On today’s show, we explore gun reform as a matter of public health. But how do we reckon with the long history of distrust of public health and the social, ideological, historical, racial, and political forces that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America? Our guest today is Jonathan Metzl, whose book What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms explores what happens to the soul of a nation as well as the meanings of safety and community when we normalize violence as an acceptable trade-off for freedom.
This week’s Resistance in Residence artist is L. Peter Callender, actor, writer, director, who for fifteen years was also the artistic director of the African American Shakespeare Company. Find out more about his work here.
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