The Effective Medium for Social Commentary

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i don't like the alec baldwin dontramp ah i don't think actually, it's not as good. The truly effective a satirical impersonation is one that a a find something essential about the character and magnifies it. Out and out attack on me, an bomacare. So I kind of that that, to me, is that's really useful to kind of turn over your and you accept the fact that 50 % of the time you're going to be wrong on these kind of things but that's fine.

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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