EPISODE 1650: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Lithub film critic, Olivia Rutigliano, about Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 controversial film, "Le Mepris" (Contempt)

EPISODE 1649: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Matthew Moynihan, author of FUSION's PROMISE, about the technological breakthroughs in nuclear fusion that can conquer climate change on earth and carry humans to Mars in a month

EPISODE 1648: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Andrew Hill, the Senior Business Writer at the Financial Times, about the 15 best business books of 2023

EPISODE 1647: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith explains why the venture capital ecosystem is in crisis but is more hopeful about Substack reinventing the online media ecosystem.

EPISODE 1646: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Kathryn Cramer Brownell, author of 24/7 POLITICS, about the role of cable news channels like MTV, Fox, CNN & C-SPAN in fragmenting American democracy

EPISODE 1655: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Rion Amilcar Scott, the author of THE WORLD DOESN'T REQUIRE YOU, about the role of Black Twitter in representing and addressing American injustice

EPISODE 1644: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jennifer McAdam, the author of DEVIL'S COIN, about her battle to take down Ruja Ignatova, the notorious Bulgarian OneCoin Cryptoqueen

EPISODE 1643: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Bethanne Patrick, the LA Times book critic, about new fiction from Tania James, Colson Whitehead, Jenny Erpenbeck, Emma Cline, Jamel Brinkley and Luis Urrea

EPISODE 1642: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Scott Creney, co-author of THE STORY OF THE B-52s, about one of the most subversive and iconic American pop music history

EPISODE 1641: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Michael Wooldridge, author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF AI, about the vast quantities of online data, especially social media content, that have trained ChatGPT to mimic human language

EPISODE 1640: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the New York Times and Atlantic columnist Peter Wehner about why the 2024 election may present America with its greatest moral moment since the Civil War

EPISODE 1639: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the prolific futurist and tech critic, Douglas Rushkoff, about the false promises of social media and our need to engage with what he calls "reality reality"

EPISODE 1638: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Tobias Rose-Stockwell, author of OUTRAGE MACHINE, about the checkered history of social media

EPISODE 1637: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith describes a near apocalypse for Silicon Valley billion dollar valued start-ups ("unicorns") and the impact of this meltdown on the broader innovation economy

Brooke Kroeger explains how fearless women like Ida Wells, Martha Gellhorn and Joan Didion changed American journalism

Aryeh Lightstone on what he believes was the "incredible story of Middle East peace" reflected by the 2020 deal between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates

Bethanne Patrick on her memories of Twitter's glory years and what she calls the "dopamine hangover" after 2012

Luke Nichter on 1968, the year that American politics got broken by economic and cultural upheaval

Celeste Marcus on Gerwig 's complete failure to make a serious movie about women

Jaroslav Anders' open letter to enemies of liberalism

Laura Warrell riffs on jazz, romance and whether novels really should be schools for educating their readers about love

Lloyd Devereux Richards and his daughter Marguerite on the video that catapulted him from an unknown author to an internet sensation

David Kamp on why our despair about the environment should Be "clarifying" and why the landscape architect must make us intimate with nature

Miles Johnson on a true story of drugs, war and the secret world of international crime

Keith Teare, Keith makes the connection between the rise in the price of money and the viability of the traditional tech investment ecosystem