It’s very hard to imagine a president getting up and talking about how damaging the fear of terrorism has been to us, culturally and politically, and how much it’s horribly undermined us. Looking at torture and all the other things that have been done in the name of counterterrorism, it’s really quite disturbing what we’ve done in the name of our own fear.
Essayist Eula Biss, author of On Immunity, talks with Salon about fear, the anti-vaccination movement, and white privilege.
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