The role that a evangelical christianity plays in this country's culture is very different from other western countries. But there are certain questions on which a the religious perspective, a orients, i'm thinking, a little differently from the secular, intellectual mainstream. The most striking thing about american public life, to me, as a non-American, is the extent to which it's dominated by back lash.
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