So this is the New Year and I don't feel any different. Yes folks we are

officially kicking off 2024 with some classic classic death cab for cutie

lyrics hello and happy new year. Classic, Classic Death Cab for Cutie Lyrics.

Hello and Happy New Year, welcome to the very first 2024 edition

of The Reason Roundtable.

I am Peter Suderman filling in for Matt Welch.

It was busy eating frogs.

Today I'm joined by round table regular Catherine Mangu Ward as well as special guests Elizabeth

Nolan Brown and Zach Weishmuller. Everyone say hello.

Howdy New Year.

Hi, happy New Year.

Hi, happy New Year. Hi, happy Tuesday.

So I've already said happy new year, but it does seem like some people are not in fact feeling very happy about the passage of time.

For example, here are just a couple of the headlines that ran on our very own reason dot com recently the year of bad

vibes by Liz wolf in which Liz wrote about how in 2023 statists had their way

with us all making many things a little less fun and free in the process.

And then there was Matt Welch, who before exiting stage left gave us this hopeful uplifting headline.

Prediction, 2024, will see deadly political violence in the streets.

Credit to Matt Welch, he does not bury the lead.

Welch's post was largely about the current highly charged political environment in the particular

way that election years make

people extra special crazy. His post included the following burst of

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