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Where are America’s leaders who are willing to confront real problems?

By Melanie Sturm
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Where are America’s leaders who are willing to confront real problems?

“Too often … we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought,” President John Kennedy famously asserted before Yale’s class of 1962.

Denouncing political debates that “bear little or no relation to the actual problems the United States faces,” Kennedy urged policymakers to think again before engaging in “false dialogues” that “distract our attention and divide our efforts.”

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