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January 11, 2024
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VIDEO
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Defending Democracy with Maria Ressa
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Around the world, we’ve been electing more and more autocratic leaders. Freedom of the press is threatened in many places, and fear, outrage, and misinformation are often taking the place of reasoned debate. What can be done about democratic backsliding in our modern technological age? Hear from journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, whose latest book How to Stand Up to a Dictator chronicles her life’s work challenging authoritarianism and corruption in her home country, the Philippines. Vivian Schiller, Executive Director of Aspen Digital at the Aspen Institute, interviews
Ressa about free and fair elections, the insidiousness of social media, and our global need for investigative journalism.
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PODCAST
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From King Lear to Succession: Shakespeare on Stage and Screen
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Power, morality, ambition, love, family — these are common struggles of humanity that William Shakespeare wrestled with centuries ago and remain just as relevant today. “Once you are introduced to the world of Shakespeare, it gets you right in the very solar plexus of your life,” says renowned stage and film actor Brian Cox. He’s performed classic Shakespeare roles hundreds of times, and most recently played the iconic patriarch Logan Roy on HBO’s hit show “Succession.” Cox is joined onstage by Simon Godwin, the artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C.,
who is tasked with keeping Shakespeare’s work fresh with every new season. Entertainment leader and former Disney CEO Michael Eisner moderates their conversation about the timelessness of Shakespeare and how they bring The Bard to life.
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20 YEARS OF IDEAS
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Comedy and Faith
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Need a good laugh? We have just the thing from our archives. At the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival, CBS news legend Bob Schieffer took to the stage for an uproariously entertaining interview with comedian Lewis Black. “When I’m the most funny is when it’s something very, very personal,” Black said, and they got personal indeed in this wide-reaching conversation about Black’s book Me of Little Faith and his unique (and hilarious) odyssey “stumbling toward the light.”
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