Episodes

What is Behind the Rise of Populism?
Aug. 2, 2019

What is Behind the Rise of Populism?

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...

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Is Humor The Best Antidote to Tyranny?
July 23, 2019

Is Humor The Best Antidote to Tyranny?

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...

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Pivoting to the Killer-app.
July 4, 2019

Pivoting to the Killer-app.

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...

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Facebook's Moral Crisis
June 25, 2019

Facebook's Moral Crisis

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...

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Ninja Morality: The case for technological innovation
June 18, 2019

Ninja Morality: The case for technological innovation

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

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Keen On The State of American Democracy
June 11, 2019

Keen On The State of American Democracy

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...

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How to Lose a Country With Turkish Author Ece Temelkuran
May 29, 2019

How to Lose a Country With Turkish Author Ece Temelkuran

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...

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Why Democracy Is a Conversation
May 21, 2019

Why Democracy Is a Conversation

Andrew talks to internet guru Jeff Jarvis about how to save democracy through turning it into a civil and civic discussion

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Why Democracy needs Team Human
May 14, 2019

Why Democracy needs Team Human

Douglass Rushkoff is one of the world’s leading humanist critics of contemporary capitalism, particularly of the digital economy. In this week’s episode we chat about his latest acclaimed book is TEAM HUMAN. Full Show Notes a...

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How Globalism Is Turning Us All Into Palestinians
May 7, 2019

How Globalism Is Turning Us All Into Palestinians

Andrew talks to Ian Bremmer, author of the bestselling Us Vs Them: The Failure of Globalism about the political crises of inequality and alienation.

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Finally Some Good News: Democracy works in Turkey!
April 29, 2019

Finally Some Good News: Democracy works in Turkey!

Andrew talks to noted Turkish political pundit Soli Ozel about democracy in Turkey. Democracy works, Ozel says. Authoritarianism may even be on the wane. Full Show Notes at: http://www.ajkeen.com/podcast/episode16

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How to Fix the Future Nordic Style
April 24, 2019

How to Fix the Future Nordic Style

Peter Sunde, co-founder of Pirate Bay, explains what’s gone wrong with the internet and how to fix it. Full Show Notes at: http://www.ajkeen.com/podcast/episode15

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Keen on Brexit
April 16, 2019

Keen on Brexit

So we've talked a lot about Brexit in this show. But we've never had an entire episode focused on Brexit and its impact on British democracy and democracy in general. We need to have that conversation. And to have it. This we...

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Keen on the New Dark Age
April 8, 2019

Keen on the New Dark Age

Today we have a great conversation with James Bridle, author of THE NEW DARK AGE, about political enlightenment. Also about what the Ancient Greek did well and why they are still strongly democratic in age where some countrie...

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Can Coders Save Democracy
March 28, 2019

Can Coders Save Democracy

Andrew chats with Clive Thompson about how technology has shaped our democracy. Clive is a journalist for The New York Times and Wired, also the Author of ‘Smarter than you think’, and his new book ‘Coders’.

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Exposing Surveillance Capitalism
March 21, 2019

Exposing Surveillance Capitalism

The fight for a democratic future at the new frontier of power with Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff. Full show notes : http://ajkeen.libsyn.com/exposing-surveillance- capitalism

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Keen on How to Be Evil
March 14, 2019

Keen on How to Be Evil

CNN pundit Rana Faroohar outlines how the dominant Silicon Valley platforms have undermined both democracy and capitalism and offers solutions to this crisis

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Keen on Global Capitalism
Feb. 28, 2019

Keen on Global Capitalism

Martin Sorrell, one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, explains how the global capitalist system is broken and how to fix it.

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KEEN ON ESTONIA, PART ONE
Feb. 21, 2019

KEEN ON ESTONIA, PART ONE

Former Estonian CTO, Taavi Kotka, lays out the “great choice” for 21st century digital politics: Either the central Chinese model or the decentralized Estonian one.

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Wolf On Democracy
Feb. 14, 2019

Wolf On Democracy

Martin Wolf, the Chief Economics commentator for the Financial Times newspaper and one of the world’s most acclaimed financial journalists shares how globalization might be undermining democracy

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Is Media Killing Democracy?
Feb. 7, 2019

Is Media Killing Democracy?

Tom Baldwin, Author of ALT, CONTROL, DELETE: How Politics And Media Crashed Democracy, explains how both old and new media are killing democracy.

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Why The Future Is Asian
Jan. 31, 2019

Why The Future Is Asian

Singapore based geo-strategist Parag Khanna explains why and how the 21st century will be an Asian century. And we ask what will this mean for democracy.

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Cukier on Democracy
Jan. 24, 2019

Cukier on Democracy

Kenn Cukier, the author of Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Work, Live and Think, explains how and why the big data revolution is undermining democracy.

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Goodhart on Democracy
Jan. 17, 2019

Goodhart on Democracy

David Goodhart, author of The Road To Somewhere, explains why the Somewheres versus the Everywheres is the central division in modern politics

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