Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for MediocrityPosted in Articles, Audio, Canada, Caribbean/Latin America, Communications/Media Studies, Identity Development/Psychology, Interviews, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive on 2017-03-19 15:45Z by Steven |
Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity
Conversations with Tyler
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
2017-03-15
Tyler Cowen, Host and Professor of Economics
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Credit: Caren Louise Photographs
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.”
Listen to the interview (01:32:11) here. Read the transcript here.