Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person,... more
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Not long ago, we got a call at Pushkin Headquarters from Cadillac. They knew that Malcolm takes cars very seriously…... more
Malcolm's friend, actress/writer/director/producer Lake Bell, is obsessed with voice. Malcolm is a little obsessed with Lake. This excerpt from Lake's... more
Sharing something from our friends at the TED Audio Collective—an episode of WorkLife with Adam Grant. Adam talks about harnessing... more
Lester Glick’s year in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment cost him his hoped-for career and also left him with an eating... more
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for... more
In the final year of the Second World War, 36 men spent a year in a dingy set of rooms... more
Did Malcolm Gladwell blow it in his bestselling book Outliers? What if all he did was write a primer for... more
Revisionist History returns on September 15th with a saga about self-sacrifice. Plus, Malcolm offers a mea culpa for an unintended... more
We’ll be back in September with new episodes of Revisionist History. In the meantime, I got to sit down with... more
Malcolm tells the story of how his parents and their friends sponsored three Vietnamese refugees, in the aftermath of the... more