Why are assassinations on the rise?
NO SUCH THING
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🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The past decade has seen a resurgence of political violence: January 6, multiple attempts on Trump’s life, and of course the killing of United Healthcare’s CEO are just a few notable examples. We spoke with University of Chicago Professor Robert A. Pape, who has studied political violence for decades, to understand this disturbing trend, the public’s reaction to it, and why he thinks it's here to stay.
Read Pape’s New York Times Op-Ed: What the Glorification of Luigi Mangione Reveals About America
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. I'm Noah. This is Devin. And this is no such thing, the show where we settle our |
| 0:05.6 | dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. On today's episode, we're talking about |
| 0:11.2 | the resurgence of assassinations. We'll talk about the Luigi Mangione case, and we'll |
| 0:16.6 | interview a professor from the University of Chicago who's been studying political violence for decades. |
| 0:24.2 | There's no such thing. No such thing. |
| 0:29.0 | No such thing. |
| 0:32.0 | No such thing. No such thing. |
| 0:34.4 | No such a thing. |
| 0:45.1 | All right. Quick note that this is what the three of us are deeming to be an emergency episode based on what's happening in the news. And for that reason, it's not going to be structured |
| 0:50.6 | like a normal episode of no such thing. We're talking about the rise of political |
| 0:56.5 | violence, right? We have big newsworthy examples like January 6th, obviously, the attack on Paul |
| 1:04.7 | Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband, the two different Trump assassination attempts. And all of that kind of leads us to this case where this guy, |
| 1:14.8 | Luigi Mangione, allegedly assassinated the CEO of United Healthcare. |
| 1:21.1 | People suspect that this had to do with frustrations with the healthcare industry. |
| 1:26.2 | But what the three of us are trying to figure out is |
| 1:29.0 | why all of this political violence seems to be on the rise. And so, yeah, I think it's a fair |
| 1:35.7 | question. Like, is political violence on the rise? And, you know, why does it feel like this is |
| 1:41.7 | happening? It's interesting because we've gotten in many ways used to mass shooting events, |
| 1:47.8 | these sorts of things. |
| 1:49.3 | And this is obviously close to that, but very different. |
| 1:52.6 | And I think that's why you do see more sympathy for the cause, |
| 1:56.4 | perhaps, where it's not just random killings of normal citizens it is targeted in this specific |
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