The World As I See It

This week marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and it's not something I was excited to sit down and talk about, but it's something I needed to. I was 23, at my cubicle in New Jersey, when the woman across from me looked up with fear on her face and said a plane had just hit the Twin Towers. I still remember sitting at a red light, facing north, watching smoke rise from a skyline I'd known my whole life. It's a small story next to what the first responders and the families went

Moving abroad can shift your perspective in unexpected ways. One of the biggest lessons I learned after relocating from the U.S. to the U.K. revolves around the difference between doing and being.

Let me be clear from the start: I’m not here to trash formal education. Degrees matter. Credentials matter. The structure, the discipline, the exposure to ideas you never would have sought on your own — all of that is genuinely valuable. But there’s a version of “educated” that looks great on paper and falls apart the moment life gets complicated. And there’s a version of “knowledgeable” that has no letters after its name and yet navigates the world with remarkable clarity. T

After our livestream on Tuesday, I realized I’m still very much wrapping my head around this whole “living under a monarchy” situation. And then King Charles casually shows up in the US this week and suddenly this is my entire personality. I’m Googling lineage charts. I’m saying things like “soft power” out loud. I’m becoming… that American. So let’s talk about the five things that shocked me most about the British monarchy this week — sprinkled with a few moments where I, a

Since living in the UK, I’ve found myself re-examining parts of my upbringing that I never questioned before, especially my education. Not because it was “bad,” but because so many of the assumptions baked into it simply don’t survive contact with the wider world.

An American living in the UK reflects on trust, power, and the moment belief finally breaks

Revolutions are not single events with clear beginnings and endings. They are long processes built over time. History shows how pressure, not moments, drives revolutionary change.