It is not unusual for minorities to first make their mark in sports and entertainment, rightly? See thoy every see it with jews. You see with italians. But mi, thing that's striking to me about, ah, those movements is they move in and out of those worlds pretty quickly. So the jewish moment in sport is really quite shortram uspect,. A boxing especially is like that long. The african american moment in those transitional fields is really long. It continues to this day. And it's almost to the point where you feel like that what happens is they move into those worlds and get stalled there. Their presence in that world ama accentuates and
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