Eboo Patel: Field Notes on How to Build a Diverse Democracy in America
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew is joined by Eboo Patel, author of We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy.
Named “one of America’s best leaders” by U.S. News and World Report, Eboo Patel is Founder and President of Interfaith America, the leading interfaith organization in the United States. Under his leadership, Interfaith America has worked with governments, universities, private companies, and civic organizations to make faith a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. Eboo served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council, has given hundreds of keynote addresses, and has written five books. He is an Ashoka Fellow and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. Eboo lives in Chicago with his wife, Shehnaz, and their two sons.
Episode 2058: Timothy Morton searches for a Christian Ecology that will get us out of our Planetary Hell
Episode 2057: KEEN ON America featuring R. Derek Black
Episode 2056: Kyle Paoletta exposes the 2024 Republican Primaries as "Farce"
Episode 2055: Michael Ignatieff on a history of his privileges
Episode 2054: Keith Teare follows the money of the online creative economy
Episode 2053: Vince Houghton on how the Cold War transformed Miami into America's most Covert City
Episode 2052: Bryan Caplan on the economic and philosophical case for the radical deregulation of the housing industry
Episode 2051: Mohamed Amer Meziane offers an ecological and racial history of seculization
Episode 250: Andrew J Scott on why we should care about old people
Episode 2049: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Samyr Laine
Episode 2048: Tobias Buck on the Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
Episode 2047: Elisa New on Poetry in America
Episode 2046: David Faris on why American kids are all left these days