As part of the Forum/Aspen 2020 Summer Lecture Series we are joined by Austan Goolsbee, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth School and the former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama. Austan speaks with Kirk Carapezza from WGBH about the economic issues facing this country due to COVID and the rising unemployment issues. 

As part of the Forum/Aspen 2020 Summer Lecture Series Admiral James Stavridis has a talk with his friend and former colleague General Joe Dunford about the situation this country finds itself in with regards to COVID, some national and international security issues, and what they believe will happen in Afghanistan where both of them served. 

WHY DUNFORD? WHY NOW?

As the nation’s former highest-ranking military officer and principal military adviser to the president, secretary of defense and National Security Council, he’s intimately familiar with the greatest geopolitical military threats the U.S. is currently facing and how the coronavirus pandemic might alter the global balance of power.

WHY STAVRIDIS? WHY NOW?
He can identify the most pressing national security issues amid the coronavirus crisis and provide perspective on how to resolve them.

As part of the Forum/Aspen 2020 Summer Interview Series the amazing Tony Jack joins Kirk Carapezza from WGBH to discuss how the intersection of the pandemic, massive unemployment, and the murder and George Floyd and protests against police violence may affect campus life and culture .

Anthony Abraham Jack Ph.D. is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He holds the Shutzer Assistant Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

He is the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

"Racism, or rather race and exclusion, was written into our laws and practices and our social policy. - Tony Jack

As part of the Forum/Aspen 2020 Summer Interview Series the amazing Donald Berwick, Former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services joins Hari Sreenivan from PBS to discuss issues this country is facing with regard to healthcare.

WHY HIM, WHY NOW?
As the former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator under President Obama, Don offers a vision for healthcare reform based on firsthand experience. In this podcast he talks about what changes will take place in the U.S. healthcare system in response to the coronavirus crisis.