Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts How Afraid Should Americans Be Right Now?

How Afraid Should Americans Be Right Now?

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Should we Americans be afraid nowadays, more afraid than 10 or 30 years ago? The short answer is yes, but a short answer to a complex question isn’t worth much.

Fear is a basic human emotion that helps preserve us from danger; without it, and the fight-or-flight physiological complex that goes with it, humans would not have gotten very far as a species.

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