A year ago, after President Trump had been elected a second time, Lieberman was mulling an invitation to a pottery intensive across the Atlantic. “I figured the world is falling apart, so how could I go to Portugal?” she said. “Then again, it’ll still be falling apart when I come back, and I’ll be better able to deal with it.” She went, and discovered a new activity: a practice called pot-smashing, in which participants theatrically destroy their unsatisfactory wares. “It’s very cathartic,” she said.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter