--- title: Why Beefing Up Airport Security Won't Make Us Safer description: Why more airport security won't make us safer, our poisonous politics and more. canonical: https://time.com/4271991/airport-security-wont-make-us-safer/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-25T16:01:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:12.568Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Beefing Up Airport Security Won't Make Us Safer og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4271991/airport-security-wont-make-us-safer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Beefing Up Airport Security Won't Make Us Safer twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Beefing Up Airport Security Won't Make Us Safer by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 25, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 25, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Beefing up airport security won’t make us safer.**](http://qz.com/646022/after-brussels-simply-adding-extra-airport-security-wont-keep-travelers-safe/) By Sheldon H. Jacobson in Quartz **2\.** [**Will the next president be too damaged to lead?**](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/03/25/will%5Fthe%5Fnext%5Fpresident%5Fbe%5Ftoo%5Fdamaged%5Fto%5Fgovern%5F130088.html) By Ron Faucheux in RealClearPolitics **3\.** [**Here’s how to make surgery safer anywhere in the world.**](http://news.rice.edu/2016/03/23/sterile-box-offers-safer-surgeries-2/) By Mike Williams at Rice University **4\.** [**Free trade won’t magically fix Cuba.**](http://theweek.com/articles/613958/why-american-trade-no-panacea-cubas-economy) By Jeff Spross in the Week **5\.** [**Imagine managing diabetes with a simple skin patch.**](http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i13/Graphene-patch-help-patients-manage.html) By Michael Torrice in Chemical and Engineering News  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4271991/airport-security-wont-make-us-safer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4271991/airport-security-wont-make-us-safer/"},"headline":"Why Beefing Up Airport Security Won't Make Us Safer","datePublished":"2016-03-25T16:01:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:12.568Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4271991/airport-security-wont-make-us-safer/","keywords":["Innovation","Cuba topic","President","TSA","diabetes","Surgery","trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4271991/airport-security-wont-make-us-safer/","name":"Why Beefing Up Airport Security Won't Make Us Safer"}}]}] ```