The latest Sunday edition of my newsletter is out. 

In it, I reflected on the Iran war and my memories of listening to the radio with my dad on the morning the U.S. invasion of Iraq began in 2003.

"Twenty-two years after that morning with my dad, I’m a father. I know why he was scared. To look at your innocent child and recognize you’re incapable of preventing the world they’re inheriting from slipping into greater violence — even as you live in relative safety — is a peculiar feeling of impotence. Like a jellyfish floating in history’s crashing waves, hoping those you love do not end up beached on hot, desiccating sand, helpless to swim in any direction, thanking luck and fearing chance."

This issue also features lots of nuclear industry news, some Chinese clean-energy breakthroughs, more details about Iran and why there are two Congos.

The latest Sunday edition of my newsletter is out. 

In it, I reflected on the Iran war and my memories of listening to the radio with my dad on the morning the U.S. invasion of Iraq began in 2003.

"Twenty-two years after that morning with my dad, I’m a father. I know why he was scared. To look at your innocent child and recognize you’re incapable of preventing the world they’re inheriting from slipping into greater violence — even as you live in relative safety — is a peculiar feeling of impotence. Like a jellyfish floating in history’s crashing waves, hoping those you love do not end up beached on hot, desiccating sand, helpless to swim in any direction, thanking luck and fearing chance."

This issue also features lots of nuclear industry news, some Chinese clean-energy breakthroughs, more details about Iran and why there are two Congos. 

https://paragraph.com/@kaufman/war-in-iran-synthetic-bacterias-real-terror-tale-of-two-congos-and-the-piraha-enigma