Keen On America
By Andrew Keen
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Nobody asks sharper or more impertinent questions than Andrew Keen. In KEEN ON, Andrew cross-examines the world’s smartest people on politics, economics, history, the environment, and tech. If you want to make sense of our complex world, check out the daily questions and the answers on KEEN ON.
Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best-known technology and politics broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running show How To Fix Democracy and the author of four critically acclaimed books about the future, including the international bestselling CULT OF THE AMATEUR.
Keen On is free to listen to and will remain so. If you want to stay up-to-date on new episodes and support the show please subscribe to Andrew Keen’s Substack. Paid subscribers will soon be able to access exclusive content from our new series Keen On America. keenon.substack.com
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Episode 2487: Keach Hagey on Sam Altman's Superpower
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Episode 2486: Bethanne Patrick on how our Facebook generation has gotten the Gatsby we deserve
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Episode 2485: Paul Rice on why Tariffs are dumb
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Episode 2484: David Masciotra on how every day has become April Fools Day in Trumpian America
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Episode 2483: Peter Wehner on the ethical darkness that has fallen upon America
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Episode 2482: Is AI really about to change the publishing industry?
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Episode 2481: Jonathan Rauch on The Resistance to Trump 2.0
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Episode 2480: Dr Andy Lazris on how Big Pharma controls the American healthcare system
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Episode 2479: Brian Goldstone on the 4 million invisible homeless workers in America today
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Episode 2478: Parag Khanna on the Countries Best Positioned to Win the 21st Century
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Episode 2477: How Daniel Oppenheimer Learned That the Problem in his Marriage Was Himself
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Episode 2476: William Deresiewicz on American Boys & Men
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Episode 2475: Gregory Walton on how to achieve BIG change with small acts
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Episode 2474: What Thomas Mann can teach America about how to save its democracy
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Episode 2473: Is Europe about to become the World's 3rd Tech Superpower?
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Episode 2472: Clay Risen on Joe McCarthy, Donald Trump and the Paranoid Style of American History
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Episode 2471: Dan Brooks reveals the MAGA aesthetic
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Episode 2470: Andrew Keen on the current state of American journalism
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Episode 2469: Daryl Davis on His Life with the Klu Klux Klan
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Episode 2468: David Masciotra on Trump's ravenous bigotry toward the trans community
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Episode 2467: Will AI kill Apple?
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Episode 2466: Sarah Vowell tells the Untold Story of Public Service
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Episode 2464: Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Episode 2263: David Enrich on a secret campaign to murder the truth in America
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Episode 2262: Jessica Pishko explains how the Democrats Built Trump's Police State
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Episode 2261: Thor Hanson on why virtual reality can never replicate the natural world
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Episode 2260: Felipe Torres Medina laughs and cries about the American immigration system
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Episode 2259: Why AI is about to transform everyone (yes, even you) into a coder
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Episode 2258: Joyce Chaplin on how Benjamin Franklin warmed up America
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Episode 2257: Kevin Fagan on a San Francisco story of homelessness that will break your heart
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Episode 2256: Meenakshi Ahamed on the meteoric rise of Indians in America
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Episode 2255: Nicholas Lalla on Reviving the American Dream in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Episode 2254: Why Trump wants to be the Godfather
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Episode 2253: John Lechner on the deadly role of Russian Mercenaries in Ukraine
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Episode 2252: How to Unstick the Future
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Episode 2251: Kristian Ronn on why, in the short term, we all might be dead
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Episode 2250 Rebecca Haw Allensworth on America's Cult of the Professional
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Episode 2249: Caroline Fleck on the Skill Set that will Change your Life
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Episode 2248: Yoni Applebaum on why America is STUCK in a Crisis of Immobility
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Episode 2247: Andrew Cockburn on Trump and Musk's Futile War Against the Deep State
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Episode 2246: Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a carnival of hypocrisy
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Episode 2245: Is it really "not hard" to be a billionaire these days?
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Episode 2244: Tim Wu on how to decentralize capitalism
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Episode 2243: Nick Bryant on why Trump 2.0 is as historic as the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Episode 2242: Ian Goldin on the past, present and future of migration
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Episode 2241: Gaia Bernstein on the Threat of AI Companions to Children
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Episode 2240: Ray Brescia on how our private lives have been politicized by social media
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Episode 2239: Frank Vogl on why Trump's financial deregulation is likely to lead to another global economic crash
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Episode 2238: What to make of J.D. Vance's speech at the Paris AI Summit
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Episode 2237: Matthew Karp explains how progressives can successfully bulldoze America
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Episode 2236: Colum McCann and Dianne Foley on what a mother said to her son's ISIS executioner
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Episodes 2235: Jeffrey Toobin on whether we all deserve second chances
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Episode 2234: Walter Mosley on Easy Rawlins, King Oliver and the history of fictional black American detectives
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Episode 2233: John Kay on why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Episode 2332: Greg Beato on what could go possibly RIGHT with our AI future
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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Episode 2331: The Week that Silicon Valley went from Woke to DOGE
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Episode 2330: Eoin Higgins on how reactionary tech billionaires bought Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Episode 2329: Ethan Zuckerman on how the United States learned to love online censorship
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Episode 2328: A gay Jewish atheist rides to the rescue of American Christianity
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Episode 2327: John Lee Hooker Jr explains who gets to go to Heaven and who doesn't
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Episode 2326: Mike Colias assesses the impact of Trump's Tariffs on the US Auto Industry
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Episode 2325: Charles Piller on Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Episode 2324: Why we need some Sputnik Thinking on Wealth Redistribution in our AI Age
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Episode 2223: Sophia Rosenfeld asks if our age of choice might also be an age of tyranny
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Episode 2322: Andrew Lipstein on how to reinvent American masculinity
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Episode 2321: Michael Ignatieff on why he's still (half) in love with the United States
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Episode 2320: Nicholas Carr on how technologies of connection are tearing us apart
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Episode 2319: Christopher DiCarlo on AI as the latest chapter in our long history of building an all-knowing God
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the digital dystopia of platform capitalism
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Episode 2317: Is Trump's America now an Oligarchy?
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Episode 2316: Agnes Callard on how to learn from Socrates about questioning everything
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Episode 2315: Andrew McAfee finds reasons to be cheerful about the next 20 years of our tech century
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Episode 2314: Richard Socher on why AI might be good for humanity
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Episode 2313: Esther Dyson on being the Aunt and Court jEsther of the Tech Industry
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Episode 2312: Robert D. Kaplan on the decadence of Trump's America
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Episode 2311: Martin Puchner looks forward to 2045 when the whole world will have access to high quality education
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Episode 2310: Why Progressives must become "Yes People" on Technology
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Episode 2309: Michal Kosinski on the corrosive impact of social media on democracy and freedom
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Episode 2308: Kenneth Cukier mourns the biliousness of our Big Data age
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Episode 2307: Ece Temelkuran on why she still retains faith in the future
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Episode 2306: Albert Wenger on how to save the Internet, Capitalism and the Planet
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Episode 2305: Kurt Gray explains why we fight about morality and politics
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Episode 2304: Lisa Genova on the connection between bipolar disorder and standup comedy
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Episode 2303: Isaac Stanley-Becker on a Europe without Borders
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Episode 2302: Laurie Trautman on the Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Episode 2301: Nicholas Carr on how the Arc of Innovation Bends Towards Decadence
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Episode 2300: Sandra Matz makes the Case for a Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Episode 2299: Jill Kastner explains why everything old is new again in international politics
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Episode 2298: Adam Chandler on the fatal contradiction at the heart of American capitalism
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Episode 2297: Louis Ferrante on why the Mafia Killed JFK
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Episode 2296: Adi Jaffe on how to free yourself from addiction forever
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Episode 2295: Paula Whyman on how to save the American environment - one wild mountaintop at a time
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Episode 2294: Larry Downes' non-MAGA plan to shrink the Federal bureaucracy
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Episode 2293: David Masciotra on why Kamala Harris should have gone on the Joe Rogan show
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Episode 2292: Chris Schroeder on how America now swims in an ocean of black swans
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Episode 2291: Michael Scott-Baumann on the hopelessness of the Palestinian situation
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Episode 2290: Marshall Poe on why 2024 was a bad year for most podcasters
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Episode 2289: Gary Marcus on how Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is, in the long run, inevitable
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Episode 2288: Simon Kuper on the chilling parallels between MAGA America and Apartheid South Africa
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Episode 2287: Joseph O'Neill explains how to resist contemporary Fascism
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2286: Seth Rogovoy on why A Complete Unknown, the new Dylan biopic, is a complete failure
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2285: Toby Walsh on the revolutionary promise and peril of AI in 2025
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2284: Soli Ozel on the possibility of a 2025 "Pax Hebraica" in the Middle East
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Episode 2283: Jonathan Rauch's six key moments of 2024
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2282: Adam Kirsch on the nonsense of "Settler Colonialism"
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2281: Parmy Olson on why Google DeepMind will trump OpenAI in 2025
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2280: Who will win the multi trillion dollar race for AI supremacy in 2025?
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Episode 2279: Why 2024 will be remembered as the year before 2025
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2278: Max Stier on the Essential Value of the American Federal Government
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Episode 2277: From “Science” to Atrocity - The Seductive History of Eugenics
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2276: Byrne Hobart on Booms, Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Episode 2275: Jeff Jarvis on how the world has changed over the last 20 years
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2274: Bethanne Patrick's Favorite Non-Fiction Books of 2024
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2273: Bethanne Patrick's Best Five Favorite Novels of 2024
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2272: Mark Lilla on why ignorance is bliss
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2271: Keith Teare on why he's fallen in love with Elon Musk
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Episode 2270: Craig Garnett on May 24, 2022 - Uvalde's Darkest Hour
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Episode 2269: Michael Sayman looks forward to an AI age in which all our online interactions are with bots
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2268: David Rowell on how new technology is making us dislike new music
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Episode 2267: Jonathan Taplin on the coming cultural renaissance in America
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Episode 2266: Mr Musk, Mr Sacks and Mr Andreessen go to Washington
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Episode 2265: Jeff Jarvis on how to reclaim the internet from moguls, misanthropes and moral panics
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Episode 2265: Internet Hall of Famer, Mitchell Baker, on the promise of an Open Web
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Episode 2264: Robert Pearl demystifies the RFK Jr nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2263: The Godmother of Silicon Valley on luck, love and fate
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2262: Steve Blank on how to hack the 21st century
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Episode 2261: Douglas Rushkoff on why AI is the first native app for the internet
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Episode 2260: Andrew Keen evaluates the health of American democracy
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2259: Idealab founder Bill Gross on what's he's learned over the last 20 years
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Episode 2258: Why the Democrats need to radically reimagine 21st century American government as a service or a platform
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2257: Kishore Mahbubani offers an undiplomatic introduction to our Asian Century
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2256: David Kirkpatrick on his twenty year odyssey from digital idealist to sceptic
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2255: Frank Vogl on whether Donald Trump 2.0 will be a semi-legal repeat of the Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX debacle
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Episode 2254: Steven Levy on what has and hasn't surprised him about the last twenty years of tech history
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2253: Andrew Keen revisits Cult of the Amateur
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2252: Can the AI revolution decentralize our politics, culture and economy?
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2251: Steven Robinson on how a band of activists beat Donald Trump and saved New York's West Side
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Episode 2250: :John Markoff compares Steve Jobs with contemporary tech titans like Sam Altman and Elon Musk
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2249: Peter Wehner on how American self-renewal is a wonder of the world
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Episode 2248: F.H. Buckley on the case for Trumpism
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2247: David Masciotra on how the Boss and the Dude can save America
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Episode 2246: Jonathan Rauch on the catastrophic ordinariness of contemporary America
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2245: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley and the Reinvention of American Government
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2244: John Hagel on overcoming fear - his proudest achievement over the last 20 years
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2243: Frank Furedi on why the West must fight for its History
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2242: Gary Gerstle identifies the outlines of our Post Neoliberal Age
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Episode 2241: Gary Shapiro on how to become a Pivot Guy
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2240: Parmy Olson on the race for global AI supremacy between OpenAI and Deep Mind
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Episode 2239: Good Morning America! AI, Trump and the Silicon Valley Future
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Episode 2238: Juliana Tafur on how to put Humpty Dumpty (America) back to together again
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Episode 2237: Vanessa Resier on Narcissistic Abuse - the disease that captures the spirit of our toxic times
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Episode 2236: Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff on How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Episode 2235: John Driscoll on why Kamala Harris lost
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Episode 2234: Lauren Oyler on 2024 as America's first post internet election
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2233: Paul Greenberg predicts a George Washington vs Donald Trump election in 2028
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2242: Should anyone in Silicon Valley really care who wins the election?
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Episode 2241: Daniel Susskind exposes the messy truth about the benefits of economic growth
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Episode 2240: Jon Moynihan on how to fix the economy and create long term growth
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2239: Has Halloween been rescheduled for November 5?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Episode 2238: Andrew J. Scott explains how to age with grace and wisdom
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Episode 2237: Bethanne Patrick on new Fall Fiction to take your mind off you-know-what
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2236: Stephen Riggio on the greatest Italian novel you've never heard of
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2235: Peter Osnos on LBJ & McNamara - the Vietnam Partnership Bound to Fail
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2234: Terrence Sejnowski asks whether our brains and AI are converging
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2233: More than a Tool: How AI is becoming an independent actor in our world
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Episode 2232: Mark Galeotti on whether Putin is a prisoner or a master of history
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2231: Bill Adair on the Epidemic of Political Lying, why Republicans do it more, and how it could destroy American democracy
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2230: Seth Godin on why we are all hard-wired for hope
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2229: Robert Skidelsky worries about the Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Episode 2228: Bethanne Patrick on Al Pacino, the Queen, Bob Woodward and Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2227: Allie Funk on how to Build Online Trust
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Episode 2226: Why the Economics of our AI Age might be unlike all previous Tech Revolutions
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2225: Katherine Epstein on how American Historians are Killing History
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2224: Celeste Marcus on why the humanism of Agnieszka Holland's movies remain so relevant in our Trumpian age
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Episode 2223: Brian Solis on how we need to reshape the future before it reshapes us
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2222: David Edelman on the dangers and opportunities of personalized technology in our AI age
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2221: Talia Lavin on how the Christian Right is Taking Over America
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2220: Nobel Prize Winning Economist Simon Johnson on Technology & Inequality
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2219: Joel Edward Goza on why Reparations is the Central Civil Rights Issue of the 2020s
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2218: Timothy Shenk explains the fate of liberal politics in the illiberal age of Harris and Trump
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2217: Why Google should hire Chris Lehane, Silicon Valley's Master of the Message
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Episode 2216: Neal Baer on the Promise and Peril of CRISPR
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Episode 2215: Tavis Smiley on why black men are more likely to vote for Donald Trump than black women
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Episode 2214: Arlie Russell Hochschild on How to Listen to America
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Episode 2213: Charles and Lily Bock on fathers, daughters and missing mothers
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Episode 2212: Jim Wallis on the False White Gospel threatening America
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Episode 2211: Why in the AI Age, Big Tech is going to get significantly BIGGER
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2210: Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley explain how to design the future
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2209: Michael Morris on how the cultural instincts that divide us can also help bring us together
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2208: Andrew Hill on the Financial Times' Six Best Business Books for 2024
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Episode 2207: Barry Lynn on Liberal Democracy's Last Stand against Big Tech
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2207: Martin Schmidt, President of Rensselaer Institute of Technology, on how Quantum Computing is about the change the world
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2206: Josh McConkey on How to Be the American Weight Behind the Spear
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2205: Edward Goldberg explains how the US Came to Lead (and Lose) the World
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2204: Sharon McMahon on Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2203 with Saad Mohseni: The best-informed person in the world about Afghanistan
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Episode 2202: Ray Suarez on what it means to be an American in the 2020's
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2201: Brigid Schulte on turning the daily grind of work into a more meaningful life
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2200: Ryan Hampton on the reckless capitalism causing America's drug addiction crisis
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2199: Anindya Ghose on Maximizing our Well-Being in the Age of AI
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2198: Megan Hellerer exposes the "achievement lie" of how we think about our careers and lives
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2197: Keith and Andrew on why, in our AI Age, Specialists will be the New Proletariat
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Episode 2196: Michael Scott-Baumann on the unfolding catastrophe in Israel and Palestine
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2195: Toby Walsh on why AI is finally ready to change everything
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Episode 2194: Marietje Schaake explains how to save democracy from Silicon Valley
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2193: Arthur Magida on what Americans can learn from a young forger who outfoxed the Nazis
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2192: Mark Weinstein on how to restore our sanity online
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2191: Why the future has to be built by innovators, rather than just hoped for by optimists
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2190: Gary Marcus on How to Tame Silicon Valley's AI Barons
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Episode 2189: Wilbur Ross on his mom, Donald Trump, King Charles, and Biden's "Lollipop Economy"
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2188: Build Baby Build - Jerusalem Demsas on how America can fix its housing crisis
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Episode 2187: Josh Cowen on how radical right-wing billionaires are wrecking the American public school system
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Episode 2186: Branko Milanovic on the history of inequality in America from slavery to neo-liberalism
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Episode 2185: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi reveals his lucrative life on the streets of New York City as a citizen-sleuth
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Episode 2184: Should Elon Musk be arrested for all the lies and hate on X?
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Episode 2183: Mimi Casteel on her life-long love affair with the American land
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Episode 2182: Andrew Leigh on how economics explains the world
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2181: Piotr Smolar on his Bad Jew Grandaddy
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2180: Giles Milton on the WW2 Alliance between the US, Soviet Union & Britain which Won the War but Lost the Peace
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Episode 2179: Jacob Howland on what should be taught at a 21st century liberal university
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Episode 2178: Bryan VanDyke on Humanist Nostalgia in our AI Age
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2177: Brazil vs X, France vs Telegram and the Brewing War between Big Tech & Government
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Episode 2176: Peter Phillips on why State Controlled Chinese Capitalism is more Humane than the Free Market American Model
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Episode 2175: Tanya Gold on her Gay Romp through Jewish Poland
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2174: David Lay Williams on how Economic Inequality has Shaped the History of Political Thought
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2173: Pano Kanelos on How to Build a Liberal 21st Century University
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2172: Pedro Domingos on how AI can radically democratize American politics
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Episode 2171: Frank Andre Guridy reimagines America through the history of its sports stadiums
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2170: Former U.S. Inspectors General, Glenn Fine, in defense of honest & accountable government
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2169: Why Both Teachers and Students Need AI
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2168: KEEN ON America featuring William Deresiewicz
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Episode 2167: George Gilder on the Israel Test
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2166: Meredith Sumpter on how to make American Democracy more Democratic
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Episode 2165: A Meta Exec on why Corporations Should be in the Business of Social Engineering
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2164: Keith Teare asks if Europe is Dying
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Episode 2163: David Masciotra on Kamala and America's "Harrisist" Moment
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2162: Bethanne Patrick on the Hypocrite, Hitler's People and Hum
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2061: Mimi Casteel explains the how to fix America, one sip of wine at a time
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2160: Steve Benen on how the Republicans have become the Orwellian Party of Big Brother
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2159: Richard J. Evans on how leading Nazis were, in some ways, just ordinary middle class Germans
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Episode 2158: Robin Bernstein on the Marriage of American Capitalism with the American Prison System
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2157: Lindsey Cormack on How to Raise a Citizen
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2156: James Muldoon exposes the hidden human labor powering the AI revolution
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Episode 2155: David Daley Gets Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Episode 2154: Shad White on Brett Favre's Mississippi Swindle
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Episode 2153: Lola Milholland on Group Living and Other Deliciously Polyamorous Recipes
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Episode 2152: Peter Wehner on the Fate of "His" Republican Party
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Episode 2151: Edmund Fawcett compares the Futures of Liberalism and Conservatism
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2150: Jonathan Taplin on why American Exceptionalism lies in its Powers of Creativity
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2149: How the Populist Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2148: J. Doyne Farmer on how to Invent a Better Economics for a Better World
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Episode 2147: Matthew Warshauer on the Real Story of 9/11 (it's not what you think)
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Episode 2146: Sasha Issenberg on how to build more trust and transparency in American politics
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Episode 2145: Deesha Dyer explains how she undiplomatically rattled the entrenched culture of the White House
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Episode 2144: Edward Ball on his own Family History of White Supremacy
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2143: Andrea Freeman on Food Genocide and Oppression in the United States
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2142: Why the Kamala Harris campaign has all the strengths and weaknesses of a tech start-up
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2141: Nicola Twilley on how Refrigeration has Transformed our Food, our Planet, and Ourselves
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Episode 2140: Kimberly Meyer on five refugee women's invention of a new American dream
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2139: Joel Salatin explains how to fix America, one bite at a time
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Keen on America featuring Batya Ungar-Sargon
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2137: Anne Snyder on how to morally repair and renew America
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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KEEN ON America featuring Joshua Browder, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and great grandson of the US Communist Party leader
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2135: J. Malcolm Garcia on the humanity of San Francisco's homeless community
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Episode 2134: Jonathan Rauch on Reinventing Liberalism in the 21st Century
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2133: Ebony Reed on the Shameful Black-White Wealth Gap in America
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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episode 2132: Elle Reeve on how the darkest corners of the internet have poisoned society and captured American politics
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2131: Laurent Dubreuil's creative answer to whether AI can think creatively
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2130: Renee DiResta on our Invisible Rulers Who Turn Lies into Reality
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2129: Niobe Way on America's Crisis of Masculinity
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2128: Peter Hessler on what life is really like in Xi's China
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Episode 2127: Andrew O'Hagan goes up the Caledonian Road in search of Truth, Justice and a Man in Blue
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2126: Daniel Silva on why the Criminal Rich Collect the Masterpieces of Van Gogh, Vermeer and Picasso
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Episode 2125: Mike Maples on how to Break Patterns and Invent the Future
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Episode 2124: Jeremy Kahn's Survival Guide for our AI Future
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Episode 2123: Mara Kardas-Nelson Reveals the Seductive Promise of Microfinance
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Episode 2122: Is the AI Tech Boom of the 2020s a Repeat of the Wall Street Mania of the Roaring 1920s?
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Episode 2121: PR exec Phil Elwood confesses to building a "counter-narrative" for some of the worst humans on the planet
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Episode 2120: Simon Reynolds on reasons to be cheerful about the AI cultural revolution
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2119: Diane McLain Smith offers a way to reunite America
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2118: Former Prosecutor Debbie Hines on Black Lives, White Justice and her Quest for Reform
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2117: Celeste Marcus Exposes the Generational Crisis of American Liberalism
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Episode 2116: Daniel Porterfield defends the personal and civic value of a college education
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Episode 2115: Dmitri Alperovitch on how America can beat China in the Second Cold War
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Episode 2114: M. Steven Fish on why Trump's dominance-style politics will win in November (didn't anyone tell the Democrats?)
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2113: Does Silicon Valley have an AI Bubble Problem? Duh....
