Best Francisco J Garcia Podcasts (2024)

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J. Malcolm Garcia on the humanity of San Francisco's homeless community 39:21

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Lauded by KEEN ON favorites like Dave Eggers & Dale Maharidge, J. Malcolm Garcia might be the Studs Terkel of contemporary American literature. Having worked as a social worker with San Francisco’s homeless community for 14 years, he then became an acclaimed journalist and winner of the Studs Terkel prize for writing about the American working clas…

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KEEN ON America featuring Joshua Browder, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and great grandson of the US Communist Party leader 33:14

27m ago33:14

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As CEO of the AI start-up DoNotPay, Joshua Browder is one of Silicon Valley’s rising young entrepreneurs. Born in the UK and educated at Stanford, Browder is from a remarkable family of American innovators and activists. His great grandfather, Earl Browder, was head of the US Communist Party. His grandfather, Felix Browder, was one of America’s mos…

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Episode 2034: Jonathan Rauch on Reinventing Liberalism in the 21st Century 32:49

10h ago32:49

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I was at the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference last week in DC where I bumped into an old friend and KEEN ON regular Jonathan Rauch. A Brookings Fellow and prolific author, Rauch is amongst America’s most thoughtful commentators on the contemporary crisis of liberalism and the rising popularity of “post-liberalism”. So, in the wake of Trum…

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Episode 2033: Ebony Reed on the Shameful Black-White Wealth Gap in America 42:19

33m ago42:19

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For all the “progress” in civil rights front over the last couple of generations, the wealth gap between white and black Americans hasn’t changed much. As Ebony Reed, co-author of best selling new book, Fifteen Cents on the Dollar, whites on average have 85% more wealth than blacks, a shockingly inegalitarian fact about a supposedly color blind dem…

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episode 2032: Elle Reeve on how the darkest corners of the internet have poisoned society and captured American politics 43:06

2h ago43:06

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In the wake of the failed Trump assassination attempt by what seems to be a conventionally lonely and bullied young man, more and more Americans are asking what has gone wrong. According to CNN correspondent Elle Reeve, online Americans - particularly lonely, alienated young men on networks like Discord and 4Chan - have swallowed the Black Pill of …

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Episode 2031: Laurent Dubreuil's creative answer to whether AI can think creatively 48:09

6h ago48:09

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Trust a French literary theorist to think creatively about whether AI can think creatively. Laurent Dubreuil is a professor of French literature at Cornell and the author of the intriguing Harper’s piece, Metal Machine Music, which asks both if AI and we humans can think creatively. Using ChatGPT, Dubreuil ran a test at Cornell asking a bot and hum…

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Episode 2030: Renee DiResta on our Invisible Rulers Who Turn Lies into Reality 40:22

4h ago40:22

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I’m just back from the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference in DC which featured a lively discussion about digital misinformation between KEEN ON regular Jonathan Rauch and Renee DiResta, the author of Invisible Rulers. As the former manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory, DiResta has been on the front lines of the disinformation wars a…

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Episode 2029: Niobe Way on America's Crisis of Masculinity 48:15

1h ago48:15

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Does America have problem with its boys and men? Yes, says author of Boys and Men, Richard Reeves, a previous guest on KEEN ON. Today’s guest, Niobe Way, a NYU professor of developmental psychology, give a more nuanced answer. The author of the Rebels With a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves and our Culture, Way argues that the crisis is one of a …

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Episode 2028: Peter Hessler on what life is really like in Xi's China 47:06

1h ago47:06

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Few Americans know contemporary China better than Peter Hessler. The author of four prize winning books about life in China as well as the former China correspondent of the New Yorker, Hessler originally came to China as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1996 and has been writing about the day-to-day life of the country ever since. In contrast with the ge…

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Episode 2027: Andrew O'Hagan goes up the Caledonian Road in search of Truth, Justice and a Man in Blue 1:05:46

1d ago1:05:46

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What a treat. LA Times book critic Bethanne Patrick and I got the opportunity to talk today with the great Andrew O’Hagan, author of Caledonian Road, his new blockbuster novel about the state of contemporary Britain. It’s a fabulous read and O’Hagan was no less fab, generously dedicating an hour to our questions. As O’Hagan explained, for all his h…

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Episode 2026: Daniel Silva on why the Criminal Rich Collect the Masterpieces of Van Gogh, Vermeer and Picasso 36:17

