Feeling A Bit Attacked with Maria Konnikova | Revisionist History | Malcolm Gladwell
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มิ.ย. 2023
- Maria Konnikova, Revisionist History’s ombudsman-who's also an author, psychologist and professional poker player-is back for another round. This time she reads letters from the audience on the power of debate, and whether or not certain four letter words belong in Pushkin’s podcasts. Maria and Malcolm also look at the Columbia cheating scandal from a different angle, and hand out one more sparkling Pushkin Prize.
Season 8 (2023)
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ABOUT REVISIONIST HISTORY
Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every podcast episode re-examines something from the past - an event, a person, an idea, even a song - and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
ABOUT MALCOLM GLADWELL
Malcolm Gladwell is president and co-founder of Pushkin Industries. He is a journalist, a speaker, and the author of six New York Times bestsellers including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers. He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996. He is a trustee of the Surgo Foundation and currently serves on the board of the RAND Corporation.
ABOUT PUSHKIN INDUSTRIES
Pushkin Industries is an audio production company dedicated to creating premium content in a collaborative environment. Co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg in 2018, Pushkin has launched seven new shows into the top 10 on Apple Podcasts (Against the Rules, The Happiness Lab, Solvable, Cautionary Tales, Deep Cover, The Last Archive, and Lost Hills), in addition to producing the hugely successful Revisionist History. Pushkin’s growing audiobook catalogue includes includes the bestselling biography “Fauci,” by Michael Specter, “Hasta La Vista, America,” Kurt Andersen’s parody Trump farewell speech performed by Alec Baldwin, "Takeover" by Noah Feldman, and “Talking to Strangers,” from Pushkin co-founder Malcolm Gladwell. Pushkin is dedicated to producing audio in any format that challenges listeners and inspires curiosity and joy.
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Malcolm, I hope that someone extends your exploration of administrative bloat at colleges and universities. I suspect that lots of people wonder where their school ranks.
Dear Malcolm, as with high respect of your POV. Very, very interesting to hear about your opinion of Canada’s very own Jordan Peterson’s New POV of todays world. Respectfully, looking forward your podcast.
As a former college admin of sorts, I assure you, every program games the rankings.
Columbia ‘86
I mostly agree with your listener. I find Hollywood writers substitute special effects, violence, and swearing for storyline. It’s lazy. Anyone can swear in every sentence. But how many people can create to kill a mockingbird?
“To Kill a Mockingbird” has the “n-word” multiple times. Is that the shit you want to mention?
Thank you for your insights. I love your podcast. Debate also seems like it would give students the pathway to run for mayor or commissioner in their towns
My generation has to take much of the responsibility for the proliferation of “fuck” -- in all its variations in our 2023 language use (see Country Joe and the Fish “I’m Fixing to Die Rag“ Woodstock 1969). I agree that words like “fuck” have their place in the culture, however, the use of that word is no longer a symbol of solidarity or protest or profound emotion, but a dumbing down, catch-all, lazy-ass substitute for nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs -- all of which hopefully aid in communicating. I realize the English language is not static, and that most of the people bitching about its change are older - like me, but it would be good if “fuck” went the way of say “gadzooks”.
Wait! Malcolm went into a debate not understanding how the other side could possibly be argued? It's one thing to not believe the other side is right, but to not even consider that there is another side is kind of amazing
In response to Gladwell's opinion regarding how people who work from home are lazy and mope around in PJ's all day and should be ashamed of not wanting to be "part of something." Clearly he's never worked at normal 9-5 as "feeling part of something" is precisely why people are leaving work. E opposite perspective..... They don't feel valued for their work and don't get paid enough to maintain even the most basic needs of self-supported living.
I like his glasses though....
Wonderful to hear Maria swear in Russian. Classic Moscow accent, but could use a little more "tough guy/girl" annunciation in her delivery.
Good to see you address this Malcom. I have noticed the gloating comments about you on youtube and facebook. In ancient greece to point of debate was not to win or try to destroy ones opponent. One would debate to test ones ideas and see if ones opponent could find holes in said ideas. Modern debate destroys true debate helps build something.
Keep up the good work Malcom,
Keep keeping on. Will.
Gang Gang!
Does this episode ever start?
The college ranking manipulation made Columbia drop, but it didn't result is eliminating the racist metrics.
Maria says "actually" a lot.
To win a debate, simply pack the hall with your friends. Ask Charlie Kirk.
didn’t think people would be skeptical of the mainstream media???? cartoon eye bulge head spinning with sound effects whaaaaa?
Or if your opponent is actually correct. Love Douglas and Matt
Unfortunately Malc's opponents were NOT right.
Alternative media is just as fraught with misinformation as Mainstream. Both, on occasion, contain nuggets of understanding and kernels of truth.
Any McLuhanesque analysis of media, really does start with the understanding that ALL media is intrinsically propaganda. An autobiography, is simply self propaganda. All media is slanted, curated, massaged, edited and owned, including the great books of our history.
We have nothing if we cannot embrace this imperfect record!
Matt is a blast, would have loved to see him cut loose on a more expansive topic, but he was pretty hemmed in by the limit of the proposition.
This episode is very frustrating because it talks about the value of debate or profanity without referring to context.
Each and every possible communication skill and method has significant value in the right context.
The skills of a conman could be used to talk a person off a ledge, a nation to vote for the better candidate or to sell the Brooklyn bridge.
Profanity is sometimes required for some listeners to understand the message and for others it distracts from the message.
My father told me at a very young age: “It’s not what you say, but how you say it.” Truer words hath not been spake.
Lololol... kkkkkk... U... got got... And then you bought the Eiffeltower... For scraps...
If you cannot see the other side of the "trusting the MSM" question, THAT is why you lost the debate, Malcolm.
The problem with debating in a professional way is that the right “cause” may lose, due to gaming techniques. Trump won the American debate with misinformation. It worked. He won. Debating as a sport doesn’t interest me.
The Big “MG” Adam Henry’s shouldn’t own rifles and humanity shouldn’t take the souls of other humans 🌹✌️
About getting angry! My mother would say that my father, who tended not to get angry a lot, that because he was half East Prussian, anger interfered with him getting even.
Love the podcast, but hate the idea of no "I" in a writing class. Just saying.
I like the tone of your voice and your inflect and your accent.. but I don't like what you say. To argue that listening is part of a con is facile. You cannot argue an alternate point of view, without listening and understanding the other point of view. The fact she is reinforcing the view that you were conned, is disingenuous and unhelpful for you. In that, you learn nothing. Silver tongued is besides the point, you don't need to be silver tongued. You need to be you, but honest, and objective. You were neither. You were prejudiced, your position was prejudiced. You couldn't conceive of an opposing view and therefore couldn't understand it.
I couldn't listen to this episode because the guest has such a difficult voice to listen to. Kind of a high-pitched, loud whisper with a lot of sibilant sounds. It's not her voice, it's the way that she speaks.
What about you calling people racist with no evidence? I used to look up to you but I question everything about your work now.