Playwright Ayad Akhtar: "I am not hopeful about where we are as a nation " as a species (if I can be so presumptuous). I'm not hopeful, because I am increasingly of the mind that even my hope is being monetized. That which is most enduring, most noble, most human about me " my urge […]
SOURCE: The New York Times at 10:00AM on December 31, 2017