“If people like me don’t reproduce, civilization may be the worse for it. On both my mother and my father’s side, I come from generations of academics, historians, diplomats—thinkers and doers—and as the years go by, I begin to see that far from being an exception or a maverick, I am in fact the very obvious carrier of a certain genetic inheritance. I am a typical product of my family; I can see the thread stretching back through the generations. Do I think it’s a shame that this genetic inheritance won’t continue? Yes, I do. I’m arrogant enough to actually think that the world will be a
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