--- --- # Americans Don’t Want Another Celebrity President by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 19, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 19, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Americans don’t want another celebrity president.**](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/01/18/forget-oprah-their-next-president-americans-dont-want-a-celebrity/) By William A. Galston at the _Brookings Institute_ **2\.** [**Why isn’t the world pursuing cyber arms control treaties?**](https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-are-there-no-cyber-arms-control-agreements) By Erica D. Borghard and Shawn W. Lonergan at the _Council on Foreign Relations_ **3\.** [**If Trump wants to be taken seriously on national security, he should care about human rights.**](https://www.lawfareblog.com/strengthen-trumps-national-security-approach-promote-human-rights) By John Bellinger and Richard Fontaine in _Lawfare_ **4\.** [**This fungus mixed with concrete can make bridges that heal themselves.**](https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/938/using-fungi-to-fix-bridges) By Rachael Flores at _Binghamton University_ **5\.** [**The world’s largest investor just implored CEOs to focus on the real value of business to our society. Will they listen?**](https://work.qz.com/1182544/larry-finks-letter-to-ceos-is-about-more-than-social-initiatives/) By Judy Samuelson in _Quartz at Work_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Americans Don’t Want Another Celebrity President ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5109634/americans-dont-want-another-celebrity-president/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5109634/americans-dont-want-another-celebrity-president/"},"headline":"Americans Don’t Want Another Celebrity President","datePublished":"2018-01-19T17:00:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:11.910Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5109634/americans-dont-want-another-celebrity-president/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Infrastructure","President","National Security","cyber security","Business"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5109634/americans-dont-want-another-celebrity-president/","name":"Americans Don’t Want Another Celebrity President"}}]}] ```