Latest Aspen institute Podcast Episodes
Turning Pain Into Purpose
Shades of Freedom - May 12, 2022 14:36 - 27 minutesLaTonya A. Tate's journey started as a nurse, then, in a turn, as a parole officer, then to founding the Alabama Justice Initiative and running for and winning a seat on the Birmingham City Council. All along the way, her family and her community have been close to her heart, and their struggles...
Reckoning with America’s History of Slavery
Aspen Ideas to Go - April 14, 2022 03:19 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 217 ratingsHistory is taught with textbooks and lectures, but it’s also passed down in more informal ways, within families from generation to generation. Different groups of people can become attached to varying stories of the same past, and some narratives are erased or distorted. Writer and scholar Clint...
Remembering Madeleine Albright
Aspen Ideas to Go - March 29, 2022 15:31 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsThe Aspen Institute remembers and mourns Secretary Madeleine K. Albright, who passed away on March 23, 2022. She was a diplomat, professor, author, business leader, and the first woman to be the U.S. Secretary of State. In 2018, she raised the alarm on dangerous world leadership with her book “F...
A New and Improved Social Contract
Aspen Ideas to Go - March 16, 2022 03:27 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsThe industrial revolution and consequent terrible labor conditions sparked a wave of revolutions in Europe, and then a string of laws and protections for workers. As author and innovation expert Alec Ross describes it, we “rewrote the social contract.” But, Ross says, we may be due for another r...
The Russian Cyber Threats Facing Ukraine
Aspen Ideas to Go - March 02, 2022 05:16 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsAny organization, public or private, with any connection to Ukraine, should be exercising extreme technological vigilance, says cybersecurity expert Sandra Joyce, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Intelligence at Mandiant. In addition to the attacks on the ground, Russia could come at ...
How to Build Diversity, Equity and Inclusion that Sticks
Aspen Ideas to Go - February 16, 2022 04:59 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsWe may have moved from a time of reckoning on racial equity to a time of transformation, says business leader Dr. Rohini Anand, and that gives her hope. The author of “Leading Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: A Guide for Systemic Change in Multinational Organizations,” Anand advises leade...
How Can Activism Repair Our Democracy?
Aspen Ideas to Go - February 02, 2022 17:55 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsThe cornerstone of democracy is the principle that all citizens have the right and ability to participate in their own governance, either directly or via representation. While many Americans today may believe that we’ve lost sight of that inclusive ideal, Rashad Robinson, racial justice activist...
A Conversation with Author Anthony Doerr
Aspen Ideas to Go - January 20, 2022 16:29 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsAnthony Doerr is probably best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. Just like that book, his latest work, Cloud Cuckoo Land, features protagonists who are dreamers and outsiders who find hope in the midst of danger. He talks with Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask ...
What the Ancients Got Right about Happiness
Aspen Ideas to Go - January 05, 2022 03:49 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsPeople have been thinking about happiness for thousands of years. In fact, ancient thinkers came up with strategies for cultivating pleasures over a lifetime, or creating a lasting capacity to take joy in the world. This long-term flourishing is different from immediate pleasures — it’s a richer...
Brain Health and the Pitfalls of "Bikini Medicine" (Encore)
Aspen Ideas to Go - December 28, 2021 18:47 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsEven though women are likely to live longer than men, their hormonal changes make them far more susceptible to age-related memory loss like Alzhemier’s disease and other conditions. Yet gender is often not a primary consideration by the medical community — but more and more research shows that ...
The Remarkable Brain of the Bird (Encore)
Aspen Ideas to Go - December 22, 2021 03:12 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsIt used to be that having a “bird brain” was an insult. Now, it’s practically a compliment! Turns out the brain of a bird, which is small enough to fit into a nut, is full of neurons. These animals are capable of complex cognition — they can solve problems, count, understand cause and effect, an...
Psychedelics for the Win
Aspen Ideas to Go - December 15, 2021 02:36 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsIn the 1950s and 60s, mental health providers used psychedelics to help patients open up about difficult memories. Then, the drugs were banned. Now there’s a resurgence. Psychedelics like MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine are being studied as solutions for anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Findings sh...
Can We Depolarize Justice Reform?
Shades of Freedom - December 10, 2021 15:35 - 26 minutesGuest Bio An attorney and accomplished author, Marc Levin serves as Chief Policy Counsel to the Council on Criminal Justice, a membership organization that provides a center of gravity in the field for objective analyses of research and policies. He began the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s cr...
How Can We Build Wealth for Everyone?
Aspen Ideas to Go - December 07, 2021 21:46 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsThe global Covid-19 pandemic has worsened inequality. Oxfam International found that while billionaire fortunes returned to pre-pandemic highs in just nine months, a recovery for the world’s poorest people could take over a decade. In the United States, wealthier people have kept their jobs and ...
How Do We Build Wealth for Everyone?
