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Julia Hobsbawm: Will the Nowhere Office Turn Us Into Nowhere People
April 1, 2022

Julia Hobsbawm: Will the Nowhere Office Turn Us Into Nowhere People

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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Gary Gerstle: What Exactly Is "Neo-liberalism" and What Should Replace Our Current Neoliberal Order?
April 1, 2022

Gary Gerstle: What Exactly Is "Neo-liberalism" and What Should Replac…

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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Julissa Arce: Why Being American Shouldn't Require Cultural Assimilation
March 31, 2022

Julissa Arce: Why Being American Shouldn't Require Cultural Assimilat…

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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Barbara Kellerman: Are Most Books About "Leadership" a Scam?
March 31, 2022

Barbara Kellerman: Are Most Books About "Leadership" a Scam?

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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Not Far From Brideshead: On the Sad Glitter of Oxford Between the Wars
March 30, 2022

Not Far From Brideshead: On the Sad Glitter of Oxford Between the Wars

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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Daisy Pitkin: How Women (and Moths) Are Leading Today's Struggle to Unionize Workers
March 30, 2022

Daisy Pitkin: How Women (and Moths) Are Leading Today's Struggle to U…

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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Matti Friedman: The Biblical Story of Leonard Cohen's October 1973 Resurrection in the Sinai Desert
March 30, 2022

Matti Friedman: The Biblical Story of Leonard Cohen's October 1973 Re…

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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Sally Hayden: Exposing the 21st Century Slave Trade on the Shores of the Mediterranean
March 30, 2022

Sally Hayden: Exposing the 21st Century Slave Trade on the Shores 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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John W. Reid: Why We Need to Save Big Forests If We Are To Save the Planet
March 30, 2022

John W. Reid: Why We Need to Save Big Forests If We Are To Save the P…

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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Lawrence R. Jacobs: Why Trump is More of a Symptom Than a Cause of Today's Crisis of American Democracy
March 29, 2022

Lawrence R. Jacobs: Why Trump is More of a Symptom Than a Cause of To…

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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Daniel Horowitz: What Shark Tank Tells Us About the Unreality of Life in America
March 29, 2022

Daniel Horowitz: What Shark Tank Tells Us About the Unreality of Life…

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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Marie Yovanovitch: Why Trump Might Be More Like Putin Than We'd Like to Think
March 29, 2022

Marie Yovanovitch: Why Trump Might Be More Like Putin Than We'd Like …

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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Daniel Yergin: Who Will Reap the Economic and Political Rewards of Putin's Ukraine Folly?
March 29, 2022

Daniel Yergin: Who Will Reap the Economic and Political Rewards of Pu…

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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Guillermo Martínez: Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Poirot, Jorge Luis Borges, and the Mathematical Art of the Great Detective Novel
March 28, 2022

Guillermo Martínez: Sherlock Holmes, Hercules Poirot, Jorge Luis Borg…

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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Monica Guzmán: How to Have Fearless Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
March 28, 2022

Monica Guzmán: How to Have Fearless Curious Conversations in Dangerou…

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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Tony Hiss: Why Rescuing the Planet Requires Us to Give Back Half the Land to Nature
March 27, 2022

Tony Hiss: Why Rescuing the Planet Requires Us to Give Back Half the …

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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Michael Ignatieff: Why We Can't Take the Nuclear Option Off the Table in Ukraine
March 27, 2022

Michael Ignatieff: Why We Can't Take the Nuclear Option Off the Table…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Michael Ignatieff. Between 2006 and 2011, Michael Ignatieff served as an MP in the Parliament of Canada and then as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Off...

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Keith Ferrazzi: What Politicians Can Learn from Corporate CEOs About Making the World a Better Place
March 26, 2022

Keith Ferrazzi: What Politicians Can Learn from Corporate CEOs About …

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Keith Ferrazzi, the author of “Competing in the New World of Work: How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest”. Keith Ferrazzi is an American entrepreneur and r...

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Jeff Deutsch: Why Good Bookstores Might Not Actually Be "Stores"
March 25, 2022

Jeff Deutsch: Why Good Bookstores Might Not Actually Be "Stores"

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jeff Deutsch, the author of “In Praise of Good Bookstores”. Jeff Deutsch is the director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, which in 2019 he helped incorporate as the fir...

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John Markoff: Why Stewart Brand Is the Most Prescient Tech Visionary You've Never Heard Of
March 25, 2022

John Markoff: Why Stewart Brand Is the Most Prescient Tech Visionary …

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by John Markoff, the author of “Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand”. John Markoff was one of a team of New York Times reporters who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Expl...

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Mary Childs: Did Bond King Bill Gross Break American Capitalism?
March 24, 2022

Mary Childs: Did Bond King Bill Gross Break American Capitalism?

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Mary Childs, the author of “The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All”. Mary Childs is a financial journalist. She’s a co-host of National Pub...

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Justin Gest: How to Avoid Civil War in America By Creating a Post-Racial Civic Identity
March 24, 2022

Justin Gest: How to Avoid Civil War in America By Creating a Post-Rac…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Justin Gest, the author of “Majority Minority”. Justin Gest is an Associate Professor of Policy and Government at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Governme...

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Brandon Presser: Travel Truth #1: It Doesn't Matter How Far We Go, We'll Never Escape Ourselves
March 24, 2022

Brandon Presser: Travel Truth #1: It Doesn't Matter How Far We Go, We…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Brandon Presser, the author of “The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania & Mutiny in the South Pacific”. Brandon Presser has spent time in over 130 countries, and has written ...

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Chandler Baker: Why Good Husbands Should ALWAYS Carry the Laundry Upstairs
March 23, 2022

Chandler Baker: Why Good Husbands Should ALWAYS Carry the Laundry Ups…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Chandler Baker, the author of “The Husbands”. Chandler Baker grew up in Sarasota, Florida, went to college at the University of Pennsylvania, and went to law school at the Uni...

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