Media Appearances

Discussion of the anger in America, vigilantism, and the proliferation of guns.

We're entering the final days of the 2024 presidential election, but a lot can change in a few weeks. Historically, several presidential contests have been upended in October. Coined the "October Surprise," for decades candidates have been tested at the finish line... and many have faltered. So what could trip up Harris or Trump?

Ray Suarez hosts a panel featuring political strategist and pollster Rachel Bitecofer, Jonathan M. Metzl, author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland, and Tara Setmayer, co-founder and CEO of the Seneca Project.

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Jonathan Metzl joins us to break down Kamala Harris’ gun policy and why Tim Walz might be the X-factor needed to make it happen

Jonathan M. Metzl, who has been researching gun violence for two decades, said that while he appreciates the advisory on firearm violence, framing it as a purely public health issue does not address deeper forces at play involving race and democracy.

An Armed, Internally Divided Nation Is Not One That Makes Peace Easily

Author and professor Dr. Jonathan Metzl joins democracyish to discuss the recent college protests, the rise in violence and gun culture in America. Folks, it's a super size episode where Wajahat and Danielle ask "who is benefiting from the chaos?"

”Gun politics are deeply seated in identity.”

"We feel farther away from any kind of resolution" Dr. Jonathan Metzl joins Jonathan Capehart to talk about the constant struggle with gun violence in our country. He also reflects on the 25th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting and the 6th anniversary of the Waffle House shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.

Vanderbilt University’s Dr. Jonathan Metzl argued that safety should not be a trade-off for the freedom to carry guns. Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted this event.

Every single day we are seeing unbearable atrocities across the world and we have a front row seat to them through our phones and the media. When you add this to the cultural tensions and division being driven in our society, how does our psyche adapt?

Today Niall is joined by Jonathan M.Metzl, a psychiatrist and sociologist who has done immense work in researching and writing about gun violence and race in America. Jonathan’s unique lens casts a wider view of how the modern world is polluted with power and vested interests, and why that can leave us feeling hopeless as humans. Jonathan explains the historical and modern place of gun politics in the U.S. and how being exposed to constant tragedy desensitises us and dehumanises victims. Niall and Jonathan ask the big question that is also the title of Jonathan’s latest book, ‘What We’ve Become’ and share their own fears and hopes for the future of humanity.

Violence on the New York City subway, real and imagined, was invoked by pro-gun Supreme Court justices in their Bruen ruling. Now the decision's effects may be playing out.

"Liberals are losing that battle," Dr. Jonathan Metzl tells Salon

Tavis talks to sociologist Jonathan Metzl about his new book, “What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.”

Analyzing mass shootings as a symptom of a flawed approach to national public health, @JonathanMetzl asks in his book "What We've Become": "How can we reinvest in the public sphere?" #SaturdayShow

Homing in on a mass shooting at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018, Metzl, a psychiatrist and sociologist, argues that America’s gun violence epidemic requires us to address racial and political tensions deeply embedded in our history

A longtime advocate of a public health approach to stemming gun violence says it has had disastrous unintended consequences.

He used to view Israel as a model for the safe use of firearms. Now an American gun policy expert warns that Israel is making the same mistakes as the United States

“What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms” makes a case to examine gun violence beyond the framework of public health.

Gun violence and race explored in Jonathan Metzl's 'What We've Become'

Democrats can cut into what often appears to be monolithic GOP support on guns, but doing so requires better ways of engaging conservative gun owners.

"...the author paints a portrait of gun violence which is as multi-dimensional as this issue happens to be, which is the reason that we have such difficulty coming to terms with how to respond to gun violence in proper and effective ways."

Already this year, there have been more than 3,000 firearm deaths in the U.S., according to the Gun Violence Archive. Dr. Jonathan Metzl, director of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University and author of the new book, “What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms,” joins William Brangham to discuss how America tackles gun violence.

Jonathan Metzl wants to reframe the gun debate

"A powerful, convincing effort to reframe the discussion around gun control and its discontents."

The clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia has been applied disproportionately to Black men, an artifact of a changing culture.
By Ramenda Cyrus

Unable to rely on lawmakers to regulate guns, some Tennesseans have decided to risk gun ownership

Jonathan Metzl returns to Woke AF Daily to discuss the unfortunate, unconscionable, and unending slew of mass shootings in America - as documented in his upcoming book What We've Become.

According to recent data from @GunDeaths, over 200 lives have been lost and more than 550 injured in mass shootings this year.

So what steps can be taken to end gun violence in America? @ngoziekeledo talks to @JonathanMetzl to find out.

We spoke with the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University, Jonathan Metzl, about the shooting, Tennessee’s gun laws, and if there may be any movement for legislation preventing access to firearms.

“Upwards of 70 percent of gunowners now say they own guns to protect themselves from other people. Guns have gone from being a tool of sportsmen to something that really people feel like they have to be on guard about,” @JonathanMetzl on US gun culture.

Hosts Jessica White and Raffaello Pantucci are joined by Jonathan Metzl and Michael Jones to discuss how the public health model – an epidemiological approach attempting to prevent or reduce a particular illness or social problem in a population by identifying risk indicators – has been applied in preventing and countering violent extremism.

Listen now to this rich conversation about MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” with #BookedUp book club guests Bridgette Baldwin, @gtconway3d, @icylett and @JonathanMetzl

The cycle of violence not only continues, but continues to get worse.

-@JonathanMetzl on #ClubQ mass shooting #ColoradoSprings

Many White people in America’s heartland have been convinced that health care reform takes their resources to benefit people of color, says sociologist Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD.

"What you see is a lot more of everyday interactions turning into shootings, and really great risings in gun-related injuries and deaths." @JonathanMetzl on why Republican NY gubernatorial nominee Lee Zeldin's gun policies could make for a less safe New York #SundayShow

It has become increasingly common to attribute mental illness as a key reason young men turn into active shooters. Relying on decades of experience, psychologist Dr. John Duffy and Vanderbilt University psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl question that idea while hashing out why a generation of young men, who were "handed the keys to the kingdom," have turned lethargic and hopeless.

By Jonathan M. Metzl

Cases like one on the Supreme Court docket this term often lead to more injuries and deaths.