How to Fix Democracy

By Bertelsmann Foundation

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Since its origins, democracy has been a work in progress. Today, many question its resilience. How to Fix Democracy, a collaboration of the Bertelsmann Foundation and Humanity in Action, explores practical solutions for how to address the increasing threats democracy faces. Host Andrew Keen interviews prominent international thinkers and practitioners of democracy.

Episode Date
How the Constitution and the Law Can Save American Democracy | Featuring Jeffrey Rosen
Apr 03, 2024
Testing American Liberalism in the Cold War Years | Featuring James Traub
Mar 15, 2024
Challenges to Democracy in the Cold War | Featuring Sarah Snyder
Mar 04, 2024
The Democratic Divide in a Post World War II America | Featuring Dr. Carol Anderson
Feb 02, 2024
American Democracy Transformed | Featuring Kevin Baker
Dec 13, 2023
Fighting for Equity: African-American struggles in the '20s and '30s | Featuring Jill Watts
Nov 10, 2023
Women's Political Rights | Featuring Dr. Allida Black
Oct 24, 2023
The Hoover Presidency | Featuring Richard Norton Smith
Sep 20, 2023
The Legacy of FDR | Featuring Paul Sparrow
Aug 15, 2023
FDR and the Great Depression | Featuring Derek Leebaert
Jul 24, 2023
American Isolationism and the Shifting World Order | Featuring Robert Kagan
Jul 10, 2023
The Scopes Trial and the Fight for the Freedom to Teach | Featuring Edward Larson
Jun 08, 2023
American Democracy in the Aftermath of World War I | Featuring Adam Hochschild
May 03, 2023
How Authoritarian Leaders Wield & Maintain Power | Featuring Moisés Naím
Mar 06, 2023
The State of American Democracy in the Shadow of January 6th | Featuring Larry Diamond
Dec 16, 2022
Is Bipartisanship Possible in the United States | Featuring Michael Thorning
Dec 07, 2022
The Transformation of the Republican Party | Featuring Dana Milbank
Nov 23, 2022
Midterm Elections Special | Featuring Rebekah Caruthers
Nov 04, 2022
American Ideologies and Trumpism | Featuring Darrell M. West
Oct 17, 2022
The Legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court | Featuring Dahlia Lithwick
Sep 26, 2022
Religion and American Conservatism | Featuring Katherine Stewart
Sep 12, 2022
The Health of American Democracy | Featuring Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Aug 10, 2022
Racial Injustice & Voting Rights in the United States | Featuring Andrea Young
Jul 08, 2022
Bridging the Partisan Divide | Featuring Mónica Guzmán
May 16, 2022
The Crisis of the American Right | Featuring Peter Wehner and Jonathan Rauch
Apr 19, 2022
Tocqueville's Take on Democracy | Featuring Cheryl Welch and Arthur Goldhammer
Mar 16, 2022
The Roles of Citizens | Featuring Jon Alexander
Dec 22, 2021
Democracy in Pain | Featuring Patrick Radden Keefe
Dec 09, 2021
Examining Elections | Featuring David van Reybrouck
Nov 24, 2021
Innovating Democracy | Featuring Claudia Chwalisz
Nov 10, 2021
The State of American Democracy | Featuring Darryl Pinckney
Oct 20, 2021
Democracy Delivering Results | Featuring Danilo Türk
Sep 15, 2021
Fostering Collaboration | Featuring Hélène Landemore
Sep 08, 2021
Non-Western Democracies | Featuring David Stasavage
Aug 16, 2021
A Political Wilderness? | Featuring DeLesslin "Roo" George-Warren
Jul 28, 2021
Citizenship and July 4th | Featuring Roya Hakakian
Jul 09, 2021
Voter Suppression | Featuring Dr. Carol Anderson
Jun 23, 2021
Digital Democracy and Citizen Engagement | Featuring Wietse Van Ransbeeck
Jun 18, 2021
Democracy Through the Camera Lens | Featuring Astra Taylor
Jun 04, 2021
Citizen Power | Featuring Eric Liu
May 26, 2021
What is Global Citizenship | Featuring Nanjala Nyabola
May 14, 2021
Devil's Curse of Migration | Featuring Abdul-Rehman Malik
Apr 21, 2021
