Ranked #1
Daniel Markovits: Can We Blame the Meritocracy in America for the Current Crisis?
Daniel Markovits: Can We Blame the Meritocracy in America for the Current Crisis?
Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and founding director of the Center for the Stud... Read more
1 May 2020
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23mins
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DAILY: Kishore Mahbubani on the Catastrophic Response in the United States to the Crisis
DAILY: Kishore Mahbubani on the Catastrophic Response in the United States to the Crisis
Kishore Mahbubani is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS) and a... Read more
16 Apr 2020
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25mins
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Economist Richard Wolff on the Future of Capitalism
Economist Richard Wolff on the Future of Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from... Read more
22 Nov 2019
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35mins
Ranked #4
What is Behind the Rise of Populism?
What is Behind the Rise of Populism?
Andrew talks to Catherine Fieschi, the founder and executive director of Counterpoint, a London-based consultancy on soc... Read more
2 Aug 2019
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27mins
Ranked #5
David Edgerton on Why Brexit is a Necessary Crisis
David Edgerton on Why Brexit is a Necessary Crisis
David Edgerton is Hans Rausing Professor of the history of science and technology and professor of modern British histor... Read more
8 Nov 2019
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33mins
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DAILY: Gabriel Zucman on the Rise of Inequality in the Age of Crisis
DAILY: Gabriel Zucman on the Rise of Inequality in the Age of Crisis
Gabriel Zucman is professor of economics and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research analy... Read more
7 Apr 2020
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23mins
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Can Digital Innovations Improve Democracy?
Can Digital Innovations Improve Democracy?
In this episode of Keen On, Andrew talks to Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former President of Estonia, about how the invention o... Read more
6 Sep 2019
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40mins
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DAILY: Nick Carr: Will the Analog World Make a Comeback
DAILY: Nick Carr: Will the Analog World Make a Comeback
Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Glass Cage, and Utopia is Creepy. He has wri... Read more
13 Apr 2020
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23mins
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DAILY: William Powers: Will the Crisis Make Us More Reliant on Digital?
DAILY: William Powers: Will the Crisis Make Us More Reliant on Digital?
Award-winning media critic William Powers has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and McS... Read more
10 Apr 2020
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23mins
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Keen on Global Capitalism
Keen on Global Capitalism
Martin Sorrell, one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, explains how the global capitalist system is broken an... Read more
28 Feb 2019
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32mins
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DAILY: Liesl Schillinger on What to Read in the Age of Corona
DAILY: Liesl Schillinger on What to Read in the Age of Corona
Liesl Schillinger is a New York–based critic, translator, and moderator. She grew up in Midwestern college towns, studie... Read more
3 Apr 2020
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26mins
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How Has the Publishing Industry Been Affected by Trump?
How Has the Publishing Industry Been Affected by Trump?
Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA, a psychedelic biography of the 9/11 bo... Read more
15 Nov 2019
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39mins
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DAILY: Trevor Jackson: The United States Is a Central Bank With a Country
DAILY: Trevor Jackson: The United States Is a Central Bank With a Country
Trevor Jackson works on early modern European economic history, with an emphasis on inequality and financial crisis. His... Read more
22 Apr 2020
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28mins
Ranked #14
Why Too Much Information Is an Enemy of Democracy
Why Too Much Information Is an Enemy of Democracy
In this episode of Keen On, Andrew talks to Pomerantsev, the author of the new book This is Not Propaganda: Adventures i... Read more
9 Aug 2019
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42mins
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Is Humor The Best Antidote to Tyranny?
Is Humor The Best Antidote to Tyranny?
Andrew talks to the legendary Czech diplomat, writer and human rights activist Michael Zantovksy about how to fight auth... Read more
24 Jul 2019
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32mins
Ranked #16
Can the Truth Win Out in the Marketplace of Ideas?
Can the Truth Win Out in the Marketplace of Ideas?
In this episode of Keen On, Andrew talks to Richard Stengel, author of Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle A... Read more
4 Oct 2019
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49mins
Ranked #17
What Did You Wish You Had More Time to Do? Tiffany Shlain on How Unplugging Can Save Society
What Did You Wish You Had More Time to Do? Tiffany Shlain on How Unplugging Can Save Society
This week, Tiffany Shlain sits down with Andrew Keen to discuss her new book, 24/6. In 24/6, Tiffany Shlain explores how... Read more
18 Oct 2019
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21mins
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How Can We Trust? Maria Ressa on the Future of Gatekeeping
How Can We Trust? Maria Ressa on the Future of Gatekeeping
In this episode of Keen On, Andrew talks to journalist Maria Ressa, about the weaponization of social media, the loss of... Read more
27 Sep 2019
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34mins
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Katherine Mangu-Ward on Why Modern Capitalism is a Blessing
Katherine Mangu-Ward on Why Modern Capitalism is a Blessing
Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason, the magazine of “free minds and free markets.” Her writing has appear... Read more
29 Nov 2019
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33mins
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Jacobin Editor Bhaskar Sunkara on Capitalism vs. Socialism
Jacobin Editor Bhaskar Sunkara on Capitalism vs. Socialism
Bhaskar Sunkara is an American political writer. He is the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin and publisher of Cat... Read more
6 Dec 2019
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12mins