Episodes

On today's episode, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, journalist and author of A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear , discusses what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling is a freelance journalist s...

On today's episode, Tom Burgis, Financial Times investigations correspondent and author of Kleptopia , discusses breaking the code of secrecy of money. Tom Burgis is an investigations correspondent at the Financial Times . He...

On today's episode, Vicky Osterweil, author of In Defense of Looting , discusses the controversy of her new book and a real desire for change in the liberation movements. Vicky Osterweil is a writer, editor, and agitator and ...

On today's episode, David Nasaw, author of The Last Million, discusses his eight-year project researching the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII. David Nasaw is the author of The Patriarch , selected by th...

On today's episode, Sinan Aral, head of MIT's Social Analytics Lab and author of The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt , discusses Sinan Aral is the Davi...

David Goodhart, author of Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect , discusses the narrowing concept of a good life, how pushing higher education led to ...

Vanessa Veselka is the author of the novel Zazen , which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and ZYZZYVA , and her nonfiction in GQ , The Atlantic , Smithsonian , The Atavist , an...

Sir Martin Sorrell is Executive Chairman of S⁴Capital, a new London listed vehicle with the objective of building a new age, new era, digital advertising and marketing services platform for clients. S4Capital has completed th...

JOHN W. DEAN served as White House counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1973. During the Watergate scandal, his Congressional testimony helped lead to Nixon's resignation. Dean has written about Watergate in his N...

Jonathan Karl is the chief White House correspondent and chief Washington correspondent for ABC News and the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association (2019-2020). He has reported from the White House during th...

On this special episode of Keen On, presented by the Bertelsmann Foundation and Humanity in Action, Anne Applebaum and Michael Ignatieff discuss the decline of liberal democracy and the rise of authoritarianism around the wor...

Carl Hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest, which was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice,” a NY Ti...

Kurt Andersen is the bestselling author of the novels Heyday, Turn of the Century, and True Believers. He contributes to Vanity Fair and The New York Times and was the host and co-creator of Studio 360, the Peabody Award-winn...

On today's episode, Kai Strittmatter, foreign correspondent and author of We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State , discusses a return of totalitarianism and digital self-policing as the new panopticon. Ka...

Jill Filipovic is a Brooklyn-based journalist, lawyer, and author of The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness . A weekly columnist for CNN and a 2019 New America Future of War fellow, she is also a contributing opinion w...

Ian Buruma teaches at Bard College. His books include A Tokyo Romance , Their Promised Land , Year Zero , The China Lover, Murder in Amsterdam , Occidentalism , God's Dust , Behind the Mask , The Wages of Guilt , Bad Elements...

Thomas Frank is the author of Listen, Liberal, Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, and What's the Matter with Kansas? A former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper's, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffl...

Harold James is the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Eric Alterman is a distinguished professor of English at CUNY Brooklyn College and holds a PhD in history from Stanford University. A columnist for the Nation , he is the author of ten previous titles, including the New York ...

Victoria de Grazia is Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University and a founding editor of Radical History Review . Her widely translated, prizewinning books include Irresistible Empire: America's Advance thr...

William Deresiewicz is an award-winning essayist and critic, frequent speaker at colleges and other venues, and former professor of English at Yale. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic , the New York Times , Harper’s , T...

David Gessner is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestseller All the Wild That Remains . He has taught environmental writing as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard and is currently a professor and depar...

Robert Draper is a writer at large for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing writer to National Geographic. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain: The Presidency of G...

Richard Kreitner is a contributing writer to The Nation . He is the author of Booked: A Traveler's Guide to Literary Locations Around the World.