One of the world's foremost experts on the history of democratic government has delivered a scathing verdict on the Australian election campaign. John Keane is himself an Australian, but over the last three decades has been teaching overseas, with professorships in...
Read MoreBBC Radio 4 History in Our Time - Melvyn Bragg, John Keane, Karen O'Brien, and Richard Bourke discussed the work of the eighteenth-century philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke. ...
Read MoreJohn Keane was guest of Steve Austin's Evenings on ABC Radio Queensland- 03 March 2010, 9:15 PM. Discussing his book The Life and Death of Democracy ...
Read MoreJohn Keane interviewed by Paul Kildea for Final draft, Radio 2SER FM, Sydney...
Read More4 October 2009 IQ2 Australian Debate Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply assumed. But...
Read MoreDemocracy did not emerge as an historical inevitability, John Keane tells Peter Clarke Inside Story There are some shocks in John Keane’s latest book, The Life and Death of Democracy. First, he punctures the “democracy started in Athens” myth – “assembly democracy,”...
Read MoreLate Night Live Democracy: "the invention was a potent form of wishful thinking that is still with us today" so says the scholar John Keane. As we wait for the results from Afghanistan's recent elections; observe the passionate protests in Iran...
Read MorePM's ABC Australia In the words of Winston Churchill, "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." That implies, of course, that democracy is just one thing, when its history indicates that it has been...
Read MoreBBC RADIO 3, 21:15, 11 June 2009, Rana Mitter talked with John Keane on democracy's future. Susannah Clapp has the first review of The National Theatre's production of Phedre, in which Helen Mirren stars as the eponymous tragic Greek heroine destroyed...
Read More8 June 2009, John Keane was guest of Andrew Marr's Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to John Keane about democracy, Katie Mitchell about virgin births and opera, Peter Hall about the vitality of regional theatre and Matthew Gale about Futurism. Originally...
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