Keen On America

Keen On America

Author: Andrew Keen Language: English Episodes: 100
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Keen On America is a sharp, fast-moving podcast hosted by author and commentator Andrew Keen. Known for asking impertinent questions, Keen cross-examines some of the world’s most thoughtful voices on politics, economics, history, culture, the environment, and technology. Each episode digs beneath headlines and hype to uncover what is really shaping America today and how those forces connect to global change. Listeners can expect challenging conversations rather than easy talking points, as Keen presses guests to explain not just what is happening, but why it matters and what might come next. Whether you are trying to make sense of polarized politics, rapid technological disruption, or shifting social norms, this show offers a bracing, critical lens. Tune in and listen episodes of Keen On America to hear Andrew Keen interrogate the ideas and assumptions that define contemporary American life.
Episodes
How Meat Can Save the Planet: The Vegan Case [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:04
Can meat save the planet? That’s the paradoxical promise of the longtime vegan activist Bruce Friedrich, founder of the Good Food Institute. In his new book, Meat, Friedrich argues that plant-based and cultivated meat ca…
It's Always Exploding Somewhere: Why No Weapon Is Ever Perfect [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:06
There’s something absurdly Strangelovian about the American quest for a perfect weapon. As Jeffrey Stern warns in The Warhead, his new history of The Paveway, the first “smart” bomb, weapons are always, like their human…
Where's the Countercultural Outrage to Trump? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:37
Why did Nixon trigger a remarkable cultural American renaissance while Trump has generated an avalanche of social media bluster, but few great movies, songs or novels? For Silicon Valley critic Jon Taplin, the problem is…
AI's Adolescent Crisis: And It's Still Just a Toddler [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:15
Is AI going through an adolescent crisis, even it’s still just a toddler? There certainly seems to be a lot of adolescent angst amongst our new AI overlords like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. In his latest essay, appropria…
Your 2026 Reading List: Seven Books You Won't Want to Miss [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:14
According to our favorite literary reviewer, Bethanne Patrick, these are the seven books that “will really matter” in 2026:* Land by Maggie O’Farrell — The Hamnet author returns with a luminous novel set in 1865 Ireland,…
Human Fracking: The $17 Trillion War for Your Attention [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:30
Pay attention to this interview. Because, you see, attention is seriously expensive — the Silicon Valley industry being worth $17 trillion, at least according to the Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett, co-editor of a…
Fear and Fury: From Bernie Goetz to Kyle Rittenhouse [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:23
New books are like London buses. You wait and wait and then a handful comes at the same time. Take, for example, histories of the New York City vigilante Bernie Goetz. Last week, we featured the CNN legal analyst Elliott…
Who Needs Goliaths? Don't Write Off Europe's Army of Davids [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:19
This is the final conversation from DLD. And the most optimistic - at least from a European perspective. John Thornhill, the FT’s Innovation Editor and founder of Sifted, has a quite different take on Europe’s tech scene…
Excited and Terrified: The Atlantic CEO on Journalism's AI Reckoning [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:29
For media moguls, we are living, to borrow from Dickens, in the best and worst of times. As Nicholas Thompson confessed to me at DLD, The Atlantic CEO is simultaneously “excited” and “terrified” by the power of AI to rev…

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