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Episode 2112: The Woman Who Mistook A Stranger For Her Husband
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Episode 2111: Tracy O'Neill's Return to South Korea to Discover her Birth Mother
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2110: John Ganz on his German Jewish ghosts of resistance and exile
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2109: Madhumita Murgia on why we are living in the dark shadow of AI
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2108: Shannon Vallor on how to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Episode 2107: Matt Beane on How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2106: Julie Satow remembers a time when Women ran Fifth Avenue
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2105: Alexandre Lefebvre explains why Liberalism is a Way of Life
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2104: Thomas Hale on how to be a Transnationalist in an age of Nation-States
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Episode 2103: Keith Teare explains why Silicon Valley is celebrating like it's 2027
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2102: Peter S. Goodman on How the World Ran Out of Everything
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2101: Bethanne Patrick's six new books to reach on the porch or beach this June
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Episode 2100: Banning Lyon's remarkable memoir of trauma, healing and the outdoors
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2099: John Ganz on how America cracked up in the early 1990s
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Episode 2098: Guy Lawson gets us inside the biggest scandal in the history of college sports
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2097: Keen On America featuring Francis S. Barry
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2096: Sasha Vasilyuk uncovers Ukraine secretive history by digging into the Soviet past
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2095: Keith Teare on why the AI game in Silicon Valley might already be all over
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2094: Joseph O'Neill on football as the ugly game of neo-colonial exploitation
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2093: J. Albert Mann offers a Young Person's Guide to the History of American Labor
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2092: Shane Burley on why Anti Zionism isn't Antisemitism
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Episode 2091: Lilie Chouliaraki on the Weaponization of Victimhood
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2090: Meredith Broussard on the digital "revolution" of artificial unintelligence and inequality
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Episode 2089: D.W. Gibson celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Seattle's 1999 World Trade Organization protests
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Episode 2088: Jeremy Utley on how to facilitate epiphanies
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Episode 2087: Alex Dang and Ilya Strebulaev on How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Episode 2086: Keith Teare on Silicon Valley's Trump-Biden dilemma
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Episode 2085: KEEN ON America featuring Nick Bryant
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Episode 2084: Terry H. Anderson on why the 1990's still matter so much
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2083: Andrew Lipstein on the $15 Trillion 401(k) Doomsday that might trigger a global economic catastrophe
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2082: James Kirchick explains why a chill has fallen over Jews in the American publishing industry
|
Jun 03, 2024 |
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Episode 2081: Robert Wolcott on how just-In-time technology is about to radical transform business, society and daily life
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Episode 2080: Keith Teare's defense of technological utopianism
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2079: Jeremy S. Adams on Lessons in Liberty from ten extraordinary Americans
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May 31, 2024 |
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Episode 2078: Spencer Kornhaber on our carnally confused age in which sex is always in our heads but not in our beds
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May 30, 2024 |
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Episode 2077: Kathleen DuVal on a Thousand Year History of Native Nations in North America
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May 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2076: Sir Tim Lankester on the promise, failure and legacy of Margaret Thatcher's monetarist revolution
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May 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2075: Bethanne Patrick's six must-read new books for May
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May 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2074: Raghuram Rajan on why India must break the mold if it is become a prosperous 21st century economy
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May 26, 2024 |
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Episode 2073: Sulmaan Wasif Khan on the past, present and future conflict between America and China over Taiwan
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May 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2072: Keith Teare on Scarlett Johansson's voice and the creative promise/peril of AI
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May 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2071: Jehuda Reinharz on Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel who aspired to be a British aristocrat
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May 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2070: John R. MacArthur warns that reading digital screens might be shrinking our brains
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May 22, 2024 |
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Episode 2069: KEEN ON America featuring Bobi Conn
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May 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2068: Jacob Kushner on the National Socialist Underground's plot to kill German immigrants
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May 20, 2024 |
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Episode 2067: Jordan Elgrably on richly complex stories about the Middle East and North Africa mostly ignored by Western media
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May 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2066: Steven Johnson on the invention of dynamite, anarchist violence and the rise of the 20th century surveillance state
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May 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2065: Craig Whitlock explains how an overweight Malaysian contractor known as Fat Leonard bribed, bilked and seduced the U.S. Navy
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May 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2064: Chris Gavaler explains how How Stars Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Marvel determine how we view reality
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May 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2063: Rabbi Shai Held on why Judaism is really all about Love
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May 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2062: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Ali Velshi
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May 13, 2024 |
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Episode 2061: Rafil Kroll-Zaidi on Branson, Missouri, the most American town you've never heard of
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May 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2060: Ferdia Lennon on the tragicomedy of the Peloponnesian War
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May 11, 2024 |
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Episode 2059: Keith Teare on why critics of the iPad Crush advertisement are "haters of the future"
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May 10, 2024 |
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Episode 2058: Timothy Morton searches for a Christian Ecology that will get us out of our Planetary Hell
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May 09, 2024 |
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Episode 2057: KEEN ON America featuring R. Derek Black
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May 08, 2024 |
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Episode 2056: Kyle Paoletta exposes the 2024 Republican Primaries as "Farce"
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May 07, 2024 |
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Episode 2055: Michael Ignatieff on a history of his privileges
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May 06, 2024 |
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Episode 2054: Keith Teare follows the money of the online creative economy
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May 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2053: Vince Houghton on how the Cold War transformed Miami into America's most Covert City
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May 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2052: Bryan Caplan on the economic and philosophical case for the radical deregulation of the housing industry
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May 03, 2024 |
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Episode 2051: Mohamed Amer Meziane offers an ecological and racial history of seculization
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May 02, 2024 |
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Episode 250: Andrew J Scott on why we should care about old people
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May 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2049: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Samyr Laine
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May 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2048: Tobias Buck on the Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Episode 2047: Elisa New on Poetry in America
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2046: David Faris on why American kids are all left these days
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2045: Lisa Kaltenegger on the inevitability of the existence of non-human life somewhere in the Universe
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2044: Warning! This KEEN ON conversation with Alex Edmans may contain lies
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Episode 2043: Adam Kuper explains why our museums reveal much more about ourselves than about other people's cultures
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2042: Robert Pearl MD explains how AI can regenerate the American medical system
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2041: Dr. Judy Ho on how we can stop f*****g ourselves up
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2040: Matt Hern on the revolutionary potential of suburbia
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Episode 2039: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Mark Danner
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2038: Daniel Bessner on how the existential crisis of Hollywood's film & tv writers is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of America's professional elites
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Episode 2037: Elliot Ackerman on the danger of mercenaries and the value of national service
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2036: Stephen Marche, author of "The Next Civil War", on Alex Garland's new movie "Civil War"
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Episode 2035: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Christopher Schroeder
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2034: Dale Maharidge tells American liberals to look in the mirror to understand the Doom Loop now engulfing their country
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2033: Batya Ungar-Sargon on how American elites have betrayed the country's working men and women
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Episode 2032: Natalie Foster on how the arc of the 21st century American moral universe is bending toward justice
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Episode 2031: New books from Salman Rushdie, Erik Larsen, Amor Towles, Mohamed Amer Meziane, Patric Gagne & Leif Enger
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Episode 2030: KEEN OF AMERICA featuring Sara Paretsky
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Episode 2029: How to House America?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Episode 2028: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Thelton Henderson
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Episode 2027: Marc Hauser on giving children second chances to overcome trauma and lead happy lives
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Episode 2026: Dr Damon Tweedy on today's struggle to center psychiatry and mental healthcare into the mainstream of the medical community
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Episode 2025: On the eve of the eclipse, Christopher Cokinos illuminates the sun and moon's history and their future
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Episode 2024: Sheryl Kaskowitz on how FDR and his New Deal team saved America from the Great Depression - one folk song at a time
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Episode 2023: How the AI "bubble" isn't really a bubble and why Keith Teare might be emigrating to China
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Episode 2022: Henk de Berg on the many similarities tying Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Episode 2021: Norman Ohler on Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Episode 2020: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Episode 2019: Ismar Volic explains how mathematics can save American democracy from the Trump/Biden gerontocratic duopoly
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2018: Becca Rothfeld's celebration of mess, appetite and sexual desire
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Episode 2017: David Masciotra finds the pathologies of American Totalitarianism in Exurbia
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Episode 2016: Stefan Simchowitz on why he may be the most loathed man in the contemporary art world
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Episode 2015: Is Apple about to pull out of the European Union and did Sam Bankman-Fried really deserve his 25 year jail sentence?
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2014: B. Janet Hibbs explains why not-so-young Americans are retreating home to their parents and the other certainties of their former childhood
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Episode 2013: Candida Moss on how Christian slaves helped write the Bible and why this will outrage some American evangelicals
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Episode 2011: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Peter Wehner
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2010: How everyone, even business school professors, are joining the anti big tech church
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Episode 2009: Keith Teare on why Big Tech might be getting even BIGGER
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Episode 2008: Chris French on the Science of Weird S**t
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Episode 2007: Bethanne Patrick's guide to a literary March madness
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Episode 2006: Everything you wanted to know about sex but didn't have the imagination to ask
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Episode 2005: Why the Pete Rose story is as much about the rise and fall of America as it is about the fate of Charlie Hustle
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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EPISODE 2004: Jacob Heilbrunn on conservative America's 100 year romance with foreign dictators like Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Pinochet, Orban and Putin
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Episode 2003: Martin Sixsmith on Vladimir Putin and the return of history to Russia and the West
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Episode 2002: Elaine Lin Hering gives voice to the "Unsilent Generation"
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2001: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Adam Hochschild
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Episode 2000: Keith Teare on why the Congressional attempt to ban TikTok is astonishingly dumb
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Episode 1999: Sasha Issenberg offers a playbook for winning elections in our disinformation age
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Episode 1998: Emily Raboteau on how to mother against "the apocalypse"
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Episode 1997: Benjamin Shestakofsky reveals the inegalitarianism at the heart of the startup economy
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Episode 1996: Frank H. McCourt, Jr explains why rebuilding the Internet is THE most important issue of our time
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Episode 1995: Sam Daley-Harris explains how to reclaim American democracy
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Episode 1994: Why 1924 was the year that Adolf Hitler became "Hitler" and what it teaches us about the crisis of American democracy in 2024
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Episode 1993: Keith Teare on the Hobbesian war of all-against-all inside & outside Silicon Valley
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Episode 1992: Andrew Cockburn explains how Dr. Strangelove has always been a feature - rather than a bug - of Silicon Valley
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Episode 1991: Bethanne Patrick on how to disrupt the disruption of our revolutionary age
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Episode 1990: James Kaplan on Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans and the making of the most miraculous jazz record of all time
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Epiosode 1989: Travis Rieder explains why an ethically pure life is neither moral nor practical in our complex world
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Episode 1988: How the Patty Hearst saga captured the paranoia of early 70's America
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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EPISODE 1977: Max Stearns on why a "Parliamentary America" is the best fix for the country's broken democratic system
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Episode 1976: Keith Teare on the DEI Elephant in every Silicon Valley Boardroom
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Episode 1975: Ira Shapiro explains how Mitch McConnell Betrayed America
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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EPISODE 1974: Getting beyond Oppenheimer
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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A Belated February Reading List
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Navigating the labyrinth of Argentina's bankrupt economy
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Why we remember and why we forget
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Waking Up White
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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A Brave New World of AI, Virtual Reality and Memetic Culture
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Against Marriage
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Why the Shadows of Socrates still haunt us today
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The forced erasure of gays from 20th century American life
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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The Biggest Liberal Loser or an Iconic Progressive?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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In defense of geeky intellectuals
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Why do we seem to have so little free time?
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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And the Oscar goes to.....
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Unpacking the Facebook tragedy
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Will Putin ever die?
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Should Americans pursue virtue or happiness?
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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A Case for Reparations
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Exposing Hollywood's most notorious interwar celebrity spy
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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What chance peace in Israel?
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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How to write a #1 global bestseller
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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How Tucker Carlson's Putin interview captures today's "new, new media" revolution
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Uncovering the world's mightiest (and tiniest) narco-state
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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in defense of cultural liberalism
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Do nations have psychologies and can they experience collective trauma?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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After Rape
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Born in Blood: Scott Gac explains why violence is the defining feature of American history
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Can the American university survive the 21st century? Nicholas Dirks explains why American universities need to reinvent themselves in our winner-take-all age of social media and AI
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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How to Win the Global Battle to Power our Lives? Ernest Scheyder on the new economic war between China and the West to control critical minerals like lithium, copper and cobalt
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Why Scientific Truth Might Be Infinitely Weirder Than Scientific Fiction: Mike Chen on "A Quantum Love Story"
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Should Elon Musk have publicly visited Auschwitz? Keith Teare on Musk, X, Instagram and the breakdown of civility in our social media age
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Why today's internet is simultaneously autocratic and plutocratic: Ehud Shapiro on the egalitarian architecture necessary to build genuine digital democracy
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Why Writing a Book is an Act of Free Will: Kevin Mitchell on free agency and how evolution gave us free will
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Why Does Everything Need To Be About Race? Keith Boykin on Claudine Gay, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and why the real function of racism is distraction
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Suburbia and American Disillusionment: Benjamin Herold on the unravelling of both America's suburbs and the American dream
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The War for Israel's Soul: Bernard Avishai on the age old battle in Israel between globalists and messianic Zionists
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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A Winston Churchill for our TikTok age? Simon Shuster on Volodymyr Zelensky, the workaholic improv politician who needs to be loved by his Ukrainian people
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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A venture capitalist imagines a world after capital: Albert Wenger on work, leisure and the environment in the AI age
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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In Trouble With Gender: Alex Byrne explores slippery sex facts and factual gender fictions
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Can AI produce genuine culture? Martin Puchner on the future of artistic creativity in the age of the smart machine
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Radically reinventing America in upstate New York: Susan Danzinger on how to effectively put philosophy into action
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Why Generative AI represents an existential threat to the creative community: Ed Newton-Rex warns about the dire consequences of generative AI companies "scraping" data without acknowledging its creators
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Cult of the Algorithm: Hilary Mason peers behind the hidden door of AI, gaming and storytelling
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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What killed capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis' murder mystery about the death of capitalism and our descent into "techno feudalism"
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Yes, there is an alternative to free market capitalism (and, no, it's not socialism): Nick Romeo on how to build a just economy
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Don't Trust Us: Frank Vogl exposes the marketing scammers behind the increasingly mainstream success of cryptocurrency
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Why there might be a ghost in all our smart machines: Kenneth Cukier on AI, spirituality and a new humanism in our digital age
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Unlocking and decrypting 2024: Azeem Azhar on AI's impact on politics, economics and society in the coming year
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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The Wicked Art of the Gothic Thriller: Abbott Kahler on writing unnerving literature about unnerving times
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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10 must read books for 2024: Bethanne Patrick on intriguing fiction and non-fiction to read in the new year
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Is the current AI boom just another Silicon Valley bubble? John Thornhill separates the truth from the fiction of today's AI hysteria
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Confessions of a Disillusioned Social Scientist: Brian Klaas on why we are all random accidents of chance and chaos
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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How foreign lobbyists in America threaten democracy around the world: Casey Michel on the dirty overseas money sloshing around both sides of American politics
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Should you have sex with your robot?
