David Roberts || Sparks From Culture
David Roberts, a. natasha joukovsky, Allison TaitWeekly personal essays on wealth, status, and family from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency.
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Scenes From My Marriage
I finished re-watching the HBO series Scenes From A Marriage about the devastation of a ten-year-old marriage. It led me to ask my wife Debbie what our marriage was like after ten years time, circa the mid 1990s. I needed Debbie’s help to r...
Tell Me What Trumpism Stands For
The philosopher Diogenes searching for a wise, or honest, man.
My original essay on this topic in March 2025 began with the personal confession below in italics:
My older son Andrew is my Devil’s Advocate. He challenges me to keep an open...
Live with David Roberts: the NYC Private School Bubble with the two moms of Mic'd and Medicated
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We All Get Caught
My son-in-law Mike Breskin suggested Catch Me If You Can as a good visual for this post.
In the summer of 1984, I was 22, working in NYC and living at my parents’ apartment. At a bar one evening, I met a 27-year-old woman named Debby (not...
A Quintessentially Jewish Thing To Do
Many years ago, my eleven-year-old son announced he was upset because he had been born into Judaism without anyone asking either his opinion or his permission. He said he was going to opt out of Judaism when he grew up and what did I think...
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Writer of the Substack Sparks From Culture; zealous fan of my family, my Shih Tzu, all things Substack, NYC (lifelong resident); forty year career in finance, now a writer.
author of the novels THE PORTRAIT OF A MIRROR and MEDIUM RARE
Dennis I. Belcher Professor of Law * Author of The House That Family Money Built * Loves cats and pastries * Hates gender norms and wealth inequality
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