Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing”
In a conversation with David Remnick, Malcolm Gladwell discusses his new book The American Way of Killing, a deep examination of America’s gun violence crisis. Gladwell challenges conventional narratives around gun control, arguing that the national debate is fundamentally dishonest and
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