Washington, DC

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i was in dece from 85, january 19 85, until july 19 93. So clearly you have no memory of this. But overtime, how is your view of washington, d c changed? Is a two thousand radio two thousand seven radio show he did with his mother the one that really made him think about Washington and its people as serial outsiders or simply not? Ah, wel ah, that's really good question. I don't know whether i youo, the thing that's peculiar about d c is is particularly feer in your twenties, is the turnover,. so there are only a very few places on earth like it.

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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