by David Yamane | Jun 15, 2023 | Books, conservatism, democracy, gun politics, gun rights, gun stores, Guns, Jennifer Carlson
I was asked to review Jennifer Carlson’s new book, Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2023) for the International Sociological Association’s journal, International Sociology Reviews. I am...
by David Yamane | Jun 1, 2023 | democracy, Gun Culture, Harel Shapira, Light Over Heat, New York Times, Personal Protection, Wake Forest University
On my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel this week, I discuss sociologist Harel Shapira’s opinion essay, “Firearms Taught Me, and America, a Very Dangerous Lesson,” published in the New York Times on 16 May 2023 (gift link here should take you behind the NYT paywall if...
by David Yamane | May 31, 2023 | democracy, Gun Culture, Harel Shapira, Light Over Heat, New York Times, Personal Protection, Wake Forest University
On my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel this week, I discuss sociologist Harel Shapira’s opinion essay, “Firearms Taught Me, and America, a Very Dangerous Lesson,” published in the New York Times on 16 May 2023 (gift link here should take you behind the NYT paywall if...