Episodes

EPISODE 1422: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of GRAND DELUSION, Steven Simon, about the rise and fall of American ambition in the Middle East and its tragic impact on the peoples of the region. Steven Simon ...

EPISODE 1421: In this regular KEEN ON show with Keith Teare, the author of the THAT WAS THE WEEK tech newsletter, Andrew asks Keith about the current state of venture capital, AI and whether the market has hit the bottom Keit...

EPISODE 1420: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Joan Biskupic, the CNN Supreme Court analyst and author of NINE BLACK ROBES, about the historic significance of the Supreme Court's drive to the right Joan Biskupic is CNN's...

EPISODE 1419 : In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of BREAKUP, Anjan Sundaram, about on the devastating personal costs of being a war correspondent in Africa and having to choose between his marriage and his mora...

EPISODE 1418 : In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the author of A HOLOCAUST FAMILY MEMOIR, Max J. Friedman about why he chose to write a memoir about Sam and Frieda Friedman, his Holocaust surviving parents Max J. Fried...

EPISODE 1417: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of DEMOCRACY ERODES FROM THE TOP, Larry Bartels, on why we should blame leaders and not citizens for today's crisis of democracy Larry M. Bartels holds the May We...

EPISODE 1416 : In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE FOUNDERS, Jimmy Soni, about the story of PayPal and its remarkable entrepreneurs - from Elon Musk and Peter Thiel to Reid Hoffman and Levchin - who have s...

EPISODE 1415 : In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Hannah Murphy, the San Francisco based tech correspondent of the Financial Times, about the teen mental health crisis supposedly caused by addiction to social media Hannah ...

EPISODE 1414 : In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to Rajiv Vinnakota, the President of the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, about how to transform Americans into better citizens A pioneering social entrepreneur, Rajiv ...

EPISODE 1413: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to BIG TREE author Brian Selznick about trees, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep and how he made a hopeful children's book about our environmental crisis Brian Selznick is the aut...

EPISODE 1412: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING, Diana Janney, on how the great philosophers - from Aristotle to Hume to Kant - have informed her novels Diana Janney read Philosophy at...

EPISODE 1411: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of GETTING OUT OF SAIGON, Ralph White, about how he - as a 27-year old American working for Chase Manhattan bank - saved 113 Vietnamese civilians from the North V...

EPISODE 1410 : In this Keen On show, Andrew talks to the author of THE AGE OF SCIENTIFIC WELLNESS, Nathan Price, PhD, about why the future of medicine will be personalized, predictive, data-rich, and in all of our hands Dr. N...

EPISODE 1409 : In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Cornell historian and author of STAY COOL, Aaron Sachs, about why dark comedy matters so much in the fight against climate change Aaron Sachs is a professor of history ...

EPISODE 1408 : In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of GEORGE VI AND ELIZABETH, Sally Bedell Smith, about the 20th century royal marriage that , she believes, saved the British monarchy Sally Bedell Smith is the N...

EPISODE 1407: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of I CAN'T SAVE YOU, the Harvard and Emory university trained Dr Anthony Chin-Quee, about why he gave up his successful career in medicine and how this "saved" hi...

EPISODE 1406: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of UNWIRED, Gaia Bernstein about how society has an addictive technology problem and how we can grain control over this tech Gaia Bernstein is the Technology, Pri...

EPISODE 1405: In this regular KEEN ON show with Keith Teare, the author of the THAT WAS THE WEEK tech newsletter, Andrew talks to Keith about the absurdity of trying to put generative artificial intelligence on pause and why ...

EPISODE 1404: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of RETRACING THE IRON CURTAIN, Timothy Phillips, about his 3,000-mile journey through the end and afterlife of the Cold War Timothy Phillips is the author of The ...

EPISODE 1403: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE, Michael Scott-Baumann, about the world's most intractable political problem - the Middle Eastern conflict between...

EPISODE 1402 : In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of A LIVING REMEDY: A MEMOIR, Nicole Chung about her experience of family, class and grief in an increasingly unequal America Nicole Chung is the author of the f...

EPISODE 1401 : In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE LAST CATASTROPHE, Allegra Hyde, about her new story collection that focuses on how humanity grapples in a world transformed by climate change Allegra Hyde...

EPISODE 1400: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of CREATORS TAKE CONTROL, Edward Lee, about the health of the Web3 digital economy, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the seductive promise of creators taking contro...

EPISODE 1399: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Stanford Business School professor and author of SELFLESS, Brian Lowery, about the American mythology of rugged individualism and how we should be recognize the social d...