Welcome to the reasoned roundtable, your weekly jolt of libertarianism brought to you by the magazine of Free Minds, Free Markets.

I am Matt Welch, joined by Nick Gillespie, Peter, Sutterman, and Catherine Mangdew Ward.

Happy almost end of the year, comrades.

Happy New Year.

Hey, Matt.

Happy New Year.

So every year at this festive time, while everyone else is doing their various year-end lists,

we like to engage in a little counter programming here, SB fits an alternative lifestyle,

as recent tends to be,

in the form of talking about some undercover stories

from the waning year.

We are, as libertarians, perhaps,

attuned to some different frequencies

than the average bear and detect importance in places where others yawn or don't see anything at all.

So while other people talk about the insane and momentous 2024 presidential campaign, which is always worthy of discussion, most of the time, we're going to, on this episode, get into the margins and bring back

items of importance.

So we're going to cover three broad areas, basically America, the world and private industry

slash commerce slash science, whatever.

Everybody here has done their homework.

No one has shared their answers.

So we're going to be just as surprised as the results as you are in Listenerville.

So let's start, Catherine, with a category of U.S. politics and government for $300.

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