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Apple store at World Trade Center, NYC

I’m in New York this week due to a family emergency. But it feels…different. People on streets and buses are talking about their fears for the future.

The driver of my Uber car from the airport told me how he had come from Sri Lanka and worked three jobs to send money back to support his mother and his family. He used to hope, he said, to bring them all to the US. But now he was glad they had never come here. He wanted his children to go to college in Australia or Europe, or some place where they would be safe.

I had to take my computer in for a repair, so I headed for the Apple store in the new mall at the World Trade Center. The mall was architecturally stunning, but astonishingly empty of people. Instead the halls were patrolled by…