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Society

Book Talk with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

About Morality: With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and d ...

BY Christen Cromer

Video

09.03.2020
Law and Public Policy

Gildenhorn Book Talk with Jeffrey Rosen

This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era.

BY Aspen Institute Public Programs

Video

01.27.2020
Racial Equity

Defining the “Racist Bone”

Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi says there is no such thing as a racist bone, even metaphorically.

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

10.15.2019
Racial Equity

Book Talk with Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be an Antiracist”

The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series features Director and Professor of Antiracist Research and Policy at America University Ibram X. Kendi discussing his new book How to Be an Antiracist (Penguin Random House). The Washington Post’s Eugene Scott will serve as moderator.

Event

08.26.2019
Literature

Are Leaders Born or Made?

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her latest book with Kitty Boone.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

02.22.2019
US Government

These 5 Qualities Make Good Leaders

Doris Kearns Goodwin outlines what made Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson effective.

BY Ben Berliner

Blog Post

10.26.2018
National Security

In the US-China Power Struggle, Life Imitates Art

Fact and fiction begin to collide in David Ignatius' new novel on the world's technological arms race.

BY Nicole Corea

Blog Post

01.26.2018
Literature

Power of History, Community, and Hope

In this politically divisive and culturally confusing time, Motley says Madison Park has lessons for us all.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

12.20.2017
US Government

Remembering What Made FDR Great

Roosevelt’s accomplishments and shortcomings are the subject of historian Robert Dallek’s latest biography.

BY Nicole Corea

Blog Post

12.07.2017
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