Episode 2621: Shadi Hamid on why Progressives should stop apologizing for America https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-american-power-why-hypocrisy?utm_source=youtube
Episode 2620: Mikhail Zygar on Russia's Short-Lived Victory over Totalitarianism https://keenon.substack.com/p/obama-as-gorbachev-and-trump-as-yeltsin?utm_source=youtube
The world is a remake. Yesterday’s show featured the MAGA remake (https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-handmaids-tale-is-no-longer-fictionwelcome) of The Handmaid’s Tale. Today it’s Dr Strangelove 2.0 and the remaking of the trillion-dollar military-industrial complex in Silicon Valley. As William Hartung, co-author of The Trillion Dollar War Machine (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/william-d-hartung/the-trillion-dollar-war-machine/9781645030638/?lens=bold-type-books) , notes, Dwight Eisenhower’s old military-industrial complex…
Episode 2618: Irin Carmon on the Unbearable Heaviness of Pregnancy in Contemporary America https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-handmaids-tale-is-no-longer-fictionwelcome?utm_source=youtube
Episode 2617: Sophie Lucido Johnson on the future of family https://keenon.substack.com/p/from-pigeons-to-polyamory-a-new-yorker?utm_source=youtube
Lawyers usually like the law. The more the better. But in addition to his life as a top corporate lawyer, Philip K. Howard (https://www.philipkhoward.com/) has made a second career out of criticizing the invasion of law into American society. In books like The Death of Common Sense, Life Without Lawyers…
Episode 2615: Or is China the New America? https://keenon.substack.com/p/enstatification-over-enshittification?utm_source=youtube
One big story captures all six books selected by the Financial Times for their short list (https://www.ft.com/content/8b2a63d9-f1be-493e-b6b4-082cf7f1d5bb) of best business books of 2025. As the FT’s Senior Business Writer, Andrew Hill (https://www.ft.com/andrew-hill) , notes, it’s the story of the shift in global economic power from the United States to China.…
Episode 1613: Dr Chloe Carmichael on Why Free Speech Matters and How to Use it Fearlessly https://keenon.substack.com/p/women-lie-too-a-smug-san-francisco?utm_source=youtube
