Aspen Ideas Festival

The Aspen Ideas Festival is the nation's premier, public gathering place for leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines to engage in deep and inquisitive discussion of the ideas and issues that both shape our lives and challenge our times.

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Episode 144, Season 2
A Democrat, a Republican, a Rental Car — and a Road Map to B

They invited America to join them via FB live, and through their spontaneous town hall

59:52
Episode 145, Season 2
America’s Online Enemies

State-sponsored cyber-spies and transnational organized crime groups pose urgent threats

1:05:24
Episode 147, Season 2
How AI Will Shake Up Business — and Society

Unlike the internet, AI is not a new industry

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Episode 148, Season 2
On Genius

On Genius

1:05:28
Episode 139, Season 2
We constantly strive to engage and surprise each other, our

Suddenly, machines are learning from gigantic expanding data sets at rapid rates.

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Episode 138, Season 2
Tuning In: Classical Music and the Creative Mind (includes l

We constantly strive to engage and surprise each other, our inventiveness giving us reason

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Episode 129, Season 2
Hacking, Disinformation, and a New Cold War with Russia

Hacking, Disinformation, and a New Cold War with Russia

1:28:06
Episode 127, Season 2
Climate Under Conservatives

Can such a business-led effort toa promote carbon dividends

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Episode 123, Season 2
Markets Can Solve the Global Energy and Climate Challenge, i

Markets Can Solve the Global Energy and Climate Challenge, if We Let Them

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Episode 124, Season 2
The Inside Story of How Presidents Prepare for Armageddon

How did these Cold War-era plans come together

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Episode 121, Season 2
Hate on the Rise — And What We Can Do to Stop It ?

What groups are most frequently targeted today?

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Episode 133, Season 2
Are We Sure We Want to Let Robots Kill?

At an alarming rate, militaries from around the globe are employing AI

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Episode 135, Season 2
The Second Mountain: The Next Big Challenge in Your Life

The Second Mountain: The Next Big Challenge in Your Life

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Episode 132, Season 2
Protecting Earth’s Last Conservation Frontier: The High Seas

The high seas comprise 40 percent of the surface of our planet

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Episode 125, Season 2
Will the Rise of Populism Destroy Liberal Democracy?

How did we get here? How are Western values shifting? What might the future hold?

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Episode 130, Season 2
Inventing Plan B: How to Move Forward without a Template

Most of us face the desire to be creative within busy, scheduled lives.

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Episode 122, Season 2
Economic Policy

Economic Policy

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Episode 98, Season 2
Going Rogue: What Happens When States and the Federal Govern

Are we a union, or are we 50 states?

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Episode 100, Season 2
The Future of Human-Robot Interaction

The Future of Human-Robot Interaction

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Episode 96, Season 2
Aspen Ideas Festival Young Adult Forum

Aspen Ideas Festival Young Adult Forum

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Episode 94, Season 2
Art, Architecture, and Justice

How does culture help us learn from history and inform today’s struggles?

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Episode 93, Season 2
Who’s Generating the New Jobs, and What Skills Will Workers

For those of us who will be hired, what skills should we possess?

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Episode 88, Season 2
Muslims and Jews in America

What’s the state of this historically fraught relationship?

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Episode 87, Season 2
Might the Past Inform Our Future?

What might we learn from the past about the current state of politics?

1:01:59
Episode 90, Season 2
On Founders

On Founders

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Episode 85, Season 2
Philanthropy and Democracy: Dangerous Liaisons

What, if anything, confers democratic legitimacy on foundations?

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Episode 77, Season 2
Trump + Brexit and a New World Order

Against a backdrop of rising populism, weakening of traditional political parties

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Episode 71, Season 2
The Privacy Paradox

Privacy Paradox experiment on WNYC’s “Note to Self,” along with ProPublica senior reporter

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Episode 68, Season 2
Good Companies, Good Jobs — Are They Also Good Stocks?

What constitutes a “good job”? What roles should business and gov. play in creating them?

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Episode 67, Season 2
Markets and Investing in a Dynamic World

What are the drivers of economic growth and opportunity in a changing world?

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Episode 82, Season 2
Manufacturing in America: The Millennial Way

Time to start listening to the growing set of young entrepreneurs

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Episode 78, Season 2
Managing Through Disruption

Managing Through Disruption

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Episode 79, Season 2
Lying, Bullshitting, and Truth Telling: When is the Truth th

Lying, Bullshitting, and Truth Telling: When is the Truth the Truth

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Episode 75, Season 2
What Would Madison Think?

What Would Madison Think

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Episode 81, Season 2
Stopping the Violence in Chicago: Lessons for America’s Citi

What do they think it will take for meaningful change to happen?