Aspen Ideas to Go - December 07, 2021 21:46 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsThe global Covid-19 pandemic has worsened inequality. Oxfam International found that while billionaire fortunes returned to pre-pandemic highs in just nine months, a recovery for the world’s poorest people could take over a decade. In the United States, wealthier people have kept their jobs and ...
We're in a science moment. What will come out of it?
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 30, 2021 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsThe Covid-19 vaccine was developed at an unusually rapid pace, and now the public's expectations are high for what science can deliver. It's a good thing we're in a science moment. Gobs of data are being produced, researchers are collaborating more, and the public is engaged. But is the pace of ...
The Most Important Rule for a More Civil Thanksgiving: No Eye Rolling (Rebroadcast)
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 23, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsCurrent political fault lines are fracturing American society as people grow farther apart from one another due to differing beliefs and opinions. We often see people we disagree with as caricatures, and think we can never reconcile our differences. Yet despite that sense of contradiction we are...
Mark Bittman on Reimagining America's Food System
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 18, 2021 15:42 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsLongtime food journalist Mark Bittman says America's food system needs to be reimagined so land is used fairly and well and people have access to food that promotes health, not illness. His latest book, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal, tells the story of ...
Survivors Choose Healing and Restoration
Shades of Freedom - November 11, 2021 03:44 - 28 minutesDanielle Sered envisioned, launched, and directs the nonprofit organization Common Justice. She leads the project’s efforts locally and nationally to develop and advance practical and groundbreaking solutions to violence that advance racial equity, meet the needs of those harmed, and do not rely...
Why Our Partisan Differences Are Threatening National Security
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 09, 2021 18:41 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsIt's clear the United States isn't united right now. A Pew Research poll done before the 2020 election showed about 9 in 10 voters worried a victory by the other party would lead to lasting harm for the country. Our partisan divides aren't just endangering relationships and slowing progress in W...
QUICK TAKE | We Need to Treat the Pandemic like a Global Security Threat | Gayle Smith
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 06, 2021 01:29 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsQuick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form. Today’s episode features Gayle Smith, the State Department’s coordinator for the global response to Covid-19. Watch her full conversation from the Aspen Security Forum. The talk was co-presented with the Aspen Institute ...
Bad Things Do Happen to Good People
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 02, 2021 22:17 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsWe try our whole lives to avoid pain and suffering and when it does show up, we try to solve it. In her new book, No Cure for Being Human, religious scholar Kate Bowler says we try to out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. Truth is, bad things do happen to good people and if we're go...
QUICK TAKE | Rules Schmules | Adam Grant
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 29, 2021 17:12 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsWant to raise creative kids who learn how to think for themselves? Go easy on the rules. Quick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form. Today’s episode features Adam Grant, a professor of management and psychology at The Wharton School and author of The Originals: ...
Journalism's norms are changing. Here's why you should care.
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 26, 2021 22:36 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsNorms in newsrooms across the United States are being upended thanks to deep polarization, a racial reckoning, and the pandemic. Hallmark journalistic traits like neutrality and objectivity are being redefined. Eric Deggans, TV critic for NPR, says it's impossible to be objective, and journalist...
QUICK TAKE | How a Cosmic Perspective Could Unify Earthlings | Jill Tarter
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 22, 2021 10:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsQuick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form. Today’s episode features astronomer Jill Tarter. She co-founded SETI, or the “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute.” Watch her full conversation from the Aspen Ideas Festival https://www.aspenideas.org/sess...
Will this Anti-Poverty Measure Stick?
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 19, 2021 22:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsWhen President Biden expanded the nation's Child Tax Credit in March, US Senator Michael Bennet applauded the move. Bennet, a democrat from Colorado, has been working to increase support for families since he introduced the American Family Act in Congress in 2017. Now he wants to make the Credit...
Distress Concentrated In Place: NYC Empowers Neighborhoods to Define Safety
Shades of Freedom - October 19, 2021 15:51 - 25 minutesWhen Renita Francois, Executive Director of the NYC Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP), asks the residents of the city’s public housing developments how they define neighborhood safety, crime is not at the top of their lists. From going directly to the residents – the people best ...
QUICK TAKE | Get Off Your Duff to Improve Your Brain | Sanjay Gupta
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 15, 2021 19:23 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsWhat if the key to a healthier brain is as simple as getting up out of your chair? Quick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form. Today’s episode features neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Listen to the full episode https://www.aspenideas.org/podcasts/building-brain-he...
Whose Job Is It to Protect Your Online Data?
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 12, 2021 22:43 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsWhen you tick a box on an online privacy notice, just how much personal information are you giving away? Is the tradeoff worthwhile? When it comes to data, the relationship between companies and consumers is uneven — customers are getting a raw deal because there's no limit on what a company can...
QUICK TAKE | How a Dating App is Making the Internet more Humane | Whitney Wolfe Herd
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 08, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsQuick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form. Today’s episode features Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. Watch her full conversation from the Aspen Ideas Festival https://www.aspenideas.org/sessions/the-billion-dollar-bumble-that-changed-the-dating-game-for...
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