In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia discuss the recent mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado.
Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show:
- As public spaces reopen, so too have mass shootings returned. Neil referred to this Slate piece about the coverage of the Atlanta shootings, and Natalia cited Melissa Jeltsen’s article in The Cut, her own essay about massage in Nursing Clio, and Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times article, “How to Reduce Shootings.”
In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:
- Natalia recommended Joy Nicholson’s novel, The Tribes of Palos Verdes.
- Neil discussed Zoe Pickburn’s The Week article, “The Orphan Who Invented the Cupcake.”
- Niki shared David French’s Twitter thread about Sidney Powell.







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