The Most Underrated Figure in Popular Music Past Present

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I was obsessed with him until i wasd entire works of his seemingly memorized. The notion that the leading figures in electronic music in the seventies would come from jamaica, not a hite country, is an extraordinary story to me. So not eas to get me started on jamaica an triumphalism. It's a david scali anoria. The jamaicans win. My colleague, steve Perlstein, myis not here, is heus be of the washinton pot,. I've lunched with him every week. His former editor, former editor, steveya underrated, absolutely.

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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