Episodes
Why America is Facing its greatest "Moral Moment "since the Civil War…
EPISODE 1640: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the New York Times and Atlantic columnist Peter Wehner about why the 2024 election may present America with its greatest moral moment since the Civil War Peter Wehner is a c...
Why We Need to Reoccupy Reality: Douglas Rushkoff on the Untethering …
EPISODE 1639: In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the prolific futurist and tech critic, Douglas Rushkoff, about the false promises of social media and our need to engage with what he calls "reality reality" Named one of...
How something really strange began to happen on social media in 2016
EPISODE 1638: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Tobias Rose-Stockwell, author of OUTRAGE MACHINE, about the checkered history of social media Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a writer, designer, technologist and media researcher ...
Bonfire of the Unicorns: Keith Teare on the near apocalypse for Silic…
EPISODE 1637: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith describes a near apocalypse for Silicon Valley billion dollar valued start-ups ("unicorns") and the impact of this meltdown...
Get Out of My Way
EPISODE 1636: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Brooke Kroeger, author of UNDAUNTED, about how fearless women like Ida Wells, Martha Gellhorn and Joan Didion changed American journalism Brooke Kroeger is a journalist , pr...
In Defense of the Abraham Accords
EPISODE 1634: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Aryeh Lightstone, author of LET MY PEOPLE KNOW, about what he believes was the "incredible story of Middle East peace" reflected by the 2020 deal between Israel and Bahrain ...
Remembering a first Tweet with the same bewitching nostalgia as a fir…
EPISODE 1634: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Bethanne Patrick, prolific on social media as @TheBookMaven, about her memories of Twitter's glory years and what she calls the "dopamine hangover" after 2012 Bethanne Patri...
Why 1968 was the year that broke American politics and how this could…
EPISODE 1633: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Luke Nichter, author of THE YEAR THAT BROKE POLITICS , about 1968, the last year American politics got broken by economic, political and cultural upheaval Luke Nichter holds...
Why Greta Gerwig's BARBIE is Cynical and Vapid
EPISODE 1632: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Celeste Marcus, Managing Editor of Liberties Quarterly, about Greta Gerwig's complete failure in BARBIE to make a serious movie about women Celeste Marcus is the managing e...
Why So Many Smart People Are Turning Against Democracy
EPISODE 1631: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jaroslav Anders, author of the Liberties essay "An Open Letter to an Enemy of Liberalism in my Native Land", about why, in his opinion, so many smart people are turning aga...
If We Can Be Taught How to Write, Then Why Not Also Be Educated in Ho…
EPISODE 1630: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Laura Warrell, author of SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM, about writing, jazz, romance and whether novels are really schools for educating their readers about love. LAURA WARREL...
How to go from a small handful of book sales to top of the bestseller…
EPISODE 1629: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to MAIDENS OF THE CAVE author Lloyd Devereux Richards and his daughter Marguerite about the TikTok video that catapulted him from an unknown author to an overnight internet sen...
How Landscape Architecture should get us to Pause and then Reconnect …
EPISODE 1628: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to David Kamp, author of NATURE, DESIGN, AND HEALTH about How our despair about the environment should Be "clarifying" and why the job of the landscape architect is to make us ...
Following the Dirty Money in Today's Globalized Entrepreneurial Under…
EPISODE 1627: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Miles Johnson, the author of CHASING SHADOWS, about a true story of drugs, war and the secret world of international crime Miles Johnson is an investigative reporter for th...
How the High Price of Money is Wrecking the Venture Capital Industry
EPISODE 1626: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Keith explains the connection between the rise in the price of money and the viability of the traditional tech investment ecosys...
Hot Reads for the Heatwave
EPISODE 1625: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the LA Times book critic, Bethanne Patrick, who recommends five of the most interesting books published this week Bethanne Patrick maintains a storied place in the publishin...
The New York Street that Changed American Art Forever
EPISODE 1624: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE SLIP, Prudence Peiffer, about Coenties Slip, an obscure street on the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable modern artists who got their start there P...
Why Springsteen's NEBRASKA Matters So Much
EPISODE 1623: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Warren Zanes, author of DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, about the significance of the 1982 album both in Springsteen's career and the history of rock 'n roll Warren Zanes is the N...
A Real World War II Story: The Tragic Life of Ira Hayes
EPISODE 1622: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Tom Holm, the author of IRA HAYES, about the Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism Tom Holm is a professor emeritus of American Indian Studies at th...
In Praise of Valiant American Women
EPISODE 1621: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Lena Andrews, author of VALIANT WOMEN, about the extraordinary American servicewomen who helped win World War II LENA ANDREWS is a military analyst for the Central Intellige...
How Barbie Dolls Up the Plasticity of our Surreal Times
EPISODE 1620: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Lithub movie critic Olivia Rutigliano about the gendered politics, anti-nostalgic aesthetics and Hollywood/Mattel economics of Greta Gerwig's hit new movie BARBIE Olivia...
Can the Men Be Saved?
EPISODE 1619: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Ben Purkert, author of THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED, about the fate of masculinity at a time when our jobs are destroying our souls Ben Purkert’s debut novel, The Men Can’t Be Sav...
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
EPISODE 1618: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jeff Jarvis, the author of THE GUTTENBERG PARENTHESIS about the lessons of the age of print for our internet age Jeff Jarvis is a national leader in the development of onlin...
Why Julian Barnes Will Never Write a Memoir or Autobiography
EPISODE 1617: In this second KEEN ON interview with Julian Barnes, the distinguished British writer, Andrew talks to Julian about growing up in England, his lifelong romance with Europe and that "golden" generation of British...