In what passes for tradition here at Wickersham’s Conscience, we spend the last week of each year thinking about the year that is ending, and making our wishes for the coming year. This blog post is firmly in that tradition: a look back at the kidney stone that was 2022 and a look forward to 2023.

As WC sifts through the count of the stitches from surgeries, the discarded face masks and other debris, detritus and disasters that were 2022, WC has tried to find five things that turned out well, or, in these troubled days, at least less disastrously than expected. Here are WC’s picks.

1. Joe Biden. He still isn’t perfect, but we didn’t need perfect. We just needed someone who cared more about America and Americans than about himself. Two years into his presidency Joe Biden on his worst day…