Revisionist History

24 Jul 2025

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In 2019, Malcolm just wanted an excuse to hang out with Randy Newman so they sat down at the piano t...

17 Jul 2025

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Malcolm’s habit of reading footnotes leads him to the psychologist Alan Elms, which leads him ...

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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Why does country music make you cry, but rock and roll doesn’t? We revisit a musical interpret...

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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How does genius emerge?  Kicking off our summer series, Malcolm digs into the Revisionist Histo...

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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Starting next week, we revisit four of Malcolm’s favorite episodes from the Revisionist Histor...

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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In 2020, the Financial Times exposed a 2 billion euro fraud at Wirecard, a high-flying German fintec...

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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Malcolm Gladwell visits Kennesaw State University to learn about Jiwoo, an AI Assistant that helps f...

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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Medal of Honor, Pushkin's podcast about those who have received the United States’ top militar...

Thu, 29 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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In our season finale, we team up with the Culinary Institute of America to reverse engineer the secr...

Thu, 22 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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Seven people knew the recipe for a half-a-billion dollar muffin. Then, one of them tried to leave. ...

Thu, 15 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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What if we picked the wrong animal? Get ad-free episodes to Revisionist History by subscribing to P...

Thu, 08 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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Malcolm and Lucie discover that they experience something very differently.   If you suspect y...

Thu, 01 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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Malcolm sits down with the linguist John McWhorter, to discuss his new book, Pronoun Trouble: The St...

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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The world's most famous interviewer has a problem with interviewing. Revisionist History is here to ...

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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Malcolm investigates the origins of what the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services believes (a...

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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You might think unbelievably loud, shrill sirens on ambulances and fire trucks are just a fact of li...

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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We're sharing an episode from the Sporkful podcast. In 2004, Morgan Spurlock released his low-b...

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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PAW Patrol is in trouble. Like Ryder and the pups, Malcolm comes to the rescue. Get ad-free episode...

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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Five years ago a police officer tried to stop Derek Chauvin from murdering George Floyd. Why didn&rs...

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:01:00 +0000

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Five years ago the entire world watched Derek Chauvin murder George Floyd. What did we miss? Get ad...

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:01:00 +0000

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Revisionist History will be back with an all-new season starting March 13th. We’ll be investig...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 05:01:00 +0000

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We are thrilled to welcome the acclaimed narrative series Heavyweight to the Pushkin network. In eac...

Fri, 14 Feb

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In this Valentine’s Day special from Pushkin Industries, Malcolm breaks down the perfect break...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 05:01:00 +0000

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How is technology transforming the healthcare space? Malcolm sits down with Diogo Rau, the Chief Inf...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:01:00 +0000

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Rachel Botsman, Oxford University Lecturer and author of the new Pushkin audiobook How to Trust and ...

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:01:00 +0000

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Here's an episode from a podcast that you may enjoy. Presenting Gone South. This episode looks at th...

Wed, 18 Dec

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What happens when the biggest movie star in the world directs the smallest Christmas film on basic c...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:01:00 +0000

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Michael Lewis, host of Against the Rules and author of Moneyball, The Big Short, Liar’s Poker, and...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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In the 1960s, a right-wing organization led by a former candy tycoon rose to fame in America for the...

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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How is 5G powering the use of AI to revolutionize life-saving solutions? Malcolm sits with T-Mobile ...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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In The Tipping Point, Malcolm helped popularize a controversial approach to policing called “Broke...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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On the very first stop of the Revenge of the Tipping Point book tour, Malcolm sat down with David Re...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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What exactly constitutes a bribe? The Georgetown Massacre continues, and the defense calls a surpris...

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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In the ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions scandal, the government indicted more than 50 people. ...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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Today, we’re sharing an exclusive preview of the audiobook of Revenge of the Tipping Point. All ab...

