It’s not been a great decade in terms of events. My candidates for subtitles for this post: “The Troublesome Teens,” “A Decade of Decline,” “The Empire’s Fall.” None of these are subtle in direction. I originally conceived of this as a “Decade of Ideas” post. I had planned to flesh out what seemed to be the biggest ideas from 2010 to 2019. That proved too tall a task at this point. While I’m not unobservant, I lack the necessary perspective to make many bold declarations about which ideas mattered most from the past decade. Even so, the work that went Read more