Keen v. Weinberger

When someone is not only as intellectually rigorous, but as emotionally mature, humanely empathic and just simply as good-hearted as Dave Weinberger, it's a joy to watch him dismantle a smarmy, clever poseur like Andrew Keen, as can be seen in this piece in the Wall Street Journal.

To say that Dave humiliated Keen would be too kind; he simply drove him from the stage by revealing what a heartless fraud Keen's own arguments proved him to be.

Comments

[Jon Husband]

I found this dissection of Keen's argument, in debate with Emily Bell of The Guardian, even more embarrassing for Keen.

[Tom Guarriello]

Thanks, Jon, I'll check out the Guardian piece. Keen's arguments are fundamentally bankrupt, from my POV, provocative for the sake of provocation.