There is no more shakespearean parable of the tragic rise and fall of the postwar American meritocratic elite than Robert Strange McNamara (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara) . War hero, Harvard Business School, head of Ford, begged by JFK to take a role - any role - in Camelot. Then came the equally meteoric…
Episode 2544: David J Lynch on the 30-Year Unraveling of America's Global Dream https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-worlds-worst-bet-how-america?utm_source=youtube
Episode 2543: Alan Lightman on Wonder, Naivety, and the Human Desire of Discovery https://keenon.substack.com/p/demystify-science-and-humanize-scientists?utm_source=youtube
Episode 2542: Daniel Yon on the Scientific Labyrinth of the Human Brain https://keenon.substack.com/p/from-borges-to-brain-scans-how-our?utm_source=youtube
Episode 2541: Beverly Daniel Tatum on how to lead colleges through turbulent times https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-hypocrisy-of-trumps-war-on-universities?utm_source=youtube
Episode 2540: Jonn Elledge's Brief History of the World in 47 Borders https://keenon.substack.com/p/borders-are-back-baby-from-trump?utm_source=youtube
Episode https://keenon.substack.com/p/beware-of-another-silicon-valley?utm_source=youtube
Episode 2538: After a quarter-century hiatus, David Temkin's anti-tech magazine returns with more apocalyptic warnings about computers https://keenon.substack.com/p/every-day-computers-are-making-people?utm_source=youtube
Episode 2538: Charles Taylor on Polanski's "An Officer and a Spy" https://keenon.substack.com/p/is-roman-polanski-worth-defending?utm_source=youtube
It's become the new orthodoxy: social media is the cause of the epidemic of anxiety amongst adolescents. So the way to fix this is by taking away their smartphones. But according to Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times writer Matt Richtel (https://www.nytimes.com/by/matt-richtel) , things are actually a lot more complicated than…
