Session Abstract
Donald Trump is not so much the cause of the current threat to democracy and our governing institutions, as he is the culmination. In this talk, I'll give a first-person account of how we arrived where we are, and suggest what must be done.
Speaker Bio
Robert Reich, Berkeley professor emeritus, is the author of 19 books about the American political economy including ten national best-sellers. He has served under three presidents; Time Magazine named him one of the 10 best cabinet secretaries of the 20th century. He is co-creator of two prize-winning documentaries and co-founder of Inequality Media, whose videos have been viewed over 600 million times (as of 2023).