The Aspen Institute

Session Themes

Challenge of Leadership: justice, courage, vulnerability, and integrity

Know Yourself: core values, purpose, responsibility and conviction, living a good life based on virtue

Community and Society: social good, community values, and social change

Power, Privilege, and Class: freedom, democracy, suppression, and oppression

Readings:

• “March for Our Lives” by Emma González
• “Parkland Student Emma González Opens Up About Her Fight for Gun Control” by Emma González
• No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu (Chapter 2, “Nuremberg or National Amnesia? A Third Way”)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (selections) The Great Debate by Yuval Levin (selections from Chapter 3, “Justice and Order”)

Videos:

• “We Call BS” by Emma González
• Nobel Lecture by Malala Yousafzai