THE BEGINNING COMES AFTER THE END

The Beginning Comes After the End offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.

In this sequel to Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility. It is an inevitability.

The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one. One whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value.

But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized.

While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 25 books, including Men Explain Things to Me. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the boards of Oil Change International and Third Act.

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