THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare and Andrew discuss a breathtaking week in tech when Apple reached a three trillion dollar valuation and AI ate the internet

Nate Halverson uncovers the money, influence and rationale behind covert efforts to control the planet's most vital resource - food and water

Peace Adzo Medie on violence against women in Africa: Peace Adzo Medie on violence against women in Africa

Patrick Dean on "Nature's Messenger", Mark Catesby, and his adventures in the New World

Bill Boggs satirizes an America addiction to celebrity, drugs, sex and food

Clemence Michallon explains why fiction writing, in contrast with non-fiction, needs to be realistic and "make sense"

WANNABE author Aisha Harris on the pop culture that shaped her

NATIONAL DISH author Anya con Bremzen on popular foods as forms of oppression and symbols of resistance

David Niewert on the radical right's assault on American democracy

Dan Schreiber on alien abductions, the importance of having celebrity hairdresser parents and the exorcism of Ringo Starr by his grannie

EPISODE 1565: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Wesley Lowery, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author of AMERICAN WHITELASH, about the cost of progress in an increasingly multiracial America

EPISODE 1564: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Luma Mufleh, author of FROM HERE, about reconciling her identity as a gay Muslim woman with an Arab-turned-American refugee

EPISODE 1563: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Richard Langlois, author of THE CORPORATION AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, about the cultural and economic history of the modern American business enterprise

EPISODE 1562: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Paula DiPerna, author of PRICING THE PRICELESS, about how to quantify the planet, solve the climate crisis and protect our most precious assets

EPISODE 1561: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Matt Higgins, the author of BURN THE BOATS, about how the publishing industry and writers will be impacted by the coming AI storm

EPISODE 1560: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Itamar Rabinovich, the author of MIDDLE EASTERN MAZE, about the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict between 1948 and 2023

EPISODE 1559: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Adam Bessie, the author of GOING REMOTE, about his dystopianjourney during COVID, as a community college teacher, from the physical to the virtual classroom

EPISODE 1558: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Beth Raymer, the author of FIREWORKS EVERY NIGHT, about her delightfully delusional father, male homelessness and why Florida "just is America"

EPISODE 1557: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the South African based photographer artist Roger Ballen about the existential ecological psychodrama of the destruction of African wildlife

EPISODE 1556: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Bethanne Patrick, the author of LIFE B, about how she escaped her double depression and wrote a memoir about it

EPISODE 1554: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Christian Cooper, author of BETTER LIVING THROUGH BIRDING, about his lifelong love affair with birds, the flight of freedom and how to positively bend MLK's arc of justice

EPISODE 1542: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss the venture capital crisis and why big tech is getting even bigger in a post nation-state world

EPISODE 1553: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to James Kirchick, the author of the Liberties journal essay "From Queer to Gay to Queer", on why he believes the theory of "queerness" is a "parasite" on the gay rights movement

EPISODE 1552: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Garrett Neiman, author of RICH WHITE MEN about how tob uproot the old boy's club in order to transform America

EPISODE 1551: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to R.K. Russell, the author of THE YARDS BETWEEN US, about being black and bi-sexual in the National Football League