Hunt Howell

Boston, Massachusetts

I worry constantly about our future, but I am optimistic about our history.
I do not mean to indicate that there are wells of goodness and civility and beauty back there in time waiting to be discovered and celebrated—that if we look hard enough and long enough, we’ll find some paradise that we might some day [...]

Neil Perkin

London, England

I am optimistic (but a little scared) about being able to run a marathon in April.
I am optimistic that the power of the web to organise without organisation is fundamentally a good thing
I am optimistic that the coming generation of media and advertising graduates will take less notice of the way things have always been [...]

Taylor Stevens

Burlington, Vermont

Sometimes it feels like there isn’t much to be optimistic about what with everything that’s awful that’s going on in the world. But once in a while you can find a real connection, when you feel one with another person, one with the whole world. And the sunsets are all purple and red and there’s [...]