Michael Robbins, Associate Professor of English, wrote the cover story for the Harper’s Magazine December Issue about the end of the world, or what he calls today’s “apocalyptic structure of feeling.” 这篇题为《现代启示录》（Apocalypse Nowish）的文章结合了个人历史、马克思主义和环境理论、对流行文化的思考以及对《启示录》（Book of Revelation）的阅读。

An excerpt of Robbins’ essay is below. Visit Harper’s Magazine to read the full essay.

“And yet. Perhaps it is my early grounding in eschatology and the counterculture that allows me to see—not hope, not at all, but opportunity. Is it not when things are darkest, when all hope is lost, that one fights with abandon, shamelessly shoots for utopia? For then there is nothing left to lose. And I have heard that another word for nothing left to lose is freedom.”