EPISODE 1425: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the author of THE RED ARROW, William Brewer, about a new literature of psychedelia as a mirror of our age of anxiety

EPISODE 1424: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE HALF OF IT, Juliette Fay, about regret, human agency and why Gen Y'ers, saddled with the paradox of choice, are the loneliest generation

EPISODE 1423: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Collecteurs.com CEO Evrim Oralkan about how he is transforming privately owned creative work into "public" digital art

EPISODE 1422: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of GRAND DELUSION, Steven Simon, about the rise and fall of American ambition in the Middle East and its tragic impact on the peoples of the region.

EPISODE 1421: In this regular KEEN ON show with Keith Teare, the author of the THAT WAS THE WEEK tech newsletter, Andrew asks Keith about the current state of venture capital, AI and whether the market has hit the bottom

EPISODE 1420: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Joan Biskupic, the CNN Supreme Court analyst and author of NINE BLACK ROBES, about the historic significance of the Supreme Court's drive to the right

EPISODE 1419: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of BREAKUP, Anjan Sundaram, about on the devastating personal costs of being a war correspondent in Africa and having to choose between his marriage and his moral responsibility to report on an African conflict unseen by the world

EPISODE 1418: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the author of A HOLOCAUST FAMILY MEMOIR, Max J. Friedman about why he chose to write a memoir about Sam and Frieda Friedman, his Holocaust surviving parents

EPISODE 1417: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of DEMOCRACY ERODES FROM THE TOP, Larry Bartels, on why we should blame leaders and not citizens for today's crisis of democracy

EPISODE 1416: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE FOUNDERS, Jimmy Soni, about the story of PayPal and its remarkable entrepreneurs - from Elon Musk and Peter Thiel to Reid Hoffman and Levchin - who have shaped the 21st century

EPISODE 1415: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Hannah Murphy, the San Francisco based tech correspondent of the Financial Times, about the teen mental health crisis supposedly caused by addiction to social media

EPISODE 1414: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to Rajiv Vinnakota, the President of the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, about how to transform Americans into better citizens

EPISODE 1413: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to BIG TREE author Brian Selznick about trees, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep and how he made a hopeful children's book about our environmental crisis

EPISODE 1412: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING, Diana Janney, on how the great philosophers - from Aristotle to Hume to Kant - have informed her novels

EPISODE 1411: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of GETTING OUT OF SAIGON, Ralph White, about how he - as a 27-year old American working for Chase Manhattan bank - saved 113 Vietnamese civilians from the North Vietnamese in 1975

EPISODE 1410: In this Keen On show, Andrew talks to the author of THE AGE OF SCIENTIFIC WELLNESS, Nathan Price, PhD, about why the future of medicine will be personalized, predictive, data-rich, and in all of our hands

EPISODE 1409: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Cornell historian and author of STAY COOL, Aaron Sachs, about why dark comedy matters so much in the fight against climate change

EPISODE 1408: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of GEORGE VI AND ELIZABETH, Sally Bedell Smith, about the 20th century royal marriage that , she believes, saved the British monarchy

EPISODE 1407: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of I CAN'T SAVE YOU, the Harvard and Emory university trained Dr Anthony Chin-Quee, about why he gave up his successful career in medicine and how this "saved" him

EPISODE 1406: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of UNWIRED, Gaia Bernstein about how society has an addictive technology problem and how we can grain control over this tech

EPISODE 1405: In this regular KEEN ON show with Keith Teare, the author of the THAT WAS THE WEEK tech newsletter, Andrew talks to Keith about the absurdity of trying to put generative artificial intelligence on pause and why we should be optimistic about an AI future in which none of us will have to work

EPISODE 1404: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of RETRACING THE IRON CURTAIN, Timothy Phillips, about his 3,000-mile journey through the end and afterlife of the Cold War

EPISODE 1403: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE, Michael Scott-Baumann, about the world's most intractable political problem - the Middle Eastern conflict between Israel and Palestine.

EPISODE 1402: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of A LIVING REMEDY: A MEMOIR, Nicole Chung about her experience of family, class and grief in an increasingly unequal America

EPISODE 1401: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE LAST CATASTROPHE, Allegra Hyde, about her new story collection that focuses on how humanity grapples in a world transformed by climate change