EP #416 - 02.17.2022 - American Violence and the Pandemic

It is Feb. 17, 2022. Today I welcome NYTimes staff editor Spencer Bokat-Lindell to discuss the surging murder rate in the United States amid the pandemic.

Spencer Bokat-Lindell is an editor and writer based in Brooklyn. He is currently a staff editor for The New York Times, where he writes Debatable, a newsletter that surveys the spectrum of opinion on some of the week's most pressing disagreements. Over the past two years, he has written about the ethics and politics of vaccine mandates, school reopenings, global vaccine inequities, the lab-leak hypothesis, and the responsibility of Big Tech companies in combating COVID misinformation, among other pandemic-related debates. Before joining The Times, Spencer served on the editorial staffs of Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, and Axios. He graduated from Yale in 2017.