Malcolm Gladwell

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3,035 appearances 50 recordings 16 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 17 Sep

Malcolm Gladwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 21 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 4.

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Revisionist History · A Dollop Crossover | Ben Naddaff-Hafrey on Staten Island and the Revolutionary War · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

My feet were in the wrong place. voice-verified

I had taken my eye off the target. voice-verified

I hadn't been prepared for the way the rifle moved after I pulled the trigger. voice-verified

Then I fired again, much better. voice-verified

Wallace gestured towards the cardboard cutout of a human torso at the end of the range, now with a neat bullet hole to the chest. voice-verified

He seemed pleased with my progress. voice-verified

He told me would have put him down. voice-verified

Guns are the great distinctive feature of American life. voice-verified

No other country has such a wide variety of firearms owned by such an enormous share of its population. voice-verified

For generations, Americans have struggled to make sense of this fact. voice-verified

If you've ever seen a bumper sticker on a gun enthusiast car saying something like guns don't kill people, people do, you'll have a sense of what the argument is about. voice-verified

Are guns the cause of America's ills or the symptom? voice-verified

In this book, we will come to a consideration of those questions in due course. voice-verified

But in this, the first section of The American Way of Killing, I want to focus on how dishonest this argument has become. voice-verified

By dishonest, I don't mean that one or both sides in the fight over guns are deliberately lying, but voice-verified

Dishonesty comes in many more subtle flavors than that. voice-verified

A conversation that starts with the best of intentions can become dishonest for any number of reasons. voice-verified

When either side pretends that something is consequential when it is not, when either side avoids the right conclusion because it is too difficult, or when either side blinds itself to the truth through laziness or indifference. voice-verified

The American conversation about guns is rife with these kinds of dishonesties. voice-verified

Revisionist History · The Fines · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

Not long ago.

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