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Should you have sex with your robot? Eve Herold on our narcissistic echo-chamber culture in which we are falling in love with our robots (ie: ourselves)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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How American healthcare is rigged against ethical doctors and poor patients: Dr Robert Pearl explains how the system can be reformed in 2024
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Why a future of digitally connected brains is now on the horizon: PJ Caldas on the networked tsunami that is about to transform all our realities
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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What happens when AI "drifts"? Dominique Shelton Leipzig offers protection from the high-risk dangers of algorithmic malfunction
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Turning writing into a habit that lasts: Bec Evans on how to start and finish books and why binge writing isn't a bad habit
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Why all crises of capitalism are caused by moral failures: Colin Mayer on the social responsibility of business in every industry, from oil to tobacco to genetic engineering and AI
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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That Will Be The Year: Keith Teare predicts the major political, economic and technological developments for 2024
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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How to learn to tell the truth about ourselves: Dr .Annie Zimmerman explains how therapy can allow us to break free from old patterns and transform our lives
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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The Illusion of More: David Newhoff explains why we don't need GenerativeAI to make good art
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Eyeless in Digital Gaza: Eryk Salvaggio sifts through the debris of our AI age in which we can no longer trust anything we see
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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What it's like to be a Russian these days: Marzio G. Mian ventures behind the new Iron Curtain to find caviar, counterculture and a reborn cult of Stalin
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Why Impeachment remains an Indelible Stain on the Presidencies of Nixon, Clinton and Trump: Michael J. Gerhardt's guide for engaged citizens to the the law of Presidential impeachment
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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How to break out of the tyranny of the travel search box: Rafat Ali on the impact of AI on the travel industry
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Why OpenAI has an Uber problem
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Why OpenAI has an Uber problem: Tim O'Reilly explains how all successful companies depend on successful ecosystems
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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A former mobster's history of organized crime in America
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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A former mobster reveals the history of organized crime in America: Louis Ferrante charts the meteoric rise of the Mafia from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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We've Been Here Before: Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin offer both radically new and historically trusted strategies for resisting neo-liberalism
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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On our nostalgia for vinyl records and authoritative political leaders
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Why predicting the future of tech is for fools: Keith Teare looks back at 2023 and gives some hints as to what might happen in 2024
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Digging into the crate of Roman history: Hari Kunzru on our nostalgia for vinyl records and the reappearance of ethnic nationalism in Italy
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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How everyone, even Benjamin Netanyahu, has a soul: Noa Yedlin explains why literary humor isn't a funny thing and imagines the kind of character Netanyahu might be in a novel
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Why bankers represents both the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of American capitalism: Gerard Epstein on how to bust the bankers' club and create a more equitable financial system for the rest of us
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Against the chronic short-termism that undermines how we think about money and value: Charles Crowson explains why time really matters in economics
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Why 2023 was the year in which we finally got to converse with AI: Kevin Surace explains why creative artists must master AI technology in 2024
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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The KEEN ON 2023 Fiction Awards: Bethanne Patrick's six favorite novels of the year
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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In Defense of Henry Kissinger's "pragmatic realism": Charles Kupchan critiques the illusional idealism that he believes has undermined American foreign policy over the last decade
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Why the 21st Century will be the Asian Century: Kishore Mahbubani on the end of Western domination and the rise of Asian societies, economies and philosophies
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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International anarchy, murderous crime lords and the 21st century nation-state: Miles Johnson explains how the violence of today's international criminal gangs mirror the authoritarian politics of our age
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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How AI can fix the future of healthcare, education and climate: Mark Minevich imagines a planet positively powered by AI
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Among the Criminal Bros: Max Marshall on a Fraternity crime story that reflects the rigged system of money and power in 21st century America
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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The victory of the gut over reason: Kevin Casas-Zamora worries about the fragile state of democracy around the world in 2023
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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On the Dire State of the Free Press in 2024: Andy Lee Roth explains how "solutions journalism" offers a more truthful alternative to corporate owned media in America today
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Why AI will radically disrupt traditional internet search engines: Keith Teare on Google, OPenAI and the crisis of online search economics
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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How collaborating on #CrimeTime strengthened this couple's marriage: Jeneva Rose and Drew Pyne discuss their TikTok driven crime mystery based on an actual robbery in their Chicago apartment building
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Is there really rampant anti-semitism at elite American universities like Columbia? Shai Davidai on what these universities should be doing to confront anti-semitism and foster a two-state peace between Israelis and Palestinians
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The 19th century American explorer who exposed the brutality of the Russian imperial system: Gregory Wallance on the original George Kennan and his epic journey through the frozen heart of Russia
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Wall Street's Assault on Democracy: Georges Ugeux explains how today's financial markets exacerbate inequalities, create unsustainable government debt and foment authoritarianism
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Getting to Know Ella Fitzgerald Through Her Music: Judith Tick on the canonical jazz singer who transformed both American song and culture
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Five of the Non-Fictional Best: Bethanne Patrick picks her favorite non-fiction books for 2023
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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How Not To Age: Dr Michael Greger offers a simple dietary approach to getting healthier as we get older
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Why it's time stop declaring war on everything: David Keen on the "Wreckonomics" of how we now find ourselves locked into so many failed economic, environmental and political policies
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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How our brains mirror the history of human evolution: Min W. Jung on the neuroscience of imagination and abstract thinking
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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A Return to Normal Abnormality in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare on why even some of the most highly capitalized AI start-ups are now running out of runway and will not survive
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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In Praise of Ineffective Altruism: Amy Schiller on how philanthropy went wrong and how to fix it
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Should we let go of Philip Roth? Hannah Gold gets into Roth's mind, his hands and his followers
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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In Defense of Trash Talk: Rafi Kohan on Muhammed Ali, Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Elon Musk and why talking smack is as old as the Bible
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Why even the smartest machine vision won't eliminate bias: Jill Walker Rettberg on how algorithms are changing the way we see and are seen by the world
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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When Language Was Up For Grabs: Ben Lerner warns against falling in love once again with the promise of digital technology to democratize language
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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The First Neo-Liberal or the Last Conservative? Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman, the most controversial American economist of the 20th century
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Why American humor isn't really being cancelled by the woke police: Kliph Nesteroff's history of showbiz and its perennial culture wars
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Why all great geniuses are also rebels: Bulent Atalay on how Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Newton, Beethoven and Einstein all shared similarly transgressive minds
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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The Closing of the American Conservative Mind: Peter Wehner on the nihilism of the evangelical right in America today
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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We live our lives in small details: Lauren Grodstein on why she changed her mind about writing a novel about the Holocaust
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Why the "Words of Cesar Chavez" still matter: Peter Slen on the labor leader, Christian Socialist and voice of Hispanic America
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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The book that transformed how Americans think about economics: Peter Slen on the impact of Rose and Milton Friedman's 1980 defense of free market capitalism, "Free to Chose"
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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In defense of digital education: William B. Eimicke on how to level the learning curve and create a more inclusive and connected university
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Is the current Gazan ceasefire a mirage?Jason Pack on Qatar, Iran, Biden, Hamas, Israel and the road to order in the disordered Middle East
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Ten Ways of Winning Differently in the AI Age: Kate Bravery's truths about work, skills and education in the smart machine epoch
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Digital Lennonism: Marga Hoek imagines how tech can solve some of the world's greatest challenges
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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The Last Ships from Hamburg: Steven Ujifusa on the race to save Russia's Jews on the eve of World War I
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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OpenAI , Sam Altman and the new war over capitalism in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare on the moral fight over technological progress triggered by the OpenAI brouhaha
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Eight brilliant books to give this Xmas: Bethanne Patrick's list of literary gifts that will delight even the most discerning reader
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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The Shame of America's Six Million Homeless People: Kevin F. Adler on the forgotten humanity and broken systems causing today's American homelessness crisis
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Why only humans can imagine the future: Margaret Heffernan on art, creative uncertainty and the insatiability of AI moguls like Sam Altman
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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How to protect our all-too-human superpower of creative thinking: Viktor Mayer-Schonberger on the guardrails needed to regulate big data companies like OpenAI
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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A Uniquely Glittering Literary Club: Christopher De Hamel on the remarkable people behind a thousand years of medieval manuscripts
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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So what, exactly, is "equality"? Darrin McMahon on the history, from antiquity to today, of this most elusive idea
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Why women might make better spies than men: Anna Pitoniak on the art of espionage and the tradecraft of the spy novelist
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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How the October 7 tragedy might turn out to be a game changer in a good way: Israeli writer Assaf Gavron on why we must "try again" to make peace in the Middle East
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Six all-too-human books about AI: Bethane Patrick on the mavens, mavericks and mythology writing our smart machine future
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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This was the week that the world dramatically changed: Keith Teare celebrates the beginning of the end of the pre AI age
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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A classic novel that not only shaped America but also captured the authentic voice of the African-American South: Peter Slen on Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God", an anthropological fiction set in a particularly rough period in American
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Why genuine neutrality was mostly a myth in the Second World War: Neill Lochery on the flight of Nazi treasure through "neutral" countries after the war
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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How to write poetry on a smartphone: Best-selling poet and TikTok sensation Whitney Hanson on the anxiety of her generation and why social media makes physical events more "real"
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The dark truth of Mexico as a mostly truant state terrorized by subsistence gangsters and haunted by hollow people: Azam Ahmed on the story of a missing daughter, a violent Cartel and a mother's quest for vengeance
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Do great leaders make history or does history make great leaders? Moshik Temkin on the art of leadership from FDR, Malcolm X and MLK to Trump and Biden
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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How to accurately reconstruct the entire 13.9 billion year history of the universe: David Helfand on the power of atomic science to unveil the mysteries of unreachably remote time and space
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Turning Mrs Dalloway into a novel set in the New York City of April 2017: Lisa Gornick on writing a New York story in the philistine age of the Taliban and Donald Trump
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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An Unprincipled Man for our Unprincipled Times: Rob Copeland on Ray Dalio, the billionaire Big Brother of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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How early 21st century America resembles late 19th century Russia: John Gray on our post-liberal future
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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The double life of America's most notorious agent of betrayal: Major Garrett on Robert Hanssen, the FBI spy and weaver of a web of lies, both outrageously large and pathetically small
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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How to make the most of college: Ben Wildavsky on the art of using college to build a career
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Why the American mass incarceration system is jarringly unamerican: Ben Austen on parole, prison and the near impossibility of change in the current American criminal justice system
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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In defense of literary flyover country: Peter Slen on Willa Cather's "My Antonia", the 1918 novel that captured the ideal of immigrant middle America
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Orwell and his women: Bethanne Patrick on new feminist takes on George Orwell - the man , the husband and the writer.