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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In the season finale, we turn back the clock four years, take a side trip to Alabama, meet an extrao...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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In the early 1930s, a young German law student spent a year in Arkansas, studying American “race l...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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Jesse Owens spent the rest of his life retelling the story of the 1936 games and his encounter with ...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 03:50:00 +0000

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The most famous athlete in Berlin was the American sprinter Jesse Owens, and one of the most famous ...

Fri, 26 Jul

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Legends are made at the Olympics and this summer shows across the Pushkin network are bringing their...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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A German Jewish high-jumper is determined to get her shot at Olympic greatness. And an idealist face...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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The cheerleader-in-chief for the American Olympic movement was a brilliant, self-made Chicago tycoon...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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With the fate of the Olympics on the line, Charles Sherrill travels to Germany to take up the questi...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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Charles Sherrill was everything a gentleman of his generation was supposed to be: rich, handsome, ch...

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 04:30:00 +0000

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In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler granted a rare interview to the American journalist Dorothy Thompso...

Fri, 21 Jun

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Adolf Hitler swept to power in Germany in the early 1930s and soon set out to stage the most extrava...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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Malcolm recently sat down with friend and award-winning theologian Lee C. Camp to discuss his journe...

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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In 1986, Cameron Crowe, the film director, and Nancy Wilson, of the rock group Heart, got married. T...

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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Before M. Night Shyamalan became a household name for his mind bending thrillers like “The Sixth S...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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Between her big hits, “Monster” and “Wonder Woman”, Patty Jenkins wrote an R-rated fairy tal...

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:01:00 +0000

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Before Charles Randolph won an Oscar for writing “The Big Short,” he adapted a memoir called “...

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 05:01:00 +0000

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This is the story behind a biopic about a chimpanzee named Bubbles, sidekick to the King of Pop. Mal...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:55:00 +0000

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Gary Goldman was a writer on “Total Recall”, a Philip K. Dick adaptation directed by Paul Verhoe...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:50:00 +0000

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It’s the mid-2000s, Malcolm and writer/producer Stephen Gaghan (“Traffic”, “Syriana”) are ...

Fri, 23 Feb

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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. On February 29th, Revisionist History is returning with Develop...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 05:01:00 +0000

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Malcolm Gladwell sits with interior design legend Nate Berkus in a live conversation covering everyt...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 05:01:00 +0000

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The digital revolution has been happening for a while now, but with 5G, it’s about to reach a who...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 05:01:00 +0000

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A young family nearly lost everything in the 1970s farm crisis. Then, they invented a board game. To...

Mon, 04 Dec

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Revisionist History heads to Las Vegas for the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, courtesy of T-Mobil...

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 05:00:00 +0000

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What does a pilot sound like? Malcolm and Ben Naddaff-Hafrey take off on a long, strange investigati...

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Maria Konnikova returns as Revisionist History’s ombudsman. Today, she talks with Malcolm about as...

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Today, we’re bringing you an episode from another Pushkin show, Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford....

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Malcolm Gladwell hosts a rollicking live discussion about Adam Grant’s new book, “Hidden Potenti...

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Why is Silicon Valley where it is? How did a narrow valley in California become the epicenter of the...

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 04:30:00 +0000

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Abdullah Pratt grew up in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in America, then returned to be an...

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Revisionist History hits the road, courtesy of Airbnb. Malcolm shares some travel tips, including mu...

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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At the end of a forgotten study of convicted murderers, the author left a devastating footnote.  We...

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1968, ending his presidential run. Had he been ...

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Malcolm goes to a shooting range in the woods of North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15. It’...

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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The longest running television series of the 20th century was Gunsmoke, a western set in the notorio...

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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In the battles over gun rights, a shadowy English nobleman from the 17th century has unexpectedly ta...

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Coming soon – a six-part series from Revisionist History about everything Americans get wrong abou...

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Today, another episode from the Revisionist History Live universe. It's an old fashioned lecture, re...

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Malcolm talks with Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, host of The Last Archive, about the forgotten origins of a ma...

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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This season, Malcolm's covered a lot of the problems in higher education. Today on the show: A solut...

