Jue's Blog

Mar 8, 2009

Things that terrify and amuse: Whiz Kids

Jonathan Krohn Addresses CPAC

The New York Times has had a recent obsession with precocious kids. First David Fishman, the 8-year-old food critic, and now Jonathan Krohn, a home-schooled middle schooler aspiring to be the next great conservative pundit. His charisma is pretty obvious — as you can see in his speech at some Republican thing above — but I thought it took at least until college before you could start making bad career choices.

I hate to be contributing to our society’s unhealthy, vain fixation on child prodigies by linking to this stuff, but I too have an unhealthy, vain fixation on child prodigies. Although the kind I prefer lend their talents to more aesthetically pleasing pursuits.

Comments

  1. March 8, 2009 @ 6:49 pm
  2. Wang »

    Thanks for the link–I hadn’t seen it before. That is indeed more terrifying than even Jonathan Krohn.

    March 9, 2009 @ 1:33 am