Democracy, Citizenship, and Dystopian Fiction | Featuring Margaret Atwood
Apr 07, 2021
Can America Lead Again? | Featuring Tom Malinowski
Mar 24, 2021
Smart Cities, Smart Citizens? | Featuring Bianca Wylie
Mar 10, 2021
Active, Equal, and Collective | Featuring Richard Bellamy
Feb 12, 2021
Citizenship and Belonging | Featuring Adrienne Clarkson
Jan 27, 2021
The Contradictions of Human Nature | Featuring Adam Hochschild
Dec 09, 2020
Human Capital-ism | Featuring Daniel Markovits
Nov 24, 2020
No Nostalgia | Featuring Jan Sowa
Nov 20, 2020
Laboratories of Democracy | Featuring Anne-Marie Slaughter
Nov 10, 2020
Crisis of Confidence | Featuring Ian Bassin
Oct 27, 2020
Economics Rife with Anger | Featuring Mark Blyth
Oct 13, 2020
Political Power without Capital | Peniel Joseph
Oct 01, 2020
Listening to Other | Featuring Arlie Hochschild
Sep 16, 2020
Winner Take All | Featuring Robert H. Frank
Sep 01, 2020
Four Horsemen of Leveling | Featuring Walter Scheidel
Aug 18, 2020
This Is When You Want Deficits | Featuring Maya MacGuineas
Aug 04, 2020
System Attrition | Featuring Adam Tooze
Jul 21, 2020
Describing the Deficit | Stephanie Kelton
Jul 07, 2020
Us Later, Not Me Now | Featuring Rebecca Henderson
Jun 24, 2020
All About Taxes | Featuring Gabriel Zucman
Jun 19, 2020
Redistribute Productivity | Featuring Sir Paul Collier
Jun 09, 2020
Individual Choice | Featuring Gideon Rachman
Jun 05, 2020
Reform and Revolution | Featuring Richard D. Wolff
May 26, 2020
Capitalism and the Health of Democracy | Helen Thompson
May 22, 2020
Buying into America | Featuring Amity Shlaes
May 12, 2020
Concentrations of Power | Featuring Sarah Miller
Apr 28, 2020
Democracy, Markets, and Healthcare | Featuring Sir Angus Deaton
Apr 14, 2020
Uneven Playing Field | Featuring Raghuram Rajan
Mar 31, 2020
Why We Can't All Be Denmark | Featuring Branko Milanovic
Mar 17, 2020
Democracy: It’s the Only Way to Preserve Freedom | Featuring Larry Diamond
Dec 20, 2019
"Fed or Free" is a False Choice| Featuring Annika Savill
Dec 06, 2019
What is Local is Global |Featuring Richard Stengel
Nov 25, 2019
The Art of Listening | Featuring Leon Botstein
Nov 08, 2019
The Other 1% | Featuring Ralph Nader
Oct 25, 2019
Democracy Is Not a Fancy Beast! | Featuring John Ralston Saul
Oct 15, 2019
Human Dignity First | Featuring Rob Riemen
Sep 27, 2019
Waves of Democracy | Featuring Carl Gershman
Sep 16, 2019
Pluto Populism and Plebiscites | Featuring Constanze Stelzenmüller
Sep 16, 2019
We’ve Stumbled into Dystopia | Featuring Maria Ressa
Aug 30, 2019
The Main Challenges to Democracy | Featuring Yascha Mounk
Aug 16, 2019
The Evolution of the Republican Party | Featuring Norman Ornstein
Aug 16, 2019
Hard Won, Hard Fought | Cornell Brooks
Aug 02, 2019
Division Makes Us Vulnerable | Featuring Laura Rosenberger
Aug 02, 2019
No Middle Class, No Middle Ground | Featuring Edward Luce
Jul 19, 2019
A Historical Perspective of Democracy | Featuring Sheri Berman
Jul 19, 2019
Drowning in Information | Featuring Anne Applebaum
Jul 09, 2019
Rule of Law, or Rule by Law? | Featuring Sir Malcolm Rifkind
Jun 21, 2019
Young People and Democracy | Featuring Mete Coban
Jun 07, 2019
The Strength of Democracy | Tzipi Livni
Jun 07, 2019
The 1% is Anti - Democratic | Featuring Madeleine Albright
May 24, 2019
Do You Even Know Aristides? | Featuring Angelos Chaniotis
May 10, 2019
Dignity, Diversity, and Democracy | Featuring Earl Lewis
Apr 26, 2019
Words Matter, Sentences Don't | Featuring Ivan Krastev
Apr 12, 2019
The Flaneurs of Prague | Featuring Norman Eisen
Mar 29, 2019
One Vote, One Person, One Time | Featuring Moisés Naím
Mar 15, 2019
Excluding Women at our Peril | Featuring Soraya Chemaly
Mar 15, 2019
Too Democratic or Not Democratic Enough? | Featuring Adrian Wooldridge
Mar 01, 2019
The Battle for Democracy | Featuring Carol Anderson
Feb 15, 2019