Videos

The Year before the Hinge Year https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2279-why-2024-will-be-remembered

Against 21st century patrimonialism https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2278-max-stier-on-the-essential

Erik L. Peterson on How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists in our Brave New Biotech Age https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2277-from-science-to-atrocity

How to reinvigorate innovation in times of economic stagnation https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2276-byrne-hobart-on-booms

DLD, the internet and the continued promise of the digital revolution to change the world https://keenon.substack.com/p/jeff-jarvis-on-how-the-world-has

On Reality Television, Robert Louis Stevenson's wife and Handel's Messiah https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2274-bethanne-patricks-favorite

Fiction by Percival Everett, Danzy Senna, Garth Greenwell, Alvaro Enrigue and Yael van der Wouden https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2273-bethanne-patricks-best

On why some of us simply don't want to know the truth about the world https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2272-mark-lilla-on-why-ignorance

How only "Builders" like Musk can enable a real conversation about change in America https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2271-keith-teare-on-why-hes

On May 24, 2022, a 18 year-old walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and shot to death 19 students and 2 teachers. In Uvalde’s Darkest Hour (https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648432996/uvaldes-darkest-hour/) , the owner of the local Uvalde Leader-News, Craig Garnett (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/books/uvaldes-darkest-hour-craig-garnett.html) tries to make sense of these tragic events. Although making…

On the responsibility of Uvalde Police for their shamefully slow response to the Robb Elementary School mass murder https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2270-craig-garnett-on-may

While many of us fear a future in which all our online interactions are with algorithms, the young Florida based programming prodigy, Michael Sayman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sayman) , actually looks forward to this brave new world. In fact, earlier this year he started a controversial social media app called SocialAI (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/socialai-ai-social-network/id6670229993) which…

SocialAI: Social Networking in a Time of the Ubiquitous Smart Machine https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2269-michael-sayman-looks

Yesterday, we featured a conversation (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2267-jonathan-taplin-on-the) with Jonathan Taplin about the dearth of high quality contemporary music and movies. The music writer, David Rowell (https://www.davidrowellauthor.com/) , agrees with Taplin, but goes one step further, suggesting that we no longer even like new music. In his new book, The Endless Refrain…

A few months ago, I interviewed David Leonhardt (https://lithub.com/david-leonhardt-on-the-decline-of-the-american-dream/) , author of Ours Was the Shining Future, about the death of the American dream which, he argued, can be dated from on 5 June 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. And it’s on that infamous date that I begun my…