Micro-Essays for the Moment

These short essays, written by some of the best minds the Aspen community has to offer, provide new insight into the ways we are thinking about the challenges and opportunities brought about by COVID-19.

Leadership

Re-Envisioning Societies Future-Back

Airplanes were not invented by discussing how to improve each component of an automobile—the chassis, wheels, and doors. Similarly, the Un ...

BY Eduardo Briceño

Blog Post

06.22.2020
Leadership

How Much is a Life Worth?

On a recent Sunday afternoon, a dear friend commented that it is a fascinating time to study how much our society values lives, as implied b ...

BY Eduardo Briceño

Blog Post

05.20.2020
Leadership

A Visible Mark Upon the Earth: Why Wendell Berry

I have never been versed in reading or writing poetry. Like chess, it is something on my list to get better at, but in each attempt, I feel ...

BY Tony Klemmer

Blog Post

05.18.2020

Leadership

Seminars in ‘sacred groves’

Todd Breyfogle’s blog on “sacred groves” hit home. On the hikes I have been leading for more than 20 years for Aspen Institute seminar ...

BY Paul Andersen

Blog Post

04.14.2020
Leadership

Learning in a Time of Isolation

On a Sunday evening in October 1939, C. S. Lewis took the pulpit in Oxford and gave a sermon, “Learning in War-Time”. The much-anticipat ...

BY Todd Breyfogle

Blog Post

04.03.2020