It’s been a challenging year. The year of plague.
If you look back over greater stretches of history, you notice that other generations also suffered plagues: the Black Death, yellow fever, cholera, AIDS. If you survive, you inevitably feel gratitude and guilt. You mourn people who died for no reason. And you wonder, Why should I have survived?
At , we have wrestled with these questions while also community—readers, staffers, and contributors—to end hibernation and venture out into the larger world. It won’t take place suddenly.
