Aspen Ideas to Go
Aspen Ideas to Go is a show about bold ideas that will open your mind. Featuring compelling conversations with the world’s top thinkers and doers from a diverse range of disciplines, Aspen Ideas to Go gives you front-row access to the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 562
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
What Is Antiracism and Can It Save Society? (Rebroadcast)
Demonstrations over race and police brutality have erupted after the death of George Floyd. Floyd, and African-American, died in police custody in Minneapolis. A leading voice on antiracism, Ibram X.…
00:56:38 |
Tue 02 Jun 2020
How to Be Less Lonely in the Pandemic
Are Zoom connections and physical distancing making us lonelier? Vivek Murthy, former Surgeon General and author of Together, says prior to the pandemic people dealt with loneliness, which affects ou…
00:33:28 |
Wed 27 May 2020
How to Help Kids Process the Pandemic
The Covid-19 crisis isn’t easy to bear as adults but what about young kids and teenagers? How are they coping with virtual learning, changes to their routines, and quarantine? Even before the pandemi…
00:54:23 |
Tue 19 May 2020
Adopting a Dog during Quarantine? You’re Not Alone
Have you considered adopting a dog lately? You’re not alone. Animal shelters and nonprofits are seeing a rise in the number of people adopting and fostering pets during the Covid-19 crisis. Before yo…
01:06:01 |
Tue 12 May 2020
Race, Society, and the Coronavirus Crisis
The growth of American institutions like public education and organized labor has been stunted by racial hostility. Eduardo Porter, author of American Poison, explains how racial animus has blocked s…
00:51:10 |
Tue 05 May 2020
Digital Access: The Haves and Have Nots
The Digital Divide is the gap between those who have easy access to computers and the internet, and those who don’t. The problem this gap creates is becoming more acute during the coronavirus pandemi…
00:55:10 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
How Will America Reopen? A Bioethicist Weighs In.
Zeke Emanuel was an architect of the Affordable Care Act, which turned 10-years-old this spring. With 22 million people unemployed in America because of the coronavirus pandemic, is universal coverag…
00:44:14 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Lincoln's Leadership in a Time of Crisis
Humility, loyalty, rhetorical mastery — these were the leadership traits of President Abraham Lincoln, says historian John Stauffer. When Lincoln entered office in 1861, the situation in America was …
00:55:09 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
A Coronavirus Stress Test for the World
Journalist and New York Times op-ed writer Thomas Friedman says countries around the world are undergoing a stress test thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. This test, he says, is revealing the qualit…
00:47:04 |
Wed 08 Apr 2020
China, Technology, and the Coronavirus
China was the first country in the world to experience effects from COVID-19. Now the epidemic there is slowing. How did the country of more than 1 billion people make it through? Technology played a…
00:57:14 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
Highs and Lows: Unpacking Teen Emotions
During the coronavirus epidemic, many families are spending lots of time together. Families with teenagers may notice extreme highs and lows – and it’s not just because of the global crisis. Once the…
01:00:50 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
How to Be Less Fearful in Turbulent Times (Rebroadcast)
What are the best tools for dealing with fear, particularly in an uncertain period? “Human beings wrestle with fear. We are living in anxious times,” says Kansas pastor Adam Hamilton. Hamilton, who f…
00:54:08 |
Tue 17 Mar 2020
Reporting the News in a Fractured America
Two major news stories are dominating headlines: the novel coronavirus and the 2020 presidential contest. Both are vulnerable to disinformation campaigns, so what are newsrooms and technology compani…
01:06:09 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
Straight from the Source: Experts Discuss Novel Coronavirus
More than 100 cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported in the United States, as of March 3, 2020. Nine people in the country have died from the disease. That’s far less than in countries lik…
00:50:31 |
Tue 03 Mar 2020
What Will We Eat in a Hotter, Drier World?
Unpredictable weather is threatening crop production and a swelling population is increasing the demand for food. How will we eat in a hotter, more crowded world? The race to reinvent the global food…
00:59:52 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
How to Talk About Race and Racism (Rebroadcast)
When Americans elected their first black president more than a decade ago, some questioned whether the country had transitioned into a post-racial era. But today race is a more prominent and intransi…
01:04:50 |
Wed 19 Feb 2020
Putting Humanity Back Into Finance
Societal problems like income inequality have emerged from a financial system that has taken a wrong turn, says Harvard finance professor Mihir Desai. “When finance goes awry, which I think it has, w…
00:51:51 |
Wed 12 Feb 2020
Exploring the Inner Chambers of Our Lives
When psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb set out to write the stories of her patients she realized she should chronicle her own struggles too. The result was the bestselling book Maybe You Should Talk to S…
00:52:37 |
Wed 05 Feb 2020
How 'Isms' Are Ruining Political Discourse
It's already difficult to talk about politics in a polarized United States, but a few choice words are making it even harder. Columbia linguistics professor John McWhorter says the original meaning o…
00:52:36 |
Wed 29 Jan 2020
Confronting History, featuring Bryan Stevenson (Rebroadcast)
Social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson is the subject in the new movie, “Just Mercy.” The film, starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx, is based on Stevenson’s memoir with the same name. Stevenso…
01:04:42 |
Tue 21 Jan 2020
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