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Episode 2949: Tim Jackson Returns to June 1968 to Dig Up a Post-Capitalist Future https://keenon.substack.com/p/life-after-gdp?utm_source=youtube

“The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.” — Robert F. Kennedy, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 It is June 5, 1968. An eleven-year-old English boy is watching the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on his black and white television. That little boy is Tim Jackson…

Episode 2948: Laura McGrath on the 25 People Who Control American Fiction https://keenon.substack.com/p/middlewomen?utm_source=youtube

“Just 25 literary agents represent more than half of all prizewinning novelists in the 21st century. The agent is the unacknowledged legislator of the literary field.” — Laura McGrath We think of publishers and editors as the ultimate tastemakers. As those godlike gatekeepers controlling what we read. But if you’re…

Episode 2947: Kate O’Neill on the H Word, Verbal Slop, and the Meaning of Tech Humanism https://keenon.substack.com/p/what-makes-us-human?utm_source=youtube