2d ago36:17

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Spy novelists often make excellent moralists and the American writer Daniel Silva, author of the Gabriel Allon series of best-selling thrillers, is a particularly sharp critic of contemporary morals. His new Allon thriller, A Death in Cornwall, focuses on money laundering, murder and mayhem in the art world. The novel is set in the contemporary Uni…

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Episode 2025: Mike Maples on how to Break Patterns and Invent the Future 59:36

3d ago59:36

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Earlier this week, I visited the offices of Floodgate Partners in Menlo Park to talk with its co-founding partner Mike Maples. As an early investor in Twitter, Twitch.tv and many other successful start-ups, Maples is one of Silicon Valley’s most respected venture capitalists. He is, to borrow the title of his new book, an investor in “Pattern Break…

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Episode 2024: Jeremy Kahn's Survival Guide for our AI Future 43:39

8d ago43:39

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In episode 2022, That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare and I violently disagreed about the current AI boom. Keith, the eternal techno-optimist, thinks AI is about to radically change everything; as the perennial techno-pessimist, I argued that much of the current Wall St AI insanity is a 21st version of 17th century Dutch tulip mania. But if we w…

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Episode 2023: Mara Kardas-Nelson Reveals the Seductive Promise of Microfinance 41:55

5d ago41:55

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The seductive promise of microfinance might have conveniently died in the Western media, but Muhammad Yunis’ alluring economic idea has actually wreaked unintentional havoc around the world. Mara Kardas-Nelson’s important new book, We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky, reveals the damage done by microfinance loans in developing world countries like S…

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Episode 2022: Is the AI Tech Boom of the 2020s a Repeat of the Wall Street Mania of the Roaring 1920s? 38:49

6d ago38:49

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Last week, That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare and I discussed whether Silicon Valley has an AI Bubble Problem. And we return to the same subject today, comparing today’s AI driven Wall Street techno-mania with the automotive centric Wall Street madness of the roaring 1920s. As usual, Keith is the optimistic, arguing that stock market booms are…

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Episode 2021: PR exec Phil Elwood confesses to building a "counter-narrative" for some of the worst humans on the planet 34:17

7d ago34:17

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Memoirs are usually morally uplifting reads with happy endings. But Phil Elwood’s new memoir, All the Worst Humans, is a confession of how Elwood, as a top DC based PR operative, created what he calls a “counter-narrative” for Assad, Gaddafi and the Qataris. Elwood isn’t proud about any of this. As he confessed to me, he still sleeps poorly and oft…

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Episode 2020: Simon Reynolds on reasons to be cheerful about the AI cultural revolution 45:40

8d ago45:40

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In 2011, Simon Reynolds is one of the world’s most prolific music journalists, came on KEEN ON to explain why the Internet has been bad for both musical artists and fans. Back then it took a brave man like Reynolds to argue against the supposedly cornucopian cultural potential of the Web 2 revolution. Today, in contrast, most mainstream cultural cr…

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Episode 2019: Diane McLain Smith offers a way to reunite America 38:37

9d ago38:37

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Our second July 4 interview features Diane McLain Smith, author of Remaking the Space Between Us: How Citizens Can Work Together to Build a Better Future For All. The problem with America, McLain Smith believes, is that “we the people have become the problem” with our endlessly divisive tribalism. But just as we are the problem, we can also be the …

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Episode 2018: Former Prosecutor Debbie Hines on Black Lives, White Justice and her Quest for Reform 49:09

9d ago49:09

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As the former Assistant Attorney General for Maryland, one would expect Debbie Hines to be a strong supporter of the American criminal justice system. But the Baltimore based veteran trial lawyer is unambiguously critical in her new memoir, GET OFF MY NECK, of what she sees as the structural racism of a “conveyer belt” American legal system which s…

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Episode 2017: Celeste Marcus Exposes the Generational Crisis of American Liberalism 35:43

10d ago35:43

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Last week’s horror show debate woke up a lot of progressive Americans. For Celeste Marcus, managing editor of Liberties Quarterly, Biden’s dismal performance was akin to the shock of the January 6th insurrection. In contrast with Jan 6, however, Marcus is calling for a political insurrection amongst progressives that will trigger a generational shi…

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Episode 2016: Daniel Porterfield defends the personal and civic value of a college education 40:59

11d ago40:59

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Over the last couple of years we’ve had multiple guests questioning the economic and moral value of a college education. But Daniel R. Porterfield, the Aspen Institute CEO and former President of Franklin and Marshall College, strongly disagrees. In his new book, MINDSET MATTERS, Porterfield argues that in our age of rapid technological change, the…

