Cody

The children aren’t the future; they are now.

My five-year-old, for instance, is concerned

that five-year-olds in China will have learned

integral calculus while he learns the cow

goes moo. Father, he asked, how can we allow

declines in public spending when it earns

broad wage-multipliers as returns?

Is Xi reformist, or is he a Mao?

And can we win the war on terror with

a formal legal apparatus that

constrains our agencies and binds their hands?

Do coastal elites represent a fifth

column? Is the Bible a samizdat?

Will I have to share the boys room with a trans?