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Episode 73, Season 2
Creative Genius, Derived from Nature

Chicago architect Jeanne Gang is one of the most celebrated architects in her adopted city

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Episode 72, Season 2
Mother Nature Is Cruel. Should Humans Intervene?

Should we ever intentionally drive a species extinct?

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Episode 74, Season 2
Whom Can We Trust?

What can leaders of institutions do to restore faith in institutions?

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Episode 69, Season 2
Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White

What role does faith play in his quest to bring people together?

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Episode 84, Season 2
The America I Have Come to Know through StoryCorps

The America I Have Come to Know through StoryCorps

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Episode 86, Season 2
The Future of News: Is There a War on Truth?

Susan Page is Washington bureau chief of USA Today.

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Episode 83, Season 2
Is the Internet Broken?

The tough and interesting question is: How can we fix it?

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Episode 66, Season 2
Conservatism, the Republican Party, and President Trump

Will President Trump and the party’s traditional conservatives ever get in sync?

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Episode 63, Season 2
Has American Grand Strategy Gone Missing?

Do we still have a coherent grand strategy about the country we want to be and our role

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Episode 65, Season 2
What Turns a Skater Kid from Colorado into a Fighter for ISI

Graeme Wood is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a lecturer at Yale University

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Episode 62, Season 2
Jeff Koons: American Imagination

Join in a conversation about creating wonder

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Episode 59, Season 2
Making Tech Humane Again

Making Tech Humane Again

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Episode 56, Season 2
Afternoon Jam Session

Lyrical, musical, and physical acrobatics will introduce ideas and issues central to Ideas

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Episode 60, Season 2
Why Investing in Good Companies Makes Economic Sense

Can companies determined to support solutions to some of society’s larger dilemmas

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Episode 52, Season 2
Is the Internet a “Gift from God”?

Is the Internet a “Gift from God”

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Episode 48, Season 2
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power

Doudna joins Walter Isaacson in conversation about gene editing and the unthinkable power

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Episode 47, Season 2
Can Faith Help Unite Us in Divided Times?

Can Faith Help Unite Us in Divided Times

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Episode 54, Season 2
Black in America Since MLK

Black in America Since MLK

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Episode 34, Season 2
Music, Health, and Well-Being: Jon Batiste in Conversation w

Music can lift the spirits and help heal the body

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Episode 32, Season 2
Deep Dive: Breaking the Cycle: Health, Poverty, and the Soci

How do we tear down social, economic, and environmental barriers and build better health.

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Episode 28, Season 2
Celebrating the 80th Birthday of the National Cancer Institu

Past NCI directors gather at Spotlight Health to talk about the NCI’s evolution

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Episode 30, Season 2
Health Legislation in the 115th Congress: Interview with Sen

Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) offers an insider’s look at the policy

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Episode 26, Season 2
A World without AIDS

Thirty-six million people have died of AIDS since 1981, and are living with HIV today

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Episode 27, Season 2
Building a Caregiving Society

How do we build a caregiving infrastructure that can sustain us all?

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Episode 14, Season 2
Deep Dive: Preventing Pandemics

Infectious diseases represent one of the greatest threats to global health and security

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Episode 6, Season 2
Building Global Health Security from the Ground Up

Community health workers, social media networks, and local residents,fight against disease

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Episode 8, Season 2
Follow the Money: Investing in Health

What can we learn about the future of health care?

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Episode 19, Season 2
Undaunted: Defining Moments

In every leader's journey, there is a moment, or a series of moments, that stand out

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Episode 21, Season 2
Reproductive Health: Can We Find Common Ground?

From birth control to abortion

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Episode 18, Season 2
The Neuroscience of Poverty

Poverty is a powerful stressor that influences growth and development in children

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Episode 13, Season 2
Deep Dive: The Opioid Tsunami

240 million opioid scripts to Americans every year, the potential for abuse is enormous

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Episode 17, Season 2
James Beard: America's First Foodie (Film and Discussion)

Learn why that claim is made in the new PBS American Masters documentary, James Beard.

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Episode 12, Season 2
Quelling Violent Extremism with Public Health Tools

Can health interventions really change hearts and minds and turn potentially violence?

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Episode 7, Season 2
Health and US Politics

The population is deeply concerned about rising health care costs

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Episode 4, Season 2
Will People, Data, or Payments Drive Health Care into the Fu

Will a patient-centered, data-centered or payment-centered system ultimately dominate?

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Episode 3, Season 2
Whither Health Care Reform?

Discussing new approaches to the Affordable Care Act

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Episode 2, Season 2
Federal Health Policy: An Interview with Kathleen Sebelius,

Kathleen Sebelius, 21st secretary of HHS, discusses the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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Episode 1, Season 2
Festival Opening and Welcome Reception

Opening Session

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