Commentary
Another new year prompts us to look up from the daily grind to the yearly one and ask what it’s all about, what beyond surviving the moment we hope to accomplish worth carving onto something more permanent than a Twitter feed. And while everyone who saw COVID and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine coming can foretell 2023’s surprises, the rest of us must either wait until things happen to explain why they were predictable, or else discuss what should happen and how to make it slightly more likely.
