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.
Spirituality
Health
News Commentary
Technology
Philosophy
Science
Education
Society & Culture
Psychology
Politics
Culture
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Social Sciences
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 561
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Shakespeare in Contemporary America, with 'Fat Ham' Creator James Ijames
Shakespeare is ubiquitous in literature classes and theater, but the avenues of relating to his work are not always clear to young people and modern audiences. Some, such as Shakespeare scholar and p…
00:53:59 |
Thu 02 Nov 2023
Building a Zero Carbon American Future
Climate change catastrophes are already happening with increasing regularity, and it’s clear we need to take action. The Biden administration has set a target of zero carbon emissions in the United S…
00:59:49 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Who Can Track and Hack Our Brains?
A technological future where our brain waves could be monitored and our thoughts decoded and analyzed — sometimes against our will — is not as far away as we think. But our existing legal protections…
00:52:05 |
Thu 19 Oct 2023
Investing in Shared American Prosperity
Even when the economy is booming and unemployment is low, millions of Americans still face economic hardship. And in the last few years the United States has dealt with supply chain challenges, infla…
00:48:48 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
Where Ancient Faiths Meet Modern Lives
The United States is a more secular society than many, and the percentage of people who don’t identify with organized religion is rising. Some of the impacts from that shift might be obvious, such as…
00:53:19 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Balancing Work and Life with Mary Louise Kelly
About two decades ago, NPR host Mary Louise Kelly had her first child and went down the extremely common yet commonly daunting life path of balancing a demanding career with a family. As a national s…
00:59:31 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
Thinking, Innovating and A.I. with Walter Isaacson
Artificial intelligence is clearly going to change our lives in multiple ways. But it’s not yet obvious exactly how, and what the impacts will be. We can predict that certain jobs held by humans will…
00:53:59 |
Thu 07 Sep 2023
Harnessing A.I. in Education with Sal Khan
When Sal Khan created Khan Academy, he was trying to scale up the successful experiences he’d had tutoring his cousins one-on-one in math. He saw how effective it could be for students to go at their…
00:56:53 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
The Dilemmas of Hostage Diplomacy
The White House has declared hostage-taking to be a national emergency. In July 2022, Biden issued an executive order outlining steps to deter the practice and help bring Americans back sooner. Incre…
00:58:40 |
Wed 23 Aug 2023
Wicked Problem: The Road Ahead for Immigration Policy
Almost everyone agrees that immigration policy in the United States is lacking, but despite decades of debate, Congress has not been able to pass comprehensive reform on the issue. For some, the prim…
00:40:46 |
Thu 17 Aug 2023
Rainn Wilson and Spiritual Revolution
Actor Rainn Wilson had his dream job on the hit TV show “The Office,” but was still being kept up at night by anxiety, depression, and life’s big unanswerable questions. He went on a quest to discove…
01:09:33 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
Mary Barra: The Future of General Motors and EVs
The automotive industry is going through a time of profound transformation, facing internal and external pressure to electrify America’s fleet of personal vehicles. General Motors has made a bold ple…
00:52:21 |
Wed 02 Aug 2023
Democracy Dilemma
Populations around the world have been electing more and more autocratic leaders in the past couple decades, via supposedly free, fair, and democratic elections. The freedom of the press is being imp…
00:51:37 |
Wed 26 Jul 2023
Solving the Problem of Guns in America
Merely defining gun violence is difficult, and coming to agreement on what to do about it often seems near-impossible in the United States. But people on all sides of the debate agree that they want …
00:45:19 |
Wed 19 Jul 2023
Reviewing the Supreme Court’s Latest
The U.S. Supreme Court continues to issue major decisions that have profound impacts on the lives of Americans and the political future of the country. During the term that just ended, the court rule…
00:54:13 |
Thu 13 Jul 2023
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Everything
Like all technology, artificial intelligence can be used for good, and it can be used for evil. What little federal regulation the United States has governing technology and the internet was written …
00:44:55 |
Wed 05 Jul 2023
The Surprising Source of Joy (Encore)
Why is it that simple pleasures such as bubbles, rainbows, and hot air balloons bring joy to most people? Designer Ingrid Fetell Lee says, “there’s something really powerful in the idea that we all f…
00:50:42 |
Thu 25 May 2023
Why People Want to Ban Books
The desire to try and stop people from reading certain printed material has been around since material was first printed. In the modern era, book banning has waxed and waned in popularity, experienci…
00:42:49 |
Thu 11 May 2023
Sex Recession: Why Isn’t Everyone Doing It?
The age of technology and the internet provides constant easy access to sexual content and information about sex, for all tastes and curiosities. But survey data show that young people are having les…
01:03:06 |
Wed 03 May 2023
Geraldine Brooks on Spirit, Obsession and Injustice
As a budding journalist in Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks was assigned to the horse racing beat in the sports department, with no experience or knowledge of the subject. She went to every single…
00:53:25 |
Wed 12 Apr 2023
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