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The World’s Most Impossible Job
‘I hope that children today see the beacon of hope that the UN represents.’
This most solemn appointment calls for a very specific kind of person.
I read a tremendous book that I received as an advanced reading copy and was invited to offer my review of. The work is called Resolved: Uniting Nations In A Divided World. It was authored by the former United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon. If you would like to watch my official response to the book, follow the link:
In this article, I want to briefly share some parts of his life that I found extremely interesting, and, in the process, hopefully persuade you of how very important the United Nations is — yes, with all its corruptions, bureaucracy, failures and enormous expense.
That will be the main goal of this entire series of articles I’m framing around the book. It’s to demonstrate why some federative body, a parliament of man, is absolutely paramount if we are to rise to the challenges we face, not…