Test your 2023 forecasts!

Did you think I'd forget?

Hey everyone, remember this? I didn’t, either! I was looking for old posts to populate our end-of-the-year roundup and I stumbled upon our predictions for 2023. They’re below. Check them out. You did amazingly well. (You did less well on the free-form replies, but you aced the quiz.)

It seems that readers of the Cosmopolitan Globalist can predict the future, which suggests that subscribing to the Cosmopolitan Globalist allows you to beat the stock market, meaning it would easily pay for itself. I’d encourage you to subscribe right away, but later today I’ll be running a sale, so I can’t do that in good conscience.

If you’d like to subscribe at the full price to express your support, of course, that would be a wonderful thing to do. I’d be very grateful and very encouraged by that. You could also give someone a gift subscription, explaining that the recipient now belongs to an exclusive group of highly refined and educated readers who can predict the future—and we can prove it.

Tomorrow, I’ll send out the quiz for our 2024 forecast. For now, enjoy your answer’s to last year’s quiz—and don’t miss the bonus interview with my father at the end.

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Happy new year to Cosmopolitan Globalists the world around!

We’ve planned many amusements for you to celebrate the arrival of 2023. We trust you haven’t made other plans for the evening? Well, cancel them. This will be more fun.

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The 2023 Cosmopolitan Globalist Forecast

It occurred to me that with all the time readers of the Cosmopolitan Globalist spend reading and thinking about the news of the world, we should be at least a little better than average at geopolitical forecasting.

Let’s put that proposition to the test. Here’s a dedicated thread. What do you think will happen in 2023? How sure are you? Write it down. I’ll hide the thread and we won’t look at it again until New Year’s Eve of 2024, when we’ll open it again to see how we did and try our hand at 2024. Voilà—a Cosmopolitan Globalist annual tradition is born.

Let’s formalize this a bit, too. Try your hand at this quiz. Some of the questions may seem to you to have more than one correct answer, but Substack won’t let me construct a poll where you can choose more than one. If you can’t choose, just pick the one about which you’re most certain and clarify your thoughts in the predictions thread.

Tomorrow: The best of the Cosmopolitan Globalist, 2022.

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New Year’s Eve with my Pop

This is for everyone who’s asked me for more of my father. Here he is, holding forth—on the state of science, miracles and Sei Shōnagon, the relationship between recursive function theory and a lover leaving the room late in the morning, science and secularism, the Universal Civilization and ideological systems, the flames that consumed Notre Dame, the cathedral of science—and what does David Berlinski really believe?

You’ll like the interviewer, too.

Enjoy!