Episodes

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 family change. Prior to joining Brookings, he was director of strategy to the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister. In this episode of Keen On, Andrew and Richard discuss the rights of minorities, how we personalize public discourse, and the increasing economic and cultural inequality of...

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 Internet.

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 populist ideology, how facts aren’t necessary in nostalgia, and fetishizing the past.

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 the Rise of Populism, about why populism and populist parties have become a feature of our politics and how new dynamics unleashed by social media have been harnessed by populism.

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 and coming events, DLD's Website Produced by Jason Sanderson -PodcastTech.com

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 and was one of the first big hits about the internet.

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 one of the Facebook most articulate critics.

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/episode21

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 democratic conversation.

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

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 at: http://www.ajkeen.com/podcast/episode18

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

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

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

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 week, we talk to Clare Fox, the founder of the London based think tank The Institute of Ideas about Brexit and the crisis of British parliamentary democracy. Full Show Notes at: http://www.ajkeen.com/podcast/episode14 Produced by Jason Sanderson -https://PodcastTech.com

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 countries have already given up. Show Notes: http://www.ajkeen.com/podcast/episode13

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’.

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

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

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

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.

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