August 11, 2023

PODCAST

In Search of a Soul Boom

Comedic actor, writer, and producer Rainn Wilson is on a mission to show the world how spirituality can help us navigate increasingly challenging times. His latest book, Soul Boom, aims to help readers on a quest of spiritual self-awareness as traces his own journey through religion and faith. At the Aspen Ideas Festival, he sat down with Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of “Today with Hoda and Jenna” on NBC, to talk about how to find hope in a cynical world, the purpose of suffering, and why a spiritual revolution could help us heal on both a personal and global level.

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COLLECTION

We the People

Americans seem more culturally and ideologically divided than at any point in most of our lifetimes, with no prospect of bridging those divides any time soon. The only thing we seem to agree upon is that our politics are broken and our leaders are unable to solve the nation’s most fundamental challenges. What can be done to save American democracy from itself? Can we still form a “more perfect union”? What should Americans know about their country and who makes the important decisions? Hear from Aspen Ideas Festival speakers as they dig into these questions and more.
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VIDEO

Urban Comeback

As many businesses and office buildings shuttered in the past years of the pandemic, how are city and federal leaders working to reimagine downtowns — and the future of work? “Strong downtown vibrant communities are what attract businesses from all industries,” says Isabella Casillas Guzman, the Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration. Guzman speaks with Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington, D.C., and Kevin Delaney, CEO of the future-of-work media company Charter, about cultivating entrepreneurship, making downtowns desirable places to live and work, and designing a new future for American cities.

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