How did we get a world of such disconnect, fracture and fear? Writer Anand Giridharadas tackles this question by reading a letter to his fellow citizens in which he confesses to his and others' part in ignoring people's pain until it turned to anger. There is another way, he says: "Dare to commit to the dream of each other."

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