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  "path": "/26/03/beginning-comes-after-the-end",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-04T19:27:03.000Z",
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    "The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change",
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    "Solnit’s recent Longreads Questionnaire",
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  "textContent": "A new book by Rebecca Solnit came out yesterday; it’s called The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change (Amazon). The synopsis:\n\n> Rebecca Solnit 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.\n>\n> In this sequel to her enduring bestseller 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.\n>\n> The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new 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.\n>\n> 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.\n\nI feel like maybe I should read this. I need some hope about the world.\n\nSee also Solnit’s recent Longreads Questionnaire.\n\n**Tags:** books · Rebecca Solnit · The Beginning Comes After the End",
  "title": "The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit",
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