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Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath

Socrates in the City

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The Unexpected Upsides of Government Bureaucracies

"I would have entered 10,000 times if I'd had the wit to do that," he says. "And so I not surprisingly want, I mean. That's amazing." He was inspired by Chuck Colson and worked for his friend Jacob Weisberg as an intern at the New Republic. The author is now a U.S. citizen after being convicted of illegally entering Mexico in 1998.

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