Is It You, That's the Problem?

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Recent research claims that mixed race children growing up have a harder time and take more risks than just their socio economic status alone would predict. Do you agree with that? Tack issue with it? Mixe race, mixed race? Relly ina, never never heard of that. A, doesn't apply to me, sirtainy. No one has lived a more riscoverse life than me. Soa, i don't know. I mean, you know, we, though i have enormous respect for both those am economists. This isn't one of those? A highly imaginative use of correlations, is it? Sometimes we are economists. Economists lose me when they play

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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