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The daily show about books, writers, and big ideas. Hosted by Andrew Keen.

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1726
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.
30 min
1727
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 and was one of the first big h
30 min
1728
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 one of the Facebook most ar
36 min
1729
Ninja Morality: The case for technological inno...
Andrew talks to Ninja Future author Gary Shapiro about our moral obligation to unleash technological innovation on society
26 min
1730
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.
42 min
1731
How to Lose a Country With Turkish Author Ece T...
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.
37 min
1732
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
33 min
1733
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.
36 min
1734
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.
34 min
1735
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.
38 min
1736
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.
43 min
1737
Keen on Brexit
Andrew Keen talks to the distinguished British political pundit Claire Fox about Brexit and the crisis of contemporary British democracy.
32 min
1738
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 countries have already given up.
30 min
1739
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’.
41 min
1740
Exposing Surveillance Capitalism
The fight for a democratic future at the new frontier of power with Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff.
47 min
1741
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
38 min
1742
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.
30 min
1743
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.
32 min
1744
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
30 min
1745
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.
30 min
1746
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.
20 min
1747
Cukier on Democracy
Why The Big Data Revolution Isn’t Good For Democracy
36 min
1748
Goodhart on Democracy
Somewheres Versus Everywheres
33 min
1749
The Future Of 21st Century Democracy
China Digital Totalitarianism Versus The Western Democracy
24 min
1750
Ep:001-Welcome
Is democracy dying - or shedding its industry analog skin and updating itself for our digital age?
1 min