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Guilty by seven crimes and death by a thousand verticals: Keith Teare on Sam Bankman-Fried and Palo Alto, Elon Musk and Rishi Sunak, and Space X and X
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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How to get more women in science right now: Lisa Munoz on implicit bias, leaky pipelines, tokenization and other explanations for the persistent gender gap in science
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Did the KGB really invent the idea of the Palestinian nation in the 1960s? Pierre Rehov on Iranian financed sleeper-cells in US universities and why he admires Hamas' "evil mind"
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Overcoming the politics of black grief and white grievance in America today: Juliet Hooker on why American democracy is in desperate need of an radical expansion of its political imagination
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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A remarkable American hero at a time in which many Americans are no longer comfortable with the heroic ideal: Ronald C. White on the life of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the unlikely hero of Gettysburg
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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The problem with stories about the Holocaust is that they are told by the survivors: Daniel Finkelstein on the extraordinary coincidences enabling the survival of his mum and dad from both Hitler and Stalin
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Zero to Zero: William Deresiewicz on what happens when the price of online content is driven down to zero
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Where have all the Democrats gone? Ruy Teixeira on why the Democratic Party needs to tone down the volume on cultural issues if it's to rediscover its soul
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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How this month's "almost miraculous" Polish election might be a hopeful sign for democracy everywhere: Maciej Kisilowski on the promise and peril of representative democracy in a post authoritarian Poland
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Does today's climate change crisis represent an existential threat to humanity? Antonello Provenzale contextualizes the contemporary crisis within a history of climate change from the earth origins to the Anthropocene
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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An enigmatic city teetering on the edge of the world: John Kampfner on Berlin, a city of ghosts and memories where he can still smell the Wall
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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A Theory of Everyone (but not Everything): Michael Muthukrishna on how human-beings are a new kind of animal and why we need to transform the world into the most efficient laboratory possible
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Why Americans have the constitutional right to sometimes lie: Jeff Kosseff protects free speech in our digital age of misinformation
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Eight literary tricks and treats to scare you this Halloween: Bethanne Patrick on "app-aritions", cultural ghosts and unfamiliarly familiar haunted houses
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Why our cyborg AI future may already have arrived in the trained-on-jargon "person" of Sam Bankman-Fried: Hito Steyerl on pyramid schemes, on-boarding tools and the "mean" creativity of our AI age
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Is the venture capital industry a big ponzi scheme? Keith Teare separates the hyperbole from the hysteria of VC techno-optimism
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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The American Shakespeare or trash of the veriest sort? Peter Slen on Mark Twain's ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, the adventurous story of a young man and young nation on a great and not-so-great adventure
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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A Graphic Diary of the War in Ukraine: Nora Krug on the contrasting realities of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist in the first year of Russian invasion
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The Dismal Science investigates that most dismal of things - economic inequality: Branko Milanovic on visions of inequality from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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That Sinking Feeling of Falling Out of the Middle Class: Ray Suarez on his fear of being poor in the America of the inegalitarian Twenties
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Celebrating a transcendental photography of nature that blurs art and science: Photographer Anand Varma on his lifelong wonder with the natural world
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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How to stand up to the apocalypse: Peter Sarris on Justinian, the 6th century Byzantine ruler who confounded a narrative of decline
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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The Fruit of the Gods or of the Devil? Alexander Sammon on the sordid history of the avocado, the thirstiest fruit on the planet
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Why Nineteen Eighty-Four wasn't really like Nineteen-Eighty Four: Sandra Newman on Julia, Winston Smith and the totalitarianism of gender that George Orwell ignored in his masculine dystopia
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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How to Reawaken the American Dream: David Leonhardt on unions, constitutional reform, immigration and the need for a progressive populism
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Why Generative AI could make artists extinct: Karla Ortiz warns about the existential "theft" at the heart of the AI revolution
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Memoirs of a cranky old New York Gen X'er: Christian Lorentzen on the half-life of a literary critic in our digital age of cultural decay and disinformation
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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What makes humans so special? John Parrington on how human brains, unlike those of all other species, can turn matter into meaning
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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What the data tells us about the cancellation of the American mind: Greg Lukianoff on why today's cancel culture is as much of a threat to free speech as the McCarthyite Red Scare of the 1950s
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Why an elite establishment economist is calling bullsh*t on the promise of the American dream: Jeff Fuhrer reveals the existential crisis of economic inequality now threatening the United States
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Why Poland is still in therapy over its "complex" World War II history: Roger Moorhouse on the forgotten story of a Polish diplomatic rescue operation to save the lives of Polish Jews
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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How "responsible" was Benjamin Netanyahu for the events of October 7? Israel novelist Noa Yedlin on the worst thing that has happened to the Jewish people since the Holocaust
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Broken bodies, broken homes, broken families & broken work: Alissa Quart reveals life on the edge in the world's richest country
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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How to resurrect the World's Greatest Detective: Sophie Hannah on her latest Agatha Christie sanctioned murder mystery HERCULE POIROT'S SILENT NIGHT
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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In Defense of Place: Seth Kaplan on how to repair American society, one zip code at a time
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Should we celebrate or mourn technological abundance? Keith Teare weighs up the costs and benefits of abundant artificial intelligence
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Why Oliver Wendell Holmes' book "Common Law" is most uncommon: Peter Slen on the 1881 legal classic that has profoundly shaped America
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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What is it about scientists that makes many of them so consensual and collaborative? Lorraine Daston explains how scientists have learned to cooperate with each other
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Why the American Dream has turned into a nightmare for many Americans: Andrea Dobynes Wagner on life in the United States as a black woman with an invisible disability
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Listening Once Again to Prozac: Peter D. Kramer offers a thirty year history of antidepressants and the remaking of the American self
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Impact of Small Things: Best-selling writer and Hollywood actress Annabelle Gurwitch on her experience of taking in a homeless couple in Los Angeles
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Are handheld video games a valuable kind of art or are they a worthless technological curse? Jon Doyle celebrates the glory years of video gaming when handheld devices provided their users with a simultaneously social and intimate experience
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Didn't we learn anything from COVID? Joe Nocera on why American capitalism needs to be radically reformed if it is to successfully confront the next pandemic
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Burn Baby Burn: M.R. O'Connor on the life-giving force of fire to regenerate nature
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Ten Years that Didn't Change the World: Vincent Bevins on the global mass protests of 2010-2020 that failed to change anything
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The Canceling of the American Mind: Rikki Schlott on why she believes cancel culture is an existential threat to the free speech of both conservatives and progressives
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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The American Ant King who transformed our understanding of animal behavior: Richard Rhodes on E.O. Wilson and his scientific life in nature
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Being less anxious about today's epidemic of anxiety: David Rosmarin on why anxiety is both normal and healthy and how we can thrive with it
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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The Big Fail or A Big Success? Bethany McLean on what the Covid pandemic reveals about strengths and weaknesses of American healthcare, innovation and capitalism.
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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It's a Horrible Situation..... I Wish I Could Sound More Cheerful: Former British Ambassador Alexander Hall Hall on Israel, Gaza and the New Global Disorder
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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The Care Economy as the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Premilla Nadasen explains why we need to bring care back to what she calls the "care" economy of healthcare and teaching
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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How to get to a regenerative future before we blow ourselves up: Trond Undheim on averting the end of the world by 2075
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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An obscure 1722 naval battle off the coast of West Africa which had a monumental impact on the history of America: Angela C. Sutton on the battle of Cape Lopez and the birth of chattel slavery as an American institution
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Placing African-Americans at the center of their own story: Dylan Penningroth excavates the hidden histories of Black civil rights in 19th and 20th century America
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Why cheap food isn't really cheap: Will Harris on the repellant nature of industrial farming and why the future of food should be local
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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What makes writing, speaking and computer programming similarly human activities: Michael Littman on why all humans, in our AI age, should learn a little programming
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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How to Take Liberties with History: Abby Smith Rumsey on what we should remember and what we should forget about the past
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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How to be Abe Lincoln: Jonathan Shapiro offers seven steps to finding a moral compass and living a worthy life
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Why OpenAI could be worth $5 trillion by 2028: Keith Teare explains how OpenAI might already be the most valuable company on the planet
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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The Man Who Could See Around Corners: Peter Slen on Frederick Douglass and his 1845 autobiography about his life os an American slave
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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America in the Dillon era: Richard Aldous on Douglas Dillon and mainstream Republicanism in the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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An American Gun for the age of Sandy Hook and Uvalde: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson on the history of the AR-15, an assault weapon that captures contemporary America's love affair with technology, freedom and guns
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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How to transform yourself from a good girl into a bad b***h: Lisa Carmen Wang's bad b***h business bible for taking charge of your body, boundaries and bank account
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Why Food Stamps Work: Christopher Bosso's political history - and defense - of SNAP
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Saving Bill Clinton's life and other tales from the operating theater: Craig R. Smith on his life as one of America's most celebrated heart surgeons
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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A New Deal to Save the Earth: John J. Berger outlines the three dimensions to solving the world's climate crisis
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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The Emotional Life of Populism in Israel: Eva Illouz on Netanyahu, Hamas and what the left has lost by not embracing the fear, disgust, resentment and love that determine democratic politics
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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The October weekend that changed the Middle East forever: Uri Kaufman compares the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 with the Simchat Torah war of October 2023
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Tripping into our brave new psychedelic world: Andy Mitchell on his odyssey into the new reality of psychedelics
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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The Blood Years, then and now: Elana K. Arnold on book banning, book burning and what we can learn from Second World War books about good and evil
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Disorder, Disorder, Disorder: Jason Pack and Alexandra Hall Hall order our disordered world
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Is peace there for the taking? Jason Pack on Israel, Gaza, the Middle East and beyond
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The All American B***h: Evelyn McDonnell on Joan Didion's artistic sensibility and moral clarity
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Why politics needs to be relegated to its proper place: Alexandra Hudson offers timeless principles on how to heal society and ourselves
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Claudia Goldin, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Economics, on women's journey to close the gender gap
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The Myth of Progress: Erik J. Larson on Silicon Valley's failure to change anything of any significance since the Fifties
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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My Bath with Hitler: Kenneth Rendell on safeguarding history at a time when fakers are much smarter and more creative than their victims
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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The Human Tragedy and Political Shame of America's Mass Criminal Supervision System: Vincent Schiraldi on probation, parole and the illusion of safety and freedom in contemporary America
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Iron Man, Ant-Man and our relentless thirst for parasocial super heroes: Joana Robinson and Gavin Edwards on the reign of Marvel Studios
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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The Right Female Stuff: Loren Grush on the story of America's first six female astronauts
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Should environmentalists be utopian? Dickson Despommier imagines the perfect 21st century city
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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From Suicide Notes to Every Star That Falls: Michael Thomas Ford on 15 years that changed the world of teen mental health and sexual identity
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Artificial Intelligence or Bust: Keith Teare on why AI might be the most important development in tech since the invention of the internet
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Evil colonizers, brave explorers or clueless white men? Peter Slen on the geographical and literary exploits of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The real McElroy: Isle McElroy on what it means to be a non-binary writer and how it might feel like to be born into the wrong body
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The Taylor Swift or Lady Di of the early 20th Century: Shelley Fraser Mickle on Alice Roosevelt, the White House wild child
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The Repressive Power of Artificial Intelligence: Kian Vesteinsson on the crisis of freedom on the internet in 2023
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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All the American demons are there: Jake Tapper on how returning to the late 1970's can help us understand the America of the early 2020's
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Modern Britain and all that caper: Jonathan Coe on British chocolate, the Royal Family and its decision to marry the wrong Super Power
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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An Old Story Told Differently: Bethanne Patrick on 8 books reimagining the experience of first generation immigrants
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Against the Romance of Transformation: Leon Weiseltier on America's love affair with the promise of personal and social change
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Normalizing China: Gilles Guiheux on China's very ordinary history between 1949 and today
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Against Green Capitalism: Charles Derber on how big money fuels extinction and what we can do about it
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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No, Men aren't Angels: Peter Slen on why the Federalist Papers is one of the ten books that has most shaped America
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Dumb devices, dumb bureaucrats and dumb entrepreneurs: Keith Teare on FTC chair Lina Khan, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and why the iPhone is on the brink of becoming radically more intelligent
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Why Disorder may be the New Order: Jason Pack on how the global system itself has gone rogue and no longer conforms with the textbooks
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Why Artificial Intelligence will make us smarter: W. Russell Neuman presents AI as a progressive moment in human evolution
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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An Afterword to Words Themselves? Bethanne Patrick on six speculative novels which imagine a world saturated by AI
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Should we punish innovation? Keith Teare on public and private investment markets, breaking up Google and paying to use X
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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The 10 books that have most shaped America: Peter Slen on Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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The White Man's version of Democracy in America? Brook Manville on the "Civic Bargain" that defines the history of democracy in western civilization
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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How to think faster and talk smarter: Matt Abrahams on speaking successfully when you're put on the spot
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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"I want you to be more selfish": Millennial therapist Sara Kuburic on how to discover your true self and change your life
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The case against forgiveness: Myisha Cherry questions a forgiving God, Christian forgiveness and happy Hollywood moral endings
