Jamelle Bouie on Instagram: "tl;dw: You should take human agency seriously, you should take contingency seriously, and you should embrace the "pessimism of the intellect and the optimism of the will." (That's a Gramsci line.) And a quick correction: William Lloyd Garrison’s “The Liberator” was founded in 1831. I was off by a few years. Some housekeeping. The books I recommended are as follows: “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition” by Manisha Sinha “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Ci