EPISODE 1375: In this regular weekly KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to THAT WAS THE WEEK author and SignalRank CEO Keith Teare about the banking crisis, the launch of ChatGPT4 and the broader crisis of trust in contemporary ideas and institutions

EPISODE 1374: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the artist, filmmaker and author of PINATA Leopoldo Gout about the horror genre and why modern Mexico City is an place layered by the living dead

EPISODE 1373: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the UC Berkeley economist and author of SLOUCHING TOWARD UTOPIA author Brad Delong about today's banking crisis, ChatGPT4 and the new economic laws of our social media age

EPISODE 1372: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Harvard professor and author of CULTURE Martin Puchner about how culture - from cave art to K-Pop - is the syncretic story of all of us. Nobody has the "right" to it, he says. And we all "own" it.

EPISODE 1371: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the author of BURY THE CORPSE OF COLONIALISM, Elisabeth B. Armstrong about the 1949 Asian Women's Conference in Beijing - the most consequential anti-colonial feminist conference that you've never heard of

EPISODE 1370: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to WALK THE WALK author and Colby College sociologist Neil Gross about three American police chiefs who defied the odds and provided a model for changing cop culture

EPISODE 1369: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to IN MEMORIUM author Alice Winn about innocence, privilege, violence, sexuality and social class in 1914-18 England and whether or not we are now back in similarly unequal and unjust pre World War One world.

EPISODE 1368: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Japanese based scholar and writer Christopher Hobson about how everything everywhere in the world - from the US and UK to Nigeria, Iraq, Lebanon and South Africa - appears not only broken, but unrepairable

EPISODE 1367: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE LASTE RUSSIAN DOLL, Kristen Loesch, about the Russia of 1917 and 1991 and what inspired her to write her novel about two Russian 20th century women

EPISODE 1365: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to THE MONEY REVOLUTION author and financial analyst Richard Duncan on the stimulatory monetary policy that can truly make America great again

EPISODE 1365: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the artist Tiffany Shlain about her new "Human Nature" exhibit which views the history of women within the expansiveness of nature and time through the lens of feminism, neuroscience, ecology and philosophy.

EPISODE 1364: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to THE POWER OF WONDER author Monica C. Parker on the way in which our sense of wonder can enrich the way we live, learn and work

EPISODE 1363: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to DEATH OF POLITICS author Peter Wehner about retribution, vengeance, forbearance and healing in Trump's America.

EPISODE 1362: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to PLAYING GOD author Mary Jo McConahay about how American Catholic bishops and the big money interests of the religiously fundamentalist far right are a threat to American democracy

EPISODE 1361: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to BOOSTRAPPED author Alissa Quart on why and how we can liberate ourselves from the "American Dream"

EPISODE 1360: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to MORE THAN A GLITCH author Meredith Broussard on why and how technology is reinforcing inequality and what we can do about it

Episode 1359: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to THE ANGEL MAKERS author Patti McCracken about some early 20th century women from the Hungarian village of Nagyrev who poisoned 160 husbands, boyfriends and sons (plus a few females)

EPISODE 1358: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to FINDING THE WORDS author Colin Campbell about the death of his two children and how he and his wife have tried to work though this loss with both hope and purpose

EPISODE 1357: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to SAY ONE KIND THING author Susan Verde about positive self-talk, self-acceptance and how mindfulness can heal the trauma of childhood

EPISODE 1356: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the THE COLLABORATORS author Ian Buruma about three men and women who actively collaborated with evil during World War II

EPISODE 1355: In this regular weekly KEEN show, Andrew talks to SignalRank CEO and THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and its impact on the broader start-up economy

EPISODE 1354: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jean Hanff Korelitz about the legacy of Philip Roth, THE HUMAN STAIN, and a novelist's "right" to tell other people's stories.

In this KEEN ON episode, CRASH LANDING author Liz Hoffman offers the inside story of how the world's biggest companies and governments mostly enabled us to survive the COVID economy

EPISODE 1352: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to WHO DOES THAT BITCH THINK SHE IS? author Craig Seligman about Doris Fish, the rise of drag and why we need to dress Ron DeSantis up as a woman.

EPISODE 1351: In this KEEN ON show, THE NOISE OF TYPEWRITERS author Lance Morrow remembers the golden age of American journalists such as John Hersey, Henry Luce and Carl Bernstein (apologies for the poor sound quality of this interview which was recorded on his antique iphone)