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Join Andrew Keen as he travels around the globe investigating the contemporary crisis of capitalism. Nothing has divided us more than our free-market economic system. Is it the source of every social injustice, from exploitation to alienation to inequality, or is it essential to our freedom and democracy? This debate is as relevant today in 2020 as it was in 1920 or 1820. Listen to our second season as Andrew explores the commentary and solutions to this crisis of capitalism.

Is Humor The Best Antidote to Tyranny? 07/24/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/10639025

Pivoting to the Killer-app. 07/04/2019

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 and was one of the first big hits about the internet. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/10404341

Facebook’s Moral Crisis 06/25/2019

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 one of the Facebook most articulate critics. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/10284650

Ninja Morality: The case for technological innovation 06/18/2019

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 /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/10197314

Keen On The State of American Democracy 06/11/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/10124743

How to Lose a Country With Turkish Author Ece Temelkuran 05/29/2019

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 democratic conversation. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9963104

Why Democracy Is a Conversation 05/21/2019

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 /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9868538

Why Democracy needs Team Human 05/14/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9748082

How Globalism Is Turning Us All Into Palestinians 05/07/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9683759

Finally Some Good News: Democracy works in Turkey! 04/30/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9574955

How to Fix the Future Nordic Style 04/25/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9512645

Keen on Brexit 04/16/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9413672

Keen on the New Dark Age 04/08/2019

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 countries have already given up. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9315785

Can Coders Save Democracy 03/28/2019

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’. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9165650

Exposing Surveillance Capitalism 03/21/2019

Exposing Surveillance Capitalism The fight for a democratic future at the new frontier of power with Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9079961

Keen on How to Be Evil 03/14/2019

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 /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/9004592

Keen on Global Capitalism 02/28/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/8818403

KEEN ON ESTONIA, PART ONE 02/21/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/8718518

Wolf On Democracy 02/14/2019

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 /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/8633768

Is Media Killing Democracy? 02/07/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/8530994

Why The Future Is Asian 01/31/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/8436902

Cukier on Democracy 01/24/2019

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. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/8366594

Goodhart on Democracy 01/17/2019

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 /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/8271947

The Future Of 21st Century Democracy 01/10/2019

The Future Of 21st Century Democracy Betaworks CEO John Borthwick shares his wisdom about the best models of democracy in our digital age. Borthwick argues that a truly democratic digital future requires a fundamental rethink of both internet business models and the architecture of web. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/8189498

Ep:001-Welcome 01/06/2019

Ep:001-Welcome Join Andrew Keen as he travels around the globe investigating the contemporary crisis of democracy. Hear from the world’s most informed citizens about the rise of populism, authoritarian and illiberal democracy. /episode/index/show/ajkeen/id/8149130

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