We shouldn’t go back to how we were before’ is a great leap to some environmental, economic or political nirvana previously out of reach 2020 Hindsight: We asked several regular contributors to write about 2020. Not to review our annus horribilis — most of us hope to forget it as quickly as possible — but to tell us what particularly struck them about it, whether in policy, politics, arts, culture, or life as they and we all lived it.