I recently had a letter to the editor published in the Washington Post. I submitted it for consideration as an Op Ed. You can read the version that I submitted here: In the spring of 1986, students at Northwestern University were out protesting apartheid. I was out there, protesting and wearing a red armband, as… [Read More]
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Iran: Aria
The US broke off diplomatic relations with Iran in 1980, and one result is that Americans don’t know as much about the country as they could. We know it’s there, of course, and that it’s involved in geopolitical manoevers, but we don’t have friends who travel there and report back, or neighbors who emigrated from… [Read More]
ESG Investments and the Growth of GP Accountability to Their LPs
ESG reporting is evolving, driven primarily by investors in Europe. Haide Liu, head of investor relations for Ascendent Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in China, talked to Serena Tan, deputy chair of the Global Private Funds Group at Morrison & Foerster LLP about how LP demands are driving GP reporting on ESG. They… [Read More]
France: Texaco
This book isn’t set in France’s national borders but rather in the French colony of Martinique. One of the burning geopolitical questions of the last 500 years is the relationship of current and former colonies to the nation that colonized them. Colonies will never be what they were before the takeover, but what will they… [Read More]
India: A River Sutra
A River Sutra was published in 1993. The novel is a series of tales told to the main character, a retirement government official who operates a guesthouse along the Narmada River. This position allows him to meet monks, musicians, and merchants who have storied to tell about their lives and about what brought them to… [Read More]
