My Upcoming Conversation With Isabel Cowles Murphy About Children and Privilege

Tuesday June 17th at 2 pm EDT

I’ll be talking with friend and fellow writer

Isabel Cowles Murphy

who writes personal essays that I’m always eager to read at her Substack

The Noble Try

.

Here is the link/invite to our Substack Live Tuesday June 17th at 2PM EDT.

After my conversation last week with Natasha Joukovsky¹ about why the fertility rate has fallen, it will be especially interesting to talk to Isabel who has four young children and lives in an affluent NYC suburb whose natural beauty she often features in her writing.

Isabel set out our topic as follows:

“David and I will discuss the challenge of raising children in atmospheres of advantage, which, David suggests, has gotten harder in the last twenty-five years. What interests me most, though, is why we’re squeamish about privilege in the first place. Is it because privilege = power and we don’t really want to give that up? And can we talk about our privileges without becoming performative or disingenuous?”

Repeating the link/calendar invite for convenience.

1. The conversation between

a. natasha joukovsky

and me can be found here.