Episodes
Lesley Blume: Reporting on Human Suffering in COVID Times
The COVID new s remains disturbingly bleak. Deaths in the US are over 300,000 with Tennessee as “ground zero” and California running out of ICU beds. The suffering behind these numbers is obviously heartbreaking. So how shoul...
Rod Dreher: Should Conservatives Become Martyrs?
“The Last Days of Donald Trump” show is careening toward its final, farcical episode. Part Jacques Clouseau and Chauncey Gardiner, Trump continues to channel his inner Peter Sellers into a preposterous mash-up of Being There ...
Evan Osnos: The American Romance of Joe Biden
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Evan Osnos about his new book, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now , and who really is Joe Biden. This episode is brought to you by MagicSpoon. Go to magicspoon.com/keenon ...
Nicholas Christakis: How Covid-19 Will Change the Way We Live
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Nicholas Christakis about his new book, Apollo's Arrow , and his own study on the spread of Covid-19 around the world -- and why we need to look at it broadly. Nicholas A. Christakis is a...
Chris Goodall: Why We Should Be Encouraged About Joe Biden's Climate …
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Chris Goodall about his new book, What We Need to Do Now , and what a zero carbon future looks like. Chris Goodall is the author of several successful books and writer for Guardian Enviro...
Elliott Currie: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Elliott Currie about his new book, A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America , and looking at the alarming numbers in the context of Covid-19. Elliott Curri...
Candacy Taylor: Race Relations Still Have a Long Way to Go in America
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Candacy Taylor about her new book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America , the history of the Green Book, and how far we still have to go when it comes to...
Jason Hickel: How Degrowth Will Save the World
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Jason Hickel about his latest book, Less Is More, and what a post-capitalist economy could look like. Dr. Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Soc...
David Paul Kuhn: When the White Working Class Turned Against Liberali…
On today's episode, Andrew talks with David Paul Kuhn about his new book, The Hardhat Riot, and the connections between 1970 and our present moment. David Paul Kuhn is an author, reporter, and political analyst. He has served...
Peter Beinart: Is America's Role of Leadership in the World Over?
On today's episode, Andrew talks with columnist Peter Beinart about America's loss of world leadership in a post-Trump world. Peter Beinart is professor of journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and pro...
Timothy Egan: Following the Road to Faith
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Timothy Egan about his latest book, The Pilgrimage to Eternity, and how the act of walking ties us to the earth. Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of eight ...
Robert Kolker on the Strengths and Weaknesses of the American Family
On today's episode, Robert Kolker discusses his latest book, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family. ROBERT KOLKER is the New York Times bestselling author of Lost Girls , named one of the New York Times 's...
Paul Jankowski on Our Long Winter
On Keen On, Andrew talks with Paul Jankowski about his latest book, All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War. Paul Jankowski is the Raymond Ginger Professor of History at Brandeis Unive...
Kim Ghattas on Black Wave and the Unraveling of the Modern Middle East
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Kim Ghattas about her new book, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East. Kim Ghattas is an Em...
K. Sabeel Rahman: The Stock Market Is Not the Economy
On today's episode, Andrew talks with K. Sabeel Rahman, president of Demos, about why we need to challenge the privatization in America of the last 30 years. K. Sabeel Rahman is an Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law S...
Talia Stroud: The Role of Public Space in the Digital Age
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Talia Stroud, co-director of Civic Signals, about rebuilding and re-stimulating public digital spaces -- and whether it's possible to make digital spaces feel like community or civic init...
Lucas Chancel: Why Does Helping the Poor Often Hurt the Environment?
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Lucas Chancel about his new book, Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment , and the inequalities that become apparent during moments of crisis. Lucas Chancel is co-...
Carl Safina: The More You Understand, the More Humility You Acquire
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Carl Safina, author of the new book, Becoming Wild , and our values that are destructive and dehumanizing to the earth and our own species. Carl Safina's work has been recognized with Mac...
Julian E. Zelizer: The Legacy of Newt Gingrich and the Era of Partisa…
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Julian E. Zelizer about his new book, Burning Down the House, and how Newt Gingrich launched our current era of partisan warfare -- and why Trump is the culmination of this. Julian E. Zel...
Rick Perlstein: How 1980 Changed Modern Politics
On today's episode, Rick Perlstein discusses his new book, Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 , and how the birth of modern American conservatism happened before Ronald Reagan. Rick Perlstein is the author of the New ...
Mauro F. Guillen: After Coronavirus, How Do We Prepare For What's Nex…
On today's episode, Andrew talks with professor and thinker Mauro F. Guillen about his new book, 2030, global trends to keep an eye on, and what the future holds after the pandemic. Mauro F. Guillén is one of the most origina...
Edmund Fawcett: The Fight For Conservatism Today
On today's episode, Andrew talks with Edmund Fawcett, author of the new book Conservatism , about the fight for a tradition of order and stability and for who is the true conservative, which continues today. Edmund Fawcett wo...
Peter Osnos: Publishing Will Never Die
On today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Peter Osnos, founder of PublicAffairs, about the recent news that Bertelsmann, the parent of Penguin Random House, will purchase Simon & Schuster and why this does not mean the Amazo...
Brian Christian: Does Proposition 25 Symbolize the Great Ethical Ques…
On todays episode, Andrew Keen talks with Brian Christian about his new book, The Alignment Problem , and the question at the intersection of computer science, ethics, and the law that determines whether a statistical tool ca...