Results for “The Aspen Institute”

…illemann Dick is an American-born soprano and a recipient of two double lung transplants. Charity has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia in venues as diverse as the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Severanc...

Inference: International Review of Science Feedback & Comments George Scialabba Contributing editor of the online art and literary magazine The Baffler. “T look forward to reading it, as usual.” James Sharpe Professor of Early Modern History. “Again, my thanks for having bee...

70 increasingly flood public events put on by US think tanks in Washington, using the events as press conferences and to pose leading questions. While Western reporters are not immune to this type of behavior, the Chinese media undertake such distortions in a far more systematic...

42 state, stating in a letter addressed to their state’s universities that these organizations “are a threat to our nation’s security by serving as a platform for China’s intelligence collection and political agenda.” They added that, “We have a responsibility to uphold our Amer...

something much more significant than speculating at the time: He was laying the foundations for the digital revolution. As a graduate student at MIT, he worked for Vannevar Bush on the Differential Analyzer. This was one of the last great analog computers, a room full of gears an...

concept of “Pareto-topia”: the idea that AI, if done right, can bring about a future in which everyone ’s lives are hugely improved, a future where there are no losers. A key realization here is that what chiefly prevents humanity from achieving its full potential might be our in...

… Fact in 52 Years . 'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years By STEPHEN MOORE Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel abo...

…o arrange a meeting. “That’s no problem,” he said, raising his cell phone (which never left his hand.) He hit a number the speed dial, and spoke rapidly in Russian (which I do not understand.) He cupped his hand over the phone and asked how long I would be in Moscow. After I to...

Western Europe, it’s going to come to the United Kingdom. And so I think we are in a crisis of the underpinnings of capitalism, and on top of that we’re now, I believe, at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism. “With all the baggage that those [right-wing...

slammed Hagel for his past comments and positions on Iran. In conjunction with Israel-friendly members of Congress, they’ve warned Obama to rein Hagel in so as not to send a dovish signal to Tehran. Robert Satloff, executive direction of the Washington Institute for Near East Pol...