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Last Checked: 2025-04-29 20:57:14

The Joe Rogan Intervention

Thu, 24 Apr 2025

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

The RFK Jr. Problem

Thu, 17 Apr 2025

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

Running Hot

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

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

The Sporkful Presents: How Did ‘Super Size Me’ End Up In Schools?

Thu, 03 Apr 2025

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

In Defense of PAW Patrol

Thu, 27 Mar 2025

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

Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 2

Thu, 20 Mar 2025

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

Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 1

Thu, 13 Mar 2025

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

Revisionist History is Back

Thu, 06 Mar 2025

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

Welcoming Heavyweight

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

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

Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song

Fri, 14 Feb 2025

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

The Future of Healthcare Technology with Eli Lilly and Company's Diogo Rau

Thu, 06 Feb 2025

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

How to Trust and Be Trusted with Rachel Botsman

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

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

Presenting Gone South

Thu, 26 Dec 2024

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

A Very Terminator Christmas

Wed, 18 Dec 2024

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

Gambling with Michael Lewis

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

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

John Birch vs. the PTA

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

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

Exploring Life-Saving AI Tech with T-Mobile for Business

Tue, 29 Oct 2024

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

The Tipping Point Revisited: Broken Windows

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

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

The Tipping Point Revisited: Live with David Remnick

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

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

The Tipping Point Revisited: Georgetown Massacre Part 2

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

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

The Tipping Point Revisited: Georgetown Massacre Part 1

Thu, 03 Oct 2024

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

The Tipping Point Revisited: An Excerpt

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

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

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses.

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

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

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 8: “Vater, It is to be Fayetteville”

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

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

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 7: Long Jump, Tall Tale

Thu, 08 Aug 2024

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

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 6: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

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

Pushkin Goes to the Olympics

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

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

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 5: The Amateur’s Hour

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

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

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 4: Outcast in Olympia

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

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

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 3: Mustache to Mustache

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

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

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

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

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado

Thu, 27 Jun 2024

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

Hitler’s Olympics

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

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

Malcolm on No Small Endeavor

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

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

Blue Seattle with Cameron Crowe | Development Hell

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

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

Labor of Love with M. Night Shyamalan | Development Hell

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

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

I Am Superman with Patty Jenkins | Development Hell

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

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

The Birthday Party with Charles Randolph | Development Hell

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

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

Bubbles with Isaac Adamson | Development Hell

Thu, 07 Mar 2024

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

The Variable Man with Gary Goldman and Angus Fletcher | Development Hell

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

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

Blink with Stephen Gaghan | Development Hell

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

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

Welcome to Development Hell

Fri, 23 Feb 2024

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

Revisionist History LIVE with Nate Berkus

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

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

The IT Revolution

Thu, 01 Feb 2024

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

Board Game Season

Thu, 21 Dec 2023

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

A New Day at the Races

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

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

This Is Your Captain Speaking

Thu, 16 Nov 2023

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

The Bear Was Poked With Maria Konnikova

Thu, 02 Nov 2023

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

Oil and Blood: The Osage Murders from Cautionary Tales

Tue, 31 Oct 2023

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

Unlocking Hidden Potential with Adam Grant

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

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

Silicon Valley on the Couch

Thu, 19 Oct 2023

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

Guns Part 6: “Sin is the failure to bother to care”

