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.

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In this episode, Andrew talks to Palo Alto author Malcolm Harris about Leland Stanford, eugenics, Herbert Hoover’s technocracy, Elizabeth Holmes’s black sweaters, and Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents.

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Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History. He was born in Santa Cruz, CA and graduated from the University of Maryland.

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