2018 Aspen Ideas Festival

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News, Ideas, & Events

Society

Personal and National Crises

Jared Diamond describes the tools we use to solve personal crises related to national problems.

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05.07.2019
Society

Language of Friendship

Deborah Tannen discusses the way friends talk to one another can either bring them closer or create distance.

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Podcast

04.30.2019
Science

Reversing Extinction

Stewart Brand discusses with Flora Lichtman the prospect of reversing extinction.

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Podcast

04.09.2019
Society

Escaping Hate

Former white supremacist skinhead Christian Picciolini talks with journalist Matt Thompson about his departure from the hate movement.

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Podcast

03.21.2019
Media

Democracy Dies in Darkness

CNN's Brian Stelter talks with Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival.

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Podcast

03.14.2019
Society

Is the English Language Deteriorating?

Linguists Deborah Tannen and John McWhorter talk about the evolution of the English language.

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Podcast

02.22.2019
Free Speech and Religion

Can Free Speech Silence Hate Speech?

Nadine Strossen, professor at New York Law School, talks about using free speech to combat hate speech.

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Podcast

02.22.2019
Science

Inside the Mind of a Dog

Canine cognition researchers Brian Hare and Alexandra Horowitz speak with Ross Andersen about what dogs are thinking.

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Podcast

02.22.2019
Racial Equity

How to Talk About Race and Racism

Writers Wajahat Ali and Jelani Cobb talk about race, white nationalism, at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June.

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Podcast

02.22.2019
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