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
Reversing Extinction and Re-Wilding the World
What if we could turn back time and reverse extinction? Famed writer, biologist, and environmentalist Stewart Brand is attempting this with an organization he co-founded. Revive and Restore is buildi…
00:52:29 |
Tue 09 Apr 2019
Finding Happiness at Every Stage of Life
Economists who have researched happiness over a lifetime find it starts to decline after adolescence and noticeably dips when people enter middle age. How can we avoid the middle age blues and feel p…
00:47:10 |
Tue 02 Apr 2019
Trump's Close Relationship with Fox News
A recent blockbuster article by journalist Jane Mayer examines close ties between the White House and Fox News. The piece, published in The New Yorker, spurred the Democratic National Committee to ch…
00:52:24 |
Tue 26 Mar 2019
Escaping Hate
Christian Picciolini went to his first white supremacist skinhead meeting at age 14. A lonely and bullied child, he was quickly swept into the movement and eventually became a leader. In this candid …
00:59:59 |
Tue 19 Mar 2019
Democracy Dies in Darkness: A Conversation with Marty Baron
The truth is under assault in America, according to Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post. By labeling the press as the opposition party and calling into questions facts, President Tru…
00:55:39 |
Tue 12 Mar 2019
Confronting Life's Toughest Challenges
Kate Bowler and Elaine Pagels both teach religion, write about religion, and have experienced immense hardships. In this frank and funny conversation, they explore why people still seek ancient relig…
00:57:47 |
Wed 06 Mar 2019
The Happiest Places on Earth
The latest World Happiness Report puts the United States in 18th place, behind all the Scandinavian countries, Costa Rica, Canada, and others. The report, issued annually by the UN Sustainable Develo…
00:50:58 |
Wed 27 Feb 2019
Colson Whitehead: “The Underground Railroad”
Nearly two decades ago, author Colson Whitehead began thinking about writing about the Underground Railroad. “I remembered when I was a kid, I first heard those words…I thought it was a literal train…
00:59:13 |
Wed 20 Feb 2019
How to Talk About Race and Racism
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 |
Tue 12 Feb 2019
Inside the Mind of a Dog
When your dog wags its tail or welcomes you home, what are they thinking about? How do they perceive you and the world around them? Two canine cognition scientists, Alexandra Horowitz and Brian Hare,…
00:52:43 |
Tue 05 Feb 2019
Can Free Speech Silence Hate Speech?
Should rules govern demeaning, disparaging, and degrading speech directed at certain groups? How can we resist hate while protecting free speech? Nadine Strossen, longtime president of the ACLU, says…
00:50:45 |
Tue 29 Jan 2019
LOL, Like, and Literally: Is the English Language Deteriorating?
Young people tend to say “LOL” and “like” a lot. Business jargon — such as “What’s the ask?”— is surfacing in boardrooms. Is the English language deteriorating before our ears? Linguist and author Jo…
00:50:01 |
Tue 22 Jan 2019
Pushing the Limits
What does it take to rock climb one of the world’s hardest routes at night in the bitter cold? Tommy Caldwell, an accomplished climber, says he summoned focus, drive, and endurance to summit Yosemite…
00:49:24 |
Wed 16 Jan 2019
Are Leaders Born or Made?
What qualities make a good leader? Are leaders born with these attributes or can they be learned? In her seventh book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin write…
00:49:04 |
Tue 08 Jan 2019
Crash Course on Happiness
The number of college students dealing with stress, depression, and anxiety is growing. Psychology professor Laurie Santos noticed it in her Yale classroom and set out to change the campus culture. H…
00:59:05 |
Mon 31 Dec 2018
Off Stage 14: Islam in America Today
Imam Khalid Latif is New York University’s first Muslim chaplain. In this political and cultural moment, he says students deal with issues around race and religious intolerance. “A lot of identities …
00:28:26 |
Tue 25 Dec 2018
Off Stage 13: One Synagogue’s Unconventional Outreach Approach
Shira Stutman is senior rabbi at a historic synagogue in Washington, DC that’s doing innovative things. The ‘Sixth & I’ is a non-denominational, non-membership, non-traditional Jewish synagogue. Talk…
00:18:51 |
Tue 25 Dec 2018
Off Stage 12: Addressing Partisanship at the Pulpit
Can faith help unite us in divided times? How are religious leaders navigating divisions inside and outside their places of worship? Adam Hamilton ministers to about 20,000 Methodists in and around K…
00:27:18 |
Tue 25 Dec 2018
What Really Separates Men from Women?
Why is it that we think boys are good at math and girls are more empathetic? Or that boys can’t focus in the classroom and girls are obsessed with relationships? These sometimes damaging gender stere…
00:51:53 |
Wed 19 Dec 2018
Repairing the Apparel Industry
The clothing industry is a top polluter, but some companies are working to be kinder to the environment. The CEOs of Patagonia and Eileen Fisher talk about their shared value of social consciousness.…
00:50:38 |
Wed 12 Dec 2018
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