Encore: Good Old Boys
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, Malcolm just wanted an excuse to hang out with Randy Newman so they sat down at the piano t...
Encore: Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Malcolm’s habit of reading footnotes leads him to the psychologist Alan Elms, which leads him ...
Encore: The King of Tears
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Why does country music make you cry, but rock and roll doesn’t? We revisit a musical interpret...
Encore: Hallelujah
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...
Encores
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...
Warlords, Espionage, and Disinformation | Introducing Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2020, the Financial Times exposed a 2 billion euro fraud at Wirecard, a high-flying German fintec...
From Smart Talks with IBM: How AI Assistants Can Transform Education
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...
Medal of Honor: Journeys of Courage with J.R. Martinez
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...
The Formula
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...
Nooks & Crannies
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. ...
Rat vs. Raccoon
Thu, 15 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
What if we picked the wrong animal? Get ad-free episodes to Revisionist History by subscribing to P...
Face Value
Thu, 08 May 2025 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Malcolm and Lucie discover that they experience something very differently. If you suspect y...
The Origin of “You” – A Conversation with John McWhorter
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...
The Joe Rogan Intervention
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 ...
The RFK Jr. Problem
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...
Running Hot
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...
The Sporkful Presents: How Did ‘Super Size Me’ End Up In Schools?
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 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...
Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 2
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 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...
Welcoming Heavyweight
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...
Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
Fri, 14 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 05:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 05:01:00 +0000
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Rachel Botsman, Oxford University Lecturer and author of the new Pushkin audiobook How to Trust and ...
Presenting Gone South
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...
A Very Terminator Christmas
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...
Gambling with Michael Lewis
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...
John Birch vs. the PTA
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
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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 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...
The Tipping Point Revisited: Georgetown Massacre Part 2
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions scandal, the government indicted more than 50 people. ...
The Tipping Point Revisited: An Excerpt
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...
Hitler’s Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses.
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 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 ...
Pushkin Goes to the Olympics
Fri, 26 Jul
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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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:30:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler granted a rare interview to the American journalist Dorothy Thompso...
Hitler’s Olympics
Fri, 21 Jun
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 05:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:55:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:50:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s the mid-2000s, Malcolm and writer/producer Stephen Gaghan (“Traffic”, “Syriana”) are ...
Welcome to Development Hell
Fri, 23 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 05:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Malcolm Gladwell sits with interior design legend Nate Berkus in a live conversation covering everyt...
The IT Revolution
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 05:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 05:01:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 05:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Malcolm Gladwell hosts a rollicking live discussion about Adam Grant’s new book, “Hidden Potenti...
Silicon Valley on the Couch
Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:30:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Revisionist History hits the road, courtesy of Airbnb. Malcolm shares some travel tips, including mu...
Guns Part 5: The Footnote
Thu, 28 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Today, another episode from the Revisionist History Live universe. It's an old fashioned lecture, re...
Acting Out
Thu, 06 Jul 2023 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:30:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:30:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 05:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Author, psychologist and professional poker player Maria Konnikova joins the show as Revisionist His...
A Treat for the Die-Hards
Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 05:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 13:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 23:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 07:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to ...
The Department of Physiological Hygiene
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 04:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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 09:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Malcolm tells the story of how his parents and their friends sponsored three Vietnamese refugees, in...
When Will Met Grace
Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
You thought the antics of Will, Grace, Jack and Karen were just harmless fun. Oh please. Revisionist...
Star Struck
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A legendary Hollywood mogul, a famous author, a fatal drunk driving accident, and a brilliant bit of...
In Triplicate
Thu, 07 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat in the 1930’s a...