The Beginning Comes After the End
Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
In The Beginning Comes After the End (2026), writer Rebecca Solnit surveys the social, political, scientific and cultural changes since 1960, in a sequel to her book Hope in the Dark. Solnit traces the advances of civil rights, feminism, environmentalism and Indigenous movements, and a growing understanding of the world as interconnected. She presents the rise of authoritarian and white nationalist backlash as resistance from a dying order, and argues that the scale of change gives reason for hope.