What I've Learned From a Jamaican Poet

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The notion of freedom from much of the caribbean is in some way more celebratory, and it's more rooted in history. And it may be because these are majority black societies, so history is, in a sense, controlled. So it's much more commemorative. It's not a struggle to control the narration of history at a national level. That's i yes. But you're also, i thought of this bcase. I got hap lik, a 30 page transcript. I got to page 15, i'm like, hi's west indian. Then, lily, page 16, my father came from trinidad and tobago with my mother and it

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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