I have started reading Susan Braudy’s “Family Circle: the Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left.” In the very first chapter, Izzy Stone appears, as the husband of Esther Roisman. Esther Roisman was Jean Boudin’s sister. And Jean Boudin was Kathy Boudin’s mother. Kathy Boudin was a member of the Weatherman, jailed for taking part in a murderous Brink’s robbery.

Should I be surprised that IF Stone was the son of a wealthy family? Or that the Boudins were wealthy? And boy, were they all totally interested in the plight of the poor.

Why didn’t this bunch just mind their own business?