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The Buried History of Jerusalem: Andrew Lawler digs up the political archeology of the world's most contested city
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Untangling the twin three-way relationships shaping the contemporary Middle East: Ilan Eyatar on Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Nothing will ever be the same again: Hugh Eakin remembers the year when the United States bumped into Pablo Picasso and modern art arrived in America
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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How to ensure the survival of democracy: Josiah Ober on ancient Greece and Rome as models of self government by their citizens
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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There's No Them There, Only Us: Kerri Maher on the Jane Collective in the early 1970s and how to write fiction about an issue as divisive as abortion
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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On Power, Patriarchy and Privilege: Kemi Nekvapil offers a woman's guide to living and leading without apology
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Is the American Constitution undermining American Democracy? Daniel Ziblatt on how constitutional reform can strengthen democracy in America
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Blood in the Machine: Brian Merchant on what we can learn from the 19th century Luddites in our digital age of gig work and generative AI
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Notes from the invisible underground: Kat Calvin on the 26 million American adults who have no government ID and, thus, in the eyes of the government, don't really exist
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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How the quest for respect can heal our divided world: Michele Lamont on rebuilding dignity in our age of anxiety , inequality and isolation
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Why Justice is Coming to America: Cenk Uygur predicts that progressives are going to take over the country and how we are all going to love it
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Confronting Amazon, Google and his own powerful family: John Sargent on his adventures and misadventures as CEO of one of the world's largest publishing companies
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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What's Your Lego? Bent Flyvbjerg on how to get big things done
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Seeing through all the shtick: of parenting Gary John Bishop on how to grow up to become the parent your kids deserve
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Is Web3 technology - Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, DAOs, NFTs et al - just the latest Silicon Valley hype? Alex Tapscott separates the signal from the noise on the internet's next economic and cultural frontier
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Tyranny of an Ethnocratic Minority: Steven Levitsky on what an increasingly broken American political system has to learn from the democracies of Brazil and Argentina
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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When the stink became overwhelming: Corban Addison tells the true story of when large-scale farming went on trial in North Carolina
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Your Face Belongs to Us: Kashmir Hill on a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Eight novels to take to a desert island this Fall: Bethanne Patrick on new fiction about Haiti, Jamestown, 1984, Malaysia and women on the margins of the Vietnam war
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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On the Awesomeness of Globalization: Keith Teare explains why the next chapter of globalized technology will undermine the economic and political power of the nation-state
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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The Economic and Moral Case for Good Jobs: Zeynep Ton on why companies need to bring dignity, pay and meaning to everyone's work
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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How to stand up to a dictator: Maria Ressa on courage, honesty, perseverance and why must all fight for our future
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The shocking saga of big media malfeasance rivaling Succession for its sex, lies and betrayals: Rachel Abrams on the Redstone dynastic struggle, former CBS executive Les Moonves and their significance to the Me Too movement
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Why AI threatens not just writing, creativity and thinking, but also democracy: Naomi S. Baron on how new tools like Chat GPT are stopping us knowing who we really are as individuals
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The Long Life of a Radical Gerontologist: Ken Dychtwald on how to age with purpose
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The $100 Trillion Wealth Transfer: Ken Costa explains why the handover of wealth from Boomers to Gen Z must revolutionize capitalism
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Why digital transformation isn't about technology: David Rogers on how to rebuild organizations in our age of continuous change
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The most brutal and gruesome siege in human history? Prit Buttar on the siege of Leningrad 1941-42
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Watch out for those Jewish space lasers: Mike Rothschild on the Rothschilds and 200 years of anti-semitic conspiracy theories
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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How to direct the power of digital technology into economic and political progress: Simon Johnson on what we can learn from our 1000-year struggle over technology and prosperity to make our age of Generative AI more equitable
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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On the science of failing well: Amy Edmondson explains why we need to take smart risks which will result in more, rather than fewer, failures
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Don't Look Away: Alexander Batthyany on terminal lucidity, the "soul" and our final journey when we cross over the border from life to death
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Extremely Socially Online: Taylor Lorenz on the untold story of fame, influence, and power on the internet
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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How to break free of "equality feminism": Marcie Bianco on the lie of equality and the feminist fight for freedom
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Taming the Street then and now: Diana Henriques on the New Deal, FDR's fight to regulate American capitalism and its relevance in Joe Biden's America today
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Was Richard Nixon really a Southern Californian paragon of cheerfulness , hard work and decency? Paul Carter's defense of the only US President born and raised in California
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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The Dirty Secrets of our Material World: Ed Conway on the six physical commodities underpinning the global extractive economy
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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An Un-Whitewashed Story of America: Michael Harriot on AF History, Black Twitter and how he "discovered" America at 8.00 pm on November 4, 1980
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Eight great non-fiction reads for the Fall: LA Times book critic Bethanne Patrick on new books about video-gaming writers, Roman emperors, Rastafarian fathers, Jerusalem murders, American guns and the genealogy of the female body
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Why money now is the most valuable commodity in Silicon Valley: Keith Teare explains how cash has become king for both tech investors and entrepreneurs
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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When fictional characters turn out to be more authentic than real people: Lang Leav on anti Asian racism in Australia and her love of the early internet as a place where she could escape how she looks
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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How Bill Clinton betrayed progressive ideas and capitulated to the right: Nelson Lichtenstein on the failure of the Clinton presidency and the transformation of American capitalism
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Five Elemental Ways of Building a Sustainable Future: Stephen Porder on how five core elements changed earth's past and will shape our future
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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If you want to understand America, you have to understand basketball: Rich Cohen on the 1987-1988 NBA's "greatest season"
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Imagine an AI that customizes a musical soundtrack of our lives: Niclas Molinder on the opportunities and threats that AI offers the creative community
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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AI as our Guttenberg moment: Moritz Schularick, the President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, on the economic significance of today's AI revolution
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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AI as our Oppenheimer moment: Benedikt Franke, CEO of the Munich Security Conference, on the geo-political significance of today's AI revolution
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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One year that changed the world: Ludwig Ensthaler on the short but revolutionary history of Generative AI
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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There will be no stock market on a dead planet: Sandrine Dixson-Decleve on how to transform extractive capitalism into a regenerative model of equitable economic progress
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Why truthful stories about nature should have neither beginnings nor endings: Martin Puchner on telling circular environmental stories
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Why there is hope in the soil: Jan-Gisbert Schultze on the transformational promise of regenerative agriculture
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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What, exactly, is circular economics? Martjin Lopes Cardozo on the current state of the circular economy
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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The Age of the Sustainable City: Ian Goldin on how to make the 21st century city the heart of a new circular economy
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Trust and the Tokenization of Value: Rachel O'Dwyer on the future of money in our age of the digital platform
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Containing and Controlling AI: Mustafa Suleyman on how to strengthen the nation-state in the coming wave of radical technological disruption
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Silicon Valley's Destruction of Reality: Jonathan Taplin on how 4 tech billionaires are selling us a fantasy future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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I Must Resist: Michael G. Long celebrates the political and personal bravery of Bayard Ruskin on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Why extraterrestrial life doesn't give a damn about us: Avi Loeb on the search for interstellar species and our future in the stars
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Saving the Planet Five Times Faster: Simon Sharpe rethinks the science, economics and diplomacy of climate change
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Exposing Beijing's Rotten Rules: Bethany Allen on how an authoritarian China is weaponizing its economy to confront the world
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Eighteen Days in October: Uri Kaufman on the Yom Kippur War and the how it created the modern Middle East
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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SPACs, Scams and Hit Jobs: Keith Teare defends former SPAC king Chamath Palihapitiya from "hit job" accusations of scamming small investors
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Nine Noteworthy Novels: Bethanne Patrick on fast, furious and fun reads for the dying days of summer
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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TECHNOSLEEP: Sleep sociologist Katherine Conveney on the technological past, present and future of sleep
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Mr and Mrs Orwell's Invisible Lives: Anna Funder shines a light on Eileen O'Shaughnessy, George Orwell's homosexuality, and patriarchy as doublethink
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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How billionaires have colonized the New York City skyline: Katherine Clarke on the race to build the world's most exclusive skyscrapers
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Say Everything Everywhere: Scott Rosenberg remembers the digital origins of bulletin boards, blogging and the social media revolution
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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This Is Wildfire: Nick Mott on how to protect ourselves, our homes and our communities in the age of heat
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Why Twitter and Facebook are like nuclear weapons: Umut Ozkirimli traces his personal history of social media from the 2013 Gezi Park uprising to his own cancellation in 2020
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Why the Revolution Won't Be Retweeted: Ece Temelkuran on social media's failure to change the world
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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The New Heart of Darkness: Siddharth Kara on how the (rechargable) blood of the Congo powers our lives
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Playing Chess against Nature: Rafael Yuste explains how today's advances in neuroscience will eventually lead to a new Renaissance in understanding who exactly we are as a species
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Sex, Faith and Murder in an Early 19th Century New England Mill Town: Bruce Dorsey on the first true crime story that captivated America
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Why today's "Polycrisis" is akin to living in a hospice: Anya Kamenetz untangles the environmental, psychological, epidemiological, economic and political crises of our age
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Why Big Tech threatens our civil rights, economy and democracy: Silicon Valley insider Tom Kemp warns about the existential dangers of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Can there be liberty in the Greater Middle East without democracy? Robert D. Kaplan on why Singapore offers a palatable political model for countries lying between the Mediterranean and China
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Remembering the Digital Future: Ethan Zuckerman on the history of blogging, the Arab Spring and why there will never be another Twitter
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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The Silicon Valley Playbook for Existential Success: Behnam Tabrizi on why some companies succeed and others fail in the perpetual struggle to survive in today's innovative economy
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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On the Disinformation of Trump, RFK Jr and Putin: Lee McIntyre explains how we can fight for truth and protect democracy
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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What, exactly, is female beauty? Celeste Marcus on Bardot and Barbie as rival and perhaps incompatible types of beautiful women
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Liberal Saint or Monty Pythonesque Sinner? D.J. Taylor uncovers a "New Life" for George Orwell that resurrects the iconic 20th century writer for a 21st century audience
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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8 inspiring non-fiction reads for the summer: Bethanne Patrick on books about New York City sex cults, the oceanic underworld, Ghanian confidence tricksters and American women, fathers and sons
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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What history teaches us about the future of venture capitalism: Keith Teare on how being a good investor requires us to overcome our emotions
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Why Podcasters should NEVER read advertisements on their own shows: Jemima Kelly on the gross inauthenticity of podcasts and most other forms of "social" media
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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So how much would you pay for the Mona Lisa? Arturo Cifuentes explains the cost of art and why valuing paintings is like evaluating the price of real-estate
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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The Not-So-Secret World of Black Twitter: Deesha Philyaw on social media, the influencer generation and the loneliness of online existence
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Getting Beyond the Happy Talk of Liberal Orthodoxy: Susan MacKenty Brady explains how men and women can begin talking fearlessly to one another again
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Quinn Eastman on Hypersomnia and the science of sleepiness
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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How Trust Works: Peter Kim on the science of how relationships are built, broken, and repaired
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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All of a sudden, there was all this freedom: David Winer on the origins of blogging, the self-publishing technology that has profoundly shaped the first quarter of the 21st century
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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If Life isn't a Movie, then How Should We Make Movies about Life? Olivia Rutigliano on Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 controversial film, "Le Mepris" (Contempt)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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The Terrifyingly Exciting Promise of Nuclear Fusion: Matthew Moynihan on radically disruptive technology that, he promises, can conquer climate change and take us to Mars in a month
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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The Future of Money, Jobs, Climate and Failure: Andrew Hill on the Financial Times' best 15 business books from 2023
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Dry Powder for a Dying Digital Economy? Keith Teare on the deepening venture capital crisis, how the innovators dilemma holds back Big Tech innovation, and why Substack is trying to reinvent the online media ecosystem
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Did MTV Kill American Democracy? Kathryn Cramer Brownell on cable television and the fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Literary Insurrections and Memetic Apocalypses : Rion Amilcar Scott on the rise and (perhaps) fall of Black Twitter
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Scottish Coal-Miner's Daughter Who Took on the Bulgarian Cryptoqueen: Jennifer McAdam on her battle to take down Ruja Ignatova and her $27 Billion OneCoin Scam
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Seven Best Novels of the Summer: Bethanne Patrick on the literature of love, nostalgia, young call girls and valiant women
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The Subversive Story of the B-52s: Scott Creney on one of the most iconic bands in American popular musical history
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Feeding the AI Beast: Michael Wooldridge on the vast quantities of online data that have trained ChatGPT to mimic human language
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Why America is Facing its greatest "Moral Moment "since the Civil War: Peter Wehner on the accountability of the Republican Party for Trump
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Why We Need to Reoccupy Reality: Douglas Rushkoff on the Untethering of America between 2013 and 2023
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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How something really strange began to happen on social media in 2016
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Bonfire of the Unicorns: Keith Teare on the near apocalypse for Silicon Valley billion dollar valued start-ups ("unicorns") and the impact of this meltdown on the broader innovation economy
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Get Out of My Way
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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In Defense of the Abraham Accords
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Remembering a first Tweet with the same bewitching nostalgia as a first kiss
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Why 1968 was the year that broke American politics and how this could be repeated in 2024
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Why Greta Gerwig's BARBIE is Cynical and Vapid
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Why So Many Smart People Are Turning Against Democracy
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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If We Can Be Taught How to Write, Then Why Not Also Be Educated in How to Love?
