Hello and welcome to a very special episode of the Reason Roundtable. This is the podcast of

Free Minds, Free Markets, and Free Takes, and we are coming at you live from the village

underground in the heart of New York City. I am your host, Peter

Souterman, and tonight I am joined by my illustrious colleagues, Matt Welch, Catherine Mangue Ward,

and Nick Gillespie. You guys want to say hello? Howdy? Hello? Hi. happy tuesday we're so thrilled to be here tonight

with all of you in new york city despite the whole you know socialism thing we're going to talk about

that later so like i've been saying on the podcast we came here to talk about the news and to

answer your questions and we're going to answer a lot of those questions

at the end of this podcast. But if we don't get to your question, don't worry. You can always ask

us in person at the after party over drinks. That's important. Right. It's at three sheets.

It's just upstairs and next door. And I'm also supposed to tell you,

before we get going here, that we have a very hard out at 7.30. A very hard out. You got to get

out when we're done. So when we are finished up here, pay your bill and come up to the bar. And if,

if it's 729 and I start talking about Star Wars, you all have permission to come up here and clock me, I promise it will not violate the non-aggression principle.

Woo!

Oh, sorry, did I get too excited about that?

Oh, I know.

Catherine excited.

On stage, it's clocking me.

That's right.

Okay, so we're here in New York City,

and we're going to talk about Zoran Mamdani. I come from D.C. I am just like a simple

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