Andrew Keen
It's Always Exploding Somewhere: Why No Weapon Is Ever Perfect
Episode 2791: Jeffrey Stern on an American Quest to Build the Perfect Weaponopen.substack.comWhere's the Countercultural Outrage to Trump?
Episode 2790: Jon Taplin on why Young Americans Need a Cojones Transplantopen.substack.comRunning Away From America: The Rhodes Scholar Who Ran a Male Brothel in Bali
Episode 2788: Nicholas Thompson on the Running Groundopen.substack.comYour 2026 Reading List: Seven Books You Won't Want to Miss
Episode 2787: Bethanne Patrick on what to read this yearopen.substack.comThree Minutes to Midnight: How Europe is Running out of Time
Episode 2780: Kenneth Cukier on the Collapse of the Global Liberal Orderopen.substack.comThe 1984 NYC Subway Vigilante: Self Defense or Racial Rage?
Episode 2776: Elliot Williams on a 1984 Shooting that Still Divides Americaopen.substack.comThe Myth of Willpower: It's not YOU. It's THEM
Episode 2775: Nick Chater on How the Rich and Powerful Have Convinced Us that We're to Blame for Society's Deepest Problemsopen.substack.comChinese Amorality vs. American Immorality
Episode 2774: Nicholas Niarchos on the 21st Century Scramble for Africaopen.substack.comCan Swiftynomics Save America?
Episode 2772: Misty Heggeness on Swiftian Economicskeenon.substack.comOn Fire for the God Con
Episode 2771: Josiah Hesse on the Music Man & the Megachurchopen.substack.comGaza: The Dream and the Nightmare
Episode 2768: Maia Carter Hallward on the Gazan reality that Trump's "Riviera" Fantasy Erasesopen.substack.comThe School of Misery: The Children of a Manufactured Miracle
Episode 2763: Katie Benner and Erica Green on the T.M. Landry School of Scandalopen.substack.comWTF Will Happen in 2026? The Promise and Peril of the New Year
WTF will happen in 2026?open.substack.comWhy Smart People Still Believe in God
Episode 2761: Daniel Williams on America's Search for a Rational Faithopen.substack.comThe All-Collar Crisis: When White Collar Work Meets Blue-Collar Reality
Episode 2760: Julia Hobsbawm on the biggest shift in work in 150 yearsopen.substack.comThe Istanbul Perspective: A Time for Monsters and Middle Powers
Episode 2758: Soli Ozel on the decline of the West and the Rise of the Eastopen.substack.comFrom Carney to Epstein: Orderers vs Disorderers in our Age of Upheaval
Episode 2758: Jason Pack on the Ordered Disorder of 2025 and 2026open.substack.comThe China Paradox: Chris Schroeder on what America is Missing
Episode 2757: Schroeder on a tale of two Chinas (and two Americas)open.substack.comThat Was The Year in Tech: When Nothing Happened (except Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Episode 2756: 2025 - The End or the Beginning of History?open.substack.comMorbid Symptoms Abundant: The Demolition of Pax Americana
Episode 2654: Charles Kupchan on the Dying International Systemopen.substack.com2025: The AI Year Scripted by Gary Marcus in 2024
Episode 2650: Gary Marcus on how the AI Bubble Burst in 2025 and why 2026 will be the Year of the Backlashopen.substack.comJustice is Round: Mussolini Couldn't Woo the World Cup, Neither Will Trump
Episode 2649: Simon Kuper on how the Beautiful Game Transcends its Ugly Admirersopen.substack.comThe Arrival of the American Future: Stephen Marche on the Crisis in 2025 United States
Episode 2646: Why 2025 Confirms Marche's Worst Fears about Americaopen.substack.comMount Rushmore: America's Most Monumental Contradiction
Episode 2640: Matthew Davis' Biography of a Mountainopen.substack.comGeorge Packer's Emergency: When Facts Fail, Turn to Fiction
Episode 2639: Packer on Trump's America, Parenthood and his Ideal Dinner Party Guestsopen.substack.com