Episode 133: Gunpower and Sports with Patrick Blanchfield

The End of Sport Podcast

Nathan is joined by the incomparable Patrick Blanchfield for a complex structural assessment of US gun violence and how his theoretical framework of gunpower can be used to unpack instances of gun violence in the world of sport.

Patrick Blanchfield is Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute, co-host of the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast, author of the forthcoming book Gunpower: The Structure of American Violence, and a host of incredibly insightful articles in venues such as n + 1, The New York Times, The New Republic, and The Nation, including an exceptional interview with Daniel Denvir in Jacobin. You can find him on Twitter @PatBlanchfield and Bluesky @patblanchfield.bsky.social.

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