New Year’s Day is the traditional first opportunity for clearing away the accumulated encumbrances and resolutely facing the future. Along with the inability to rid our minds of such clichés comes the inevitable insistence that we mark the year past according to its place in human “progress.” This is especially so for those living in the nation’s capital, the locus and occasion for so much that is supposed to be progress.
We consider it progress when individual creativity is emancipated; when people come together voluntarily for mutual advantage in commerce; when citizens can control their own property undeterred by petty tyrants; when those in public life who feel anointed to control our private lives are kept at bay.
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