Reflections on the challenging year that was.
As the calendar year wraps up, I would like to use this last essay of 2025 to reflect on the year we have just experienced. I would like to do this less to catalogue the year’s events and more to use this space, as I often try to do, to think in a systematic way about the world around us and what it means for how, and why, we do what we do. Events move quickly; the public debate often moves quicker still. Understanding what happens and why can be a challenge, one that calls for time and space to reflect, to think through the moment and its implications. The end of the year is such a time, and The Healthiest Goldfish aspires to be such a space, where we make an effort, together, to understand what is happening and the ideas that are driving the present moment.
So, what happened in 2025?
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