![]() Rebecca Traister, ‘The Necessity of Hope’, The CutĪfter the Lights Go Outby John Vercher design by Alex Merto (Soho Press / June 2022) ![]() It means doing the thing that people have always done on the arduous path to greater justice: Find the way to hope, not as feel-good anesthetic but as tactical necessity.“ As Dahlia Lithwick wondered just a few weeks ago, after the massacre in Uvalde, another clear and awful day: ‘What does it mean, the opposing imperative of honoring the feeling of being shattered, while gathering up whatever is left to work harder?’ As the Court’s dissent insists, correctly, ‘Closing our eyes to the suffering today’s decision will impose will not make that suffering disappear.‘Īnd so, with all this laid out, ugly and incontrovertible, the task for those who are stunned by the baldness of the horror, paralyzed by the bleakness of the view, is to figure out how to move forward anyway.īecause while it is incumbent on us to digest the scope and breadth of the badness, it is equally our responsibility not to despair. ![]() ![]() And it is not the bottom, as many people may feel it is. ![]()
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