To all subscribers at Bastiat’s Window, you have made my past four months an absolute pleasure. To you who have not yet subscribed, here’s hoping you’ll do so and join our conversations in 2023. When I’m not writing on economics, science, and culture, I’m a musician. Here’s a recording I made this month of Robert Burns’s “Auld Lang Syne”—long the English-speaking world’s farewell to the old year and welcome to the new one. I perform it as a waltz, with instrumentation such as one might expect at a cèilidh. The painting by my wife, Alanna, shows a montage of buildings in the oldest part of our hometown, Alexandria, Virginia, which was founded by Scottish merchants a few years before Burns wrote “Auld Lang Syne.” Though my wife and I have not a drop of Scottish blood between us, we wish all of you the sincerest Haud Hogmanay.
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Happy New Year to you and your family! As someone with 6 great-grandparents born in Scotland, I enjoyed your rendition of “Auld Lang Syne”, and I love your wife’s painting.