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5 Steps Toward Rebuilding Trust in the Media

To the American plurality who did not want to see Donald Trump as President, “the press” gets a hefty part of the blame for his election. It enabled hi ...

BY Charles M. Firestone

Blog Post

12.08.2016
Free Speech and Religion

Coach's Challenge Flag on Campus Protests

Why is it that when it comes to the social world, not all speech is deemed equally worthy of protecting?

BY Nancy Cantor

Blog Post

06.30.2016
Free Speech and Religion

How to Make White People Laugh

Author and filmmaker Negin Farsad joins radio host Dean Obeidallah and Imam Daayiee Abdullah to bring levity to serious topics in American cultural and political life

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

06.08.2016
Free Speech and Religion

How to Make White People Laugh

Negin Farsad calls herself a social-justice comedian. Her work seeks to prove that deep-seated and sclerotic prejudices about race and religion can be as effectively challenged with humor as they can be with activism.

BY Arts Program

Video

06.01.2016
Free Speech and Religion

Pledging to Protect Religious Freedom

As election season intensifies, and issues from immigration to tax reform are thrust into the spotlight, candidates must not forget the importance of protecting the platform upon which our nation is built: religious freedom.

Blog Post

11.04.2015
Free Speech and Religion

Listen Longer 9/19: Religion in the 21st Century

This past week Aspen Institute Radio celebrated the imminent arrival of the Pope to the United States, featuring discussions on America's changing religious landscape, how millennials are losing their faith, and an examination of religious pluralism in American society.

BY Aspen Institute Staff

Blog Post

09.22.2015
Free Speech and Religion

Principled Pluralism Requires the Courage for Difficult Conversations

Our ability to accommodate religious diversity connects us to our founding era and to the principles embodied in our First Amendment. Although America is experiencing an all time high of religious diversity, religious literacy in the 21st century is net keeping pace, at a cost.

Blog Post

07.11.2015
Free Speech and Religion

Religious Diversity and Youth Development:

This resource, prepared by the Aspen Institute Justice & Society Program and the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom, describes eight rea ...

BY Justice and Society Program

Publication

06.01.2015
Free Speech and Religion

Religious Conservatives, "Nones," and Interfaith Dialogue

Too often, interfaith programs fail to attract broad participation and have little social impact. One major reason for this is that they tend to take place in an echo chamber of religious progressives.

BY Joseph DeMott

Of Interest

05.14.2015
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