Here & Now, the nationally syndicated NPR show produced at WBUR in Boston kindly had me as a guest yesterday to talk about our latest work at Nationhood Lab.
I talked with host Scott Tong about my Pell Center project’s new American Nations-driven research showing massive regional differences in the per capita rates of gun homicides and suicides, which persist when segmented by urbanity and race of victim. The research, published April 23, was the topic of a Politico story I wrote which has had more than a million readers and been the most read article at the news site so far in 2023. You can hear the full Here & Now segment here.
Here & Now broadcasts on 450 public radio stations across the country and has an average of 5 million weekly listeners.
Nationhood Lab, a project I founded at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, delivers more effective tools with which to describe and defend the American liberal democratic tradition and better understand the forces undermining it.
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.