The 2 Best Keen On Podcast Episodes
1) Fern Schumer Chapman on Sibling Estrangement and the Road to Reconciliation
In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Fern Schumer Chapman, author of "Brothers, Sisters, Strangers" to discuss understanding, coping with, and healing from the unique pain of sibling estr...Show More
2) Exposing Surveillance Capitalism
The fight for a democratic future at the new frontier of power with Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff. Full show notes : http://ajkeen.libsyn.com/exposing-surveillance- capitalism Le...Show More
3) Let’s Just Say It Out Loud: AI Is Not Dangerous
“Let’s just say it out loud,” Keith Teare, publisher of the That Was the Week newsletter, says. “AI is not dangerous.” Not all of you will agree. I’m certainly not so sure. But the gruff Yorkshireman ...Show More
4) Read Fifty Books a Year: Deborah Kenny on Nurturing a Well-Educated Child
“A mark of an intelligent person is humility. If you have the right amount of humility, then you’re seeking out knowledge from others rather than thinking you’re going to invent something new. It’s re...Show More
5) Cold Feet over the Cold War: Daniel Bessner on Why Cold War Liberalism Was Unamerican
“If God died in the nineteenth century, ideology died in the twenty-first. Could you actually imagine people dying for communism or for liberal democracy? That actually happened. Now you would be cons...Show More
6) From One Mad King to Another: Don Watson's Shortest History of the United States
“Politics is the systematic organisation of hatreds.” — Henry Adams, quoted by Don Watson America is celebrating its 250th anniversary this July. In The Shortest History of the United States, Australi...Show More
7) Agency, Agency, Agency: Sophie Haigney on the Three Things All the Worst People Want
“I find it very odd that agency is being promoted for its own sake rather than being connected to any kind of value system. Because without those things, agency looks pretty scary. Dictators are quite...Show More
8) How Osama Bin Laden and Barron Trump Explain the World: Franklin Foer on Arsenal, the MAGA World Cup and an Unlikely Theory of Globalization
“Globalization has revived tribalism. Instead of destroying local cultures, as the left predicted, it has made them stronger. Far from the triumph of capitalism that the right predicted, it has entren...Show More
9) Biden’s Blue Authoritarianism: Stuart Schrader on How America’s Police Seized Power From Below
“You don’t have enough money to pay all the bills? Well, cut the budget for parks and rec, cut the budget for libraries, cut the budget for fixing potholes — but don’t touch the police budget.” — Stua...Show More
10) Forget Iran: Eyck Freymann on Taiwan, China, and Why America Keeps Hitting the Snooze Button,
“We keep getting wake-up calls and snoozing the alarm. Now is the time to actually get out of bed and confront this problem before it is too late.” — Eyck Freymann Forget Iran for a moment. The Hormuz...Show More