Content tagged with “2012 Aspen Ideas Festival”
Julie Taymor is one of the most famously creative directors in theatre and film today. Tonight's episode of 'The Aspen Institute Presents' will explore how the arts make an essential difference...
Tags: 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, Julie Taymor, the Aspen Institute Presents Registration for the 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival opened this morning, with tickets to the Festival available here. The Festival is famous for its consideration of timeless values mixed in with...
Tags: 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, Election 2012, Arts Upon the news that New York City has acquired what will become the final section of the High Line from CSX Transportation for development, it seems fitting that we take a look back at High Line...
Tags: architecture, Elizabeth Diller, 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen Institute Arts Program, High Line In 2005, the United Nations established an initiative called Responsibility to Protect, predicated on the idea that sovereignty is a responsibility rather than a right, and that gross human rights...
Tags: Human Rights, United Nations, Stephen L. Carter, 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, Jeffrey Goldberg, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Michael Abramowitz, Dele Olojede In Santa Barbara, California, an inmate dissatisfied with his jail cell can now purchase an upgrade for $82 a night. In North Carolina, the non-profit Project Prevention offers drug-addicted women $...
Tags: Markets, 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, Michael Sandel, morals “Never underestimate the ability of Americans to hold several contradictory ideas at the same time,” iconic pollster and political consultant Mark Penn told the crowd at the Institute’s Ideas...
Tags: Values, Women's Rights, economic mobility, 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, public schools, family values The question of whether United States is in decline has pervaded panels all week at the Institute’s Ideas Festival, and was particularly prominent in a lively discussion between Harvard Kennedy...
Tags: China, Nicholas Burns, 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, Robert Kagan, James Steinberg, Jeffrey Goldberg It’s a simple chicken-or-egg question: Is the bad behavior we see in sports leading to the winning-at-all-costs attitude of Wall Street and Washington, or is it the other way around? Craig...
Tags: sports and society, Craig Robinson, 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, college sports, Jeremy Schaap, William Mayer Richard Fisher would like people to stop looking to the Fed for liquidity. “We have poured on monetary accommodation,” the Dallas Fed Chairman said at the Institute’s Ideas Festival, “we...
Tags: 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, fiscal policy, Federal Reserve, monetary policy 
