New books about the impact of AI on the human condition are two a penny. But it’s rare to have an AI book by such a prominent author as Robert Skidelsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Skidelsky) , a member of the British House of Lords and the author of the iconic three-volume biography of…
Early today, we posted a conversation (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2224-celeste-marcus-on-why) with Celeste Marcus, LIBERTIES Quarterly managing editor, about her hard-hitting “Hate Lands” essay in the Fall 2024 issue. In the same issue (https://libertiesjournal.com/) , there’s an equally hard hitting piece by the Rutgers historian, Katherine C. Epstein (https://katherineepstein.camden.rutgers.edu/) . But whereas Marcus goes…
There are some seriously heavyweight new non-fiction books this Fall including memoirs by Al Pacino and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as an intriguing new historical analysis of the recently departed Queen Elizabeth and that inevitable pre-election Bob Woodward tome on the misbehavior of you-know-who. But for our resident book…
Last October, we featured a conversation (https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1448694012/keen-on/the-repressive-power-of-artificial-intelligence-kian-vesteinsson-on-the-crisis-of-freedom-on-the-internet-in-2023) with Kian Vesteinsson, co-author of Freedom House (https://freedomhouse.org/) ’s 2023 FREEDOM ON THE NET report, about the repressive power of artificial intelligence. A year later, Freedom House’s 2024 FREEDOM ON THE NET (https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2024/struggle-trust-online) report is entitled “The Struggle for Trust Online”. And as…
Do we shape the future or does it shape us? That’s the core question in Brian Solis (https://briansolis.com/) ’ new book, Mindshift (https://briansolis.com/books/) which provides lessons for corporate executives in transforming leadership and driving innovation. Like so many other futurists, Solis’ work focuses on how we can become irreplaceable in…
As a longtime Harvard Business School professor and the former chief marketing officer at Aetna, David C. Edelman is all too familiar with both the dangers and opportunities of personalized technology. In Personalization (https://www.amazon.com/Personalized-Customer-Strategy-Age-AI-ebook/dp/B0CT49NK2V?ref_=ast_author_mpb) , his new book, co-authored with Boston Consulting Group managing director Mark Abraham, Edelman focuses on…
Last week, we featured an interview with the leftist American theologian, Jim Wallis, who warned about the false white gospel (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2212-jim-wallis-on-the-false) of contemporary Christian nationalism. And we return to the existential dangers of American religion today with Talia Lavin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talia_Lavin) whose new book, Wild Faith (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/) , warns that the…
Last week, we featured an interview with the leftist American theologian, Jim Wallis, who warned about the false white gospel of contemporary Christian nationalism. And we return to the existential dangers of American religion today with Talia Lavin whose new book, Wild Faith, warns that the Christian right is actually…
The 2024 winners of the Nobel prize for Economics were announced (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/business/nobel-economics.html) this morning. One of the winners was the MIT economist Simon Johnson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Johnson_(economist)) , who, as the co-author (with his MIT colleague Daron Acemoglu) of Power and Progress (https://www.amazon.com/Power-Progress-Thousand-Year-Technology-Prosperity/dp/1541702530) , appeared on KEEN ON just over a year…
Earlier this week, the prominent African-American broadcaster and writer, Tavis Smiley, came on the show to voice (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2215-tavis-smiley-on-why) his support for Reparations to correct the past racial injustices in American history. The Kentucky based historian, Joel Edward Goza (https://www.joeledwardgoza.com/) , author of Rebirth of a Nation (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802884312/rebirth-of-a-nation/) , agrees with…
In her quest for the White House, it seems as if Kamala Harris is doing everything in her power to disassociate herself with liberal ideas. So what, exactly, has happened to liberal politics in the United States today? That’s exactly the question which the excellent young George Washington historian, Timothy…
