Tunnel at the end of the light. Tom Englehardt assembles examples of hope in a generally hopeless world.

Have you noticed that violent resistance (and, no, I am not myself in favor of this) to injustice is invariably denounced by the same people who dismiss nonviolent acts as hopeless, utopian, not for our world, not to be taken seriously. What's left, of course, is the norm, which in Iraq, in Israel, and here as well is increasingly a horror in itself. The sense that no serious person could believe any other path open to us, no matter that we can see the cliff ahead and feel our collective foot on the gas peddle, is crippling. It is the essence of hopelessness but passes itself off in our desperate world as the most basic "realism."