HeyJaredExpatriarch
How an American Africa expert deals with moving to Geneva and becoming a stay-at-home dad. Featuring lots of parenting, lots of travel, and a little bit of whining.
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What Do We Owe Our Children? (opens the original)
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What exactly do we owe our children? It’s a tougher question than one might think. We clearly owe them all of our love unconditionally. I don’t have much to say from anyone who thinks otherwise. Well, “What the hell is wrong with you?” but not much else. But almost immediately thereafter, the question gets much tougher to answer. Even self-evident answers like “safety and security” come with qualifications. Surely, we shouldn’t value safety and security so highly that we lurk constantly and oppr
The Difference Between your 40s and 50s (opens the original)
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Now a month into my 50s, I’ve identified the main difference between being in your 50s and being in your 40s. In my 40s, any prolonged illness, however minor, I assumed was evidence of some fundamental weakness in my genetic code or immune system that would lead to my untimely death, leaving my life and potential in jagged shards strewn carelessly in the dust. Now, I no longer think that.Rather, in my 50s, every illness or injury instead serves as a reminder of the inescapability of time, and th
Would Trump Like a “Separate But Equal Earth” Map? (opens the original)
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The United Nations General Assembly voted last week to adopt a new map that better reflects Africa’s true size by a vote of 164-1. The Togolese resolution embraced the so-called “Equal Earth” map that accurately depicts Africa’s size relative to other land masses. It replaces the Mercator map, which, though it sounds like an acronym, is actually named for Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish cartographer who designed it in 1569 and went on, more than 400 years later, to record the hit single Rico Suav
Why is There a Russian Jet in My Backyard? (opens the original)
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Every few days as I drive about town running the endless errands of a stay-at-home dad, I pass Geneva’s international airport, which is practically in my backyard, and see the soothing red, white, and blue that symbolizes a country that was once at the heart of the global order, but no more.I’m speaking, of course, about the Russian Aeroflot Airbus 321 that has been grounded in Geneva since February 27, 2022. Because you only see it from certain angles around the airport, I used to think that it
In Scarred and Scared American Capital, Shades of 1814 (opens the original)
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Having completed my two weeks in what was once the capital of the free world, is still my place of domicile for voting and tax purposes, and will remain the seat of the United States government, I thought some of you might like to hear the impressions of a professional political analyst and former part-time diplomat on the state of play in Washington, D.C. While this was by no means a work trip, I did talk with a number of people connected to the government, as one inevitably does in the Distric
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