The Case for Hope in an Exhausted America
Hope and optimism are not the same
This piece originally appeared in the March 25, 2026 edition of Glamour Magazine.
On Christmas Day, 1916, nearly a thousand people filed into Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol to mourn a thirty-year-old woman named Inez Milholland. She had been a suffragist, a lawyer, and one of the most electrifying public speakers of her generation. A month e…