This is the 50th episode of the Jeff-alytics podcast and it’s a terrific conversation). Today’s guest, Malcolm Gladwell, has a new book out today titled The American Way Of Killing and he was kind enough to come on the show to talk about it.
The American Way Of Killing is an attempt to have an honest conversation about gun violence and what we’re missing because the conversation around it is so often disingenuous. In this episode, we get into why American doctors have gotten so good at treating gunshot wounds, the Second Amendment’s actual origins, and why work done in Boston thirty years ago should speak to us about how to reduce gun violence today.
This was a terrific, engaging conversation on what we know and don’t know about gun violence in the United States and I think you’ll like it!
Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist, a speaker, host of the hit podcast Revisionist History, and the author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Tipping Point, Outliers, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers, and The Bomber Mafia. His forthcoming book, The American Way of Killing (out September 29, 2026), is an incisive investigation into gun violence, America’s deadliest and most polarizing crisis.
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