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The election is over and, is spite of Trump’s clear victory, America remains as divided as ever. So how to put the country together again? Juliana Tafur (https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/profile/juliana_tafur) , the director of the Bridging Differences Program at UC Berkeley (https://ggsc.berkeley.edu/what_we_do/major_initiatives/bridging_differences) , has been giving this existential question much thought. What…

If there’s a disease that captures the toxic spirit of our times, it’s what the therapist, Vanessa Resier (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/vanessa-m-reiser/?lens=hachette-go) , in her new book, calls Narcissistic Abuse (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vanessa-m-reiser/narcissistic-abuse/9781668644782/?lens=hachette-go) . Even the language of this disease - Gaslighting. Love bombing. Hoovering. Triangulating - has become part of the dictionary of life…

War is never pretty, but its privatized high tech future dominated by companies like Palintir and SpaceX is particularly chilling. In Unit X (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Unit-X/Raj-M-Shah/9781668031384) , their FT shortlisted best business book of the year, Raj M. Shah (https://shieldcap.com/team/raj-shah) and Christopher Kirchhoff (https://www.christopherkirchhoff.com/) ’s explain how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley…

I did this interview with John Driscoll (https://thenewpress.com/authors/john-driscoll) , co-author of Pay the People! Why Fair Pay is Good for Business and Great for America (https://www.amazon.com/Pay-People-Business-Great-America-ebook/dp/B0CTNQLH8P) , earlier this week, assuming that Harris would lose the election. And let’s be clear: she did lose an election that should have been…

Lauren Oyler’s “Revenge Plot”, (https://harpers.org/archive/2024/11/revenge-plot-lauren-oyler-republican-national-convention-gop-trump/) a literary diary of her trip to this year’s Republican convention in Milwaukee, is the cover story of this month’s Harper’s (https://harpers.org/) . So when I talked today with the Berlin based writer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Oyler) , we discussed both the revengefulness of the Republican party and…

The good news is that the interminable 2024 election is almost done. The bad news is that the 2028 Presidential campaign - sure to be described as the most important election in American history - will begin later this week. The best-selling writer Paul Greenberg (https://www.paulgreenberg.org/) is already imagining this…

This was the week of Techcrunch Disrupt (https://techcrunch.com/events/tc-disrupt-2024/) , one of San Francisco’s biggest technology events of the year. That Was The Week (https://www.thatwastheweek.com/) publisher Keith Teare attended Disrupt this year and, as he explained in our weekly round up of tech news, the event - which was attended by…

Yesterday, we featured a conversation (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2240-jon-moynihan-on-how) with the British pro-market Conservative, Jon Moynihan, who is unambiguously in favor of economic growth. But Daniel Susskind (https://www.danielsusskind.com/) , author of Growth: A History and a Reckoning (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674294493) , is less of an ideological warrior on behalf of unrestrained economic growth. In Growth,…

Not everyone believes in the promise of economic growth. We’ve done KEEN ON shows in the past with “degrowth” advocates like Tim Jackson and Jason Hickle who argue that we need to get beyond the false promise of ever expanding wealth. Our guest today, however, is anything but a sceptic…