Every year is impossible to synthesize. Yet 2017 was not just another year. To help us wrangle the chaotic, extraordinary events of the last 12 months into some sort of shape, we posed a question to journalists from across The Atlantic's staff, and to our listeners: What were the ideas of 2017?

In this episode, Jeff and Matt discuss the many different responses to that question we collected, and share their own ideas of the year. Share yours: 202-266-7600. And here's to the year ahead.

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Links

–The End of History and the Last Man (Francis Fukuyama, 1992)

–“It's Still Not the End of History” (Timothy Stanley and Alexander Lee, September 1, 2014)

–“This Article Won’t Change Your Mind” (Julie Beck, March 13, 2017)

–“The Challenge of Fighting Mistrust in Science” (Julie Beck, June 24, 2017)

–“Professor Smith Goes to Washington” (Ed Yong, January 25, 2017)

–“The Climate Scientist Who Became a Politician” (Ed Yong, February 2, 2017)

–“Do Scientists Lose Credibility When They Become Political?” (Ed Yong, February 28, 2017)

–“The Movement of #MeToo” (Sophie Gilbert, October 16, 2017)

–“How America Lost Faith in Expertise” (Tom Nichols, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2017 Issue)

–“A Political Opening for Universal Health Care?” (Vann R. Newkirk II, February 14, 2017)

–“The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights” (Vann R. Newkirk II, June 27, 2017)

–“The Republican Lawmaker Who Secretly Created Reddit’s Women-Hating ‘Red Pill’” (Bonnie Bacarisse, The Daily Beast, April 25, 2017

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