We are all Waymo Democrats now. That Was the Week’s Keith Teare and I appropriate Thomas Friedman’s controversial new term... more

A year ago, the great American historian Adam Hochschild came on KEEN ON AMERICA to discuss American Midnight, his best... more

Adam Becker’s new critique of Silicon Valley More Everything Forever should probably be entitled Less Nothing Never. The science journalist... more

In contrast with yesterday’s guest, the Paris based Financial Times writer Simon Kuper, the newspaper’s London based columnist Jemima Kelly... more

It’s official. The American Dream is dead. And it’s been resurrected in Europe where, according to the FT columnist Simon... more

So what, exactly, was “The Enlightenment”? According to the Princeton historian David A. Bell, it was an intellectual movement roughly... more

Why is America so over-medicated? According to Harvard Medical School professor Jerry Avorn, author of Rethinking Medications, everything begins and... more

Is America screwed? Not according to the former managing editor of Wired, Peter Leyden. The creator of the Substack newsletter... more

Are Google and Facebook screwed? That’s the question which Keith Teare asks in today’s That Was The Week tech newsletter.... more

Few Americans have been as explicit in their warnings about Donald Trump than the St. Louis based writer Sarah Kendzior.... more