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
- 561
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
SCOTUS: Roe v. Wade is Overturned
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, revoking the federal right to an abortion. The Aspen Ideas Festival kicked off the next day, so we quickly shifted gears for the Openin…
00:39:06 |
Wed 13 Jul 2022
Digital Surveillance and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
The reversal of Roe v. Wade would make it difficult or impossible for millions of people to obtain abortions, but would also open the doors to criminally prosecute people who seek or obtain an aborti…
01:00:12 |
Tue 17 May 2022
Reckoning with America’s History of Slavery
History is taught with textbooks and lectures, but it’s also passed down in more informal ways, within families from generation to generation. Different groups of people can become attached to varyin…
01:07:16 |
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Remembering Madeleine Albright
The Aspen Institute remembers and mourns Secretary Madeleine K. Albright, who passed away on March 23, 2022. She was a diplomat, professor, author, business leader, and the first woman to be the U.S.…
00:55:15 |
Tue 29 Mar 2022
A New and Improved Social Contract
The industrial revolution and consequent terrible labor conditions sparked a wave of revolutions in Europe, and then a string of laws and protections for workers. As author and innovation expert Alec…
00:48:53 |
Wed 16 Mar 2022
The Russian Cyber Threats Facing Ukraine
Any organization, public or private, with any connection to Ukraine, should be exercising extreme technological vigilance, says cybersecurity expert Sandra Joyce, Executive Vice President and Head of…
00:43:07 |
Wed 02 Mar 2022
How to Build Diversity, Equity and Inclusion that Sticks
We may have moved from a time of reckoning on racial equity to a time of transformation, says business leader Dr. Rohini Anand, and that gives her hope. The author of “Leading Global Diversity, Equit…
00:39:41 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
How Can Activism Repair Our Democracy?
The cornerstone of democracy is the principle that all citizens have the right and ability to participate in their own governance, either directly or via representation. While many Americans today ma…
00:29:01 |
Wed 02 Feb 2022
A Conversation with Author Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr is probably best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. Just like that book, his latest work, Cloud Cuckoo Land, features protagonists who are dreamers …
00:54:09 |
Thu 20 Jan 2022
What the Ancients Got Right about Happiness
People have been thinking about happiness for thousands of years. In fact, ancient thinkers came up with strategies for cultivating pleasures over a lifetime, or creating a lasting capacity to take j…
00:43:40 |
Wed 05 Jan 2022
Brain Health and the Pitfalls of "Bikini Medicine" (Encore)
Even though women are likely to live longer than men, their hormonal changes make them far more susceptible to age-related memory loss like Alzhemier’s disease and other conditions. Yet gender is oft…
00:35:32 |
Tue 28 Dec 2021
The Remarkable Brain of the Bird (Encore)
It used to be that having a “bird brain” was an insult. Now, it’s practically a compliment! Turns out the brain of a bird, which is small enough to fit into a nut, is full of neurons. These animals a…
00:45:59 |
Wed 22 Dec 2021
Psychedelics for the Win
In the 1950s and 60s, mental health providers used psychedelics to help patients open up about difficult memories. Then, the drugs were banned. Now there’s a resurgence. Psychedelics like MDMA, psilo…
00:31:31 |
Wed 15 Dec 2021
How Do We Build Wealth for Everyone?
The global Covid-19 pandemic has worsened inequality. Oxfam International found that while billionaire fortunes returned to pre-pandemic highs in just nine months, a recovery for the world’s poorest …
00:43:13 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
We're in a science moment. What will come out of it?
The Covid-19 vaccine was developed at an unusually rapid pace, and now the public's expectations are high for what science can deliver. It's a good thing we're in a science moment. Gobs of data are b…
00:49:48 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
The Most Important Rule for a More Civil Thanksgiving: No Eye Rolling (Rebroadcast)
Current political fault lines are fracturing American society as people grow farther apart from one another due to differing beliefs and opinions. We often see people we disagree with as caricatures,…
00:28:22 |
Tue 23 Nov 2021
Mark Bittman on Reimagining America's Food System
Longtime food journalist Mark Bittman says America's food system needs to be reimagined so land is used fairly and well and people have access to food that promotes health, not illness. His latest bo…
00:42:49 |
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Why Our Partisan Differences Are Threatening National Security
It's clear the United States isn't united right now. A Pew Research poll done before the 2020 election showed about 9 in 10 voters worried a victory by the other party would lead to lasting harm for …
00:43:16 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
QUICK TAKE | We Need to Treat the Pandemic like a Global Security Threat | Gayle Smith
Quick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form.
Today’s episode features Gayle Smith, the State Department’s coordinator for the global response to Covid-19. Watch her ful…
00:04:54 |
Sat 06 Nov 2021
Bad Things Do Happen to Good People
We try our whole lives to avoid pain and suffering and when it does show up, we try to solve it. In her new book, No Cure for Being Human, religious scholar Kate Bowler says we try to out-eat, out-le…
00:45:41 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
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