In The Long Year, some of the world's most incisive thinkers excavate 2020's buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future. Here, we see some of our greatest thinkers and writers make sense of a year unlike any other-a plague year, a year of liberation talk, a year of failed states, and resilient communities. This book's scope is global, its authors diverse in their expertise and perspective, and very accomplished in their fields.