Andrew Keen
@ajkeen
https://keenon.substack.com/
The charming gay racist who invented modern American conservatism: Sam Tanenhaus on William F. Buckley's absurdly implausible contradictions, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/t… @SamTanenbaum The troubling thing about William F. Buckley, the media savvy founder of modern…
"AI Is Too Busy to Take Your Job: The Electrifying Truth about our AIgorithmic Future, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/a… @drorpoleg Yesterday, we focused on the death of the American way of work. But today the news on the AI front isn’t quite as dire. According to the New York…
The Death of the American Way of Work: How the United States Lost Its Grip on the Future, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/t… @juliahobsbawn In 1963, Jessica Mitford published her remarkable account of the American funeral industry, An American Way of Death. Over sixty years…
How Capitalism Turned Money into God: Paul Vigna on Buying the Almighty, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/h… @paulvigna It’s an old thesis - that capitalism has created a religion out of money. But nobody, not even Marx, has been quite as theologically explicit as Paul Vigna,…
AI as Dumb Waiter 2.0: Douglas Rushkoff on How Smart Technology Isn't Quite as Smart as It Claims, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/a… @rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff has spent decades warning how each new digital technological “revolution” has promised liberation but actually only…
From Luther to Zuckerberg: Who killed Privacy?, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/f… @tiffanyjenkins So who killed privacy? It's the central question of Tiffany Jenkins' provocative new history of private life, Strangers and Intimates. The answer, according to Jenkins, is that we…
A Satirist's Revenge on Wall Street: From Trading Hedge Funds to Telling Stories, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/a… It’s the fantasy of countless Wall Street analysts. Amran Gowani traded his lucrative career in hedge funds for the scarily solitary world of novel writing. His…
Living in Teddy's Shadow: How Roosevelt's Sons Found Redemption—and Regret—in Their Quest for the Giant Panda, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/l… @NathaliaHolt How can anyone forget those photos of Trump’s sons celebrating over the carcasses of dead animals that they shot in…
America's Heart of Moral Darkness: Peter Wehner on Trump's Apocalyptic Assault on African AIDS Victims, by @ajkeen @Peterwehner3 open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/a… The last time Peter Wehner, who I’ve always imagined as America’s conscience, appeared on the show to talk about the…
Breaking Down America's Everyday Walls: From Swimming Pools and SUVs to White Lives Matter Rallies, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/b… From suburban swimming pools and SUVs to White Lives Matter rallies, the Johns Hopkins anthropologist Anand Pandian has been exploring the…