Podcast Episodes

The Cadillac LYRIQ: Malcolm Gladwell meets an Electric Icon - Part Two

Season 7

In part two of our special series with Cadillac, we test whether the all-electric Cadillac LYRIQ can keep up with the demands of a 21st-century helicopter parent, put a baby to sleep, and impress a c…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

The Cadillac LYRIQ: Malcolm Gladwell meets an Electric Icon – Part One

Season 7

Not long ago, we got a call at Pushkin Headquarters from Cadillac. They knew that Malcolm takes cars very seriously… so they asked if he’d heard of the all-electric Cadillac LYRIQ and if he’d like to…

Published on 3 years ago

From Inside Voice: Lake Bell and the Sexy Baby Voice Phenomenon

Season 7

Malcolm's friend, actress/writer/director/producer Lake Bell, is obsessed with voice. Malcolm is a little obsessed with Lake. This excerpt from Lake's new Pushkin audiobook Inside Voice: My Obsession…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

The Creative Power of Misfits

Sharing something from our friends at the TED Audio Collective—an episode of WorkLife with Adam Grant. Adam talks about harnessing the power of frustrated people to shake up the status quo — just lik…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

The Mennonite National Anthem

Season 7 Episode 10

Lester Glick’s year in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment cost him his hoped-for career and also left him with an eating disorder for the rest of his life. But like many of the other volunteers, he …

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

The Rise of the Guinea Pigs

Season 7 Episode 9

The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for close to a year. But why? Revisionist History tries to follow the stra…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

The Department of Physiological Hygiene

Season 7 Episode 8

In the final year of the Second World War, 36 men spent a year in a dingy set of rooms under the University of Minnesota football stadium. They were part of an experiment none of them would ever forg…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Outliers, Revisited

Season 7 Episode 7

Did Malcolm Gladwell blow it in his bestselling book Outliers? What if all he did was write a primer for neurotic helicopter parents? To find out, Revisionist History descends on the University of Pe…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

We’re Back … With More Experiments!

Season 7

Revisionist History returns on September 15th with a saga about self-sacrifice. Plus, Malcolm offers a mea culpa for an unintended consequence of a chapter he wrote in Outliers.

If you’d like to keep…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Tim Harford Cools Us Down This Summer

Season 7 Episode 6

We’ll be back in September with new episodes of Revisionist History. In the meantime, I got to sit down with my good friend and host of Cautionary Tales, Tim Harford.

We discuss his recent trilogy ab…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago