Keen On
The daily show about books, writers, and big ideas. Hosted by Andrew Keen.
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Hot Reads for the Heatwave
Bethanne Patrick recommends five of the most interesting books published this week
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The New York Street that Changed American Art F...
Prudence Peiffer on Coenties Slip - an obscure street on the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable modern artists who got their start there
33 min
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Why Springsteen's NEBRASKA Matters So Much
Warren Zanes on the significance of the 1982 album both in Springsteen's career and the history of rock 'n roll
47 min
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A Real World War II Story: The Tragic Life of I...
Tom Holm on the Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism
33 min
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In Praise of Valiant American Women
Lena Andrews on the extraordinary servicewomen who helped win World War II
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How Barbie Dolls Up the Plasticity of our Surre...
Olivia Rutigliano on the gender politics, anti-nostalgic aesthetics and Hollywood/Mattel economics of Greta Gerwig's hit new movie BARBIE
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Can the Men Be Saved?
Ben Purkert on the fate of masculinity at a time when our jobs are destroying our souls
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis
Jeff Jarvis on the lessons from the age of print for our internet age
52 min
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Why Julian Barnes Will Never Write a Memoir or ...
Barnes on growing up in England, his lifelong romance with Europe and that "golden" generation of British writers
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Why Conservatives Should Fear & Loathe AI
Joe Allen on Transhumanism and Silicon Valley's war against humanity
37 min
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How To Be a Wise Teacher
Julian Barnes on the polytheism of antiquity and how to pass on wisdom to the next generation
30 min
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The Netscape Moment When AI Gets a Brain
Keith Teare, Keith imagines what will happen when AI acquires a memory about us
37 min
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Imaging the Animal World as Nature's Great Main...
Keggie Carew on the terrible price we humans have paid for placing ourselves above other species
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Why the "very very excellent" OPPENHEIMER is a ...
Olivia Rutigliano on both the historical and contemporary significance of Christopher Nolan's new movie
40 min
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The Hidden History of American Democracy
Thom Hartmann on how Americans can rediscover humanity's ancient way of living
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Episode 1610: Our Oppenheimer Moment
Greg Mitchell on how Hollywood learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
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Episode 1609: Why America Dominates the World
Sean A. Mirski, author on American ambition, anxiety and the rise of the U.S. as both a regional hegemon and a global colossus
33 min
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Episode 1608: The Fourth Turning is Here
Neil Howe on how the seasons of history can help us overcome our current economic, political, cultural and generational crisis
39 min
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Episode 1607: What Happens When Both Life and t...
Andrew talks to Ted Anton, author of PROGRAMMABLE PLANET, about the brave new world of synthetic biology
30 min
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EPISODE 1606: On the "Moral Ambiguity" Surround...
Evan Thomas on the three men - two Americans and one Japanese - who determined the countdown to the end of World War II
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Episode 1605: Why the Habsburg Empire is as muc...
Natasha Wheatley on Central Europe as a laboratory for the transformation of modern sovereignty from empire to democracy
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Episode 1603: Can Diplomacy Save American Democ...
John Wood Jr, National Ambassador for Braver Angels on the role of religion, culture and conversation in getting Americans of different political persuasions to begin talking to one another again
28 min
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Episode 1603: Social Media For Dummies
Eric Yaverbaum on Twitter, Threads and why even 62 year-old guys like himself need to be on social media
30 min
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EPISODE 1602: How to Learn to Look So that We B...
Christian Madsbjerg on how to pay attention in a distracted world
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Episode 1601: Why Americans Still Can't Talk to...
Jonathan Rauch on the seemingly intractable political divisions in America and how we can all discover our braver angels to learn to talk to one another again
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