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) Chinese Amorality vs. American Immorality
According to the New Yorker writer Nicholas Niarchos, Africa is rich in both raw materials and tragic paradox. We know about the continent's wealth in the rare earth minerals that enable our global tr...Show More
4) Why This Might Be Robert Redford's Most Prescient Movie
We all have our own favorite Robert Redford movie. But what's Redford’s most prescient film about today’s America? His Seventies trilogy about American politics — The Candidate, Three Days of the Cond...Show More
5) Can Swiftynomics Save America?
Can Swiftynomics save America? That’s the intriguing thesis at the heart of Misty Heggeness’ new book about Swift’s impact on the American economy. Entitled Swiftynomics, it’s as much about Taylor Swi...Show More
6) On Fire for the God Con
The Music Man was a 1957 Broadway show written by Meredith Willson, a musician from the small Iowa town of Mason City. The popular play (and later movie) featured a con man called Harold Hill who ripp...Show More
7) How Jefferson Seduced America
Few biographers can claim to know what it feels like to be Thomas Jefferson more than the Charlottesville-based historian Andrew Burstein. The author of many books about Jefferson, Burstein’s latest, ...Show More
8) The Man Who Made Books Random
There was a time in the mid 20th century, the literary historian Gayle Feldman reminds us, when the book business was cool. Back then, New York publishing resembled Silicon Valley tech and the Mark Zu...Show More
9) Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare
Trump’s Gazan dream is to overlay the complex human history with his own narcissistic real-estate fantasy. But for Maia Carter Hallward, co-author of a new contemporary history of Gaza, this once vibr...Show More
10) Old School Principles for the New Century: What if the Right isn't Wrong about Education?
What if the right isn’t wrong - or, at least, totally wrong, about education? That seems to be the conclusion of James Traub, a liberal educationalist, who has spent the last year visiting the civics ...Show More