Episodes

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Lauren Etter, the author of "The Devil's Playbook: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation", to tell the story of what happened when two of the most notorious...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Lizzie Johnson, the author of "Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire", to discuss what went wrong surrounding the 2018 wildfires in California and how ...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Emily Oster, the author of "The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School", to discuss how parents can use data to think more deliberately...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Matthew Zachary, the host of the "Out of Patients" podcast, to cut through the nonsense of American healthcare and explain the steps that can be taken to improve the system. T...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Lucy Jones, the author of "Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild", to discuss how contact with 'nature' can be therapeutic. Lucy Jones is a journalist and author, based in ...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Joe Keohane, the author of "The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World", to discuss what happens when we talk to strangers, and why it affects ev...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Edward J. Watts, the author of "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea", to tell the stories of the people who built their political and literar...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Michael Know Beran, the author of "WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy", to discuss the rise and fall of the distinctly American phenomenon that is Wh...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Sarah Damaske, the author of "The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America", to discuss the American unemployment system and the way...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Jonathan Rapping, the author of "Gideon's Promise: A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice", to discuss the pervasive issues inherent in our current system of...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Patrick Wyman, the author of "The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World", to explore the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530 and bring...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Sheera Frenkel, the author of "An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination", to discuss the complex court politics, alliances and rivalries within Facebook and to s...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Melinda Wenner Moyer, the author of "How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes: Science-based Strategies for Better Parenting — from Tots to Teens", to discuss a winning guide for...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Maureen Farrell, the author of "The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion", to discuss the inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what i...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Richard Leider, the author of "Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging", to discuss the empowerment and opportunities that come with ageing. Int...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Robert Draper, the author of "To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq", to discuss how failed intelligence and 9-11 led to the most consequential de...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Gian Volpicelli, the author of "Cryptocurrency", to discuss what precisely cryptocurrency is and the potential it has to change the world of money. Gian M. Volpicelli is a sen...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Jason Mott, the author of "Hell of a Book", to discuss the fictional yet resonant story of an African-American author's cross-country book tour. New York Times and USA Today B...

The Bertelsmann Foundation , Humanity in Action, and the Institute for Canadian Citizenship invite you to a live session of How to Fix Democracy with Ben Rhodes, political commentator, former White House aide, and close confi...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Juan Cole, the author of "Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires", to discuss how the Prophet Muhammad came of age in an era of unparalleled violence. Juan Ricar...

Adrian Wooldridge is The Economist ‘s political editor and writes the Bagehot column; an analysis of British life and politics, in the tradition of Walter Bagehot, editor of The Economist from 1861-77. Adrian also used to wri...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by David Gessner the author of "Quiet Desperation Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis", to talk about the life and lifestyle of Henry David Thoreau, as w...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Leidy Klotz, the author of "Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less", to discuss why we overlook subtraction, and how we can access its true potential. Leidy Klotz studies how ...

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Simon Clark, the author of "The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale", to discuss what’s really going on in the finance industr...