This is a slight change from our usual posts, and I hope you will bear with me as I muddle my way through. I have been thinking a lot this week about the link between hope and horror. I am not going to lie and claim that it was an intentional and organized framework for an article — like many of us in the United States I have mostly been trying to keep my head above water and make sense of where we are right now. In fact, I had forgotten about this website entirely until I was already in bed last night. But here we are.

And I am very glad that you are here.