Podcast Episodes

Guns Part 4: Moral Hazard

Season 9 Episode 4

Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1968, ending his presidential run. Had he been shot today, would he have lived? A what-if story about homicides and medical care and the moral con…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson

Season 9 Episode 3

Malcolm goes to a shooting range in the woods of North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15. It’s scary. It’s ugly. It’s at the center of the gun control debate. But what exactly makes it worse th…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge

Season 9 Episode 2

The longest running television series of the 20th century was Gunsmoke, a western set in the notorious Dodge City, Kansas. Malcolm sweeps away mountains of legal scholarship to make a bold claim: The…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Guns Part 1: The Sudden Celebrity of Sir John Knight

Season 9 Episode 1

In the battles over gun rights, a shadowy English nobleman from the 17th century has unexpectedly taken center stage. Who was he? What did he do that has — 300 years later — endeared him to a generat…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Doctors, Guns, and Money

Season 9

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

The series will air weekly, starting Thursday, August 31st. You can binge listen to all six …

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Taxonomy of the Modern Mystery Story

Season 8 Episode 12

Today, another episode from the Revisionist History Live universe. It's an old fashioned lecture, recorded at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University. Malcolm talks about a totally real th…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Acting Out

Season 8

Malcolm talks with Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, host of The Last Archive, about the forgotten origins of a major social science, the missing chapter in Ella Fitzgerald’s life, and what it all has to do with t…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

A Good Circle

Season 8 Episode 11

This season, Malcolm's covered a lot of the problems in higher education. Today on the show: A solution. A big idea being tested at a little school on the shores of Lake Michigan. A school called Hop…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Feeling A Bit Attacked with Maria Konnikova

Season 8 Episode 10

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…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion

Season 8 Episode 9

Consider this your invitation to the greatest award show no one’s ever heard of: the Pushkin Prizes, created to honor the giants of the American education system. This year, Malcolm is celebrating on…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago