While I can’t say I expect 2026 to be a better year than was 2025, I feel better prepared to weather the slings and arrows. Things may improve, or they may not. It is clear that the upcoming year will be interesting.

As Antonio Gramsci wrote, “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” This is always the case, everywhere, all the time, simply because our ideas of “new” look a lot like the old with a new coat of paint.

Anyway, I hope you all have a wonderful New Year, and that 2026 is more gentle and nurturing than was 2025.