Student loans. Ukraine. The queen. These are the arguments that made us rage and roll our eyes.
 | | Talia Cotton |
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 | By Max Strasser Sunday Opinion Editor |
In 2022, we debated. At family dinners and on Zoom calls, on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, on talk radio and cable news and, of course, in the Opinion pages of The New York Times. What's the best way to solve inflation? What does the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial represent? Is A.I. art real art? |
As my colleagues in Times Opinion and I reflect on the year, we naturally focus on the debates that defined it. That includes all of the topics above and quite a few more. (Remember when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars?) In this year's edition of Times Opinion's annual Year in Debates list, we aren't just summarizing the debates. We are also asking you to share your perspective: Over the course of having conversations and reading tweets and watching talk shows, did you change your mind? Did you come around or double down? Because, really, that's the point of a debate, isn't it? |
And while The Slap definitely generated countless takes, it wasn't the Big Debate of the year. That was, ultimately, about the end of the world. As Katherine Miller, my colleague in Times Opinion, writes in the essay that accompanies this project: "In 2022, you could find the swings in discourse between apocalypse and dismissal, panic and caution" everywhere in America, covering nearly every topic imaginable: Some thought our democracy was on the verge of collapse, our economy was on the verge of collapse, the foundations of our fundamental legal rights were on the verge of collapse. And other people said … Not really. |
"There are deep versions of this debate, and reductive ones you catch a glimpse of in Instagram comments or in an op-ed that just gets it all wrong. This can even be a debate you have with yourself," Katherine writes. |
We hope that this project will give you plenty to reflect on as we head into 2023 — not just about what happened in the past year, or if and when you changed your mind, but also about how to have more productive conversations in the new year. |
Programming note: This newsletter will be off from Saturday, Dec. 24, and return on Tuesday, Jan. 3. |
Here's what we're focusing on today: |
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