IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Winter 2018/2019

It should go without saying but somehow it doesn’t: the range of people the Institute draws in, and who are drawn to the Institute, is year to year a source of constant surprise.

Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo all made an appearance in the imaginations of Society of Fellows guests at a symposium on 19th-century America. Catherine Lutz tagged along as historians examined a re-created Western town as well as the nation’s storied past.

The Institute’s seminars are unique: they rely on great texts and superlative moderators who infuse the room with intellectual rigor and trust. Nicole Corea discovers that just as the Aspen seminar can be life-changing for participants, it can be transcendant for the moderator.

“Taking action to protect our ocean,” Earle says, “is still the best hope for maintaining the integrity of our human existence.”

At the sixth annual Madeleine K. Albright Global Development Lecture on November 7, 2018, the Aspen Global Innovators Group honored Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Laureate and the former president of the Republic of Liberia.

The planet’s biggest challenges will not be solved without business at the table. That means tapping into business’s experts and social innovators.

Every year, the John P. McNulty Prize celebrates leaders tackling critical challenges across the globe.

Aspen Words teamed up with Aspen Film to present a screening of the new movie Leave No Trace, followed by a “From Book to Big Screen” discussion featuring producer Linda Reisman and novelist Peter Rock, author of My Abandonment, the award-winning novel from which the film is adapted.

“Duty to warn” is when a doctor has a relationship with a patient and he or she has good reason to think that patient will harm a third party—the duty is to inform that third party and/or officials. To say that it extends to people or figures who are not your patient?

The Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development will release a report highlighting how communities across the country are finding success by focusing on the whole learner. Treating students holistically is the key to ensuring that young people thrive in school, in their careers, and in life.