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Jan. 20, 2025

Episode 2311: Martin Puchner looks forward to 2045 when education

Episode 2311: Martin Puchner looks forward to 2045 when education

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

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Jan. 19, 2025

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Jan. 19, 2025

Why Progressives must become "Yes People" on Technology

Why Progressives must become "Yes People" on Technology

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

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Jan. 19, 2025

Episode 2309: Michal Kosinski on the corrosive impact of social media on democracy and freedom

Episode 2309: Michal Kosinski on the corrosive impact of social media on democracy and freedom

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

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Jan. 18, 2025

Episode 2308: Kenneth Cukier mourns the biliousness of our Big Data age

Episode 2308: Kenneth Cukier mourns the biliousness of our Big Data age

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

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Jan. 17, 2025

Episode 2307: Ece Temelkuran on why she still retains faith in the future

Episode 2307: Ece Temelkuran on why she still retains faith in the future

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

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Jan. 17, 2025

Episode 2306: Albert Wenger on how to save the Internet, Capitalism and the Planet

Episode 2306: Albert Wenger on how to save the Internet, Capitalism and the Planet

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

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Jan. 16, 2025

Episode 2305: Kurt Gray explains why we fight about morality and politics

Episode 2305: Kurt Gray explains why we fight about morality and politics

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

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Jan. 15, 2025

Episode 2304: Lisa Genova on the connection between bipolar disorder and standup comedy

Episode 2304: Lisa Genova on the connection between bipolar disorder and standup comedy

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

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Jan. 14, 2025

Episode 2303: Isaac Stanley-Becker on a Europe without Borders

Episode 2303: Isaac Stanley-Becker on a Europe without Borders

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

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Jan. 13, 2025

Episode 2302: Laurie Trautman on the Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders

Episode 2302: Laurie Trautman on the Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders

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

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Jan. 12, 2025

Episode 2301: Nicholas Carr on how the Arc of Innovation Bends Towards Decadence

Episode 2301: Nicholas Carr on how the Arc of Innovation Bends Towards Decadence

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

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Jan. 11, 2025

Episode 2300: Sandra Matz makes the Case for a Data-Driven Science

Episode 2300: Sandra Matz makes the Case for a Data-Driven Science

Should we really trust the new data scientists? https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2300-sandra-matz-makes-the

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Jan. 10, 2025

Episode 2299: Jill Kastner explains why everything old is new again in international politics

Episode 2299: Jill Kastner explains why everything old is new again in international politics

A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2299-jill-kastner-explains

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Jan. 9, 2025

Episode 2298: Adam Chandler on the fatal contradiction at the heart of American capitalism

Episode 2298: Adam Chandler on the fatal contradiction at the heart of American capitalism

99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2298-adam-chandler-on-the

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Jan. 8, 2025

Episode 2297: Louis Ferrante on why the Mafia Killed JFK

Episode 2297: Louis Ferrante on why the Mafia Killed JFK

On Bobby Kennedy, Jimmy Hoffa, Carlos Marcello and the central role of the mafia in American life between 1960 and 1985 https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2297-louis-ferrante-on-why

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Jan. 7, 2025

Episode 2296: Adi Jaffe on how to free yourself from addiction forever

Episode 2296: Adi Jaffe on how to free yourself from addiction forever

Why nearly half of all Americans are hooked on something https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2296-adi-jaffe-on-how-to

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Jan. 6, 2025

Episode 2295: Paula Whyman on how to save the American environment - one wild mountaintop at a time

Episode 2295: Paula Whyman on how to save the American environment - one wild mountaintop at a time

Paula Whyman (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/paula-whyman/?lens=timber-press) 's journey from bug-obsessed city kid to mountaintop conservationist is an inspiring environmental tale. Now the owner of a 200-acre Virginia mountaintop, she's traded her childhood fascination with cicadas for an ambitious ecological restoration project. Her new book Bad Naturalist (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/paula-whyman/bad-naturalist/9781643262178/?lens=timber-press) chronicles this transformation. Despite the self-deprecating…

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Jan. 6, 2025

Episode 2295: Paula Whyman on how to save the American environment - one wild mountaintop at a time

Episode 2295: Paula Whyman on how to save the American environment - one wild mountaintop at a time

One Woman’s Ecological Education on top of a Virginia Mountain https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2295-paula-whyman-on-how

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Jan. 5, 2025

Episode 2294: Larry Downes' non-MAGA plan to shrink the Federal bureaucracy

Episode 2294: Larry Downes' non-MAGA plan to shrink the Federal bureaucracy

Does America really need 1000 social security offices? https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2294-larry-downes-non-maga

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Jan. 5, 2025

Jill Kastner

Jill Kastner
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Jan. 4, 2025

Adam Chandler

Adam Chandler
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Jan. 4, 2025

Episode 2293: David Masciotra on why Kamala Harris should have gone on the Joe Rogan show

Episode 2293: David Masciotra on why Kamala Harris should have gone on the Joe Rogan show

Jesse Jackson vs David Duke: Why progressives should always talk to their enemies https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2293-david-masciotra-on-why

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Jan. 4, 2025

Laurie Trautman

Laurie Trautman
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