“His intent is getting worse, but his capacity is diminishing. The next two years will be some kind of mad race to figure out which of these two things will prevail.” — Jonathan Rauch As the nights get shorter, we are drifting into the autumn of the patriarch. That, at…
George Loewenstein asked married couples to double how often they had sex. They did — and reported feeling less happy and less close. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
The average age of the Americans who stormed the Capitol was 42, not 22. Robert Pape on why January 6 wasn't what you think. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Is Trump governing like Orbán? Harvard's Peter Hall says patrimonialism — government on behalf of favored oligarchs — is exactly the right word for this administration. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Episode 3046: Alan Dershowitz on His Divorce from the Democratic Party https://keenon.substack.com/p/proudly-jewish-and-never-boring?utm_source=youtube
“A good divorce is better than a bad marriage, and this is a good divorce.” — Alan Dershowitz The American lawyer Alan Dershowitz says he’s been voting Democrat since John F. Kennedy. He even defended Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Alan Cranston in court. But, at 88 years old, Dershowitz…
“There’s no realistic scenario where AI wipes out all of humanity. It’s like a mix of sci-fi.” — Richard Socher Eighteen months ago, when he last came on the show, the German-born but San Francisco-based AI whizz kid Richard Socher was running You.com. He’s now also the co-founder of Recursive,…
English has four times as many words for negative emotions as positive ones. Behavioral economist George Loewenstein on why we evolved to be miserable. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
"Democracies don't die silently, sleepwalking. Democracies die by going through periods of pretty serious political violence." Robert Pape on America's age of violent populism. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Episode 3044: Robert Pape on America’s Age of Violent Populism https://keenon.substack.com/p/our-own-worst-enemies?utm_source=youtube
“Democracies don’t die silently, sleepwalking. Democracies die by going through periods of pretty serious political violence.” — Robert Pape Forget all the long-term civil war scenarios of everyone from Kurt Andersen to Stephen Marche. Today’s guest Robert Pape has spent the last thirty years at the University of Chicago studying…
The Anthropic IPO alone will weigh as much as every tech listing since Uber combined — and San Francisco is nowhere near ready. Keith Teare on the $2 trillion wave. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
Episode 3043: Peter Hall on Trump, Orbán & Other Pitchfork-Wielding Plutocrats https://keenon.substack.com/p/patrimonial-capitalism?utm_source=youtube
“I think patrimonialism is exactly the right phrase to describe the way in which the current administration is governing.” — Peter Hall Neoliberalism is dead. So what comes next? Peter Hall, a Harvard political economist for the last four decades, says the capitalist locomotive left the neoliberal station years ago.…
Episode 3042: George Loewenstein on Why We’re Wired for Misery https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-pursuit-of-unhappiness?utm_source=youtube