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Maria Konnikova, Revisionist History’s ombudsman—who's also an author, psychologist and professi...

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:30:00 +0000

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Consider this your invitation to the greatest award show no one’s ever heard of: the Pushkin Prize...

Thu, 25 May 2023 04:30:00 +0000

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In a live conversation taped at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Malcolm and his Martian friend c...

Thu, 18 May 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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In a live conversation taped at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Malcolm chats with his old frien...

Wed, 03 May

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Today, we’re bringing you a preview of Pushkin's new audiobook, “So Many Steves.” Steve Martin...

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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What do you do after you've been humiliated at the Munk Debates? You call in the A-Team. See omnyst...

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Malcolm talks with his old friend, the brilliant science writer Michael Specter, about the future of...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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Today, we dig into the fascinating life of someone Malcolm knows very well: fellow Pushkin host Just...

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 05:00:00 +0000

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Author, psychologist and professional poker player Maria Konnikova joins the show as Revisionist His...

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000

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Every writer, podcaster and storyteller obsesses about how they begin a story. But they rarely pay e...

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 05:00:00 +0000

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In which Malcolm reunites with his colleague, friend and fellow host of Broken Record (not to mentio...

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0000

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In part two of our special series with Cadillac, we test whether the all-electric Cadillac LYRIQ can...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:00:00 +0000

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Not long ago, we got a call at Pushkin Headquarters from Cadillac. They knew that Malcolm takes cars...

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 07:00:00 +0000

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Malcolm's friend, actress/writer/director/producer Lake Bell, is obsessed with voice. Malcolm is a l...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 04:00:00 +0000

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Sharing something from our friends at the TED Audio Collective—an episode of WorkLife with Adam Gr...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 04:00:00 +0000

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Lester Glick’s year in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment cost him his hoped-for career and also ...

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 04:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 04:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 04:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 12 Sep

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

Fri, 19 Aug

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

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:15:00 +0000

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

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 04:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0000

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

Wed, 18 May

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

Wed, 04 May

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

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 05:01:00 +0000

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

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 05:01:00 +0000

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

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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Is there a right way to do your laundry? Of course there is. A long look at the science of cleaning ...

Mon, 02 Aug

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Revisionist History presents: The Little Mermaid...our way. The grand finale of our three-part serie...

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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The quest to revise The Little Mermaid continues. This week, we call in the experts. Part two of thr...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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Revisionist History takes on The Little Mermaid: a deep dive into a world where merpeople present us...

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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Helen Slote Levitt was on her way to the good life in 1950s Hollywood. Then one day, her name appear...

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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A historically Black university in New Orleans is beloved by everyone – except the US News best co...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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For 30 years, US News & World Report has been using a secret formula to rank the best colleges a...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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Revisionist History travels to Phoenix, Arizona to learn about the future of the automobile. It’s ...

Wed, 09 Jun

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Presenting a sneak peek of Pushkin’s newest show, Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi. On Be Antirac...

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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The sixth season of Revisionist History is underway, and Malcolm’s finally out of the house. We pl...

Fri, 28 May

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Whenever Malcolm and Adam Grant cross paths on the book tour circuit, it's always a good time. Here ...

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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Season 5 of Revisionist History included four episodes on the rise of air power during the Second Wo...

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:00:00 +0000

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We're back in Atlanta - this week with jaunts to Jamaica, Kenya, court-side NBA games, and a deep di...

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:00:00 +0000

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Revisionist History takes a trip to Malcolm's favorite city and gets a tour of Emory University, mee...

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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Lessons from the world’s most perfect memorial.Get Revisionist History updates first by signing up...

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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A billionaire turned recluse befriends a minor novelist. Together they seize the public’s imaginat...

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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The delicate science of hiring nihilism, examined in five deeply-personal case studies.Get Revisioni...

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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How do we remember one of the deadliest nights in human history? We don't. Part four.Get Revisionist...

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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The arguments, accidents, cold-blooded logic and sheer serendipity that led to the longest night of ...

