Rebecca Solnit, activist and author, with Bina Venkataraman

In The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change—the sequel to Solnit's enduring bestseller, Hope in the Dark—the climate and human rights activist surveys the breadth and scale of the social, political, scientific, and cultural change that has happened since 1960. In conversation with Bina Venkataraman, an executive leader, journalist, science and innovation policy strategist, and the author of The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age. This program was held on March 25, 2026 in partnership with Politics and Prose. Watch on YouTube.