Videos

Bill Gates and the urgent need to tax the robots https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2324-why-we-need-some-sputnik

A History of (un)Freedom in Modern Life https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2223-sophia-rosenfeld-asks

Is it more fun to be a man in the United States or Denmark? https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2322-andrew-lipstein-on-how

On middle powers, liberalism's incorrigible vitality and how Canada can save internationalism https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2321-michael-ignatieff-on

SUPERBLOOM: Why our assumption that more communication leads to better understanding is fundamentally wrong https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2320-nicholas-carr-on-how

https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2319-christopher-dicarlo

Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s another anti tech book. In Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761644/against-platforms-by-mike-pepi/) , digital activist Mike Pepi (https://www.mikepepi.com/about) argues that major tech companies like Meta, Amazon, Tesla, and OpenAI are all driven by "platform logic" - a business model focused on…

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