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Revisionist History

Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Ever

Episodes

Total: 193

The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to

In the final year of the Second World War, 36 men spent a year in a dingy set of rooms under the Uni

Did Malcolm Gladwell blow it in his bestselling book Outliers? What if all he did was write a primer

Revisionist History returns on September 15th with a saga about self-sacrifice. Plus, Malcolm offers

We’ll be back in September with new episodes of Revisionist History. In the meantime, I got to sit d

Malcolm tells the story of how his parents and their friends sponsored three Vietnamese refugees, in

You thought the antics of Will, Grace, Jack and Karen were just harmless fun. Oh please. Revisionist

A legendary Hollywood mogul, a famous author, a fatal drunk driving accident, and a brilliant bit of

A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat in the 1930’s and

A century ago, a mysterious and disfiguring disease was finally cured by an experiment in Akron, Ohi

What if you could design any experiment you wanted? Without worrying about money, ethics, logistics,

Revisionist History is back! And obsessed with ... experiments. Natural experiments. Thought experim

Sharing a new Pushkin show, Legacy of Speed. When two Black sprinters raised their fists in protest

Malcolm confesses to being an absolute car nut. And now his dream has come true — the launch o

For the first time ever, Revisionist History is hitting the road! On two nights, Malcolm will be wor

Sharing special previews of Pushkin’s show Bad Women: Ripper Retold and this month’s Pushkin+ episod

In this month’s subscriber-only episode, the Pushkin staff have something to say about Malcolm’s por

In this month’s subscriber-only episode, a look at the complicated and possibly cursed career of Hel

If recent times have shown us anything, it’s that many problems can not be fixed by humans alone. In

The best way to prepare for the unexpected may not be to make plans, or predictions, but to play gam