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Keen On America
Keen On America
Andrew Keen

Nobody asks sharper or more impertinent questions than Andrew Keen. In KEEN ON, Andrew cross-examines the world’s smartest people on politics, economics,... more

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Episodes

Episode 2514: How to turn America into a Waymo Democracy

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

26 Apr 2025 · 40 minutes
Episode 2513: Adam Hochschild on how American History is Repeating itself, first as Tragedy, then as Trump

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

25 Apr 2025 · 44 minutes
Episode 2512: Adam Becker on AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

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

24 Apr 2025 · 46 minutes
Episode 2511: Jemima Kelly on why she hasn't quite given up on America

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

23 Apr 2025 · 46 minutes
Episode 2510: Simon Kuper Celebrates the Death of the American Dream

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

22 Apr 2025 · 32 minutes
Episode 2509: David A. Bell on "The Enlightenment"

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

21 Apr 2025 · 46 minutes
Episode 2508: Jerry Avorn on America's addiction to prescribed drugs

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

21 Apr 2025 · 43 minutes
Episode 2507: Peter Leyden on How Trump is Unintentionally Making America Great Again.

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

20 Apr 2025 · 55 minutes
Epiosde 2506: Are Google and Facebook screwed?

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

19 Apr 2025 · 37 minutes
Episode 2505: Sarah Kendzior on the Last American Road Trip

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

18 Apr 2025 · 46 minutes
Keen On America
Episode 2514: How to turn America into a Waymo Democracy
Keen On America