The media buzz surrounding Sam Bankman-Fried has faded following his conviction on seven fraud-related charges, but the fallout is ongoing—including for his parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried. This is reflected in one of the top-read stories in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, titled "Why Are We So Obsessed With Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents?"
The piece—cheekily illustrated with a grown-up Sam flinging food from a baby's high chair—raises the intriguing question, especially for those of us with kids, of whether any parent can ever view the behavior of their own child objectively. The author suggests it's impossible even if the parents in question are brilliant legal scholars like Bankman and Fried.
