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Keen On

The daily show about books, writers, and big ideas. Hosted by Andrew Keen.

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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

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

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

35mins

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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

27mins

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

28mins

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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

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

32mins

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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

49mins

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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

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

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

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

12mins

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