From tyrants and totalitarians to tender Ted Lasso types: Fatherhood is changing, for the better

This Father’s Day, I’m thinking about Martin Amis, the famous son of a famous dad. “Ted Lasso,” a show about fathers, sometimes has the kind of cornball writing that would make Martin Amis bow his head in sorrow. “And nobody ever gets over anything,” Amis wrote. Still, “Ted Lasso” is celebrating the kind of intergenerational parent learning that makes us better as a species. Another great writer, and one, like Amis, who wrote greatly about fathers, died this past week as I wrote this piece.