Thanksgiving 2022

This year the list may be shorter than usual. But there are still important things to be thankful for:

Give thanks to Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky and the Ukrainian people, whose courage and perseverance in agony show the value—and the price—of truth, democracy and self-determination.

Give thanks for the narrow but real victories, here at home in our recent elections, of common sense, reason, democracy, and majority rule.

Give thanks for modern medicine and genomic science, which have fought the Covid-19 pandemic to something of a standstill and may yet overcome it.

Give thanks for the misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act”—our nation’s first substantial effort to fight accelerating global warming.

Give thanks for our growing national repudiation of misinformation, disinformation, and over-the-top advertising and self-promotion.

Give thanks for our recent electoral rejection of many—but not all—men and women of such low character that epithets fail.

Give sardonic thanks for recent public and spectacular failures of ego and hubris, in our politics, in Twitter, in Tesla, and in Silicon-Valley’s layoffs. These failures just might portend a return to real research and development and to patience, perseverance and wisdom in solving real problems.

Give thanks, as ever, for our national credo that “all . . . are created equal.” Despite our many flaws and failures, it still draws millions of good people to endure unspeakable hardship just getting here to live with us and, in so doing, enriching our nation.

Most of all, give thanks for a day of peace, tranquility and refuge with loved ones, and new respect for the simple and true.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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