How can we protect our democracies? | Kerala Literature Festival

Yuval Noah Harari April 11, 2025
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Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and the bestselling author of 'Sapiens' (2014), 'Homo Deus' (2016), '21 Lessons for the 21st Century' (2018), 'Nexus' (2024), and the series 'Sapiens: A Graphic History' (launched 2020) and 'Unstoppable Us' (launched 2022). Harari has been a lecturer at the Department of History in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. With Itzik Yahav, he is the co-founder of Sapienship: a social impact company focused on education and storytelling – whose content is featured on @Sapienship_Lab. On this channel you can watch Yuval Noah Harari's interviews, lectures, and public conversations with prominent leaders and influencers, including Mark Zuckerberg, Natalie Portman, Christine Lagarde, Chancellor Kurz of Austria, Lex Fridman and Jay Shetty. Harari's books have been translated into 65 languages, with 50 million copies sold. More on ynharari.com

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What do we need to protect our democracies? Essential checks and balances on government power include independent courts and an independent media, and of course – free and fair elections. The government must always be replaceable. Yet there's a danger that every democracy has faced throughout history: the danger of voting in a leader that will not respect the rules and will make it impossible to replace the government. Full video from the Kerala Literature Festival (filmed in December 2024) on http://bit.ly/Kerala-YNH. #YuvalNoahHarari #Democracy #Dictatorship #Institutions #History #SelfCorrectingMechanisms #ChecksAndBalances #ProtectDemocracy

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