MPR News Presents

Joshua Foer, author of "Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything,” spoke at the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival about improving your memory. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning historians David Blight and Annette Gordon-Reed speak at the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival about myth, memory and historical reality.

Adam Gopnik explores the history of our political ideologies and convictions, and the importance of trust, compromise and conciliation.

Could a year of service — be it military, civilian, or public service — bring people together, bridge divides, and provide a common experience,  so we can work with and understand people who are different from ourselves?

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison speaks in 2006 at Macalester College in St. Paul.

U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., speaks at the National Press Club in Washington about the investigations into the Trump administration, drug pricing and more. 

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington has made climate change the central issue of his 2020 presidential campaign. He shared his ideas as part of the “Climate One” series. 

Discourse Disrupters series: former American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen and NYU law professor Thane Rosenbaum discuss the future and limits of free speech in America.

Lynn Nottage is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose new play, "Floyd's," has its world premiere this weekend at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. She came to town for it, and joined the Guthrie's artistic director Joseph Haj for a conversation about the importance of theater. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival about his new book, “Ballpark: Baseball in the American City.”