Lessons in the Diplomatic Arts - The American Scholar

Lessons in the Diplomatic Arts - The American Scholar

Among my most telling experiences of South Africa, when I first visited in 2023, was encountering a group of uniformed schoolchildren passing through security at the Johannesburg airport. They were all singing, beautifully and happily. It is a singing country whose music wears many faces. In the omnipresence of adversity, the music is both infectious and humbling. A month ago, Kenneth Kiesler’s terrific University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra …