Media Library

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Featuring Scott Galloway, best-selling author, professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, and host of “The Prof G Pod” and “Pivot” podcasts, in conversation with Gillian Tett, columnist and member of the editorial board at the Financial Times.

Featuring Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen in conversation with Karen Tumulty, associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post.

Featuring Kyla Scanlon, financial educator, creator, and author of “In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work” in conversation with Rachel Wolfe, economics reporter at The Wall Street Journal.

Featuring Jeh Johnson, former US secretary of Homeland Security and general counsel of the Department of Defense.

Featuring Porter Fox, climate journalist, Columbia University teacher, and author of “Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them,” and Jeff Goodell, award-winning environmental writer and best-selling author of “The Heat Will Kill You First.”

Featuring Connie Chung, pioneering journalist, Emmy-winning news anchor, and the first woman to co-anchor the CBS “Evening News.”

Featuring Dr. Mary Claire Haver, board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist and author of “The New Menopause.”