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Conversations with tyler is produced by the mercatus center at george mason university, bridging the gap between academic ideas and real world problems. i think of you as ur set, really coming out of the post war caribbean enlightenment. There's this consistently optimistic perspective. And whether it boils down to is there a better way to shoot nba free throes, or could elvis costello have improved on this recording of good bye cruel world.

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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