Hope in the Dark

"We lose hope, Solnit suggests, because we lose perspective — we lose sight of the “accretion of incremental, imperceptible changes” which constitute progress and which render our era dramatically different from the past, a contrast obscured by the undramatic nature of gradual transformation punctuated by occasional tumult."

"Rebecca Solnit — whose book "Hope in the Dark" I've read three times since the last election."

""Hope in the Dark," by Rebecca Solnit, for a bit of well thought-out optimism last thing at night."