About Notes from Exile
Notes from Exile explores life as an ex-American. My decision to leave home was one of the most painful of my life, but nothing has ever felt so urgent or so necessary. I love America but I couldn’t live there anymore. Since I moved to Sweden with my family in 2019 and became a dual citizen, I’ve been exploring the many dimensions of that decision and how they are playing out, both here and there.
I talk a lot about how the U.S. looks from here, as it hovers on the edge of democratic collapse. I’m always weighing what it means to be American and what it means to be European. And I often discuss the feeling of being in betwixt and between, that mainstay of expat/immigrant life.
If you’re trying to figure out how to navigate through this dark time and come out safe, so am I. I wrote about why I started this newsletter in my first post.
A former journalist, I opened and led Dow Jones Newswires’ Budapest bureau and later served as an editor at the Wall Street Journal. After 9/11, I left the news business and worked in editorial enterprises within investment banking and later within consulting. I like idea-rich environments and have found one here on Substack. I hope you’ll join me. We have a lot to talk about.
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