The Pentagon Papers Controversy

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It's the most hilariously wonkynerty exercise. So even step back, what is depending on papers? It' not just 20 17 and 19 71 viewed to the lens of the pentagon papers controversy. They belong on different planets. I mean, we're not even the whole. And when the new york times gets the copies, i mean, remember, an s them ain't lik a year. Youoe and i it's theli te there's no contemporary. We are in a kind of a rarefied academic realm.

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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