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Aspen Ideas Festival

Front Row

Four years ago, Walter Isaacson had a great idea that resulted in many other great ideas. His concept was the Aspen Ideas Festival where writers, world leaders, artists, business people, educators, and thinkers would gather in Aspen for intimate and lively conversations across an array of topics. Through programs, tutorials, seminars and discussions, festival attendees and speakers get to indulge in a sort of university for adults.

Name the topic, and it's covered--politics, education, international affairs, energy, science, arts and culture, and more. The Aspen Ideas Festival brings some of the world's most pressing and complex issues to the table, and speakers and attendees can participate in thought-provoking dialogue about each topic.

For information on this year's sold out Ideas Fest please visit The Aspen Institute.

Dr. Justin Frank

Plum caught up with Dr. Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President,  which is a comprehensive study and psychoanalysis of President George W. Bush.
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Aspen Environmental Forum at the Aspen Institute

Learn about what current environmental trends could undermine our civilization.  Guest speaker Lester Brown, from our series on the  Aspen Environmental Forum.
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Aspen Environment Forum at the Aspen Institute

How has the world has taken notice to environmental changes on a global scale?  E.O. Wilson fills us in, from our series on the Aspen Environmental Forum.
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Building up to Super Tuesday: New Hampshire Primary

The 2008 Presidential election is shaping up to be one of the most exciting political campaigns in recent memory. Plum captures the drama of the nation's first primary in New Hampshire by catching up with John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, and Mark Penn.
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Building up to Super Tuesday: Huckabee in New Hampshire

This year's political phenomenon (and winner of last night's Iowa Caucus), Mike Huckabee has risen to the top of polls for the Republican nomination for President. Plum's Dan Honan caught up with the candidate at a recent campaign event in New Hampshire.
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Books & Politics

Eric Lodal of Town Center Booksellers stopped by MNN to talk about today’s best selling Political books, just in time for Super Tuesday.
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Lionel Barber

Plum host Graham Veysey rode up the Silver Queen Gondola with Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, to review the big stories of 2007 as well as predict the major world issues for 2008.
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Bill Frist

Plum sat down with former Senator Bill Frist to talk about health-care reform, global health initiatives, and stem-cell research while he was in town for The Aspen Institute's inaugural Health Forum.
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Tommy Thompson

Plum's Sari Tuschman sat down with former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson after he spoke at The Aspen Institute's Health Forum in September.
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