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Against the Romance of Transformation: Leon Weiseltier on America's love affair with the promise of personal and social change

Against the Romance of Transformation: Leon Weiseltier on America's love affair with the promise of personal and social change

FromKeen On


Against the Romance of Transformation: Leon Weiseltier on America's love affair with the promise of personal and social change

FromKeen On

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Oct 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In EPISODE OF 1748 of KEEN ON, Andrew talks to Leon Wieseltier, editor of LIBERTIES, about America's love affair with personal and social changeLeon Wieseltier is an American critic and magazine editor. From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of The New Republic. He was a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic until 2017.. In 2020, he became the editor of Liberties, a quarterly literary review.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.
Released:
Oct 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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