Are radical ideas that radical?

22 Mar, 2009 05:46 / Updated 15 years ago

For the past decade Texas Congressman Ron Paul has been a radical voice warning that the US economy is about to collapse. He's been marginalized and even ridiculed, though. Why are people afraid to hear radical ideas?

American journalist Lori Harfenist – known as The Resident – asks New Yorkers whether it is time to start listening to radical thinkers and why, if so…