S.C. Gwynne on the life and tragic death of the British R101 airship, the world's largest flying machine

William Harris unravels the civil rights records of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

Jacob Mikanowski on both the history and disappearance of what was formerly known as "Eastern Europe"

Samuel G. Freedman on a a young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights within the Democratic party

Tobias Rose-Stockwell on why social media has amplified discontent and disrupted democracy - and what we can do about it

Hilary Mason on how Open Source AI might both democratize Big Tech and empower writers in the creation of role playing games

Ross Andersen on the ethics of AI and whether we should trust our new overlords of Silicon Valley with this radically disruptive technology

Daniel Hornsby on how to radically reimagine an America without big tech's feudal aristocracy

Nishanth Injam on leaving India, the misery of tech work and the subversive nature of memories

Amy Rowland on slaying the ghosts of a violent and racist past

Matt Birkbeck on William "Big Billy" D'Elia and the last secrets of America's most powerful Mafia family

EPISODE 1589: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith explains why the Biden administration is against both wealth creation and innovation

David Lipsky on the 25 hucksters, zealots and crackpots behind climate denial

Benjamin Fong on drugs in America from Prohibition to today's libertarian rave culture

Maggie O'Farrell on childhood, art, money and marriage in 16th Century Florence

Episode 1585: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss Threads and why it might turn out to be the Disneyland of social media

Laura Trethewey on the race to chart the world's oceans and discover our deepest secrets

EPISODE 1583: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to C.W. Goodyear, the author of PRESIDENT GARFIELD, about James Garfield, the most pathologically reasonable of American Presidents

Nikhil Krishnan on why the Oxford philosophers of the first half of the 20th century still matter today

Ethan Scheiner on the courageous Czechoslovakian hockey team that successfully fought the Soviets for the soul of its people

Benyamin Cohen on how the world's favorite genius has gotten into our cars, our bathrooms and our minds

Sarah Weinman on true crime in our era of cultural, economic and political reckoning

Deborah Bonello on the Women in Control of some of Latin America's Most Notorious Drug Trafficking Families

John K. Roth on the Ukraine and the crisis of American Democracy

Sonali Kolhatkar on the power of narrative in pursing racial justice