Thu, 05 Oct 2023

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

Five Burning Travel Questions with Malcolm Gladwell

Tue, 03 Oct 2023

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

Guns Part 5: The Footnote

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

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

Guns Part 4: Moral Hazard

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

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

Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson

Thu, 14 Sep 2023

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

Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge

Thu, 07 Sep 2023

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

Guns Part 1: The Sudden Celebrity of Sir John Knight

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

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

Doctors, Guns, and Money

Thu, 17 Aug 2023

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

Taxonomy of the Modern Mystery Story

Thu, 27 Jul 2023

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

Acting Out

Thu, 06 Jul 2023

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

A Good Circle

Thu, 29 Jun 2023

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

Feeling A Bit Attacked with Maria Konnikova

Thu, 22 Jun 2023

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

The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion

Thu, 08 Jun 2023

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

The Crisis in Girls’ Sports with Lauren Fleshman and Linda Flanagan

Thu, 25 May 2023

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

The Mystery of Mastery with Adam Gopnik

Thu, 18 May 2023

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

Introducing: So Many Steves, A New Audiobook from Steve Martin and Pushkin

Wed, 03 May 2023

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

Malcolm Goes to Debate School

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

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

Higher Animals with Michael Specter

Thu, 06 Apr 2023

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

Started From The Bottom with Justin Richmond

Thu, 16 Mar 2023

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

Rodents and Red Wine with Maria Konnikova

Thu, 09 Mar 2023

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

A Treat for the Die-Hards

Thu, 16 Feb 2023

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

From Broken Record: Rick Rubin in Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell

Thu, 26 Jan 2023

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

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

Tue, 20 Dec 2022

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

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

Tue, 22 Nov 2022

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

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

Tue, 01 Nov 2022

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

The Creative Power of Misfits

Thu, 20 Oct 2022

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

The Mennonite National Anthem

Thu, 06 Oct 2022

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

The Rise of the Guinea Pigs

Thu, 29 Sep 2022

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

The Department of Physiological Hygiene

Thu, 22 Sep 2022

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

Outliers, Revisited

Thu, 15 Sep 2022

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

We’re Back … With More Experiments!

Mon, 12 Sep 2022

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

Tim Harford Cools Us Down This Summer

Fri, 19 Aug 2022

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

“I Was A Stranger and You Welcomed Me”

Thu, 28 Jul 2022

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

When Will Met Grace

Thu, 21 Jul 2022

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

Star Struck

Thu, 14 Jul 2022

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

In Triplicate

Thu, 07 Jul 2022

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

Way to Go, Ohio

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

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

The Magic Wand Experiment

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

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

Revisionist History Season 7: The Experiment Experience

Thu, 16 Jun 2022

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

Relax and Win from Legacy of Speed

Tue, 14 Jun 2022

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

An Ode to the BMW M5: From Car Show! with Eddie Alterman

Wed, 18 May 2022

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

See Revisionist History Live!

Wed, 04 May 2022

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

The Revisionist History Holiday Sampler

Tue, 21 Dec 2021

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

Teaser: Pushkin’s Dirty Laundry

Thu, 11 Nov 2021

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

Teaser: The Compromises of Al Levitt

Thu, 14 Oct 2021

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

The Dog Will See You Now

Thu, 26 Aug 2021

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

A Serious Game

Thu, 19 Aug 2021

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

Laundry Done Right

Thu, 12 Aug 2021

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

Little Mermaid Part 3: Honestly Ever After

Mon, 02 Aug 2021

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

Little Mermaid Part 2: The Fairytale Twist

Thu, 29 Jul 2021

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

Little Mermaid Part 1: The Golden Contract

Thu, 22 Jul 2021

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

The Judgment of Helen Levitt

Thu, 15 Jul 2021

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

Project Dillard

Thu, 08 Jul 2021

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

Lord of the Rankings

Thu, 01 Jul 2021

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

I Love You Waymo

Thu, 24 Jun 2021

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

Presenting: Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi

Wed, 09 Jun 2021

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

Introducing Revisionist History Season Six

Thu, 03 Jun 2021

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

Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Grant

Fri, 28 May 2021

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

Presenting: The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

Tue, 27 Apr 2021

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

Return to the 404

Thu, 17 Dec 2020

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

Druid Hills

Thu, 10 Dec 2020

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

A Memorial for the Living

Thu, 20 Aug 2020

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

"Oh Howard, You Idiot!”

