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Hey everyone on Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Lots to get to on this

Monday morning as tensions ramp up at home and abroad. President Biden is reportedly going

to make a decision this week about whether to send thousands of US troops to Eastern Europe

and the Baltics and here at home, the uptick in crime is now led to the death of a young,

newly married, New York City cop. This police officer was married in October 22 years

old, had everything going for him. His partner meantime clinging to life right now after

being shot in the head. Joining me now to discuss it is Nicolessby. Nic is the editor at

large for the libertarian reason magazine. Nic recently had this to say about the state

of our nation quote, what we're facing in America is not a pandemic or economic malaise

or resurgence of inequality, racism, xenophobia, homophobia or lack of options, food shelter,

you name it. What we are facing is a crisis of meaning. Nic, great to have you here.

How are you? Thanks for having me. Despite not having real transcendental meaning in my

life, I'm doing very well. So thank you for having me. So what does that mean a crisis of

meaning? You know where that came from? I write a lot at at Reason Magazine. I write a lot

about politics and culture. And I think we're in a particular stage now where politics is toxic

but end all consuming. And those things are not, you know, they're linked when politics becomes

everything, they become toxic. And I think we are looking for politics to give big meaning

to our lives in a way that politics can never provide. But we keep doing that rather than

looking for meaning outside of politics and our interactions with people, building businesses,

building communities, helping people and things like that. And so I think we're, you know,

we're in a particularly bad moment right now because politics is everything. And that makes us

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