A season of small bright spots
We’re back at the nadir of the year (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), and looking for a few small bright spots. This year, especially, those can be hard to find. Relative lacks of urgency from certain Senators notwithstanding, this winter will be a very deep nadir indeed. People are out of work. People are hungry. They can’t pay their rent, and a national moratorium on evictions ends soon. Death tolls from Covid-19 have surged higher than a 9/11 every…