Glenn: You had rather a rough childhood both before and after immigrating. Can you tell us a little about it? Does that have something to do with your concern for how today’s kids are treated?

Karol: It’s funny because while it was rough, in so many ways, I always felt like being a child was an important time and that childhood was something the people around me were trying to protect for me. What I saw during the pandemic was a reverse of that. Children were put last, again and again, especially in New York City where we were living. I knew I could save my own kids but because I had grown up poor, in a bad neighborhood, I knew there were so many people who couldn’t just easily form a pod for their kid or get them a tutor or move to their beach house to have space and sanity. I couldn’t forget about those people and I could not forget about their children.

[I have known Karol and Bethany for years, mainly through the ever-strange medium of the Internet, and find their perspectives always compelling and usually spot-on accurate. Be sure to read all of this interview, and look for their book “Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation“. — Ed]