i feel like what's going on now in american life is a back lash that maybe one reading is that there was the dominant kind of liberalectual culture in this culture. Maybe we went too fast, id we just gove to learn to slow down. I mean, maybe we should have just done something a lot more subtle and not risked this. i'm currently pro abomacere changed, but i my currant take is, it was a good idea, but, you knowt maybe it was a bridged rmaybe it just was the thing that maybe we should've done a little, tiny, smaller piece of it and just mellowed out.
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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