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Peter Kurti

Why hope still matters in a divided world

Despite the bitter social conflicts we are experiencing at home and abroad, Easter and Passover are still times for reconciliation and celebrating light over darkness.

Hope is easily dismissed as illusory when the grounds for holding fast to it appear to be crumbling.

For example, when faced with the trade tariff turmoil unleashed by the Trump administration, pundits have been quick to pronounce the end of hope – and American friendship – the beginning of tyranny and the death of prosperity.

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Peter Kurti is Director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program at the Centre for Independent Studies.

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