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Pete Dominick
Comedian; Host, "Stand Up! With Pete Dominick," SiriusXM
Pete Dominick is the host of “Stand Up with Pete Dominick” on SiriusXM’s Insight Channel, a conversation about public interest and personal growth that he created, developed, and launched in 2015. He is also a regular contributor to MSNBC. Dominick previously developed and hosted “What the Week” on CNN, where he was a daily contributor to “John King, USA” and “Unsolicited Advice” during the 2012 presidential campaign. He was the audience warm-up comedian at “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central. Dominick began his career as a stand-up comic, which he still does, as well as speaking about environmental issues and other progressive policy ideas.
Previously
![Deep Dive: Sounding the Alarm on Kids and Tech](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/1ecd1048-21e3-4e36-a468-0e3df82751bd/29218900908_323d8aa8e1_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C860%2C8256%2C4644&w=400)
After The Atlantic ran a cover story with the headline “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation of Kids?” a spate of stories and opinion pieces followed. The media was flooded...
![Taking Aim at Online Hate](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nulld46dd285-39a1-42b7-810b-1fae9bbc0c1d/34809293694_66eb6bfec6_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C6720%2C3782&w=400)
Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and other hatreds are thriving today, and nowhere are they more rampant, vitriolic, and dangerously unchecked than in cyberspace. Learn ho...
![It’s OK to Be Clueless: Embracing What You Don’t Know to Expand What You Do](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullf4864620-6861-40ef-aeeb-7be0e2a2a1b1/35246169250_68652fbdca_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
New York Times best-selling author Susan Orlean says ignorance about a subject is a powerful ignitor of curiosity. As someone who has written about bullfighters, orchid fanati...
![Aspen Ideas Festival Young Adult Forum](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null0f13a7ea-8877-45f4-a2ee-1e4bb3aa8098/35442412602_3b120ee65e_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C25%2C1599%2C899&w=400)
Join us for an interactive evening of presentations, small group discussions, performances, and opportunities to engage with other participants. Featuring Harold Green, Jonath...
![What Technology Makes Us Forget about Life](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nullb17ca9b6-b446-4afa-bb61-bc62dce49f3e/34749327674_7b98db0be0_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
Technology may teach the pleasures of controlled exchanges—admit it, texting is often so much easier than real-time talking. But here is what we know about life: We lose out a...
![A New Era for American Justice: The Bipartisan Reform Movement](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/nulle7a68bdc-357d-4911-9742-66ed85b46d71/27839514712_729c7ce33a_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C15%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
Bipartisanship is as rare a commodity in Washington as perhaps it has ever been. But as we look to transition from several decades of incarceration-focused criminal justice, D...