Videos

Episode 2844: Dan Turello on Our 800-Year History of Tech Anxiety https://keenon.substack.com/p/was-st-francis-of-assisi-the-first?utm_source=youtube

“We read so as not to feel alone.” — C.S. Lewis (possibly) Dan Turello is a cultural historian of medieval Italy, a much published photographer, and the author of the new Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans. I’m sceptical. Especially the promise (or illusion) of better humans. But…

Episode 2843: Richard Vague on the Wealthiest & Most Invisible American Founding Father https://keenon.substack.com/p/a-willing-philadelphia-story?utm_source=youtube

“Washington and Hamilton were governed by Willing.” — John Adams, 1813 Thomas Willing voted against the Declaration of Independence. He was the wealthiest man in Philadelphia, the largest merchant trader in North America, an Anglican slave trader printing money. So he saw little reason to declare independence from Britain. Especially…

“I don’t know if any rational person ever became a billionaire running a disruptive company.” — Keith Teare Is capitalism by permission of democracy, or is democracy by permission of capitalism? That’s the question Keith Teare and I have been circling for a while on our weekly tech roundup, and…