I'm Getting the True Scholars, Right?

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A, probably to campuss in the united states, one oversees. A, i have this idea that, i not sure you do it, but where i think that it would be really relly useful to am a to band up graduates of le colleges from ever disclosing that they went to an illeue collegei It's deadly serious, because what it does is it wonderfully clarifies the decision for the student o whether they want to go to an early college. So if i say, you can come here and get a world class,. i to the greatest education in the world, but after you graduate, you can never tell anyone where you went, then i'm i'm weeding

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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