Pico Iyer and Elizabeth Gilbert The Future of Hope 3
Pico Iyer is an esteemed journalist and essayist, and an explorer of inner life \u2014 for himself and in 21st-century society. For this episode in our Future of Hope series, he draws out writer Elizabeth Gilbert and \u201cher sense of hope based not on a confidence in happy endings, but the conviction that something makes sense \u2014 even if not a sense that we can grasp.\u201d Pico\u2019s questions and Liz\u2019s answers are all the more poignant given that both of them have recently suffered deep losses. These two friends delve into what it means to retreat into smallness, and grapple with a complex understanding of hope, as the world continues to overwhelm.