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Hope, Trust, and Truth: How the Pandemic Will Change Us

David Brooks checks in with Jonathan Haidt for a conversation about the forces competing for the future and how the pandemic could shift culture around everything from trust to truth.

BY Aspen Ideas Now

Video

05.21.2020
Culture

Embracing Vulnerability in Times of Crisis

This SOF Digital Discussion featured renowned psychotherapist and author of The New York Times bestselling book, “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone,” Lori Gottlieb who provided insights into the human condition during times of crisis, sharing stories of the patients she sees as a therapist, along with her own as a “card-carrying member of the human race.” Moderated by digital director at OprahMag.com, Arianna Davis.

BY Aspen Society

Video

04.21.2020
Culture

How Cultural History Impacts Mental Health

Students at Marion C. Moore High School in Louisville, Kentucky explore how identity and an understanding of self can affect mental health.

BY Institute Staff

Longform

12.05.2019
Culture

Detroit and Denver Learn to Argue

The Better Arguments Projec teaches Americans how to have better arguments and fewer divides, and joins forces with local organizations to talk to people on all sides of polarizing issues.

BY Institute Staff

Longform

10.01.2019
Culture

From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being

Babies are more likely than older children to end up in foster care despite being more vulnerable developmentally. A new initiative is changing that, says Myra Jones-Taylor. Instead of blame, Safe Babies Court Teams helps parents become confident, stable caretakers, so babies can leave foster care and go home.

BY Myra Jones-Taylor

Longform

10.01.2019
Culture

Eat Like a Human

What does it mean to eat like a human? Bill Schindler, the director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab at Washington College in Maryland, challenged the audience to ditch the processed food that makes up the bulk of the typical American diet.

BY Institute Staff

Longform

10.01.2019
Culture

Why Joy Is Better Than Happiness

Will building delight into cities make them more cloying or more fun?

BY Ian Bogost

Blog Post

06.28.2019
Culture

This App Tells You When You're Mean

Ditching likes for facial scans could be the way to a kinder, if creepier, online world.

BY Ian Bogost

Blog Post

06.26.2019
Culture

Emotions Aren't Irrational

Feelings aren’t as senseless as Americans have been led to believe.

BY Amanda Mull

Blog Post

06.26.2019
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