Big Ideas Big Problems Analysis

In “Big Ideas, Big Problems” written by Stefan Halper, Halper discusses the two issues, Big Ideas and constant media, that negatively affect U.S policies and its public. Advertised sloganeering along with America’s susceptibility to overly cumbersome political movements is the root of the problems that push citizens to feel patriotic in a negative and irrational way. Halper goes on to discuss the issues that continuously arise from each major world crisis by stating “each has suffered [from] … ill-conceived policy responses.” This lack of understating of foreign policies leads to citizens blowing things out of proportion and making simple ideas Big Ideas that are perceived as threats in comparison to American policies. During the Cold War,