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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How to go from a small handful of book sales to top of the bestseller list via a 16 second Tiktok
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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How Landscape Architecture should get us to Pause and then Reconnect with Nature
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Following the Dirty Money in Today's Globalized Entrepreneurial Underworld
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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How the High Price of Money is Wrecking the Venture Capital Industry
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Hot Reads for the Heatwave
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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The New York Street that Changed American Art Forever
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Why Springsteen's NEBRASKA Matters So Much
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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A Real World War II Story: The Tragic Life of Ira Hayes
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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In Praise of Valiant American Women
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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How Barbie Dolls Up the Plasticity of our Surreal Times
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Can the Men Be Saved?
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Why Julian Barnes Will Never Write a Memoir or Autobiography
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Why Conservatives Should Fear & Loathe AI
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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How To Be a Wise Teacher
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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The Netscape Moment When AI Gets a Brain
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Imaging the Animal World as Nature's Great Maintenance Crew
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Why the "very very excellent" OPPENHEIMER is a complicated film for our complex times
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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The Hidden History of American Democracy
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Episode 1610: Our Oppenheimer Moment
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Episode 1609: Why America Dominates the World
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Episode 1608: The Fourth Turning is Here
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Episode 1607: What Happens When Both Life and the Planet is Programmable?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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EPISODE 1606: On the "Moral Ambiguity" Surrounding the American Decision to Drop Two Nuclear Bombs on Japan
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Episode 1605: Why the Habsburg Empire is as much a guide to our 21st Century Future as our 19th Century Past
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Episode 1603: Can Diplomacy Save American Democracy?
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Episode 1603: Social Media For Dummies
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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EPISODE 1602: How to Learn to Look So that We Become the World Itself
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Episode 1601: Why Americans Still Can't Talk to Each Other About Politics
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Episode 1600: What a Cock Up!
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Episode 1599: Black Americans, Civil Rights and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Episode 1598: Goodbye, Eastern Europe
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 1597: Into the Bright Sunshine of Human Rights
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 1596: How the Internet Has Become an Outrage Machine
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 1595: Why AI is Now the Analytical Brain AND the Creative Heart of our Economy
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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EPISODE 1594: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral?
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 1593: Why America's Blood-Sucking Super Rich Want to Live Forever
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Episode 1592: Risking Everything in Pursuit of Truth and Beauty
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Episode 1591: Enabling a Conversation Between Rural and Urban America
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Episode 1590: Talking to the Mafia about Michael Jackson, Donald Trump and Jimmy Hoffa
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Episode 1589: Why Lina Khan and Gary Gensler Should Be Fired
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Episode 1588: A Real-Life Tragicomedy about our Destruction of the Earth
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Episode 1587: What America's current drug binge reveals about the post neoliberal 2020s
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Episode 1586: Why the Renaissance Still Haunts Us
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Walt Zuckerberg: If you like Disneyland, then you're gonna love Threads
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Episode 1584: Learning from the Deepest Oceans about How Life Begun
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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From Radical to Unifier to Martyr: C.W. Goodyear on James Garfield, the Most Pathologically Reasonable of American Presidents
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Episode 1582: A Terribly Serious History of Philosophy at Oxford
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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KEEN ON Episode 1581: When a Czechoslovakian David Twice Beat the Soviet Goliath
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Episode 1580: The Albert Einstein Effect
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Episode 1579: Crime as a Catalyst for Social Change
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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The rise of Las Narcas - the drug ladies of Latin America
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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The Warnings of a Holocaust Scholar about Today's World of the Big Lie
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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How to Tell the American Story
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Phew! When AI ate the internet
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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A Chilling Plot to Grab the World's Food and Water Resources
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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How to Get Beyond the Shame of Sexual Violence
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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America's First Great Naturalist
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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The Uncomfortable Truths Our Dogs Would Tell Us If They Could Talk
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Why Novels Must Be More Believable than Non-Fiction Books
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Remembering Judy Garland, Michael Jackson, the Spice Girls and Stevie Wonder
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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From Pizza and Meze to Ramen and Borscht: Unscrambling the Politics of National Dishes
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Is most of rural America really plotting to destroy democracy?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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On the Importance of Being Batshit Crazy
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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American Whitelash: Wesley Lowery on the cost of progress in an increasingly multiracial America
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The American Dream of a "Tossed Salad": Luma Mufleh on reconciling her identity as a gay Muslim woman with an Arab-turned-American refugee
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The 20th Century Corporation: Richard Langlois on the cultural and economic history of the modern American business enterprise
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Pricing the Priceless: Paula DiPerna on how to quantify the planet and solve the climate crisis
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Why 80% Isn't Good Enough: Matt Higgins imagines how the publishing industry and writers will be impacted by the coming AI storm
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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The Middle Eastern Maze: Itamar Rabinovich on Israel, the Palestinians and an inglorious seventy-five year history of mostly failed peace initiatives
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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A Teacher's Journey: Adam Bessie's graphically dystopian take on education in the digital age of COVID and AI
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Fireworks Every Night: Beth Raymer on her delightfully delusional father, male homelessness and why Florida "just is America"
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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The End of the Game: Roger Ballen on the existential ecological psychodrama of the destruction of African wildlife
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Becoming Fully Me: Bethanne Patrick about how she escaped her double depression and wrote a memoir about it
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World: Christian Cooper on birding, the flight of freedom and how we must positively bend the arc of justice
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Why Big Tech is Getting Even Bigger: Keith Teare on how the biggest tech companies now control our economic and political fates
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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From Queer to Gay to Queer: James Kirchick on why he believes the theory of "queerness" is a "parasite" on the gay rights movement
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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How to Get Rid of Rich White Men: Garrett Neiman on uprooting the old boy's club in order to transform America
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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A Queer American Life: R.K. Russell on being black and bi-sexual in the National Football League
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Winner Sells All: Jason Del Rey on the quarter century Amazon vs Walmart war for our wallets, bodies and souls
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Animal Spirits: Jackson Lears on the American Pursuit of vitality from Walt Whitman and William James to Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Peter Cave on the scholars, dreamers and sages who can teach us how to live
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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France and Marc Chagall in World War Two: Stephen Kiernan on the redemptive power of art to reconstruct a broken nation
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The Purple Presidency 2024: C. Owen Paepke on how voters can reclaim the White House for "bipartisan" governance
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Things You Wanted to Say But Never Did: Geloy Concepcion on his confessional photographic journal on Instagram
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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The Datapreneurs: Bob Muglia on why we should trust the promise of AI and its creators to build a better human future
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Against Nostalgia: Mark Lilla on why progressives should reject nostalgia in thinking about both the past and future
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss why Keith was wrong in last week's show about Apple's new Vision Pro and how this revolutionary device might once again change everything
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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A Radical Amerikan Family: Santi Elijah Holley on the Shakurs - from the Black Panthers to Tupac
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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The Good Enough Job: Simone Stolzoff on how to reclaim our life from work
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Three Ages of Water: Peter Gleick on the prehistoric past, imperiled present and hopeful future of water
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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My Hijacking: Martha Hodes on her memoir of forgetting
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Imagine a City: Mark Vanhoenacker writes a love letter from the sky to the world's greatest cities
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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As Rich as a Digital Croesus: Trevor Traina imagines a super app in which we can store all our Web3 data
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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In Defense of Big Girls: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan asks whether the American Republic was founded on anti-fat people principles
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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The Overlooked Americans: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett on the resilience of rural America and it means for the future of the country
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Donna Cleanwell Leaves Home: Ana Castillo on her "truth seeking" fictional characters and her amusement at being considered the "grande dame of Chicana literature"
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Conversations with Your Future Self: Hal Hershfield on how to escape the tyranny of the present and make tomorrow better today
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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The Chile Project: Sebastian Edwards on the story of the Chicago Boys and the downfall of neoliberalism
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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The Siberian Job: John Kleinheinz on how he got rich in post-communist Russia and what that experience taught him about the value of free markets and democracy
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Crime and Punishment for the Jews: Paul Goldberg on "The Dissident", his new Cold War mystery about a group of refuseniks in Moscow in 1976
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Having Pride in Pride: Abdi Nazemian on why he's happy being thought of as a queer writer
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Here Begins the Global Age: Meredith Small explains how a 15th century Venetian monk drew a map of the world and foresaw the future
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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The Best of New York City Distilled into a Neighborhood Bar: Jon Michaud on the life and death of Coogan's, one of New York's most beloved saloons
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Against the Fetishization of Identity: Umut Ozkirimli offers a leftist alternative to what he sees as the intolerance of "woke" politics
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Body Neutrality: Jessi Kneeland on the psychology and spirituality of escaping body self-hatred
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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The Search for Justice in America: Jared Fishman on the cold-blooded murder of Henry Glover by the New Orleans Police Department after Hurricane Katrina
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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The Survivor's Story of a Gay Activist: Paul Burston on how we can all be heroes, just for one day
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe: Kate Strasdin on fashion, fabric and femininity in 19th century England
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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The Most American of Americans: How African-American slaves embraced the new Republic's symbols of freedom in their fight for freedom
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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The Twisted Games We Play: Siena Sterling on twisted plots, twisted people and twisted writers like Highsmith and Dostoievski
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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The Italian Squad: Paul Moses on the true story of the immigrant cops who fought the rise of the Mafia
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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The Palestine Laboratory: Antony Loewenstein explains how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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The Heartbeat of the Wild: David Quammen's conservationist manifesto from landscapes of wonder, peril and hope
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? Jordan Crandall on the appropriate literature for our new age of superintelligence
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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That Was The Week in Tech: Keith Teare predicts a failed Apple virtual reality headset but is more bullish on Twitter's reinvention as X
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Message on an Envelope: Stephen Games rethinks the publishing industry by reimagining books as postcards
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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The 7 Deadly Myths: Alex Ryvchin on antisemitism from the time of Christ to Kanye West and the Ashburton Army
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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The Wounded World: Chad Williams on W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World World
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Anything but Halycon: Elliot Ackerman imagines an America of President Al Gore in which there is technology that can resurrect dead people
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Our Kids Will Ask Us What We Did: Skye Perryman explains why she is fighting to save American democracy
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Like the Appearance of Horses: Andrew Krivak on war, language, memory and why ChatGPT will never understand beauty
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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The World as a Big Book Club: David Blake explains the resiliency of the physical book and why he is cautiously optimistic about the impact of AI on both publishing and storytelling
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Carry Strong: Stephanie Kramer offers an empowered approach to navigating pregnancy and work
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Talking Turkey: Soli Özel makes sense of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's return to political power
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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How to Scale Trust: David Samson on making tribes and tribalism work in the 21st century
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May 31, 2023 |
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Accelerated Minds: Neil Seeman unlocks the often destructive impulses that drive the entrepreneurial brain
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May 31, 2023 |
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A Lost Son in Russia: Brett Forrest on the tragic human collateral loss of the FBI's secret wars
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May 30, 2023 |
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On Our Worst Behavior: Elise Loehnen explains why women should be sinful
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May 30, 2023 |
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Living Beneath the Surface: Hugh Howey imagines the actual world as a science fictional version of reality
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May 30, 2023 |
