Are You White?

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The dean of george tech asked my father if he was white or black. The person who said yes got in trouble for saying yes before they figured out his race. There's a discussion that sylvia winter, the jamaican intellectual, offered in year two thousand,. Do you think that's an accurate perspective? Well, ye, there is something, a under i hesitate to say under theorized a.

Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm’s happy risk-averse career going from one “fur-lined rat hole to the next.”

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Recorded February 27th, 2017 Other ways to connect

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