 1579: Crime as a Catalyst for Social Ch...
Sarah Weinman on true crime in our era of cultural, economic and political reckoning
36 min
173
The rise of Las Narcas - the drug ladies of Lat...
Deborah Bonello on the Women in Control of some of Latin America's Most Notorious Drug Trafficking Families
34 min
174
The Warnings of a Holocaust Scholar about Today...
John K. Roth on the Ukraine and the crisis of American Democracy
41 min
175
How to Tell the American Story
Sonali Kolhatkar on the power of narrative in pursing racial justice