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Revisionist History

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

Episodes

Total: 193

On the eve of the Second World War, a band of visionaries at Maxwell Air Force Base tried to reimagi

In Bolivia, a political activist radically reforms the voting process for... student council electio

An escape from war-torn Germany. Lavish dinners with Hollywood royalty. A Swedish baron and a dime-s

Dragons hoard treasure, deep in their lairs. They don’t show it off to their neighbors. Revisionist

Andy Warhol. War. Smaug the Dragon. And, as always, digressions of great importance.Launching June 1

Malcolm has been writing about race and policing for a very long time, going back to the killing of

On February 24, 1996, Cuban fighter jets shot down two small planes operated by Brothers to the Resc

Throughout the 1960s, a biologist named Howard Temin became convinced that something wasn’t right in

You thought that there was only one kind of chutzpah. Wrong. There’s two. Revisionist History tells

Two seasons after its investigation of the decline of McDonalds french fries, Revisionist History re

An unarmed man is shot to death by police. How does the Jesuitical idea of “disordered attachments”

John Rock was the co-inventor of the birth control pill — and a committed Catholic. He wanted his ch

Revisionist History tries to make sense of the conundrum of PED use in baseball, using the 500-year-

If you disagree with someone — if you find what they think appalling — is there any value in talking

Bohea, the aroma of tire fire, Mob Wives, smugglers, “bro” tea, and what it all means to the backsto

A weird speech by Antonin Scalia, a visit with some serious legal tortoises, and a testy exchange wi

Malcolm challenges his assistant Camille to the Law School Admissions Test. He gets halfway through,

Jesuits. Chess masters. Mafiosi. Lawyers. And a little bit of tire fire. Launching June 20th from Pu

Revisionist History presents the first episode of a new podcast, Broken Record. It's a conversation

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