Thu, 13 Aug 2020

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

Hamlet Was Wrong

Thu, 06 Aug 2020

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

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

Thu, 30 Jul 2020

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

Bombs-Away LeMay

Thu, 23 Jul 2020

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

May the Best Firebomb Win

Thu, 16 Jul 2020

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

The Bomber Mafia

Thu, 09 Jul 2020

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

The Powerball Revolution

Thu, 02 Jul 2020

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

Hedwig’s Lost Van Gogh

Thu, 25 Jun 2020

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

Dragon Psychology 101

Thu, 18 Jun 2020

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

Introducing Revisionist History Season Five

Thu, 04 Jun 2020

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

Revisionist History Presents: The Limits of Power

Tue, 02 Jun 2020

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

The Queen of Cuba

Thu, 29 Aug 2019

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

The Obscure Virus Club

Thu, 22 Aug 2019

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

Chutzpah vs. Chutzpah

Thu, 15 Aug 2019

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

In a Metal Mood

Thu, 08 Aug 2019

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

Descend into the Particular

Thu, 01 Aug 2019

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

Dr. Rock’s Taxonomy

Thu, 25 Jul 2019

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

The Standard Case

Thu, 18 Jul 2019

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

Good Old Boys

Thu, 11 Jul 2019

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

Tempest in a Teacup

Thu, 04 Jul 2019

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

The Tortoise and the Hare

Thu, 27 Jun 2019

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

Puzzle Rush

Thu, 20 Jun 2019

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

Introducing Revisionist History Season Four

Thu, 13 Jun 2019

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

Revisionist History Presents: Rick Rubin

Tue, 13 Nov 2018

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

Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis

Thu, 19 Jul 2018

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

Strong Verbs, Short Sentences

Thu, 12 Jul 2018

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

The Imaginary Crimes of Margit Hamosh

Thu, 05 Jul 2018

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

Malcolm Gladwell's 12 Rules for Life

Thu, 28 Jun 2018

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

The Hug Heard Round the World

Thu, 21 Jun 2018

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

General Chapman’s Last Stand

Thu, 14 Jun 2018

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

Free Brian Williams

Thu, 07 Jun 2018

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

A Polite Word for Liar

Thu, 31 May 2018

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

Burden of Proof

Thu, 24 May 2018

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

Divide and Conquer

Thu, 17 May 2018

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

Malcolm Gladwell debates Adam Grant

Thu, 10 May 2018

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

Introducing Revisionist History Season Three

Thu, 03 May 2018

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

The Basement Tapes

Thu, 17 Aug 2017

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

McDonald’s Broke My Heart

Thu, 10 Aug 2017

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

Mr. Hollowell Didn’t Like That

Thu, 03 Aug 2017

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

State v Johnson

Thu, 27 Jul 2017

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

The King of Tears

Thu, 20 Jul 2017

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

The Prime Minister and the Prof

Thu, 13 Jul 2017

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

The Foot Soldier of Birmingham

Thu, 06 Jul 2017

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

Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment

Thu, 29 Jun 2017

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

The Road to Damascus

Thu, 22 Jun 2017

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

A Good Walk Spoiled

Thu, 15 Jun 2017

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

Introducing Revisionist History Season Two

Fri, 26 May 2017

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

The Satire Paradox

Thu, 18 Aug 2016

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

Generous Orthodoxy

Thu, 11 Aug 2016

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

Blame Game

Thu, 04 Aug 2016

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

Hallelujah

Thu, 28 Jul 2016

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

My Little Hundred Million

Thu, 21 Jul 2016

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

Food Fight

Thu, 14 Jul 2016

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

Carlos Doesn’t Remember

Thu, 07 Jul 2016

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

The Big Man Can't Shoot

Thu, 30 Jun 2016

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

Saigon, 1965

Thu, 23 Jun 2016

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

The Lady Vanishes

Thu, 16 Jun 2016

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

Introducing Revisionist History

Fri, 03 Jun 2016

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