Episodes

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Ethan Lou, the author of “Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West”, to go on an epic quest through the proverbial cryptocurrency Wild West. E...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Armand D'Angour, the translator and editor of the new collection, "How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking," to discuss what we can learn about fostering innova...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Michael Lenox, the author of “The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Global Economy by 2050”, to examine the clean technologies with the best chance of disrupting th...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Myisha Cherry, the author of “The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle”, to discuss why anger does not deserve its bad reputation and how it can be ch...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Vanessa Veselka, the author of “Zazen”, to tell a story of activism, police violence, and white guilt in a not so distant dystopian America. Vanessa Veselka has been at variou...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jean Becker, the author of "The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H. W. Bush's Post-Presidency", to showcase a heartfelt portrait of President George H.W. Bush—and his p...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Mary Beard, the author of "Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern", to discuss how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, the re...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Vladimir Alexandrov, the author of “To Break Russia's Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks”, to shine a light on the life of Boris Savinkov,...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Dorottya Rédai, the author of “A Fairy Tale for Everyone”, to discuss both the journey and the reaction to retelling traditional fairy tales, updated with more diverse, inclus...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Max Chafkin, the author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power”, to share a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, as well as to shine ...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Fiona Hill, the author of “There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century”, to reveal how declining opportunity has set America on the grim pat...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Robbie Bach, the author of “The Wilkes Insurrection: A Contemporary Thriller”, to tell a fictional story of revenge and hope, guilt and redemption, separation and family; all ...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Daniel Sokatch, the author of “Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curi­ous, Con­fused, and Conflicted”, to have a supreme­ly nuanced dis­cus­sion of the Israeli-Pales­...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Parag Khanna, the author of “Move: The Forces Uprooting Us”, to provide an illuminating and authoritative vision of the next phase of human civilization - one that is both mob...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Deborah Tuerkheimer, the author of “Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers”, to examine why we are primed to disbelieve allegations of sexual abuse—and how we can...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Paul Bradley Carr, the author of “1414º”, to talk about his first novel and share a glimpse into the thrillingly unpredictable fate of protagonist Lou McCarthy. Paul Bradley C...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Kyle Harper, the author of “Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History”, to discuss why infectious diseases are a fundamental dimension of human history, ...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jennifer Higgie, the author of “The Mirror and the Pallette - Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits”, to tell the stories of extr...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Helen Russell, the author of “How To Be Sad: Everything I've Learned About Getting Happier by Being Sad”, to discuss why we need our sadness: it’s a message. It can tell us wh...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Matthew Pearl, the author of “The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America”, to tell the little-known true story of the ki...

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 of Ke...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by David Kushner, the author of “Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future”, to tell the story of the people behind the breakthroughs and the breakthroughs...

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...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Eric J. Johnson, the author of “The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters”, to discuss how we can design better end-to-end decision-making processes that are uniqu...