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)
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.
David Brooks on making modesty an American virtue again
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New York Times columnist and author David Brooks brings his 'modesty manifesto' to the Aspen Ideas Festival. He argues Americans need to embrace modesty as a virtue again so we can work together at solving some of the major problems are country is facing.
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