An enormously wealthy man in the twenties and thirties sets aside a large sum of money. He decides what he wants to do is to build public schools throughout the south. One of his rules is, no endowment. And they spent it to zero. To this day there has actually been some really lovely economic work mesure the economic impact of the rosenweld schools.
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