My Disturbing Talk with RFK Jr.

In the course of our conversations, I mentioned to him that we had experienced trauma in our family—my younger son had been stricken with leukemia at age six, a few years before—and I suppose I thought that it might be a natural point of connection between us. I told him that we wanted to do everything we could to protect our older son—who at the time was almost the age Kennedy was when his father was assassinated—from the sadness that sometimes seemed to overwhelm him. I asked Kennedy for some wisdom about how to protect and love traumatized children so that the terrible circumstances of their lives don't define or control them.

In his reply, Kennedy did not give me wisdom about protecting and loving traumatized children. He said this:

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE Did Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Really Tell Me I Gave My Son Cancer? In the course of our conversations, I mentioned to him that we had experienced trauma in our family—my younger son had been stricken with leukemia at age six, a few years before—and I suppose I thought that it might be a natural point of connection between us. I told him that we wanted to do everything we could to protect our older son—who at the time was almost the age Kennedy was when his father was assassinated—from the sadness that sometimes seemed to overwhelm him. I asked Kennedy for some wisdom about how to protect and love traumatized children so that the terrible circumstances of their lives don't define or control them. In his reply, Kennedy did not give me wisdom about protecting and loving traumatized children. He said this: Read More 20 Great Last-Minute Valentine's Day Gifts From Amazon Hey, it's better than grocery store roses. Read More Ryan Coogler's Sinners Looks Like an Absolute Feast The incredible new trailer flashes vampires, guns, and Michael B. Jordan going full Parent Trap. Read More TAG Heuer Is Going All In on Chronographs for 2025 There is perhaps no watchmaker more synonymous with motorsport than TAG Heuer. From the early days of Jack Heuer selling stopwatches to racers at the track to the introduction of entire watch families named for the pursuit—Monaco, Carrera, and, yeah, Formula 1—the Swiss maker has been beloved by speed freaks the world over. It's only natural, then, that earlier this month TAG Heuer announced (after much speculation and rumormongering) its sponsorship of Formula 1 as part of a larger deal with LVMH and conglomerate stablemates like Louis Vuitton and Moët Hennessy. Read More Every Wardrobe Needs a Cashmere Sweater (or Two, or Three). These 10 Take the Cake. The cozy essential is the basis of your winter rotation. Read More Trump's Federal Grant Freeze Looks Like an Assault on the Authority of Congress The constitutional power of the purse is supposed to belong to the legislative branch. Read More Paradise Restored My Belief in TV with One Great Twist Paradise, a new Hulu series starring Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden, contains a twist in the premiere that reminds me exactly why I love TV. Here's why: I missed the incredibly satisfying feeling of watching a Big Idea unravel before my eyes—and knowing that I'm either watching a new series that I'll tell everyone about, or lament to everyone who'll listen about how said series fumbled its Big Idea. I can't say which way Paradise will swing, but I'm heavily intrigued. Read More Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2025 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779