Episodes

In February 2011, I had the maven of mavens, Seth Godin , on the show to discuss the end of the industrial age. “So why are you so popular?” I asked the best-selling author, entrepreneur and teacher. “I notice things,” he exp...

New books about the impact of AI on the human condition are two a penny. But it’s rare to have an AI book by such a prominent author as Robert Skidelsky , a member of the British House of Lords and the author of the iconic t...

There are some seriously heavyweight new non-fiction books this Fall including memoirs by Al Pacino and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as an intriguing new historical analysis of the recently departed Queen Elizabeth and that...

Last October, we featured a conversation with Kian Vesteinsson, co-author of Freedom House ’s 2023 FREEDOM ON THE NET report, about the repressive power of artificial intelligence. A year later, Freedom House’s 2 024 FREEDOM ...

The conventional way of thinking about digital technology revolutions is akin to thinking about how to build a house. First we build the foundation, then we add the frame and finally the cosmetic furnishing. In tech, this is ...

Early today, we posted a conversation with Celeste Marcus, LIBERTIES Quarterly managing editor, about her hard-hitting “Hate Lands” essay in the Fall 2024 issue. In the same issue , there’s an equally hard hitting piece by t...

In the Fall 2024 issue of Liberties Quarterly, managing editor Celeste Marcus writes about the great Polish movie director Agnieszka Holland . Marcus argues that the 75 year-old Holland - best known for her 1990 movie Europa ...

Do we shape the future or does it shape us? That’s the core question in Brian Solis ’ new book, Mindshift which provides lessons for corporate executives in transforming leadership and driving innovation. Like so many other f...

As a longtime Harvard Business School professor and the former chief marketing officer at Aetna, David C. Edelman is all too familiar with both the dangers and opportunities of personalized technology. In Personalization , hi...

Last week, we featured an interview with the leftist American theologian, Jim Wallis, who warned about the false white gospel of contemporary Christian nationalism. And we return to the existential dangers of American religio...

The 2024 winners of the Nobel prize for Economics were announced this morning. One of the winners was the MIT economist Simon Johnson , who, as the co-author (with his MIT colleague Daron Acemoglu) of Power and Progress , ap...

Earlier this week, the prominent African-American broadcaster and writer, Tavis Smiley, came on the show t o voice his support for Reparations to correct the past racial injustices in American history. The Kentucky based his...

In her quest for the White House, it seems as if Kamala Harris is doing everything in her power to disassociate herself with liberal ideas. So what, exactly, has happened to liberal politics in the United States today? That’s...

It’s been a strange week in tech. The Nobel prizes in both Chemistry and Physics went to prominent former or current Googlers, and yet the tech news cycle has been dominated by the U.S. government’s intent to break up a seemi...

As a Harvard trained pediatrician as well as television writer and producer, Neal Baer has particularly interesting take on the moral, policy and ethical challenges of CRISPR gene-editing technology. Baer - He is best known f...

Why are black men more likely to vote for Donald Trump than black women? According to Tavis Smiley , the syndicated radio host and best selling author of many books about black America include his latest Covenant with Black A...

This is an important conversation. Few Americans are better skilled at listening than the UC Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild . The author of the best selling Strangers in Their Own Land , Hochschild’s much antic...

In December 2008, Lily Bock, the daughter of the novelist Charles Bock , was born. But Bock, the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Beautiful Children and Alice & Oliver, was a reluctant parent, tagging along for...

American Christianity appears in a state of disrepair, perhaps even imminent civil war. On the one hand, of course, we have the evangelical right who make up much of Trump’s ideological base; on the other hand, there are prog...

Might future multi-trillion dollar AI platforms like OpenAI represent not just the end of the app age but also of economic competition itself? As That Was The Week’s Keith Teare and Andrew discuss in today’s weekly KEEN ON te...

Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley both teach at Stanford’s interdisciplinary d.school . They are also the joint authors of Assembling Tomorrow , an intriguing new book in which, using their D School experience, Carter and Door...

Yesterday, I interviewed The Financial Times ’ Andrew Hill about the FT’s best six business books of the year. Today, I talk to Michael Morris , the author of one of those books. In Tribal , Morris explains how the cultural i...

The Financial Times has just announced their short list of the best six business books of 2024. Authors include KEEN ON regulars like Andrew Scott as well as Michael Morris , who will appear on tomorrow’s show. As the competi...

While many fear that Trump offers an existential threat to American democracy, Barry C. Lynn believes that the real danger comes from big tech companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Lynn, the executive director of the O...