David Yamane

The Elephant in Gladwell's Room Forthcoming book on gun violence by Malcolm Gladwell

If you truly care about violence in the USA, you must follow @davidyamane.bsky.social and his substack.

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Day of Remembrance. Marking the February 19, 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

I can't believe how good AI is these days. I though for a second that this shiz was real. 🙀😵‍💫

Happy New Year, especially to all you fire horses out there.

I need to take some lessons in that case

The Elephant in Gladwell's Room Forthcoming book on gun violence by Malcolm Gladwell

Thoughts stimulated by news of a forthcoming book by Malcolm Gladwell on gun violence in America.

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YouTube video by Alive with Steve Burns Why Is America Uniquely Obsessed with Guns?

I'm on the most recent episode of Alive with Steve Burns (Yes, that's Steve from Blue's Clues and his grown-up podcast). We talk a bit about American gun culture and the sheer scale of gun ownership. I think it's a good conversation. youtu.be/-L9fwWdOJ50?...

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"Hello, I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

I trotted out this old saw to a mixed gun/academic crowd last fall. Only people from the gun community laughed. Wonder if I'd get a different response today?

Why I’m Done with Notre Dame - First Things I retired from the University of Notre Dame at the end of 2025. More accurately, I left. After twenty years on the faculty, I could no longer do Notre...

Arrived at ND in '98 as a Catholic aff action prof. Supported the Catholic mission, studied the church & its social teaching, published on Catholicism. Left in '04 for many of the same reasons Chris Smith gives. Being untenured, I had to jump before I was pushed.

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No doubt!

Buy the book and prove him wrong!

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Reminds me of what an editor said about my proposal for GUN CURIOUS in 2023: “I don’t actually think that there is a substantively pro-gun or gun-curious yet still avowedly liberal audience anymore, so I’m not totally sure how or to whom one would successfully market this book.” Ahead of my time! 🤣

I can't unsee this you know.

Working on some graphics for my presentation on "American Gun Culture in a Different Mirror" at the @asucsgs.bsky.social Guns in Society Symposium in a couple of weeks. Google's Nano Banana is pretty easy to use and good enough for my purposes. What do you think?

YouTube video by Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club Giveaway of Margaret Kelley's A GUN OF HER OWN!

Drawing for a free copy of Margaret Kelley's new book, A GUN OF HER OWN, recently published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social. We are reading this spring in Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club.

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Virtual Book Club With 2026, we begin the third year of our online book club. We meet four times a year to discuss recent books about guns and gun culture. Margaret Kelley’s A Gun of Her Own: The Everyday Lives…

Last day to register for our Virtual Book Club and be entered into a drawing to win a free copy of Margaret Kelley's new book, A GUN OF HER OWN: THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF WOMEN WHO SHOOT.

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I see alot of both, but cannot ignore the role of the algorithms.

Definitely concentrated among the 22%. As much as I argue against reducing the complexity of American gun owners and culture, guns are super popular among radical right lunatics (to borrow a phrase from their king).

How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History

The Whitewasher in Chief doing work.

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Perfectly on Big Lie brand for the "heads I win, tails you lose" president.

Americans.

In re my "Two Americas" post from the other day, this Ipsos Poll shows that 67% of Republicans think that current ICE efforts are about right or don't go far enough. 92% of Democrats and 65% of Independents say they go too far.

@greenday @badbunny #MAGA #EpsteinFiles

Had to pull that book off my shelf to read that passage in context. Very provocative. I guess this means something beyond "tHe MiLiTiA cLaUsE!!!!"????

Joined @whyy.org Studio 2 to talk about America's changing gun politics yesterday w/James Reeves and Lara Smith. I had some further thoughts I shared on my Substack this morning: "The Liberal Buddhist Gun Owner: A Very American Story."

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Virtual Book Club With 2026, we begin the third year of our online book club. We meet four times a year to discuss recent books about guns and gun culture. Margaret Kelley’s A Gun of Her Own: The Everyday Lives…

Register by Friday, 2/6 for our Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club discussion of Margaret Kelley's new book, A GUN OF HER OWN: THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF WOMEN WHO SHOOT to be entered into a drawing for a free copy!

davidyamane.com/welcome-to-v...

Trump Made a Bad Bet on the Kennedy Center The president’s temporary closure of the institution is an acknowledgment that his initial makeover strategy was a failure.

This is so on brand for Trump. Put your own name on a memorial building then run it into the ground. Well done!

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Ammon Bundy Is All Alone The anti-government militia leader can’t make sense of his allies’ support for ICE violence.

Ammon Bundy is all alone?

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