Power, Agency, and Gun Violence with Irwin Kula

This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Irwin Kula, a seventh-generation rabbi and President Emeritus of Clal–The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Kula unpacks his motivation to write on gun violence and the unnerving reality of how little has changed since Columbine. Tracing unconscious patterns, repetition compulsion, and the Lacanian "Real," Kula navigates where the inexplicable and the familiar intersect at sites of traumatic and recurring violence. 
 

"The path forward requires not just political courage but psychological courage—our willingness to face what we have become and what we are creating in our children’s developing psyches."— Irwin Kula, "Why We Can’t Stop Our Children from Dying of Gun Violence," ROOM 10.25