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In your twenties, you're not part of permanent washington. And that churning a is really useful in terms of giving people opportunities to look at what's going on from an outsider's perspective. If i had stayed, i feel like it would, in my memory, have diminished a little bit. By the way, in the nineties, you also wrote a profile of pat buchanan, which i would encourage you to reread. You may be surprised by your own precience.

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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