Episodes

Beena Ammanath: How AI Can Finally Solve the Problem of Diversity
April 11, 2022

Beena Ammanath: How AI Can Finally Solve the Problem of Diversity

On today's episode, Andrew is joined by Beena Ammanath, author of Trustworthy AI: A Business Guide for Navigating Trust and Ethics in AI . BEENA AMMANATH is a global thought leader in AI ethics and an award-winning senior tec...

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Elizabeth Popp Berman: Why Thinking Like an Economist Might Be a Form of Madness
April 11, 2022

Elizabeth Popp Berman: Why Thinking Like an Economist Might Be a Form…

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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Christine Porath: How Mastering Community Requires Us to Also Master Civility
April 10, 2022

Christine Porath: How Mastering Community Requires Us to Also Master …

On this episode, Andrew is joined by Christine Porath, author of Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving . Christine Porath is a tenured professor at Georgetown University’...

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Maddie Anstruther & Anya Gera on Slow News and the Importance of Young Voices
April 9, 2022

Maddie Anstruther & Anya Gera on Slow News and the Importance of Youn…

On today's episode, Andrew is joined by Maddie Anstruther and Anya Gera, editors of Panoramic, a magazine featuring young voices from around the world.

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Donald Cohen: How the Looting of Public Goods Is Destroying American Democracy
April 4, 2022

Donald Cohen: How the Looting of Public Goods Is Destroying American …

On today's episode, Andrew is joined by Donald Cohen, the author of “The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back.” . Donald Cohen is the founder and executive...

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Eugene Linden: Why the Path to a Livable Future Is Becoming Narrower and Narrower
April 3, 2022

Eugene Linden: Why the Path to a Livable Future Is Becoming Narrower …

On today's episode, Andrew is joined by Eugene Linden, author of Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present . Eugene Linden is an award-winning journalist and writer on science, nature, and...

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Sameet Mehta: Why We Live in the Age of Cyber Warfare Without Even Knowing It
April 3, 2022

Sameet Mehta: Why We Live in the Age of Cyber Warfare Without Even Kn…

On today's episode, Andrew is joined by Sameet Mehta, the Managing Partner at Granite Hill Capital Partners. Sameet Mehta has been an engineer, investor, and executive in Silicon Valley for twenty years. Prior to co-founding ...

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Mark Arsenault: How America's Foremost Propagandist of Entry into World War One Was an Imposter
April 3, 2022

Mark Arsenault: How America's Foremost Propagandist of Entry into Wor…

On today's episode, Andrew is joined by Mark Arsenault, the author of The Imposter's War: The Press, Propaganda, and the Battle for the Minds of America . Mark Arsenault graduated with a B.A. in English and philosophy from As...

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Jonathan Haskel: How to Fix the Future of Our Intangible Economy
April 2, 2022

Jonathan Haskel: How to Fix the Future of Our Intangible Economy

On today's episode, Andrew is joined by Jonathan Haskel, the author of Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy . Jonathan Haskel is professor of economics at Imperial College Business School and an external m...

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Ben McGrath: "Riverman": A Poignantly American Non-Fictional Novel
April 1, 2022

Ben McGrath: "Riverman": A Poignantly American Non-Fictional Novel

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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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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