Welcome to the Understory, Where the Future Quietly Takes Root — Anne Snyder

In this opening episode, Comment editor-in-chief Anne Snyder delivers the remarks she offered on the first night of the Understory festival—a three-day gathering hosted by Comment at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Drawing on history's overlooked seedbeds of moral imagination, Anne reflects on what stirs beneath the surface of our exhausted public life: a scattered, largely invisible constellation of people committed to building across difference, recovering what has been lost, and reimagining what might yet be born. Something is dying, and something is being born—and they may just be the same story. Welcome to the Understory.