Elliot Gerson

As Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, reporters bring us more and more heart-wrenching stories and images of suffering caused by the conflict.

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.

Michael Sandel, professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of “The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good”

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.