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
Is Gun Violence a Public Health Issue?
The debate around gun laws is resurfacing in the wake of the deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Can America’s shared sorrow inspire a consensus that gun violence should be tackled as a…
00:50:45 |
Wed 28 Feb 2018
How History's Mistakes Guide Today's Leaders
Historian Jon Meacham has written extensively about the presidency, with acclaimed books on Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, and most recently, George H. W. Bush. What does his r…
00:53:46 |
Wed 21 Feb 2018
US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith says her true self comes out in her work. Poetry, she says, helps her wrestle with dark, sometimes unresolvable questions. In this episode she reads new and old work t…
00:50:55 |
Tue 13 Feb 2018
Why We Need to Talk About Race
If you’re white and middle class, you were probably raised thinking that discussing race was impolite. Color blindness was seen as a virtue. But in truth, color blindness is an insidious form of raci…
00:58:48 |
Tue 06 Feb 2018
Norman Lear & Khizr Khan: Understanding American Values
Norman Lear is the prolific television writer and producer of stories about diverse American life—among them “All in the Family,” “Sanford and Son,” “The Jeffersons,” “Good Times,” and “Maude”—as wel…
00:59:21 |
Wed 31 Jan 2018
What's Driving Our Political Polarization?
Trust in civic, religious, and academic institutions is at an all-time low in America. But this phenomenon did not, as some Americans might believe, begin when President Trump was elected. It has bee…
00:55:20 |
Tue 23 Jan 2018
Susan Orlean: It's Okay to be Clueless
New York Times best-selling author Susan Orlean says ignorance about a subject is a powerful ignitor of curiosity. As someone who has written about bullfighters, orchid fanatics, and an African king …
00:42:00 |
Tue 16 Jan 2018
What Would MLK Say About Today's America?
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is January 15. If Dr. King was still alive today, what would he think of the progress of the black community? How far have we come toward racial equality since the civil ri…
00:38:15 |
Tue 09 Jan 2018
The Next Big Challenge in Your Life
What if you examined your life in the context of all of its stages? The annunciation and initiation phases in your youth and young adulthood are full of discovery and learning. Then, the odyssey year…
00:58:32 |
Tue 02 Jan 2018
Living the Creative Life
How is creativity cultivated in childhood? And, does a creative culture at home result in a creative career later on? Authors Jess Walter, Dani Shapiro, and Jericho Brown explain how their early year…
01:07:56 |
Tue 26 Dec 2017
The Power of History, Community, and Hope
Though his grandparents were his primary caretakers, Eric Motley was raised by a community. The author, former White House staffer, and Aspen Institute vice president says the townspeople of Madison …
00:49:34 |
Tue 19 Dec 2017
Coping with Disappointment, Setback, and Crisis
Theo Padnos is an American journalist held captive by al-Qaeda for nearly two years. He was physically and psychologically tortured, but emerged with grace, forgiveness, and generosity. David Bradley…
00:56:57 |
Tue 12 Dec 2017
The US Government’s Doomsday Plans
For 60 years, the US government has been laying secret doomsday plans to save itself in the event of nuclear war — even while the rest of us die. Today, a third generation of doomsday planners are se…
00:59:45 |
Tue 05 Dec 2017
What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur?
America has always meant business. We’re a nation of self-starters, strivers, and entrepreneurs — with the courage to take big risks and the confidence to determine our own destiny. But, are courage …
00:53:02 |
Tue 28 Nov 2017
The Future of News: Is There a War on Truth?
Is the internet loosening our collective grasp on the truth? Pioneers of digital news once argued that new online sources would bring us new perspectives about the world. They did not anticipate the …
01:02:13 |
Tue 21 Nov 2017
The Epidemic of Loneliness
A crisis is emerging that could pose as grave a threat to public health as obesity or substance abuse: social isolation. Neuroscientists have identified regions of the brain that respond to lonelines…
00:41:58 |
Tue 14 Nov 2017
Being Muslim and American in 2017
Muslim Americans — especially those who work in government or in other ways to counter radicalism and terrorism — feel caught in the middle. Much of American society questions their patriotism, while…
00:51:55 |
Tue 07 Nov 2017
The Three Lives of James Madison
Madison's legacy matters today more than ever. As founding genius he made the Constitution to avoid faction. Then he discovered the real world required parties — so he founded one and became a partis…
00:59:00 |
Tue 31 Oct 2017
Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide with Cass Sunstein
In our politically charged climate, it’s not uncommon to hear about impeachment. Earlier this month, a billionaire environmentalist launched a campaign to impeach President Trump. How does the proces…
00:53:40 |
Tue 24 Oct 2017
The Imagination of Leonardo da Vinci with Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson is fascinated by innovators — the kinds of geniuses whose ideas have transformed industry, science, and society. Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin each grabbed his at…
00:55:57 |
Tue 17 Oct 2017
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