Are You Really World Class at Harvard?

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Harvard has proven over and over again that there's one thing at which they truly are world class, and that is raising money. Why for a moment do they think they can't replace the forty billion once they run through the existing forty billion? Theyre. irrationality upon irrationality, right? I'm pleased that we're holding this george mason, a school which, in the words of our president, tries to be the best school for the world, and not the best in the world. But let's say we put you in charge - what changes would you make? You appoint the board, you are the board. You and your mother.

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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