Five Best Ideas of the Day: Selections from Aspen Ideas Festival — July 6, 2020
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1 min readJul 6, 2020
- “I think it’s important for us to be grappling with what actually keeps communities safe in this moment. And when it comes to Black communities in particular, is safety only achieved through punishment?”
by Alicia Garza, speaking with Michael Eric Dyson and Eugene Scott at the Aspen Ideas Festival - “To me, I am happiest…when I have the first draft done. Because then, all the angst is gone…Now the trick is to make it a really good book.”
by Erik Larson, interviewed by John McWhorter at the Aspen Ideas Festival - “When you can see your life within this cosmological timeline, to me, it gives you a radically different perspective…”
by Brian Greene, interviewed by Dan Porterfield at the Aspen Ideas Festival - “I don’t have the luxury of giving up, because the slaves that birthed me, they didn’t have the chance to give up.”
by Stacey Abrams, interviewed by Brittany Packnett Cunningham, at the Aspen Ideas Festival - Anthony Fauci on candidates for a COVID-19 vaccine: “I’m cautiously optimistic.”
by Anthony Fauci, interviewed by Elizabeth Cohen, at the Aspen Ideas Festival
