Kathryn Stockett reads from her Bestseller The Help.
Topics: the help, kathryn stockett, Aspen Writers Foundation
Featuring Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President, Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Richard Danzig, Chairman of the Board, Center for a New American Security; Susan Schwab, Professor at University of Maryland and former United States Trade Representative and Raj Shah; Administrator, United States Agency for International Development.
Peter Wallison: “Improving the U.S. Housing Market” Read More
Charles Murray is a political scientist, author, and libertarian. He first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980 (Basic Books, 1984), which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.
Marc A. Thiessen: “CIA Interrogations, the Bin Laden Operation, and the Next Attack” Read More
Topics: Defense Policy, Terrorism
Scott Gottlieb: “Is Health Care Reform Good for Your Health?”
Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Read More
Topics: 9/11, Security, aspen strategy group
The Summer Celebration honored Brent Scowcroft, co-chair of the Aspen Strategy Group and National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a public forum featuring Brent Scowcroft in conversation with Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State,Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard Professior, moderated by Nicholas Burns, Aspen Strategy Group Director.
Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson sits down with five Republican Governors: Rick Perry (R-TX), Bob McDonnell (R-VA), Nikki Haley (R-SC), Susan Martinez (R-NM), and Scott Walker (R-WI)
How is social media changing civic engagement around the world. Panelists: Cory Booker, Emily Jacobi, Jason Pollock and Orville Schell. Read More
Topics: Social Media, cory booker, 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival
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