I’ve been having some fun with numbers these past couple of weeks on my Light Over Heat YouTube channel, trying to figure out how many American adults own how many …
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Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie Carter Jackson
byTony Grist
byTony Grist
For the first Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club session of 2025, we are reading We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson. Learn more and …
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2024 was my third full year of posting videos to my YouTube channel, “Light Oer Heat with Professor David Yamane.” I still don’t feel as comfortable on camera as I …
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In a recent New Yorker article, Elizabeth Kolbert raises the question, does the ability to perceive harm, which helped our ancestors survive, now underlie our current moral/ethical/cultural divisions? She finds …
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Allow Me to Reintroduce “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane”
byTony Grist
byTony Grist
It is a bit ironic to post about the YouTube channel I started because my blog readership fell off on the said blog, but as new readers come on board …
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As someone who drinks regularly, though not excessively, I was immediately drawn to Derek Thompson’s recent article in The Atlantic, “Is Moderate Drinking Okay?” (gift link here). Beyond my personal …
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As a politically liberal Asian American gun owner who also studies American gun culture, today’s juxtaposition of the commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the inauguration of Donald Trump …
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2024 was my 13th year blogging at Gun Culture 2.0 (est. 2012). Although I spent much of the year promoting the publication of my book, Gun Curious, I once again …
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NOTE: I recently unpacked my hodgepodge of notebooks about gun culture to begin thinking about writing another book in 2025. Seeing John McPhee’s Tabula Rasa in a local bookstore inspired me to …
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NOTE: I recently unpacked my hodgepodge of notebooks about gun culture to begin thinking about writing another book in 2025. Seeing John McPhee’s Tabula Rasa in a local bookstore inspired me to …