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

In yesterday’s show, the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explained how radical ideology is infecting our brains. Today, Unite America executive director... more

Our brains are delicate things. That, at least, is the view of the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod, whose new book, The... more

To celebrate our 2500th show, long time KEEN ON friend David Masciotra interviewed me about the current perilous situation in... more

MIT professor Thomas Levenson is one of America’s most celebrated science writers and filmmakers. In his upcoming new book, So... more