I don’t think it would be any kind of exaggeration to say the world was finally and fully changed in 2024, as themes we’ve written about in these wires from that fateful summer 2020, when it felt America was ending, and could perhaps never recover from a fall so shocking, came to full fruition. The censors lost, and not only control of the narrative, or even control of the state, but control of the culture. The other week, I saw a cover story on the newsstand describing the various “leaders” in Hollywood and wondered, “who are these people?” We’re no longer living in our parents’ America. Today, we are the culture. Or, we are many distinct cultures. This is a blessing and a curse.

In this fragmented information ecosystem we all live inside, a thousand upstarts flourish, with as many ghoulish new voices of malevolence as there have been voices for good — and no shortage of cheap imitations. The future is chaos, and a battle for the truth. As ever, I remain grateful for your readership, and your trust, as we all navigate this new reality together, and we fight for what is right.