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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Basement laboratories. Mad scientists. Sticky gels, and a bake-off in the desert. The strange story ...

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:43:00 +0000

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

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 04:00:00 +0000

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

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 05:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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The one song The King couldn’t sing.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodc...

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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“She was Joan of Arc, Madame Curie, and Florence Nightingale—all wrapped up in one.” Learn mo...

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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Epidemics of fear repeat themselves. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce. Margit Ham...

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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Crucial life lessons from the end of hockey games, Idris Elba, and some Wall Street guys with a lot ...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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Q: Was there a period where you felt you had something to prove? A: The first 45 years of my life. ...

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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Good fences make good neighbors. Or maybe not. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.ihea...

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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"Sorry dude, I don't remember you being on my aircraft." Learn more about your ad-choices at https:...

Thu, 31 May 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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An early morning raid, a house-full of Nazis, the world’s greatest harmonica player, and a dashing...

Thu, 24 May 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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“He called to wish me ‘Happy Birthday.’ Then he said, ‘I’m failing everything.’” Lear...

Thu, 17 May 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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The complete, unabridged history of the world’s most controversial semicolon.  Learn more about ...

Thu, 10 May 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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In a special live taping at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Malcolm talks with WorkLife’s Adam Gran...

Thu, 03 May 2018 04:00:00 +0000

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Malcolm Gladwell is back with season three of Revisionist History: harmonica players, mass delusion,...

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 04:00:00 +0000

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What is a son’s obligation to his father? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartp...

Thu, 10 Aug 2017 04:00:00 +0000

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They made the world’s greatest French Fry. Then they threw it away. Learn more about your ad-choi...

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 04:00:00 +0000

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Arrested, arraigned, indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in the electric chair in 24 ho...

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 04:00:00 +0000

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“Nobody was interested in justice.” Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodca...

Thu, 20 Jul 2017 04:00:00 +0000

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Why country music makes you cry, and rock and roll doesn’t: A musical interpretation of divided Am...

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 04:00:00 +0000

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The friendship that changed the course of World War II. Learn more about your ad-choices at https:/...

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 04:00:00 +0000

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“Oh, Mac. What did you do?” Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwor...

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 04:00:00 +0000

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A landmark Supreme Court case. A civil rights revolution. Why has everyone forgotten what happened n...

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 04:00:00 +0000

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What happens when a terrorist has a change of heart? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://ww...

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 04:00:00 +0000

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Rich people and their addiction to golf: a philosophical investigation. Learn more about your ad-ch...

Fri, 26 May

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From bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, season two of Revisionist History launches June 15th. Lea...

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 02:00:00 +0000

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In the political turmoil of mid-1990s Britain, a brilliant young comic named Harry Enfield set out ...

Thu, 11 Aug 2016 02:00:00 +0000

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A 98-year-old minister takes on his church over the subject of gay marriage—and teaches the rest o...

Thu, 04 Aug 2016 03:14:00 +0000

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In the summer and fall of 2009, hundreds of Toyota owners came forward with an alarming allegation: ...

Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:00:00 +0000

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How does genius emerge? An exploration of different types of innovation—through the lens of Elvis ...

Thu, 21 Jul 2016 03:00:00 +0000

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In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jers...

Thu, 14 Jul 2016 03:00:00 +0000

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Bowdoin College and Vassar College are two elite private schools that compete for the same students....

Thu, 07 Jul 2016 03:00:00 +0000

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Of the tens of thousands of talented, low-income students who graduate from high school every year i...

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 01:09:00 +0000

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Wilt Chamberlain’s brilliant career was marred by one, deeply inexplicable decision: He chose a sh...

Thu, 23 Jun 2016 03:05:00 +0000

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In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Sai...

Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:41:00 +0000

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In the late 19th century, a painting titled The Roll Call, by a virtually unknown artist, took Engla...

Fri, 03 Jun

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Coming soon, a new podcast series from bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell. Learn more about your a...