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A discussion on deficit reduction measures hosted by Aspen Institute Initiative on Financial Security. The conversation will isolate dominant contributors to the U.S. fiscal deficit, identify...
Topics: Finance, Deficit reduction, initiative on financial security 
Ambassador Andrew Young discusses his book Walk in My Shoes: Conversations between a Civil Rights Legend and his Godson on the Journey Ahead (May 2010, Palgrave Macmillan). In conversation with his...
Topics: Leadership, Amb. Andrew Young, foreign affairs 
Sean Wilentz is one of the nation’s most prominent historians. He is a professor of history at Princeton University. He discusses his book Bob Dylan in America (September 2010; Doubleday). The...
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. He...
Topics: Health, global health 
James Wolfensohn, chairman of Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, is the former president of the World Bank (1995-2005). He discusses his book A Global Life: My Journey among Rich and Poor, from...
Topics: Poverty, Economics, Washington Leadership Series 
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Stephen Breyer discusses his new book Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View with legal scholar Jeffrey Rosen.
Topics: Justice, Justice Stephen Breyer, Democracy 
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson as part of the Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series.
Topics: Politics, Condoleezza Rice, civil rights 
Moderated by Ethelbert Miller, former poet laureate of the District of Columbia. The Washington Ideas Roundtable Series is made possible with the generous support of Michelle Smith...
Topics: Arts, poetry 
