Episode 324: Malcolm Gladwell

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Episode 324: Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell is a New Yorker staff writer, the author The Tipping Point and Blink, and the host of Revisionist History. His new podcast is Broken Record.

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Jan 2, 2019

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Episode 324: Malcolm Gladwell

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