October 5, 2023

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Aspen Ideas Festival Welcomes Tina Brown 

We are delighted to announce the 20th annual Aspen Ideas Festival will be guest-curated by award-winning journalist, editor, and author Tina Brown. As the Festival’s first external curator, Brown will lend us her expertise in identifying the critical challenges impacting our world today and the compelling speakers who are addressing them.

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VIDEO

Redemption Song

Public discourse around America’s history and national identity is fraught at best. “The debate over who we are has been present from the beginning, and that debate has often been bloody and difficult,” says Imani Perry, professor of African American Studies at Princeton. “Who we are is actually constituted in that tension.” Perry joins Vanderbilt political science professor Jon Meacham for a conversation about memory, ideology, and redemption. Together, these two renowned historians discuss a way to reckon with our nation’s complicated history and chart a path forward.

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INTERVIEW

Our Expanding Universe

“We have no reason to think the universe has any sort of edge, and apparently there’s no limit to how far we can go in imagination,” says John Mather, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist and senior project scientist for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which is sensitive enough to measure the heat of a bumblebee at the distance of the moon. We caught up with Mather about the exciting capability of the Webb telescope, the mysteries of consciousness, and life across the universe. 

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