“Can’t wait for football season to end,” said Jackson, my oldest. Seemed odd, so I waited, quiet. “Literally can’t wait for lacrosse season.” He’s fourteen, Greenwich High. Now, my freshman year was an utter disaster. I’d moved from NYC to the suburbs, having only ever played dodgeball. So I cycled through every conceivable sport, in search of one I sucked at less than all others. Which resulted in an even tie: footb
Hope all goes well… “They can do anything these days,” said Charlie, seven. “Can they take your eyeballs out and replace them with robot eyes that see a million times better?” asked Teddy, eleven, hopeful. “They can turn a boy into a girl,” said Olivia, thirteen. “But they haven’t figured out how to turn a girl into a boy yet,” countered Teddy. “I have two transgender kids in my class, they’re brother and sister,” sa
“African countries have gone through three distinct phases,” explained the public servant. “The first was romantic socialism.” Africa shed its colonial rulers between 1956-1964; Kenya, Ghana, Namibia, Malawi, almost every country. “Independence leaders were generally honest. They felt the land and minerals were resources that should be shared, and believed a strong state was necessary to ensure this.” These countries
Overall: “Tell me, what is happening to America?” he asked, in Johannesburg, our presidential debate broadcast into the highest towers and lowest townships. “Can it be possible that Trump becomes your president?” he asked, perplexed, concerned. For South Africans, US leadership is not reality television, it’s reality. Globalization is America’s greatest export, weaving us all together, and for those on the economic e
Hope all goes well… “You’re an American so you’ve read Atlas Shrugged,” said the investor. We sat looking out across Johannesburg, fragrant, hazy. “When you read that book you can’t imagine such things could really occur,” he continued. “You think they’re exaggerated stories, told to make a point. But when I pick up the papers and read today’s stories, they’re taken straight from Atlas Shrugged.” Mo