Dan Rodricks: 18 items on the agenda for 2024

In this final column on 2023, a look ahead to 17 things I’d like to know, see, do or hear in the coming year, plus one thing I will definitely not be doing: Things I’d like to see: Huge television production vans parked in Camden Yards for the World Series. Continued progress against gun violence in Baltimore. Significantly fewer lives were lost in 2023 after eight dreary years of 300-plus homicides each, and the trend is not merely organic.