2018 Aspen Ideas Festival

Deborah Tannen discusses the way friends talk to one another can either bring them closer or create distance.

Stewart Brand discusses with Flora Lichtman the prospect of reversing extinction.

Former white supremacist skinhead Christian Picciolini talks with journalist Matt Thompson about his departure from the hate movement.

CNN’s Brian Stelter talks with Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival.

Linguists Deborah Tannen and John McWhorter talk about the evolution of the English language.

Nadine Strossen, professor at New York Law School, talks about using free speech to combat hate speech.

Canine cognition researchers Brian Hare and Alexandra Horowitz speak with Ross Andersen about what dogs are thinking.

Writers Wajahat Ali and Jelani Cobb talk about race, white nationalism, at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June.

Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos talks about how to live a happier life.

Gender studies professor Michael Kimmel and neuroscientist Lise Eliot discuss gender and science.