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David Rothkopf
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In The Media
How Fear Drives American Politics
Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the U.S. political establishment happily retreats into fear and willful ignorance.
Published on Mar 16, 2015
Source: TED2015
Does it seem like Washington has no new ideas? Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the U.S. political establishment happily retreats into fear and willful ignorance. Journalist David Rothkopf lays out a few of the major issues that U.S. leadership is failing to address—from cybercrime to world-shaking new tech to the reality of modern total war—and calls for a new vision that sets fear aside.
About the Author
David Rothkopf
Former Visiting Scholar
David Rothkopf was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment as well as the former CEO and editor in chief of the FP Group.
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