The Second Amendment appears on a US flag above a display of firearms for sale in a gun store in Arizona in 2025. | Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images The Gray Area is now publishing twice a week on audio and video. Subscribe to Vox’s YouTube channel or listen wherever you get your podcasts.  Tyler Austin Harper didn’t set out to become a culture warrior. He trained as a scholar. His PhD was in comparative literature. He has written widely about the history of human extinction, the crisis in higher education, and, apparently, high-maintenance carbon-steel knives. For a while, he...

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