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When the Heavens Went on Sale: Ashlee Vance on the historical precedents, environmental risks and business opportunities of colonizing space
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May 18, 2023 |
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Thomas Jefferson as America's Founding Plagiarist: David Fleming explains how Jefferson stole the words of the Declaration of Independence from Irish and Scottish migrants to North Carolina
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Shadow Docket: Stephen Vladeck on how the Supreme Court is using stealth rulings to undermine the American Republic
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May 15, 2023 |
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The Cult of the A*****e: Jeremy Sherman's psycho-proctological analysis of why there are so many a******s around these days
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May 14, 2023 |
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Celebrating Israeli Independence Day: Rick Richman on why he believes "Americanism" and "Zionism" are the most successful "isms" of the 20th century
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May 14, 2023 |
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How to Fix Democracy: Maciej Kisilowski on reconciling progressives and conservatives in Turkey, Poland and the United States
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May 14, 2023 |
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Why Today's Environmental Problems Aren't Existential: Steven Cohen's pragmatic approach to environmentally sustainable growth
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May 13, 2023 |
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Built to Move: Juliet and Kelly Starrett on the most essential habits to help us move freely and live fully
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May 13, 2023 |
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Why Hitchcock's "Vertigo" Still Matters: Ty Burr celebrates the 65th Birthday of this warped, phallic masterpiece about desire & impotence
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May 12, 2023 |
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Telling the Same Story Differently: Terry McDonell on writing about his mother, Irma
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May 12, 2023 |
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Why Facebook Matters :David Kirkpatrick remembers his first meeting with Mark Zuckerberg in 2006 and how social media has changed all of our lives since
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May 11, 2023 |
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Resurrection of the Author: Stephen Marche explains why Generative AI technologies like ChatGPT will make creators more valuable than ever
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Left and the Nation-State: Michael Walzer on what progressives today can learn from liberal nationalists like Thomas Jefferson and Guiseppe Mazzini
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Phoenix Economy: Felix Salmon on work, life and the price of lobster rolls in the new not normal
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Cult of Celebrity: Landon Jones on how America has devolved into a culture of fans and followers
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May 09, 2023 |
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Why Night Vision is the Right Vision: Mariana Alessandri on how the natural human condition might might be to live in darkness, anger and pain
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May 09, 2023 |
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Decision Sprint: Atif Rafiq on whether innovation is an art or a science
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May 08, 2023 |
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A Scientific Theory of Complexity: Neil Theise on Connection, Consciousness and Being
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May 08, 2023 |
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:Why Smart Machines Know Us So Well: John Borthwick on how today's AI revolution is being built upon social media data
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May 07, 2023 |
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Can the GOP Win the Independent Vote? Carl Delfeld on how Republicans existential challenge of reaching non-aligned voters
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May 06, 2023 |
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We Plan, God Laughs: Emma Nadler on how good and bad luck, like laughter and tears, are often inseparably connected
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May 06, 2023 |
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That Was The Week in Tech: Keith Teare explains why all this week's King Canute style talk about regulating AI is equally absurd and impractical
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May 05, 2023 |
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Why Asian Start-ups Outside China Matter: Bernard Moon on innovation in South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam
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May 05, 2023 |
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The Traffic Drug: Ben Smith on the Internet's fatal addiction to viral traffic
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May 05, 2023 |
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Andrew Tate, Mr Beast, KSI and a Viral Flood of Toxic Masculinity: Henry Mance on what it means to be a boy online in 2023
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May 05, 2023 |
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Remembering the Beginnings of our Social Media Age: Julia Angwin on her earliest memories of the blogging "revolution"
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May 04, 2023 |
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Uncovering the Sad Truth about Wonder Boy: Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans on Tony Hsieh and Silicon Valley's happiness myth
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May 04, 2023 |
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Turning the Traditional Super-Hero Narrative Upside Down: Leah Johnson on why it's more important for kids to save themselves than to save the world
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May 04, 2023 |
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Why Social Media Still Matters: Jeff Jarvis on the origins of blogging , what went wrong at Twitter and Facebook, and how he still believes in the social potential of the Internet
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May 04, 2023 |
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The 1963 Birmingham Campaign: Paul Kix on the ten weeks that changed America
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May 04, 2023 |
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Is American Capitalism Irredeemably Rotten? Brendan Ballou on Private Equity's Plan to Pillage and Plunder the United States
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May 03, 2023 |
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HELL TO PAY: Michael Lind explains how the suppression of wages and unions is destroying America
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May 03, 2023 |
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From Solitaire to Heartstopper: Alice Oseman on asexuality, authentic story telling and book banning
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May 03, 2023 |
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The First Lady of World War II: Shannon McKenna Schmidt on Eleanor Roosevelt's remarkable heroism during the War
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May 02, 2023 |
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The Miracle That the United States Needs Right Now: John Blake's personal story on how to get beyond race and racism in America today
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May 02, 2023 |
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Telling Our Stories Our Way: Angeline Boulley on the need to get beyond "trauma "in Native American literature
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May 02, 2023 |
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The Promise of Second Life: Amber Atherton on the rise (and fall) of virtual communities
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May 02, 2023 |
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Excellent Advice for Living (and Dying): Kevin Kelly on how to become improbable versions of ourselves and why we should be intimate with our ancestors
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May 01, 2023 |
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The Art of Fictionalizing Non-Fiction: Katie Hafner on Kafka, Silicon Valley and the truish story behind her novel "The Boys"
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May 01, 2023 |
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Trump Was a Joke: Sophia McClennen on how satire makes sense of a President who didn't
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Free and Equal: Daniel Chandler on what a fair society should look like
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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VC shrinkage, the end of screens, and sperm injected robots: Keith Teare on THAT WAS THE WEEK in tech for April 29, 2023
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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On Fathers and Sons: Charles Foran explains what his memories of his father teach us about himself and us
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Bridging Istanbul with Kansas City: Kenan Orhan on the surprising links between the American heartland and the Turkish metropolis
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic: Simon Winchester about the magical way in which knowledge is now transmitted
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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The Poetry of End Times:" Rishi Dastidar offers a post-apocalyptic jig and reel to dance around our climate crisis
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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If You Don't Adapt, You Fail: Peter Frankopan on what we can learn from history about today's environmental crisis
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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From Saddam to the Iraqi heavy metal scene: Faisal Saeed Al Mutar on resisting Al Qaeda, reading John Stuart Mill and eating a good kebab
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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An Uneducated Memoir: Christopher Zara on flunking out, falling apart and finding his worth in spite of not being "educated"
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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No, We Are Not Alone: Daniel Siegel explains how we must expand our idea of the "self" to include other people, other species and the earth itself
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Halloween Comes Early to Silicon Valley This Year: The death of magazines, DVDs & Buzzfeed News as well as the near-death of Twitter
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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I Kick and I Fly: Ruchira Gupta on empowering girls to fight against child prostitution and sex trafficking
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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On God, Goodness & the Value of Persistence: Sam Adeyemi on why evangelicals should be encouraging their followers to think like "leaders"
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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The World and All That It Holds: Aleksandar Hemon on Sarajevo, Jerusalem and the political significance of "macaronic" language
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Seeing Through the Smoke: Peter Grinspoon, MD, untangles the truth about marijuana
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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What's Love Got To Do With It? Genevieve Wheeler on witty banter, trashing talking and true romance in our social media age
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Why nobody is taking any liberties at Liberties: Celeste Marcus on publishing an uncompromisingly high-quality literary quarterly in the age of Substack & TikTok
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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When the Medium Became the Message: Julia Angwin on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and the origins of our age of advertising driven surveillance capitalism
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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American Madness: Jonathan Rosen's tragic story about friendship, insanity and murder
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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The South Pacific, Then and Now: Tanis Rideout asks whether we should apologize for the sins of our colonizing ancestors
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Soft Power 2.0: Daniel F. Runde on how America can reclaim global leadership in the 2020s
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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What Do White Women Want? Kimberlee Yolanda Williams on what it's like to rock the white woman's cradle
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Is Antisemitism on the Rise? Philip Slayton discusses an ancient hatred in our age of identity politics
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Those British Coronations: Jennifer Robson compares the crowning of Elizabeth II in 1953 with Charles III in 2023
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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On Children's Superpowers: Jarrett Krosoczka explains how art can enable kids to escape the unfortunate circumstances of their lives
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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That Was The Week for 4/14/23: Keith Teare on Substack vs Twitter, Apple banking, and Betaworks' AI Camp
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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The Anxious Achiever: Morra Aarons-Mele on how to transform your biggest fears into your leadership superpower
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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How to Construct a Nervous System: Margo Jefferson on Ella Fitzergerald, Josephine Baker and the Refraction of her Life through Memoir Writing
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Mediocre Monk: Grant Lindsley on what he learnt in his stumbling search for wisdom in a Thai forest monastery
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Butcher on the Block; Matt Moore talks meat, butcher shops and where to find the best Lebanese food in America
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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The Point of No Return for American Democracy? Thomas Byrne Edsall on the Republican party's descent into "minority authoritarianism"
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Nesting After Divorce: Beth Behrendt on how to co-parent in the family home after the marriage ends
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Flying Green: Christopher de Bellaigue identifies the lies and the promise of an environmentally responsible airline industry
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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How to Innovate: Sheena Iyengar on how, in our Age of Big Problems, we must learn to Think Bigger
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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On Mental Illness and the Mist of Consciousness: William Brewer explains how Psychedelic Therapy Saved His Life
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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On Roads Not Taken: Novelist Juliette Fay explains why regret is such fertile territory for fiction writers
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Disrupting the Traditional Art World: Evrim Oralkan on how Collecteurs.com is transforming privately owned creative work into "public" digital art
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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A Tragic Grand Delusion: Steven Simon on the Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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That Was the Week in Tech: Inspired by his wife, Gene, Keith Teare asks whether the market has hit the bottom
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Nine Black Robes: Joan Biskupic on the historic significance of the Supreme Court's drive to the right
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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An Impossible Choice: Anjan Sundaram on the devastating personal costs of being a war correspondent in Africa
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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The Painful Joy of Remembering the Lives of Two Holocaust Survivors: Max J. Friedman on why he chose to write a memoir about his Holocaust surviving parents
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Why We Should Blame Leaders, not Citizens, for Today's Crisis of Democracy: Larry Bartels on how democracy is eroding from the top
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Start-Up That Defines the entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley: Jimmy Soni on the story of PayPal and its remarkable alumni who have shaped the 21st century
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Teen Mental Health Crisis: Hannah Murphy asks whether teens are paying with their sanity for their "free" social media
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Complicate the Narrative: Rajiv Vinnokota on how to transform Americans into better citizens
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Getting Kids to Hear the Trees: Brian Selznick on how to make a hopeful children's book about our environmental crisis
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Why Philosophy Matters: Diana Janney on the philosophical foundations of her fiction
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Getting Out of Saigon: Ralph White explains how he - as a 27-year old American banker - saved 113 South Vietnamese civilians
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Welcome to the Age of Scientific Wellness: Nathan Price on why the future of medicine will be personalized, predictive, data-rich, and in all of our hands
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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How to Laugh in the Face of our Environmental Apocalypse: Aaron Sachs explain why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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George VI and Elizabeth: Sally Bedell Smith on the 20th century royal marriage that saved the British monarchy
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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I Can't Save You: Anthony Chin-Quee on how giving up his successful career in medicine "saved" him
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Why We Need To Unwire from Big Tech: Gaia Bernstein on how to gain control over addictive digital technologies
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Don't Be King Canute: Keith Teare's Open Letter against pausing generative AI
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Retracing the Iron Curtain: Timothy Phillips on his 3,000 mile journey through the end and afterlife of the Cold War
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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The Problem to End All Problems: Michael Scott-Baumann on the tragically parallel histories of Israel and Palestine
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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A Memoir about Hardship and Tragedy: Nicole Chung personal story of class, anger and grief in an increasingly unequal America
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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The Last Catastrophe: Allegra Hyde offers an existential pitch for saving the planet
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Is the Web3 Dead? Edward Lee on Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the seductive promise of creators taking control of their digital work
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Why the Ideal of the "Self" is a Social Construction: Brian Lowery on the myth of rugged individualism and what this should mean for the America of the 2020s
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Mar 27, 2023 |