Episodes

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Stephen Marche, the author of “The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future”. Stephen Marche is a novelist, essayist and cultural commentator. He has written opinion pieces and essays for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Walrus and many others. He is the host of the hit audio series "How Not to F*ck Up Your Kids Too Bad", and its sequel "How Not to F*ck Up Your Marriage Too Bad" on Audible. This episode ...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Amelia Pang, the author of “Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods”. Amelia Pang is an award-winning, investigative journalist of Uyghur and Chinese descent. Her work has been published in The New Republic, Mother Jones, and The New York Times Sunday Review, among other publications. She is currently an editor at EdTech Magazine. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andr...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Leonard Mlodinow, the author of “Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking”. Leonard Mlodinow is a theoretical physicist and New York Times bestselling author, recognized for groundbreaking discoveries in physics. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watch the show liv...

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, Andrew is joined by Barbara F. Walter, author of How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them. Barbara F. Walter is a professor of political science and Rohr Chair in Pacific International Relations, as well as an adjunct professor in the UC San Diego Department of Political Scie...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Wendy Syfret, the author of “The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness”. Wendy Syfret is a Melbourne based writer and editor. Currently serving as editor-in-chief of RIISE, Wendy formerly worked as the Managing editor of VICE Asia. Before taking on that role Syfret was the Head of Editorial for VICE Australia, Australian editor of pioneering fashion publication i-D, and associate editor at VICE.com. Visit our website: ht...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko, the co-authors of “The Goof Life Method: Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning”. Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She serves as Director of the NDIAS, a university-wide research institute based in Notre Dame Research. The NDIAS promotes issue-engaged, inclusive, and interdisciplinary study of questions that af...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Bruce Clark, the author of “Athens: City of Wisdom”. Bruce Clark writes on European Affairs and Religion for The Economist. He has been diplomatic correspondent of the Financial Times, Moscow correspondent for The Times, and Athens correspondent for Reuters. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://ww...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Meredith, the author of the Substack newsletter “Heir Mail”. Meredith Haggerty is a senior editor at The Goods by Vox. She edits reported stories and occasionally rails against capitalism. Previously, she edited books, hosted a podcast, worked at a dating website, reviewed TV shows, and wrote about romcoms, frozen yogurt, Thanksgiving sandwiches, and pickup lines. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Tom Vanderbilt, the author of “Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning”. Tom Vanderbilt is a bestselling author who writes on design, technology, science, and culture, among other subjects, for many publications, including Wired, Outside, The London Review of Books, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Wilson Quarterly, Artforum, The Wilson Quarterly, Travel and Leisure, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Mag...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Neil Richards, the author of “Why Privacy Matters”. Neil Richards is one of the world’s leading experts in privacy law, information law, and freedom of expression. He writes, teaches, and lectures about the regulation of the technologies powered by human information that are revolutionizing our society. Professor Richards serves on the board of the Future of Privacy Forum and is a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Richards regularl...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Julian E. Zelizer, the author of “The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment”. Julian E. Zelizer has been among the pioneers in the revival of American political history. He is Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a CNN Political Analyst and a regular guest on NPR’s "Here and Now." He is the author and editor of 22 books. Zelizer, who has published over 1000 op-eds, has received fellowships fr...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Tim Marshall, the author of “The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World”. Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He is a...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Tracey Shors, the author of “Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life”. Dr. Tracey Shors is Distinguished Professor in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology and the Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers. Dr. Shors works on the neuroscience of stress and trauma and how it interacts with learning and memory. Visit our website: https://lithub...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Sarah Burns, the author of The Emphatically Queer Career of Artist Perkins Harnly. Sarah Burns (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is Professor Emeritus of Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Philadelphia, 1989); Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (New Haven, 1996); Painting the Dark Side: A...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Larry Downes, the author of “The Year in Tech 2022: The Insights You Need From Harvard Business Review”. Larry Downes is the author of five books on the impact of technology on business, society, and the law. His first book, “Unleashing the Killer App” (Harvard Business School Press), was an international bestseller, with over 200,000 copies in print. The Wall Street Journal named it one of the five most important books ever published on busines...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Roslyn Fuller, the author of “In Defence of Democracy”. Roslyn Fuller is the world’s leading authority on infusing the ancient ideals of Athenian Democracy with the participatory potential of modern information technology. Roslyn’s experience as a lecturer, author, and political consultant has given her unique insights into structures of public governance and, above all, the mechanics of political power. Having foreseen the current assault on d...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Michael Kimmage, the author of “The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy”. Michael Kimmage specializes in the history of the Cold War, in twentieth-century U.S. diplomatic and intellectual history and in U.S.-Russian relations since 1991. From 2014 to 2016, he served on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, where he held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio. Visit our website: https...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Bathsheba Demuth, the author of “Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait”. Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian, specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern environments and cultures began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon where she learned to survive in the taiga and tundra. Her writing has appeared in publications from The ...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Devi Lockwood, the author of “1,001 Voices on Climate Change: Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World”. Devi Lockwood is the Ideas editor at Rest of World. Previously she worked as an editor and writer at the New York Times Opinion section. She spent five years traveling in 20 countries on six continents to document 1,001 stories on water & climate change. You can read her writing in The New York Times, T...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Claudia Goldin, the author of “Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity”. Claudia Goldin is an American economic historian and labor economist who is currently the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy Study Group and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. Goldin's research covers a wide range of to...

In this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Hala Alyan, the author of The Arsonists’ City, to discuss how the Middle East is the victim of great powers and the current situation in Lebanon. Hala Alyan is an award-winning author and poet. Her novel Salt Houses won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and was a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, the Academy of American Poets, Lit Hub, and others. She lives in Brooklyn...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Dorit Geva. Dorit Geva is Professor and founding Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Central European University. Her expertise is in political sociology, qualitative methods, sociology of gender and sexuality, and comparative and historical sociology. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedi...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Kate Daniels, the author of “Slow Fuse of the Possible: A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis”. Kate Daniels is the is the author of six collections of poetry, a memoir, and two edited editions. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she is the Edwin Mims Professor of English emerita at Vanderbilt University. She teaches writing at the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, and formerly served as poet in residence at both Vanderbilt and Duke Unive...

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Rob Goodman, the author of “Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions”. Rob Goodman is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. He received his Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University in 2018 and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University. At Columbia, Rob worked as a Core Curriculum instructor and was a Heyman Center for the Humanities Fellow. Before beginning his doctoral st...