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He recommended Hope in the Dark as a muchneeded balm for political cynicism, urging people to embrace its hopeful perspective for collective action.
The third book is by Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark, untold histories, wild possibilities... it is a muchneeded balm for political cynicism and despair.
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He recommended Hope in the Dark as a muchneeded balm for political cynicism, urging people to embrace its hopeful perspective for collective action.
The third book is by Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark, untold histories, wild possibilities... it is a muchneeded balm for political cynicism and despair.
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Ezra Klein said it was a profound meditation on hope that he carried everywhere, even giving it to his son during climatechange anxiety. He described it as essential and not airyfairy.
I would start with a book that I carry around everywhere with me, which is Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark, which is actually a book that when one of my sons was getting very, very panicky, as teenage boys tend to do about climate change, she had me give to him and talk about with him. And it's really a book that is like a very, I think, profound meditation on hope and why it matters and how we achieve it. And that it's not airyfairy. It's just a thing we have to grasp for.