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Episode 2015: Dmitri Alperovitch on how America can beat China in the Second Cold War 35:55

18d ago35:55

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Amongst the most bizarro thing about last week’s truly bizarre Presidential debate was how much Biden and Trump were in violent agreement on China. Trump certainly has won the ideological battle about the supposedly existential China threat and the two decrepit old men both celebrate American embroilment in a second Cold War. This is great news , o…

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Episode 2014: M. Steven Fish on why Trump's dominance-style politics will win in November (didn't anyone tell the Democrats?) 40:04

21d ago40:04

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In the wake of Biden’s pathetically dismal performance last week, it’s worth remembering that some progressive thinkers have been warning for months about this catastrophe. Back in May, the New York Times ran an op-ed by UC Berkeley political science professor M. Steven Fish entitled “Trump Knows Dominance Wins, Someone Tell Democrats”. Even though…

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Episode 2013: Does Silicon Valley have an AI Bubble Problem? Duh.... 34:02

13d ago34:02

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Does Silicon Valley have an AI bubble problem? That Was the Week’s Keith Teare, usually the most bullish of tech bulls, acknowledges that Silicon Valley has an overvaluation issue with AI startups. But I wonder if the problem with AI goes deeper than the frothiness of its startup valuations. What, if anything, is AI search good for? asks a Vox piec…

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Episode 2012: The Woman Who Mistook A Stranger For Her Husband 36:34

13d ago36:34

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Imagine accosting a stranger in a grocery store because you mistook him to be your husband? That was the fate of the Washington Post science reporter, Sadie Dingfelder, who suffers from the bizarre condition of faceblindness. She explores this condition in DO I KNOW YOU?, her own journey into the strange science of sight, memory, and imagination. D…

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Francisco J Garcia Podcasts

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J. Malcolm Garcia on the humanity of San Francisco's homeless community 39:21

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KEEN ON America featuring Joshua Browder, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and great grandson of the US Communist Party leader 33:14

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Episode 2034: Jonathan Rauch on Reinventing Liberalism in the 21st Century 32:49

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Episode 2033: Ebony Reed on the Shameful Black-White Wealth Gap in America 42:19

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episode 2032: Elle Reeve on how the darkest corners of the internet have poisoned society and captured American politics 43:06

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Episode 2031: Laurent Dubreuil's creative answer to whether AI can think creatively 48:09

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Episode 2030: Renee DiResta on our Invisible Rulers Who Turn Lies into Reality 40:22

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Episode 2029: Niobe Way on America's Crisis of Masculinity 48:15

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Episode 2028: Peter Hessler on what life is really like in Xi's China 47:06

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Episode 2027: Andrew O'Hagan goes up the Caledonian Road in search of Truth, Justice and a Man in Blue 1:05:46

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Episode 2026: Daniel Silva on why the Criminal Rich Collect the Masterpieces of Van Gogh, Vermeer and Picasso 36:17

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Episode 2025: Mike Maples on how to Break Patterns and Invent the Future 59:36

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Episode 2024: Jeremy Kahn's Survival Guide for our AI Future 43:39

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Episode 2023: Mara Kardas-Nelson Reveals the Seductive Promise of Microfinance 41:55

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Episode 2022: Is the AI Tech Boom of the 2020s a Repeat of the Wall Street Mania of the Roaring 1920s? 38:49

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Episode 2021: PR exec Phil Elwood confesses to building a "counter-narrative" for some of the worst humans on the planet 34:17

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Episode 2020: Simon Reynolds on reasons to be cheerful about the AI cultural revolution 45:40

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Episode 2019: Diane McLain Smith offers a way to reunite America 38:37

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Episode 2018: Former Prosecutor Debbie Hines on Black Lives, White Justice and her Quest for Reform 49:09

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Episode 2017: Celeste Marcus Exposes the Generational Crisis of American Liberalism 35:43

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Episode 2016: Daniel Porterfield defends the personal and civic value of a college education 40:59

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Episode 2015: Dmitri Alperovitch on how America can beat China in the Second Cold War 35:55

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Episode 2014: M. Steven Fish on why Trump's dominance-style politics will win in November (didn't anyone tell the Democrats?) 40:04

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Episode 2013: Does Silicon Valley have an AI Bubble Problem? Duh.... 34:02

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Episode 2012: The Woman Who Mistook A Stranger For Her Husband 36:34

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