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Society

How Meritocracy's Luster Tarnishes The American Dream

Harvard professor Micheal Sandel says climbing the ladder of success is getting harder in the United States, because the rungs on the ladder are growing further apart.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

12.01.2020
Social Capital

The Tyranny of Merit with Michael Sandel

Featuring Michael Sandel, professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good, in conversation with Elliot Gerson, executive vice president at the Aspen Institute.

BY Aspen Community Programs

Video

08.04.2020
Global Health

A Coronavirus Stress Test for the World

Journalist and New York Times op-ed writer Thomas Friedman asserts that countries around the world are undergoing a stress test, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. This test, he says, is revealing the quality of nations’ governance, their strength of their health care systems, and the vitality of their communities.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

04.09.2020
Identity and Equity

What Does Dignity Have to Do with Liberal Democracy?

Francis Fukuyama, author of Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment in conversation with Elliot Gerson.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

08.23.2019
World Affairs

The Age of Euroscepticism

Elliot Gerson, Mircea Dan Geoana, Kati Marton, and Doublas Lute discuss President Trump and the Brussels NATO summit during a panel at Aspen Ideas on June 30.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

07.10.2018
Around the Institute

A Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke at the Aspen Institute's campus in Maryland in May.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

06.14.2017
US Economy

Universal Basic Income

Andy Stern lays out why universal basic income is the right economic policy for a modern United States.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

02.01.2017
Racial Equity

Rep. John Lewis on Nonviolence, Civil Rights, and the Obligation of Today's Youth

Hearing civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis speak about his experiences in Selma, Alabama, at lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, and at the March on Washington is undeniably moving and inspiring. But hearing him describe the minute details of those seminal events — and his personal story that led him there — transported an Aspen Institute audience back to a time, not too long ago, that serves as a lingering reminder of why we should never forget the evils of discrimination and segregation.

BY Catherine Lutz, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

07.22.2014