Sep 9, 2019
6 min read
The Audacity of Hopelessness
Jonathan Franzen and the fraught politics of resignation
“When the world is running down,
You make the best of what’s still around.”
— The Police
We live in interesting times. That’s not proverbial. Climate change, far right extremism, neighboring countries on the verge of nuclear confrontation. For the collector of causes, there’s an embarrassment…
