Privilege and Vulnerability for the Sons of the Elite

The sons of the elite also struggle.Filmmaker Peter Jones turned his camera on his former classmates from the Harvard School for Boys, a former military academy for boys in Los Angeles, for his new PSB documentary “Fortunate Sons,” chronicling the lives of the 1974 graduating class through their 50th reunion. In this California Sun podcast, Jones tells me that what started as pandemic Zoom calls became surprisingly honest conversations about addiction, suicide, and the pressure of living up to successful fathers. Jones discovered that wealth can’t shield against every hardship, and that the men now in their 60s were finally ready to drop the macho act and talk about what really happened.This post is FREE for everyone. Please spread it far and wide. And please consider becoming a paid subscriber to TalkCocktail. It’s $8 a month or just $80 for the entire year. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe