Episodes

On today's episode, Hannah Testa, author of Taking on the Plastics Crisis, discusses her journey to activism from a young age and why age doesn't matter in creating change. Hannah Testa is a sustainability advocate, international speaker, and founder of Hannah4Change, an organization dedicated to fighting issues that harm the planet. She has partnered with politicians to successfully approve legislation to protect the Earth's oceans by limiting single-use plastics like straws, bags, and utensil...

On today's episode, David French, author of Divided We Fall, discusses whether the upcoming election will truly result in the breakup of America. David French is a senior editor of The Dispatch, a columnist at Time, a former senior writer at National Review, an Iraq War veteran, and the co-author of several books, including Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore, a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Tennessee.

On a special episode introducing That Was the Week with Keith Teare to Now.tv, Andrew talks with Keith about Maelle Gavet's arguments about the need to break up Big Tech giants and why we shouldn't trust anti-trust. Keith Teare is a Founder and Executive Chairman at Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd., a UK based global investment company focused on startups at all stages. He was previously founder at the Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs. Archimedes was the original incubator for TechCrunch a...

On today's episode, Carlton F.W. Larson, author of On Treason, discusses the history of groups trying to overthrow the government, from the Revolutionary War to the recent militia group in Michigan. Carlton F.W. Larson is a Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law, where he teaches American constitutional law and English and American legal history. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Larson is one of the nation's leading autho...

On today's episode, Matt Hart, author of Win at All Costs, discusses the unsettling details of Nike's secret running program, the Nike Oregon Project, and the ever-prevalent corporate win-at-all-costs culture. Matt Hart is a freelance journalist whose writing covers sports science, human-powered adventure and exploration, performance-enhancing drugs, nutrition, and evolution. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and Men's Journal mag...

On today's episode, Po Bronson, co-author of Decoding the World, discusses why we don't need to be scientifically literate to make sense of the world. Po Bronson is Managing Director of IndieBio. His science journalism has been honored with nine national awards, and cited in 185 academic journals and 503 books. He's the author of seven bestselling books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller What Should I Do With My Life?

On today's episode, Craig Wright, author of The Hidden Habits of Genius, discusses the relationship between hard work and genius and why this term is deeply embedded in our culture. Craig Wright is the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale University, where he teaches the popular undergraduate course, "Exploring the Nature of Genius." A Guggenheim Fellow, Wright has received an honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from the University of Chicago, is a member of the Ameri...

On today's episode, Tim Weiner, author of The Folly and the Glory, discusses why our leaders and citizens need to understand the nature of political warfare – and to change course before it’s too late. Tim Weiner has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his reporting and writing on national security and intelligence. He covered the CIA, the war in Afghanistan, and crises and conflicts in fourteen nations for the New York Times. Weiner has taught history and writing at Princeton...

On today's episode, Ian Brown, photographer and author of American Dreams, discusses traveling across the country over twelve years to document and explore what it means to be an American. Ian Brown is an award-winning photographer whose work focuses on the human condition. His portraits have been acclaimed for their simple depth of emotion and honesty. He survived cancer at the age of nineteen, a heart attack at age thirty-two, and being shot at in the middle of a civil war in Colombia while o...

On today's episode, Barry C. Lynn, the author of Liberty From All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People, discusses what is perhaps the gravest domestic threat to our liberties in a century. Barry C. Lynn is Founder and CEO of the Open Markets Institute in Washington. He is author of Cornered (2010) and End of the Line (2005) in which he pioneered coverage and analysis of America's new monopoly crisis. His work has been profiled in The New York Times, Politico, The Washi...

On today's episode, Martha S. Jones, author of Vanguard, discusses how African American women's political power has transformed America. Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She is president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the oldest and largest association of women historians in the United States, and she sits on the executive board of the Organization of American Historians. Author of Birth...

On today's episode, Joel Bakan, author of The New Corporation, discusses how and why good corporations are bad for democracy. Joel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia. A Rhodes Scholar and former law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, he holds law degrees from Oxford, Harvard, and Dalhousie Universities. An internationally renowned legal authority, Bakan has written widely on law and its social and economic impact. He is the cocreato...

Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, and Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War, and coauthor of Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. He is vice chairman of IHS Markit, one of the leading information and research firms in the world, a member of...

On today's episode, Tom Burger, author of Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World, discusses the New York Times' recent revelations about Donald Trump and his taxes. Tom Burgis is an investigations correspondent at the Financial Times. He has reported from more than forty countries, won major journalism awards in the US and Asia and been shortlisted for eight others, including twice at the British Press Awards. His critically acclaimed book The Looting Machine, about the modern plund...

On today's episode, Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People, discusses how the KGB took a punt on Trump and won. Catherine Belton worked from 2007-2013 as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, and in 2016 as the newspaper's legal correspondent. She has previously reported on Russia for Moscow Times and Business Week. In 2009, she was shortlisted for Business Journalist of the year at the British Press Awards. She lives in London.

From a live session of How to Fix Democracy, presented by the Bertelsmann Foundation and Humanity in Action, Andrew Keen talks with Timothy Snyder, best selling author of On Tyranny, and Freedom House’s Michael Abramowitz about Snyder's new book Our Malady, and together they explain what they’ve learned in 2020 about the relationship between healthcare, liberty, and democracy. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute...

David S. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award. His other books include Beneath the American Renaissance (winner of the Christian Gauss Award), John Brown, Abolitionist, and Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America. He is a regular book reviewer for The New York Review of Books, The New...

Tony Schwartz is the author of several books, including The Art of the Deal, which he co-authored with Mr. Trump. He also wrote "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time" (with Jim Loehr) and "The Way We're Working Isn't Working," a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He is also CEO and founder of The Energy Project, a consulting firm that helps individuals and organizations solve intractable problems and add more value in the world by widening their world view.

A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail, professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books on the history of the Middle East. In writing God's Shadow, he has drawn on Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, and French sources. He lives in New York and New Haven, Connecticut.

On today's episode, Cynthia Miller-Idriss discusses her new book Hate in the Homeland. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is an award-winning author and scholar of extremism and youth radicalization. She is Professor of Education and Sociology and runs the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) in the Center for University Excellence (CUE) at the American University in Washington, DC. She is also Director of Strategy and Partnerships at the U.K.-based Centre for Analysis of the Radical...

Michael J. Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His books What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets and Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? were international best sellers and have been translated into 27 languages. Sandel's legendary course "Justice" was the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and has been viewed by tens of millions. His BBC series "The Public Philosopher" explores the philosophical ideas lying behind the headlines with parti...

On today's episode, John Freeman discusses his book Tales of Two Planets, whether a Green New Deal is possible, and what a Biden presidency would mean for the environment. John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor of Literary Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology about income inequality in America, and Tales of Two Cities, an anthology of new writing about ...

On today's episode, Derek W. Black, author of Schoolhouse Burning, discusses why public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black is a professor at the University of South Carolina Law School where he teaches constitutional law, civil rights, and education law. He is a well-known and outspoken advocate of the importance of public education and his work has been published in both professional legal journals as well as the mainstream media.

Clarissa Ward is CNN's chief international correspondent. In her fifteen-year career spanning Fox, CBS, and ABC, Ward has reported from front lines across the world. She has won five Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for distinguished journalism, honors from the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association, the 2016 David Kaplan Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Excellence in International Repor...