In conversation with US Studies Centre head, Professor Geoffrey Garrett, Mark Danner told a standing-room only audience that President Obama’s performance leaves a lot to be desired. Danner said that even under Obama, US politics continues to be handicapped by the politics of fear, nearly a decade after the September 11 terrorist attack.

This was a Sydney Ideas event co-presented with the US Studies Centre and the University of Sydney Union.

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