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In Keith Teare’s That Was the Week newsletter for this week, he categorically asserts that there is no oligarchy (https://www.thatwastheweek.com/) in Trump’s America. Instead there are (http://Just technologists with a passion for change and of course self-interest) “just technologists with a passion for change and, of course, self-interest”. But I’m…

So what, exactly, is a philosophical life? According the University of Chicago philosopher Agnes Callard (https://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/a-callard) , author of the much acclaimed new book Open Socrates, (https://wwnorton.com/books/open-socrates) it means being able to ask questions with the intuitive fluency of Socrates. In our conversation, Callard confesses her own hilarious early attempt…

https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2315-andrew-mcafee-finds

https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2314-richard-socher-on-why

https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2313-esther-dyson-on-being

WASTE LAND: A World in Permanent Crisis https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2312-robert-d-kaplan-on-the

Why we should remain cheerful about our tech century https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2311-martin-puchner-looks

The Great Realignment: How AI, Politics, and Capital are Reshaping Our Future https://keenon.substack.com/p/why-progressives-must-become-yes

On Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the power of social media to reveal our sexual identities https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2309-michal-kosinski-on-the

2005-2025: On the unprecedented speed of technological change and the increasing level of social violence and incivility https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2308-kenneth-cukier-mourns

On modern fascism, exile and friendship https://keenon.substack.com/p/ece-temelkuran-on-why-she-still-retains

On the need to move beyond "industrial age thinking" https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2306-albert-wenger-on-how

OUTRAGED: How to find common ground in an age of extremes https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2305-kurt-gray-explains-why

More or Less Maddy: Why bipolarity is a "neurological disorder" rather than "mental illness" https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2304-lisa-genova-on-the-connection

A History of Schengen https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2303-isaac-stanley-becker

2020: When the World Closed its Doors to Everyone https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2302-laurie-trautman-on-the

Why we "mis-want" technology that ends up making us miserable https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2301-nicholas-carr-on-how