Plus—Can we get past “us vs them” thinking?
| January 27, 2023 | | PODCAST Curbing Gun Violence Through Public Health In the first three weeks of 2023, there have been 39 mass shootings. In 2021 alone, the U.S. had nearly 49,000 gun-related deaths, and that number has been growing, according to the CDC. At the same time, 40 percent of all American households own guns. Could we save lives and soothe heated debates by applying a public health approach to the epidemic of gun violence? “If you actually want to talk about saving lives, it’s about finding ways to work together with people who may have different belief systems from you,” says Megan Ranney, academic dean at Brown University’s School of Public Health. In this talk from Aspen Ideas: Health, she speaks with Jerome Adams, former US Surgeon General, and Christopher Barsotti, co-founder of the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM), in a conversation moderated by CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen. Listen | | COLLECTION We Got the Beat Music is a hallmark of humanity, a shared ritual that spans time and space and links one generation to the next. From hip-hop, jazz, and Broadway to the link between music and mental health, dive deep into the world of sound in this collection of musical moments from the Aspen Ideas stage. Learn More | | VIDEO Trusting “The Other It’s no secret that America feels more divided than ever. At the heart of the conflict is the sense that “the other side” can’t be trusted, that they don’t have our best interests in mind. Hear from Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Self-Portrait in Black and White,Eric Liu, CEO of Citizen University, and Chloé Valdary, founder of the antiracism program Theory of Enchantment, in a conversation moderated by David French, Senior Editor at The Dispatch. Together they ask what it takes to approach those outside our circle with an open mind and how we might regain a sense of trust in one another. Watch | | EVENT Register Now for the 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival When people and ideas meet in the right atmosphere, something magical happens. At the Aspen Ideas Festival, we cultivate that magic.
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