Aspen Ideas to Go
Hosted by Fareed Zakaria and John Dickerson · The Aspen Institute
4.2from 243 ratings
- 614
- Episodes
- 74
- Transcribed
- 243
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 56M
- YouTube views
About Aspen Ideas to Go
Aspen Ideas to Go is a show about bold ideas that will open your mind. Featuring compelling conversations with the world’s top thinkers and doers from a diverse range of disciplines, Aspen Ideas to Go gives you front-row access to the Aspen Ideas Festival.
- Publisher
- The Aspen Institute
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Feb 2015
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
74 of 614 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rules of Engagement: The State of Civil-Military Relations
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
News You Can Trust, Maybe
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
We the Curious: Teaching Democracy in a Divided Age
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Rules of Engagement: The State of Civil-Military Relations
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Voters police that. If the civilians are wrong, then voters should vote them out. But the argument you identified is actually a very common American dysfunction that we have, which is we often say this problem is too big for us. Let's ask the military to fix it for us. So there they're saying this problem of The war powers between Congress and the executive branch is too big for the civilians to solve. Let's expect the military to police it and solve this for us. And that's not their job. Absolutely. If you are relying on the military to save the republic, the republic is already lost. It is not their job. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Charles Q Brown Jr
- Kori Schake
- Peter Feaver
- Laurie Richardson
- Nabiha Syed
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 55,804,141
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 232 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 11 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 93 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 97
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Who hosts Aspen Ideas to Go?
Fareed Zakaria and John Dickerson host the show. Published by The Aspen Institute.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Aspen Ideas to Go take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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