Episodes

Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason , the magazine of “free minds and free markets.” Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times , Slate , and numerous other p...

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of t...

Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA , a psychedelic biography of the 9/11 bomber Mohamed Atta, was an unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada. His first novel, I Hate the Interne...

David Edgerton is Hans Rausing Professor of the history of science and technology and professor of modern British history at King's College London. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth Cent...

Ian Bassin served as Associate White House Counsel from 2009-2011. In addition to counseling the President and senior White House staff on administrative and constitutional law, his responsibilities included ensuring that Whi...

Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He is the cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter and author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World, coming October 29 through Viking Press.

This week, Tiffany Shlain sits down with Andrew Keen to discuss her new book, 24/6 . In 24/6 , Tiffany Shlain explores how turning off screens one day a week can work wonders on your brain, body, and soul. Honored by Newsweek...

In this episode of Keen On , Andrew talks to Scott Galloway, the bestselling author of The Four and Algebra of Happiness and New York University business professor, about what's gone wrong in the digital economy, why breaking...

In this episode of Keen On , Andrew talks to Richard Stengel, author of Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It , about his experience as the Undersecretary of State ...

In this episode of Keen On , Andrew talks to journalist Maria Ressa, about the weaponization of social media, the loss of democracy as we know it, and how we can save our future.

In this episode of Keen On , Andrew talks to Carl Benedikt Frey, the co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment at the University of Oxford and author of The Technology Trap , about the similariti...

In this episode of Keen On , Andrew talks to Jeffrey A. Winters, the political scientist and author of Oligarchy , about the convergence of oligarchy and democracy, the complex phenomenon of Donald Trump, and the transformati...

In this episode of Keen On , Andrew talks to Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former President of Estonia, about how the invention of the World Wide Web forever changed democracy, Russian influence in the digital age, and how doing away...

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in Economic Studies, co-director of the Center on Children and Families, and editor-in-chief of the Social Mobility Memos blog. His research focuses on social mobility, inequality, and fam...

In this episode of Keen On , Andrew talks to Eli Pariser, author of the iconic book The Filter Bubble and founder of Upworthy, about digital activism, the contemporary crisis of information, and why we need to build a better ...

In this episode of Keen On , Andrew talks to Tomáš Sedláček, author of Economics of Good and Evil and one of Europe’s most distinguished economists, about the reinvention of democracy in our digital age.

In this episode of Keen On , Andrew talks to Pomerantsev, the author of the new book This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality , about the Russian influence of the American election and the birth of populi...

Andrew talks to Catherine Fieschi, the founder and executive director of Counterpoint, a London-based consultancy on social and cultural dynamics, and the author of the new book Populocracy: The Tyranny of Authenticity and th...

Andrew talks to the legendary Czech diplomat, writer and human rights activist Michael Zantovksy about how to fight authoritarianism. Show Notes - http://www.ajkeen.com/podcast/episode25 Please be sure to check out DLD’s up a...

Andrew talks with writer Larry Downes, the author of five books including this year’s bestselling Pivot To The Future. Best known, however, for his first book, Unleashing The Killer App, which, in 1998, sold 200,000 copies an...

The American technology journalist and impresario David Kirkpatrick is probably the world’s leading authority on the history of Facebook. The author of the 2010 best-selling Facebook Effect, over the last few years – become o...

Andrew talks to Ninja Future author Gary Shapiro about our moral obligation to unleash technological innovation on society Show Notes - http://www.ajkeen.com/podcast/episode21

Andrew talks to noted Harvard Law School scholar Noah Feldman about the health of American democracy, populism, anti-trust law and what James Madison would think of contemporary America. http://www.ajkeen.com/podcast/episode...

Today Andrew is talking to Turkish born author of How To Lose A Country, Ece Temelkuran. As global citizens we chat about her rejection of the parochial, cul-de-sac of identity politics and shows us how to engage in REAL demo...