Episodes

Kyleigh Leddy: Breaking the Silence On the Mental Illness Pandemic Afflicting American Young Women
March 18, 2022

Kyleigh Leddy: Breaking the Silence On the Mental Illness Pandemic Af…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Kyleigh Leddy, the author of “The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister”. Kyleigh Leddy is a graduate of Boston College and is currently pursuing an MSW at Columbia University ...

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Steven Pifer: The Truth About Ukraine, From the Former U.S. Ambassador in Ukraine
March 18, 2022

Steven Pifer: The Truth About Ukraine, From the Former U.S. Ambassado…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Steven Pifer, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine. Steven Pifer is a nonresident senior fellow in the Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative, Center for 21st Century Se...

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Justin E.H. Smith: Why the Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
March 17, 2022

Justin E.H. Smith: Why the Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Justin E.H. Smith, the author of “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning”. Justin E.H. Smith is currently professor of philosophy in the ...

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Filip Doušek on a Radical Redefinition of Rationality
March 17, 2022

Filip Doušek on a Radical Redefinition of Rationality

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Filip Doušek, the author of “Flock Without Birds: A Novel About the Illusions that Create Our World”. Filip Doušek is an AI and analytics expert. He was the founder and CEO of...

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Susan MacKenty Brady: How Female Leadership Values Like Empathy Might Help End the War in Ukraine
March 17, 2022

Susan MacKenty Brady: How Female Leadership Values Like Empathy Might…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Susan Brady, the author of “Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership”. Susan Brady is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership...

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Ken Croke: Why Evil Men Join Motorcycle Gangs and How To Take Them Down
March 16, 2022

Ken Croke: Why Evil Men Join Motorcycle Gangs and How To Take Them Do…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Ken Croke, the author of “Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang”. Over the course of Ken Croke's career, he has taken part in 1,000-plus undercover...

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Katherine Sayre: The Spiritual Emptiness of Tony Hsieh, Silicon Valley's Saddest Evangelist of Happiness
March 15, 2022

Katherine Sayre: The Spiritual Emptiness of Tony Hsieh, Silicon Valle…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Katherine Sayre, the author of “Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh”. Katherine Sayre covers gambling and Las Vegas for The Wa...

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Scott Carney: How an Environmental Apocalypse Caused the Genocidal Murder of 3 Million Bangladeshis
March 14, 2022

Scott Carney: How an Environmental Apocalypse Caused the Genocidal Mu…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Scott Carney, the author of “The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation”. Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carn...

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Jon Alexander: How to Fix Everything By Transforming Ourselves From Consumers Into Citizens
March 14, 2022

Jon Alexander: How to Fix Everything By Transforming Ourselves From C…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jon Alexander, the co-author of “Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All of Us”. Jon Alexander co-founded the New Citizenship Project in 2014 with the mission of fig...

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William Galston: Why Liberalism and Progressivism Are at Odds in Joe Biden's Democratic Party
March 13, 2022

William Galston: Why Liberalism and Progressivism Are at Odds in Joe …

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by William Galston. William Galston holds a Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, where he serves as a Senior Fellow. A participant in six presidential...

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Stephen M.R. Covey on the Crisis in Trust With Vladimir Putin
March 13, 2022

Stephen M.R. Covey on the Crisis in Trust With Vladimir Putin

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Stephen M.R. Covey, the author of “Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others”. Stephen M.R. Covey is cofounder and CEO of CoveyLink and of the Fra...

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Viviana Zelizer: Why Everything You Think About Money Is Wrong
March 12, 2022

Viviana Zelizer: Why Everything You Think About Money Is Wrong

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Viviana Zelizer. Professor Viviana Zelizer has published books on the development of life insurance, the changing value of children, the place of money in social life and the ...

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Yusaf Akbar: Rather Than Another World War, Why Ukraine Might the First Global War About Globalization Itself
March 12, 2022

Yusaf Akbar: Rather Than Another World War, Why Ukraine Might the Fir…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Yusuf Akbar. Yusaf Akbar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at the Central European University. His research interests are focused on three ...

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Ari Ezra Waldman on Big Tech's Existential Threat to Our Privacy and Liberty
March 11, 2022

Ari Ezra Waldman on Big Tech's Existential Threat to Our Privacy and …

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Ari Waldman, the author of “Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power”. Ari Waldman studies asymmetrical power relations created and entrenched ...

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Geo Maher: Why Ukrainian Resistance to the Russian Invasion Is a Kind of Anti-Colonial Eruption
March 10, 2022

Geo Maher: Why Ukrainian Resistance to the Russian Invasion Is a Kind…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Geo Maher, the author of “Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance”. Geo Maher is an organizer, writer, radical political theorist and Visiting Asso...

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Carolyn Chen on Why Big Tech is Now Also Big Religion
March 9, 2022

Carolyn Chen on Why Big Tech is Now Also Big Religion

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Carolyn Chen, the author of “Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley”. Carolyn Chen is an associate professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies...

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William Boyd: Chekhov Was Right: How Most People Do Indeed Live Their Real, Most Interesting Lives Under the Cover of Secrecy
March 9, 2022

William Boyd: Chekhov Was Right: How Most People Do Indeed Live Their…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by William Boyd, the author of “Trio”. William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana and grew up there and in Nigeria. Boyd has received world-wide acclaim for his award-winning novels w...

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Thom Hartmann on Why Putin's Ukraine Invasion and George W. Bush's Iraq Invasion Are Both Oil Wars
March 9, 2022

Thom Hartmann on Why Putin's Ukraine Invasion and George W. Bush's Ir…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Thom Hartmann, the author of “The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy”. Thom Hartmann...

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Jennifer Sciubba on Why Demography Isn't Destiny
March 8, 2022

Jennifer Sciubba on Why Demography Isn't Destiny

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jennifer Sciubba, the author of “8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World”. Jennifer Sciubba is an internationally recognized expert in the field ...

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Brian Klaas: What a Scan of Vladimir Putin's Power-Addled Brain Might Tell Us
March 8, 2022

Brian Klaas: What a Scan of Vladimir Putin's Power-Addled Brain Might…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Brian Klaas, the author of “Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us”. Dr. Brian Klaas is an Associate Professor in Global Politics at University College London and a...

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Helen Thompson: Is Vladimir Putin Returning the World to the Hard Times of the 1970s?
March 7, 2022

Helen Thompson: Is Vladimir Putin Returning the World to the Hard Tim…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Helen Thompson, the author of “Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century”. Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge. Her current research...

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Al Schmidt & Baoky Vu: Two Republican Takes on Why Many Republicans Have Turned Against Democracy
March 6, 2022

Al Schmidt & Baoky Vu: Two Republican Takes on Why Many Republicans H…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Baoky Vu, the former vice-chair of the DeKalb county Board of Registration and Elections in Georgia. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a....

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Renata Uitz: Is Ukraine the First Global Illiberalism Versus Liberalism War?
March 6, 2022

Renata Uitz: Is Ukraine the First Global Illiberalism Versus Liberali…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Renáta Uitz, a co-editor of “Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism”. Renáta Uitz's major research interests lie in transition to and from constitutional democracy, the protection...

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Peter Osnos on the Non-fictional George Soros: Better Than Any Novel
March 6, 2022

Peter Osnos on the Non-fictional George Soros: Better Than Any Novel

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Peter Osnos, the author of “George Soros: A Life In Full”. Peter Osnos is an American journalist who is the founder of PublicAffairs Books. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/...

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