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Navigating around Christopher Columbus: The Nine Lives of the Genoese Sailor Who Became History's Greatest Saint and Sinner

Episode 2579: Matthew Restall on the many lives and legacies of Christopher Columbus

Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 2d

Don't Be Yourself: Why the Cult of Authenticity Is Killing Not Just Your Career but Your Life

Episode 2578: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic on Why Authenticity Is Overrated and What to Do Instead

Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 5d

More Than Chinatown: Bruce Lee and the Invention of Asian American Identity

Episode 2576: Jeff Chang on the Making of Asian America

Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 6d

The AI Pioneer Who Chose Purpose Over Profit: Jim Fruchterman on Why Big Tech Can't Be Trusted with Our Future

Episode 2575: Why Philanthropy—Not Big Tech—Should Design Our Future

Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 8d

The True Cost of Roadkill: Cars Have Caused 60 to 80 Million Deaths in the Last 100 Years

Episode 2573: Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay unveil our toxic relationship with cars

Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 11d

The AI Assistant That Knows Your Life Before You Do: The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End?

Episode OpenAI's Pulse - Sam Altman's $10 Trillion Bet on 'Abundant Intelligence'"

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 14d

Halfway to Hungary: Jonathan Rauch on the Authoritarian Playbook that Trump Borrowed from a Small, Landlocked Central European State

Episode 2567: On the first eight months of Trump's second term

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 16d

Kimmel-Kirk and the End of the Television Age: Why Free Speech Has Never Been Freer

Episode 2564: How YouTube, Substack, and social platforms are making traditional media gatekeepers irrelevant

Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 18d

Gutted and Glutted: The Dire Economics of Podcasting in the AI Age

Episode 2562: Marshall Poe on the crisis of the independent podcast

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 20d

Should Billionaires Be Banned? Why Extreme Wealth Might Be Incompatible with Democracy and the Survival of the Earth

Episode 2560: Ingrid Robeyns' case against billionaires

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 21d

Why Trump Might Be Right About Greenland: How a 57,000-Person Island Became Critical to 21st Century Geopolitics

Episode : Elizabeth Buchanan on why it's not crazy to want to own Greenland

Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 22d

Why Humans Have Such Big Brains (No, it's not Because of our Intelligence)

Episode 2557: Nikolay Kukushkin Unravels the Mystery of Human Consciousness

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 22d

The Unluckiest Generation: Confessions of a Millennial

Episode 2558: Charlie Wells on Britney, 9/11, the Great Recession and what Millennials can Teach Gen Z

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 28d

The Godfather of Security, Bruce Schneier, Rewires Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government and Citizenship

Episode 2551: Why America's Democracy Runs on 1776 Technology in a 2025 World and What To Do About It

Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 28d

Here Comes the Sunstein: Cass Sunstein on Why American Liberalism Now Needs Defending More Than Ever

Episode 2550: Sunstein on Why Reagan and FDR Are Part of the Same Big Tent Liberal Family

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 29d

Can We Get To 2125? Humanity's Most Existential Threats Over the Next 100 Years

Episode 2549: Gary F. Bengier on the 22nd Century's Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Double Life of Robert McNamara: How America's 'Best and Brightest' Led the Nation into Vietnam While Knowing the War Was Unwinnable

Episode 2545: Philip Taubman on the Rise and Fall of the Post War Technocratic Whiz Kid with a Tragic Double Life

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · Sep 4

The World's Worst Bet: How America Gambled Dumbly on Globalization and Lost

Episode 2544: David J Lynch on the 30-Year Unraveling of America's Global Dream

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · Sep 3

From Borges to Brain Scans: How our Minds Invent Reality

Episode 2542: Daniel Yon on the Scientific Labyrinth of the Human Brain

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Hypocrisy of Trump's War on Universities: How Wealthy Families Game the College Admission Process

Episode 2541: Beverly Daniel Tatum on how to lead colleges through turbulent times

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · Aug 24

Getting Queerer Quicker: No, The Literary Man Isn't Disappearing—He's Just Not Longer White or Straight

Episode 2533: Bethanne Patrick on Five Books that Reflect today's Male Identity Crisis

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · Aug 23

Who Owns The Front Door? The Multi-Trillion Dollar Battle to Assemble the AI Jigsaw

Episode 2532: Chat vs. Browser and the War for Tomorrow's Internet Interface

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · Aug 22

From Mean Streets to Wall Street: How Trump, Koch, and the other Gods of New York Remade America

Episode 2531: Jonathan Mahler on egoists, opportunists and the birth of contemporary New York

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · Aug 21

Move Fast and Fix the World: Here Comes the Sun in the Nick of Time

Episode 2530: Bill McKibben on a Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · Aug 20

The Redistricting Apocalypse: How Chief Justice Roberts Let All the Evil Spirits out of American Democracy

Episode 2529: David Daley on the Far-Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections