Photo: #New York Times columnist David Brooks speaks to a packed room at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo., on June, 29, 2011.
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New York Times columnist David Brooks speaks to a packed room at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo., on June, 29, 2011. (MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel)

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2011

The 2011 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in late June and early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2011

Aspen Ideas: David Brooks shares his 'modesty manifesto'

Broadcast: Midday, 06/30/2011, 12:00 p.m.

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St. Paul, Minn. — The Aspen Ideas Festival is underway in Aspen, Colorado. Each year, the Aspen Institute brings together some of the nation's brightest and most provocative thinkers and policy makers to discuss and debate key issues of the day.

Today we hear from one of the nation's top syndicated columnists, David Brooks, who spoke to an overflow crowd at Aspen about modesty and how a lack of it is making it much more difficult to solve our nation's problems.

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