3. Facing up Hope's Work

'I think a hopeful culture would be wary of believing the future needs our fixes, our blueprints for a better life. It would sooner trust the open query, which foregoes the need to be right and instead reveals what matters. Hope welcomes the thoughtfully mistaken word over the brashly correct one, because only the first can be counted on in the long run.'

This is the first of two articles on hope and a politics of thoughtfulness.