Our Biggest Stories of 2022 (and What We Predict for 2023)

Plus: The editors look back on what pieces of cultural media impacted them the most this year.

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Our Biggest Stories of 2022 (and What We Predict for 2023)

In this special end-of-year episode of The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie have some final thoughts on the biggest stories from 2022 and make some predictions about what might unfold in 2023. Have a Happy New Year!

1:32: The biggest stories of the year

40:44: Predictions for 2023

55:29: The most impactful cultural recommendations of the year

Mentioned in this podcast:

Click here for all of the roundtable's media recommendations from the past year and beyond.

"Sifting Through the Twitter Files: Live With Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller," by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller

"Biden's Loan Forgiveness Plan Ultimately Means Higher Costs for Higher Ed," by Peter Suderman

"New Research Highlights the Limits of Abortion Bans," by Jacob Sullum

"The U.S. Is Entangled in Ukraine for the Long Haul," by Bonnie Kristian

Send your questions to [e-mail]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

Audio production by Ian Keyser

Assistant production by Hunt Beaty

Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve

Comments

[Dillinger]

>>The U.S. Is Entangled in Ukraine for the Long Haul

Ruling Class Running Long-Con In Ukraine.

[damikesc]

And given how livid the GOP base is at slugs like McConnell demanding we keep spending and then working with Democrats to insure we spend way too much RIGHT NOW --- people should see why MAGA et al are a thing.

Because Republicans are unadultered shit.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/joseyaugustus/status/1607743996671021063?t=ftp9HKwXgq7ss6OOxCrSxQ&s=19

The essence of Leftism is simply a seething hatred of Western Civilization and those who built it. That hate-fueled drive to destroy is the real impetus behind mass immigration. Once you understand this, everything suddenly makes sense. There is, in fact, a method to the madness.

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[TheReEncogitationer]

Well, Putin certainly has a hatred of Western Civilization and is driving mass immigration of Russians trying to get the Hell out of Russia to avoid tyranny at home and war in Ukraine. Yep. Makes sense. 🙂

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1607782699074297856?t=QjFMoqYruPCtUNx28tys-A&s=19

July 8: “Buttigieg pledges to diversify aviation workforce”

July 11: Buttigieg says pilots must retire at 65

Sept 13: “The Airline Pilot Shortage is Worse Than You Think”

If you institute racial quotas for future pilots while forcing your current pilots to retire...surprise! You'll get a pilot shortage

[Link]

[Dillinger]

love is love dude. qed

[Social Justice is neither]

But when you hate humanity and ate trying to tie them to the earth like the good old smdays of serfdom, is that really a problem?

[damikesc]

If you're lucky.

You could just end up with far more aircraft crashes and deaths.

[CE]

At least Biden is sinking the political futures of Harris and Buttigieg, by putting them in charge of stuff they continue to make worse.

[Nardz]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-employed-reverse-spying-attempt-shut-down-investigation-russia-collusion-hoax-devin

[Gaear Grimsrud]

So it turns out Nunes was right all along and Schiff is a lying sack of shit. I'm guessing that's one of Reason's biggest stories of 2022. I'm not actually going to listen to the podcast but I'm going to make that assumption. Unless there's a big food truck story I missed.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Screw you, Marc Elias!

https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rejects-sanctions-against-kari-lake

The ruling, issued Tuesday, is a blow to Arizona Governor-elect Katie Hobbs (D) and Maricopa County, who sought as much as $700,000 in penalties to cover the attorneys’ fees and costs from Lake and her attorneys.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

The big story was the pandemic of bears in trunks.

[R Mac]

I killed so many grandmas with my trunk bear.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

You should switch to the Trunk Monkey

[JesseAz]

Podcast would be better if reviewed how wrong you've been the last few years and then how you'll try to be better.

[Social Justice is neither]

That requires introspection and a capacity to admit one's own faults, which runs counter to every leftist instinct these folks engage in.

[Weigel's Cock Ring]

^ This. Like all D..C. lefties who live in the Iron Triangle of politics, media, and the bureaucracy, they would just about rather keel over and die than ever admit they made a mistake or got something wrong. It's the sad, but totally inevitable and predictable place you end up when you've dedicated your life to pushing an agenda even to the exclusion of your own integrity and credibility.

And there isn't chance in hell they're going to get better, if anything they're going to continue getting worse and worse.

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[CE]

I predict the deficit and national debt will continue to grow, the economy will descend deeper into recession, and Biden will continue to be surrounded by incompetence in his Administration.

[Liberty Lover]

Predictions for 2023
1. Reason will continue to pretend to be libertarian.
2. Reason will become more liberal.
3. Reason will become more woke.
4. Reason will continue to blame Trump for Biden’s follies.
5. Reason’s readers will continue to revolt and expose Reason in the comment section.
6. Reason will continue to lose readers.
7. Spam will finally be the only thing to read in the comment section.
8. I will quit my job, and make $500 dollars a day working part time from home thanks to Reason's inability to block spam bots and the likes of JulieMurray, GloriaMarsh and DawnPierce (just kidding on that ).

[Dillinger]

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