Aspen Ideas Festival

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Fact:
 Seventy-three percent of Americans say moral values in the country as a whole are getting worse, up from 69% last year.
—Gallup, May, 2012

Audio/Video: Society

What Is "Values-Based Leadership"?
Since 1950, the Aspen Institute has offered seminars committed to the idea of values-based leadership. This session... See more
Our Moral Imagination
In our current market society, where everything and everyone is potentially a commodity, we need to develop our moral... See more
How Economics Helps Us Understand and Improve Modern Family...
Economic forces shaping family life have undone many of the benefits of traditional marriage. In the wake of this... See more
More Than a Privilege: Should Sports Be a Right?
At $147 billion per year, the medical costs of obesity are staggering. Introducing more children to active, healthy... See more
Confucianism: If Not A Religion, What Is It?
After nearly a century of bashing Confucianism, the Chinese Communist Party has, of late, recognized the need to... See more
The Ethics of War
From Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus to FDR’s roundup of Japanese-Americans to Bush II’s secret prisons to Obama’... See more

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Fact: Society
More than three-quarters of young adults ages 25 to 34 who have moved back home with their families during the Great Recession and the troubled economic years that followed say they're satisfied with their living arrangements and upbeat about their future finances.
—Pew Research, March 2011