Featured Video:

• Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about media, the economy, and the Internet heavyweight he runs:

http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=500&action=full_info

Quotes:

• “Without pornography, we wouldn’t have the Internet.” — The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan

• “People always ask me what an economist does in Washington, and the answer is: We kill bad ideas. And there is no more fertile ground for bad ideas than a presidential campaign.” — DHE Consulting LLC President and former McCain campaign advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin

• “For every program in the government, there is a group that will watch them and keep them honest. And that’s one of the great things about governance in the Internet age.” — Google CEO Eric Schmidt

• “We’ve got a problem now that has nothing to do with race or class or gender. It’s these tweeting, blogging, ‘I’m gonna do my own research’ jurors!” — Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and founding executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

 Today’s Highlights:
*all times are MDT

• 7:45 am – The Founding Fathers of Blogging Discuss the End of Media
  Jason Calacanis, Nick Denton, Jeff Jarvis (moderator)

• 9:00 am – In Conversation with Austan Goolsbee
  Austan Goolsbee, Maria Bartiromo (interviewer)

• 9:00 am – The Cradle to Prison Pipeline
  Marian Wright Edelman, Charles Ogletree (interviewer)

• 10:30 am – Avoiding the Next Crisis: Getting Financial Regulation Right
  Beth Brooke, Thomas Wilson, Peter J. Wallison, Roger Ferguson, Dean Baker, Robert K. Steel, Clive Crook (interviewer)

• 10:30 am – The State of Science Literacy
  Sean Carroll, Robert Socolow, William Haseltine, David Mindell, Paula Apsell, Jean-Lou Chameau, Walter Isaacson (moderator)

• 10:30 am – How Do Americans Rate the New Administration: A Comprehensive Poll on Politics, Policy, and Americans’ Attitudes on the Issues (exclusive poll for Aspen Ideas Festival)
  Douglas Schoen

• 12:00 pm – Race and Humor
  Larry Wilmore, Ta-Nehisi Coates (moderator)

• 12:00 pm – Markets and Morals
  Michael Sandel

• 1:15 pm – In Conversation with Susan Rice
  Susan Rice, James Bennet (interviewer)

• 1:15 pm – In Conversation with Chuck Close
  Chuck Close, Anna Deavere Smith (interviewer)

• 2:30 pm – The American Dream – Revisited
  Anne Mosle, Linda Wertheimer, Tom Wilson, Richard Wilhelm (moderator)

• 2:30 pm –The Plight of the American Automobile Industry
  Paul Ingrassia, Csaba Csere, Vijay Vaitheeswaran

• 5:00 pm – US Secretary Arne Duncan in Conversation
  Arne Duncan, Bob Schieffer (interviewer)

• 5:00 pm – Tweeting The Revolution: Will Social Networking and Journalism Drive Democracy
  Mark Whitaker, Andrew Sullivan, Jeffrey Goldberg (interviewer)

• 7:30 pm – Will Obamanomics Work?
  Steven Adler, Megan McArdle, David Wessel, Clive Crook (moderator)

• 8:30 pm – Ten9Eight: Film and Discussion
  Mary Mazzio, Amy Rosen, Rodney Walker, Steven Brill, and special taped introduction by US Secretary Arne Duncan

The Atlantic Ideas Special Report:

• Bob Cohn on the criminal justice system:
  http://ideas.theatlantic.com/2009/06/those_tweeting_jurors.php

• James Fallows breaks down the most original ideas that emerged from the Festival’s opening session:
  http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/ideas_festival_kickoff_opening.php
  http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/two_factlets_from_aspen_day_2.php

Aspen Online:

• The Atlantic Ideas Special Report: http://ideas.theatlantic.com/
• Aspen Ideas Festival Website: www.aifestival.org
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute | #aif09
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aspen-Institute/34493700340

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