分类目录归档：america
Growing up, I didn't always understand
why my parents made me follow the rules that they did.
Like, why did I really have to mow the lawn?
Why was homework really that important?
Why couldn't I put j
Along the ancient path of the Monongahela River,
Braddock, Pennsylvania sits in the eastern region of Allegheny County,
approximately nine miles outside of Pittsburgh.
An industrial suburb,
Braddock i
Imagine a place where your neighbors greet your children by name;
a place with splendid vistas;
a place where you can drive just 20 minutes
and put your sailboat on the water.
It's a seductive place,
What I'd like to do is talk to you a little bit about fear
and the cost of fear
and the age of fear from which we are now emerging.
I would like you to feel comfortable with my doing that
by letting y
What does a working mother look like?
If you ask the Internet, this is what you'll be told.
Never mind that this is what you'll actually produce
if you attempt to work at a computer with a baby on you
What do you think when you look at me?
A woman of faith? An expert?
Maybe even a sister.
Or oppressed,
brainwashed,
a terrorist.
Or just an airport security line delay.
That one's actually true.
(Laug
I'm a journalist,
so I like to look for the untold stories,
the lives that quietly play out under the scream of headlines.
I've also been going about the business of putting down roots,
choosing a par
I remember the very first time I went to a nice restaurant,
a really nice restaurant.
It was for a law firm recruitment dinner,
and I remember beforehand the waitress walked around
and asked whether w
Chris Anderson: So, Jon, this feels scary.
Jonathan Haidt: Yeah.
CA: It feels like the world is in a place
that we haven't seen for a long time.
People don't just disagree in the way that we're famili
I want to talk to you about my kids.
Now, I know everyone thinks that their kid is the most fantastic,
the most beautiful kid that ever lived.
But mine really are.
(Laughter)
I have 696 kids,
and they