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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 by
TED2015
 on March 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.

This talk was originally delivered at TED2015.

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