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Dan Bouk on Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the U.S. Census
Aug. 23, 2022

Dan Bouk on Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of…

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andr...

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Jean Hanff Korelitz: Forget Politics: Why a Novelist's First Priority Is To Tell a Good Story
Aug. 22, 2022

Jean Hanff Korelitz: Forget Politics: Why a Novelist's First Priority…

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Kathleen Hale: What the Slenderman Stabbing Tragedy Tells Us About the State of Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in America
Aug. 21, 2022

Kathleen Hale: What the Slenderman Stabbing Tragedy Tells Us About th…

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andr...

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Laura Mason: How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy
Aug. 20, 2022

Laura Mason: How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Ins…

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andr...

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Graciela Mochkofsky on The Prophet of the Andes: A Latin American Journey to the Promised Land
Aug. 19, 2022

Graciela Mochkofsky on The Prophet of the Andes: A Latin American Jou…

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andr...

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Justin Gregg: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
Aug. 18, 2022

Justin Gregg: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

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Hans Greimel & William Sposato: Is the Carlos Ghosn Story Really a Parable About the Limits of Davos Man and the Globalized Neo-Liberal Order?
Aug. 18, 2022

Hans Greimel & William Sposato: Is the Carlos Ghosn Story Really a Pa…

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Edward Chancellor on the Real Story of Interest: How Low Interest Rates Are Bad For Everyone (Except Central Bankers)
Aug. 17, 2022

Edward Chancellor on the Real Story of Interest: How Low Interest Rat…

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Sean McLain: What Does the Carlos Ghosn Story Tell Us About Contemporary Japan?
Aug. 17, 2022

Sean McLain: What Does the Carlos Ghosn Story Tell Us About Contempor…

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Eli Saslow: How Covid Compounded All the Best and Worst Things About the America of the 2020s
Aug. 17, 2022

Eli Saslow: How Covid Compounded All the Best and Worst Things About …

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Natasha Sizlo: How an LA Real-Estate Agent Went to Paris and Wrote a Memoir of Love, Loss, and Destiny
Aug. 17, 2022

Natasha Sizlo: How an LA Real-Estate Agent Went to Paris and Wrote a …

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andr...

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Mike Rothschild: Is QAnon a Threat to Civilization or Childish Distraction For the Digital Underclass?
Aug. 16, 2022

Mike Rothschild: Is QAnon a Threat to Civilization or Childish Distra…

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Peter Coy: Why Economics Might Not Be the Dismal Science That We Love to Hate
Aug. 16, 2022

Peter Coy: Why Economics Might Not Be the Dismal Science That We Love…

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Christopher Kolenda: What Afghan War Veterans Can Teach America About How to Listen Empathically To Our "Enemies"
Aug. 15, 2022

Christopher Kolenda: What Afghan War Veterans Can Teach America About…

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Richard Vague on Wiping the Financial Slate Clean: The Case For a Debt Jubilee
Aug. 15, 2022

Richard Vague on Wiping the Financial Slate Clean: The Case For a Deb…

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Dean Schroeder: What Denver and the Danes Can Teach Silicon Valley About Innovating Local Government
Aug. 12, 2022

Dean Schroeder: What Denver and the Danes Can Teach Silicon Valley Ab…

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Brad Feld: The Tech Industry Isn't a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Boards Should Have More Women and People of Color
Aug. 12, 2022

Brad Feld: The Tech Industry Isn't a Meritocracy: Why All Start-Up Bo…

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Kirk Wallace Johnson: How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in the Seventies Successfully Fought Back Against the KKK
Aug. 11, 2022

Kirk Wallace Johnson: How Vietnamese Immigrants on the Gulf Coast in …

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Major Tom Schueman and Zainullah Zaki: Remembering the US War in Afghanistan and the Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter
Aug. 11, 2022

Major Tom Schueman and Zainullah Zaki: Remembering the US War in Afgh…

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andr...

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Wendy Smith on Profit AND Social Responsibility? How Today's Leaders Should Confront Our Toughest Problems
Aug. 10, 2022

Wendy Smith on Profit AND Social Responsibility? How Today's Leaders …

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Nick Kostov on the Carlos Ghosn Story: A Modern-Day Greek Tragedy or the Parable of a Shameless Criminal Mastermind?
Aug. 10, 2022

Nick Kostov on the Carlos Ghosn Story: A Modern-Day Greek Tragedy or …

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Kate Finn: Today Is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. But What Should We Be Celebrating?
Aug. 9, 2022

Kate Finn: Today Is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peopl…

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Elliot Ackerman: Why the American "Retreat" From Afghanistan Was a Giant Fuck-Up And How It Represents the Final Act of a Classic Five-Part Tragedy
Aug. 9, 2022

Elliot Ackerman: Why the American "Retreat" From Afghanistan Was a Gi…

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Sabine Hossenfelder: An Existential Physicist Answers Life's Biggest Questions: Does God Exist? Is There Life in the Universe? Are We Living In a Simulated Reality?
Aug. 9, 2022

Sabine Hossenfelder: An Existential Physicist Answers Life's Biggest …

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