The New Yorker — Aug 12, 2024
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The Inheritor
- ominous title, for an character full of foreboding
- how can RFK top any researcher's Hero list? how can people classify this man as such?
- "I intend to spoil it for both of them"
- "My will power is iron, outside of my drug use"
- medical freedom
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy#Wife_and_children](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy#Wife_and_children)
- "Kennedy had been named an Assistant Manhattan District Attorney, a job he'd held for a year, despite failing the bar twice."
- the very definition of failing up? how does that happen? the world just can't help itself, I don't think.
- "He wanted to muscle in and claim the credit."
- "A month later, Kennedy had Richardon's body exhumed and moved to a separate part of the cemetery, because, he said, it offerend more space."
the acerbic wit and tone of this. I can hear Clare on the ye oldest incarnation of the 528 podcast with Harry and Nate. She ruled that show.
- "I need to go sailing"
- pd 500k salary by Children's Defense Fund in 2021
- this piece ... absolutely crackling with wit, sharper as a TACK on steroids. What an example of showing and not telling.