Episodes

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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Peter Pomerantsev: Why the Ukraine Isn't Really About the Ukraine
March 5, 2022

Peter Pomerantsev: Why the Ukraine Isn't Really About the Ukraine

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Peter Pomerantsev, the author of "This Is Not Propaganda." Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and at the Institute of Glo...

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Ian O'Connor on Coach K's Lessons for Life Off the Basketball Court
March 5, 2022

Ian O'Connor on Coach K's Lessons for Life Off the Basketball Court

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Ian O'Connor, the author of “Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski”. New York Times bestselling author Ian O'Connor is a sports columnist at the New York Post. He is ...

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Chris Miller on the Politics of Putinomics in the Ukraine War
March 4, 2022

Chris Miller on the Politics of Putinomics in the Ukraine War

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Chris Miller, the author of “We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin”. Chris Miller is an Assistant Professor of International History a...

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Elizabeth Greenwood on How to Find Love in an American Prison
March 3, 2022

Elizabeth Greenwood on How to Find Love in an American Prison

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Elizabeth Greenwood, the author of “Love Lockdown: Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prisons”. Elizabeth Greenwood has taught writing at Columbia University, the New Scho...

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Danielle Citron: Why Online Privacy Should Be a Core Civil Right
March 3, 2022

Danielle Citron: Why Online Privacy Should Be a Core Civil Right

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Danielle Citron, the author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace”. Danielle Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law and Caddell and Chapman...

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Joby Warrick on Russia's Syrian Intervention as a Model for the Ukrainian War
March 3, 2022

Joby Warrick on Russia's Syrian Intervention as a Model for the Ukrai…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Joby Warrick, the author of “Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World”. Joby Warrick has served with the Washing...

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Michael Kazin: Has the Democratic Party Got a Future?
March 3, 2022

Michael Kazin: Has the Democratic Party Got a Future?

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Michael Kazin, the author of “What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party”. Michael Kazin is a Professor in the Department of History at Georgetown University. He i...

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Charles Spencer: How the History of Britain Would Be Dramatically Different Without the Sinking of the White Ship in 1120
March 2, 2022

Charles Spencer: How the History of Britain Would Be Dramatically Dif…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Charles Spencer, the author of “The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream”. Charles Spencer worked for the American TV network NBC News for a decad...

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Kathy Gilsinan on the Different Kinds of War We're Facing Right Now
March 2, 2022

Kathy Gilsinan on the Different Kinds of War We're Facing Right Now

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Kathy Gilsinan, the author of “The Helpers: Profiles from the Front Lines of the Pandemic”. Kathy Gilsinan is a contributing writer at the Atlantic, where she has reported on ...

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Maciej Kisilowski & Inna Melnykovska on the West's Moral Failure in the Ukrainian Invasion
March 1, 2022

Maciej Kisilowski & Inna Melnykovska on the West's Moral Failure in t…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Inna Melnykovska and Maciej Kisilowski, authors of "Administrategy." Inna Melnykovska is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Political Economy at the Political Science Depar...

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Jackie Higgins on What Animals Reveal About Our Senses
March 1, 2022

Jackie Higgins on What Animals Reveal About Our Senses

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jackie Higgins, the author of “Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses”. Jackie Higgins is a television documentary director and writer. In her first job at Oxford Scie...

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J.D. Dickey on the Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson's America
March 1, 2022

J.D. Dickey on the Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson's Am…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by J.D. Dickey, the author of “The Republic of Violence: The Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson’s America”. J.D. Dickey is a New York Times bestselling author and writ...

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John Scalzi: Are We At a "F*ck You" Moment in World History With Ukraine?
Feb. 28, 2022

John Scalzi: Are We At a "F*ck You" Moment in World History With Ukra…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by John Scalzi, the author of “The Kaiju Preservation Society”. John Michael Scalzi is an award-winning science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fan...

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Can the Economics of Sanctions Be an Effective Way of Fighting Back Against the Military Invasion of Ukraine?
Feb. 27, 2022

Can the Economics of Sanctions Be an Effective Way of Fighting Back A…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Tomáš Sedláček, the author of “Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street”. At the age of 24, Tomáš Sedláček became an economic a...

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Alan Judd on One of the Most Fascinating Mysteries of the Elizabethan Age
Feb. 27, 2022

Alan Judd on One of the Most Fascinating Mysteries of the Elizabethan…

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Alan Judd, the author of “A Fine Madness: A Christopher Marlowe Murder Mystery”. Alan Judd is the author of eleven novels and two biographies. He previously served as a soldie...

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