Media Appearances
Dr. Metzl's commentary spans outlets and shows, including MSNBC, FOX, Christian ministry television, Morning Joe, C-SPAN, CNN, AM Joy, PBS's Amanpour & Co, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. He is a weekly guest on the Danielle Moodie podcast and a regular co-host of Indesputable on the TYT Network. His opinion essays appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Boston Reviews, and other publications.
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In the Media
The New York Times
NPR
Khalilah Brown-Dean
The New Abnormal
Jonathan Metzl joins us to break down Kamala Harrisâ gun policy and why Tim Walz might be the X-factor needed to make it happen
MSNBC, The Last Word
The Washington Post
Jonathan M. Metzl, who has been researching gun violence for two decades, said that while he appreciates the advisory on firearm violence, framing it as a purely public health issue does not address deeper forces at play involving race and democracy.
Scripps News
An Armed, Internally Divided Nation Is Not One That Makes Peace Easily
Los Angeles Times
democracy-ish
Author and professor Dr. Jonathan Metzl joins democracyish to discuss the recent college protests, the rise in violence and gun culture in America. Folks, it's a super size episode where Wajahat and Danielle ask "who is benefiting from the chaos?"
Future Hindsight
âGun politics are deeply seated in identity.â
MSNBC: The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart
"We feel farther away from any kind of resolution" Dr. Jonathan Metzl joins Jonathan Capehart to talk about the constant struggle with gun violence in our country. He also reflects on the 25th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting and the 6th anniversary of the Waffle House shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.
C-SPAN
Vanderbilt Universityâs Dr. Jonathan Metzl argued that safety should not be a trade-off for the freedom to carry guns. Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted this event.
News Channel 5 Nasville
Where is My Mind?
Every single day we are seeing unbearable atrocities across the world and we have a front row seat to them through our phones and the media. When you add this to the cultural tensions and division being driven in our society, how does our psyche adapt?
Today Niall is joined by Jonathan M.Metzl, a psychiatrist and sociologist who has done immense work in researching and writing about gun violence and race in America. Jonathanâs unique lens casts a wider view of how the modern world is polluted with power and vested interests, and why that can leave us feeling hopeless as humans. Jonathan explains the historical and modern place of gun politics in the U.S. and how being exposed to constant tragedy desensitises us and dehumanises victims. Niall and Jonathan ask the big question that is also the title of Jonathanâs latest book, âWhat Weâve Becomeâ and share their own fears and hopes for the future of humanity.
The Trace
Violence on the New York City subway, real and imagined, was invoked by pro-gun Supreme Court justices in their Bruen ruling. Now the decision's effects may be playing out.
Salon
"Liberals are losing that battle," Dr. Jonathan Metzl tells Salon
The Tavis Smiley Podcast
Tavis talks to sociologist Jonathan Metzl about his new book, âWhat Weâve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.â
PBS |Â Amanpour and Company
MSNBC â¢Â The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
Analyzing mass shootings as a symptom of a flawed approach to national public health, @JonathanMetzl asks in his book "What We've Become": "How can we reinvest in the public sphere?" #SaturdayShow
The New York Times
Homing in on a mass shooting at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018, Metzl, a psychiatrist and sociologist, argues that Americaâs gun violence epidemic requires us to address racial and political tensions deeply embedded in our history
The Boston Globe
A longtime advocate of a public health approach to stemming gun violence says it has had disastrous unintended consequences.
Haaretz
He used to view Israel as a model for the safe use of firearms. Now an American gun policy expert warns that Israel is making the same mistakes as the United States
The Vanderbilt Hustler
âWhat Weâve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Armsâ makes a case to examine gun violence beyond the framework of public health.
Los Angeles Times
Gun violence and race explored in Jonathan Metzl's 'What We've Become'
The New York Times
Huffpost â¢Â By Jonathan M. Metzl
Democrats can cut into what often appears to be monolithic GOP support on guns, but doing so requires better ways of engaging conservative gun owners.
mikethegunguy
"...the author paints a portrait of gun violence which is as multi-dimensional as this issue happens to be, which is the reason that we have such difficulty coming to terms with how to respond to gun violence in proper and effective ways."
PBS News Hour
Already this year, there have been more than 3,000 firearm deaths in the U.S., according to the Gun Violence Archive. Dr. Jonathan Metzl, director of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University and author of the new book, âWhat Weâve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms,â joins William Brangham to discuss how America tackles gun violence.
Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews
"A powerful, convincing effort to reframe the discussion around gun control and its discontents."
The American Prospect
The clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia has been applied disproportionately to Black men, an artifact of a changing culture.
By Ramenda Cyrus
Nashville Scene
Unable to rely on lawmakers to regulate guns, some Tennesseans have decided to risk gun ownership
Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Woke AF Daily
Jonathan Metzl returns to Woke AF Daily to discuss the unfortunate, unconscionable, and unending slew of mass shootings in America - as documented in his upcoming book What We've Become.
Midland Daily News
Insider
Room Rater
NBCÂ LX News
According to recent data from @GunDeaths, over 200 lives have been lost and more than 550 injured in mass shootings this year.
So what steps can be taken to end gun violence in America? @ngoziekeledo talks to @JonathanMetzl to find out.
Andscape
The Takeaway
We spoke with the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University, Jonathan Metzl, about the shooting, Tennesseeâs gun laws, and if there may be any movement for legislation preventing access to firearms.
MSNBC:Â Chris Jansing Reports
âUpwards of 70 percent of gunowners now say they own guns to protect themselves from other people. Guns have gone from being a tool of sportsmen to something that really people feel like they have to be on guard about,â @JonathanMetzl on US gun culture.
RUSI
Hosts Jessica White and Raffaello Pantucci are joined by Jonathan Metzl and Michael Jones to discuss how the public health model â an epidemiological approach attempting to prevent or reduce a particular illness or social problem in a population by identifying risk indicators â has been applied in preventing and countering violent extremism.
Booked Up with Jen Taub
Listen now to this rich conversation about MLKâs âLetter from a Birmingham Jailâ with #BookedUp book club guests Bridgette Baldwin, @gtconway3d, @icylett and @JonathanMetzl
Woke AF Daily
The cycle of violence not only continues, but continues to get worse.
The Takeaway
-@JonathanMetzl on #ClubQ mass shooting #ColoradoSprings
AAMC NEWS
Many White people in Americaâs heartland have been convinced that health care reform takes their resources to benefit people of color, says sociologist Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD.
The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
"What you see is a lot more of everyday interactions turning into shootings, and really great risings in gun-related injuries and deaths." @JonathanMetzl on why Republican NY gubernatorial nominee Lee Zeldin's gun policies could make for a less safe New York #SundayShow
CNN
It has become increasingly common to attribute mental illness as a key reason young men turn into active shooters. Relying on decades of experience, psychologist Dr. John Duffy and Vanderbilt University psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl question that idea while hashing out why a generation of young men, who were "handed the keys to the kingdom," have turned lethargic and hopeless.
The Washington Post
Commercial Appeal
Indisputable TYT
Indisputable TYT
Boston Review
The New York Times
By Jonathan M. Metzl
Cases like one on the Supreme Court docket this term often lead to more injuries and deaths.
TOPICS
- Guns in America
- Dying of Whiteness
- Structural Competency
- Race, Gender, and Social Justice in Healthcare
- Medical Education
- Mental Illness/Mental Health
- Healthcare Politics
- Democratic strategy in Red State America