ACP Event Videos

Psychedelics and the Brain: Unlocking New Possibilities for Healing

Featuring Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor in Neurology, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, in conversation with Jon Hamilton, correspondent for NPR’s Science Desk.

August 19, 2025

Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America

Featuring Barbara McQuade, former US Attorney, professor from practice at the University of Michigan Law School and best-selling author.

August 12, 2025

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Featuring Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, renowned psychologist, neuroscientist, best-selling author, and University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, in conversation with Jeff Aronin, Aspen Institute Trustee and founder, chairman, and CEO of Paragon Biosciences.

August 7, 2025

Advancing America’s Prosperity

Featuring Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University, and Paul Ryan, Partner at Solamere Capital and 54th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, in conversation with Melissa S. Kearney, Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.

August 6, 2025

Citizenship, Democracy, and America’s Role in the World

Featuring Dr. Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of “The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens,” in conversation with Wendell L. Willkie II, adjunct professor of law at New York University and adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

August 5, 2025

The Future of Journalism: Trust, Truth, and Technology in a Changing Media Landscape

Featuring Meredith Kopit Levien, president and chief executive officer, The New York Times Company, in conversation with Vivian Schiller, vice president and executive director of Aspen Digital, the Aspen Institute.

July 31, 2025

Reagan: His Life, Legacy, and the Shaping of Modern Conservatism

Featuring Max Boot, historian, foreign policy analyst, and best-selling author, in conversation with Elliot Gerson, executive vice president, Policy Programs and International Partners, the Aspen Institute.

July 29, 2025

Humanism and the Possibilities of Renewal

David Brooks—New York Times columnist, best-selling author, and chair of Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute—joins Todd Breyfogle and Cristal Logan in a thought-provoking conversation about how humanism can help renew our personal lives, our communities, and our culture.

July 26, 2025

Sculpting the Environment: The Three-Dimensional Art of Herbert Bayer

Featuring co-curators Koko Bayer and Adam Thomas in conversation with Lissa Ballinger, executive director of the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies, about this landmark exhibition, which spans over six decades of Bayer’s work.

July 26, 2025

Place, People, and Possibility: Reflections on Humanism and the Aspen Idea

Featuring Todd Breyfogle, Senior Advisor for Humanistic Studies and Practices and former Executive Director of Seminars at the Aspen Institute, and Paul Andersen, journalist, naturalist, and author of Albert Schweitzer and the Birth of the Aspen Idea: Honoring Aspen’s Evolving Embrace of Humanism (2025).

July 26, 2025