Nov. 7, 2025
Beyond the New Deal: How the Left Must Reinvent Itself in a Populist Age
Episode 1612: Alex Zakaras on Freedom For All https://keenon.substack.com/p/beyond-the-new-deal-how-the-left?utm_source=youtube
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Nov. 6, 2025
Why Tech Billionaires Are So Angry: Elon Musk and the Gilded Rage of Silicon Valley
Episode 1611: Jacob Silverman and The Right-Wing Radicalization of Silicon Valley https://keenon.substack.com/p/why-tech-billionaires-are-so-angry?utm_source=youtube
Nov. 5, 2025
The Bell Curve Author Takes God Seriously: But What if God Doesn't Take Him Seriously?
Episode 2610: Charles Murray on keeping up with his religious wife https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-bell-curve-author-takes-god-seriously?utm_source=youtube
Nov. 4, 2025
Dignity Has Never Been Photographed: More Balkan Ghosts for our Indignant Times
Episode 2609: Lea Ypi on on her Grandmother's Descent from Salonique the Magnificent to Stalinist Albania https://keenon.substack.com/p/dignity-has-never-been-photographed?utm_source=youtube
Nov. 3, 2025
Democracy's Dangerous Flirtation with Autocracy: Michael McFaul on America's Abdication of Global L
Episode 2608: How Putin, Xi, and Trump Are Reshaping Global Disorder https://keenon.substack.com/p/democracys-dangerous-flirtation-with?utm_source=youtube
Nov. 2, 2025
Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: Why Scientists Must succeed Where Politicians Fail
Episode 2607: Agre on Fauci, Trump, RFK Jr and the Breakdown in Scientific Trust https://keenon.substack.com/p/nobel-laureate-peter-agre-why-scientists?utm_source=youtube
Nov. 1, 2025
Why Our Fear of Technology Is Nothing New—And Why That Should Give Us Hope: From Cuckoo Clocks to C
Episode 2606: Vanessa Chang on the promise of The Body Digital https://keenon.substack.com/p/why-our-fear-of-technology-is-nothing?utm_source=youtube
Oct. 31, 2025
Not Even God Can Judge Tupac: How a White Suburban Sportswriter Found the Humanity and Tragedy Behi
Episode 2605: Jeff Pearlman on his new biography of Tupac Shakur https://keenon.substack.com/p/not-even-god-can-judge-tupac-how?utm_source=youtube
Oct. 30, 2025
Fighting to Tell the Truth: Why every Film about War is an Anti-War Film
After almost two decades in limbo, Michael Pack’s once-rejected Iraq War film finds its moment — a reminder that even the most supposedly “patriotic” war stories reveal the tragic cost of battle. Seventeen years after PBS rejected his Iraq War documentary The Last 600 Meters (https://www.pbs.org/show/the-last-600-meters/) as “too pro-military,” conservative…
Oct. 29, 2025
Between the River and the Sea: American Jews and the Soiling of the Zionist Dream
Episode 2603: Daniel Sokatch on why we must continue to talk about Israel https://keenon.substack.com/p/between-the-river-and-the-sea-american?utm_source=youtube
Oct. 28, 2025
The Vinci Code: How AI is Turning Everyone into James Bond
Episode 2602: Anthony Vinci on the Fourth Intelligence Revolution https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-vinci-code-how-ai-is-turning?utm_source=youtube
Oct. 27, 2025
Huawei vs Ericsson: How Huawei Turned Sweden's "Neutral" Tech Advantage Into a Cold War Liability
Episode 2601: Eva Dou gets inside the secret world of Huawei, China's most powerful company https://keenon.substack.com/p/huawei-vs-ericsson-how-huawei-turned?utm_source=youtube
Oct. 26, 2025
How Smart is the MAGA Intelligentsia? The Professors, Philosophers, and Trolls who Transformed Rage
Episode 2600: Laura Field on the Furious Minds of the New Right https://keenon.substack.com/p/how-smart-is-the-maga-intelligentsia?utm_source=youtube
Oct. 25, 2025
This Is Not a Browser—Did René Magritte Really Predict the End of the Web Age?
The Belgian surrealist René Magritte was a smart artist, but could the 20th century futurist really have predicted the end of the Worldwide Web age? Not exactly, of course. But according to That Was The Week (https://www.thatwastheweek.com/) publisher, Keith Teare, Magritte’s 1929 painting, “The Treachery of Images (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images) ” (featuring…