LETTER: May this optimism be justified

Let’s hope that business can indeed save our cities and towns

Your magazine’s headlines are excellent and its writers deserve praise. The cover of the February 20-February 26 2025 edition shows a quote from Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man, “Hope Springs Eternal”, asking whether business can save our cities and towns. A later part of the Pope quote was omitted but loomed large: “Man never is, but always to be blest.” May the article’s optimism, if cautious, on this topic be justified this time.

Stewart Truswell

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