Videos

Episode 2579: Matthew Restall on the many lives and legacies of Christopher Columbus https://keenon.substack.com/p/navigating-around-christopher-columbus?utm_source=youtube

Episode 2578: A True Story of Injustice, Defiance, and Hope in Louisiana's Bloodiest Prison https://keenon.substack.com/p/41-years-for-a-crime-he-didnt-commit?utm_source=youtube

Episode 2578: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic on Why Authenticity Is Overrated and What to Do Instead https://keenon.substack.com/p/dont-be-yourself-why-the-cult-of?utm_source=youtube

What unites America, it used to be said, is a common commitment to “freedom”. But in our disunited times, it's worth remembering that two incompatible versions of freedom have actually divided rather than brought the United States together. As the historian Nicholas Buccola (https://www.nicholasbuccola.com/) notes in his intriguing new book…

Episode 2578: Deepa Das Acevedo on the War on Tenure https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-uberification-of-academia-why?utm_source=youtube

Episode 2577: Michael Brownstein on how anyone can create social change https://keenon.substack.com/p/how-to-lose-loudly-what-the-left?utm_source=youtube

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” were, of course, the closing words from Polanski’s 1974 movie, Chinatown. But the point of Jeff Chang (https://jeffchang.net/) ’s new biography of Bruce Lee, Water Mirror Echo (https://jeffchang.net/water-mirror-echo/) , is that by 1973, when Lee died, Asian America was more than just Chinatown. Lee made…

Episode 2575: Why Philanthropy—Not Big Tech—Should Design Our Future https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-ai-pioneer-who-chose-purpose?utm_source=youtube

Episode 2574: Jochen Hellbeck on Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews https://keenon.substack.com/p/world-enemy-number-one-nazi-germanys?utm_source=youtube

The numbers are mind blowing. According to Roadkill (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Roadkill%3A+Unveiling+the+True+Cost+of+Our+Toxic+Relationship+with+Cars-p-9781394296002) (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Roadkill%3A+Unveiling+the+True+Cost+of+Our+Toxic+Relationship+with+Cars-p-9781394296002) authors Henrietta Moore (https://www.henriettalmoore.com/road-kill) and Arthur Kay (https://www.linkedin.com/in/akay1111/?originalSubdomain=uk) , cars have killed more people than both world wars combined. That’s how toxic our relationship with cars has been over the last century, they argue. The UN figures they cite—60 to…

Episode 2572: Arthur Levine on Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future https://keenon.substack.com/p/is-that-320000-college-degree-really?utm_source=youtube

Some liberals might shake their virtuous heads and tut-tut disapprovingly. But, as the Brookings scholar William Galston (https://www.brookings.edu/people/william-a-galston/) argues, Donald Trump’s Old Testament politics of retribution has exposed the limitations of liberal thought. In his new book, Anger, Fear, Domination (https://www.brookings.edu/books/anger-fear-domination/) , Galston argues that liberals must recognize the dark…

“It’s happening. The question is whether it’s a dream or a nightmare. This week, OpenAI introduced Pulse (https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pulse/) , an AI assistant that knows what we want to do and think before we do. That Was The Week (https://www.thatwastheweek.com/p/openai-just-shifted-the-interface?open=false#%C2%A7editorial-openai-just-shifted-the-interface-and-the-power) publisher Keith Teare welcomes Pulse as a “habit” that will “shape…