Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
The Alabama Murders - Part 7: The Second Warrant
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Holman Correctional Facility. January 2024. Over three decades after the murder of Elizabeth Sennett...
The Alabama Murders - Part 6: The Porterfield Sessions
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Manhattan, NY December. 2022. What do you do, after the state has tried to execute you, but failed? ...
The Alabama Murders - Part 5: Cruel and Unusual
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Holman Correctional Facility. November 2022. The State of Alabama tries to execute Kenneth Smith. G...
The Alabama Murders - Part 4: The Protocol
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Holman Correctional Facility. June 2010. John Forrest Parker is put to death by lethal injection. He...
The Alabama Murders - Part 3: A Peculiar Institution
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Colbert County. May 1989. One of the men charged with Elizabeth Sennett’s murder stands ...
The Alabama Murders - Part 2: Coon Dog Cemetery Road
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Florence, Alabama. 1988. After a horrifying murder takes place, an anonymous caller names three youn...
The Alabama Murders - Part 1: The True Church
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a small town in the northwest corner of Alabama, a cascade begins with a man and an affair. Get ...
The Alabama Murders
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Florence, Alabama. 1988. A preacher has an affair. A woman is murdered. One death cascades into more...
L’Oréal and IBM: AI-Powered Beauty from Smart Talks with IBM
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're sharing an episode from Malcolm's other podcast, Smart Talks with IBM. The episode t...
Americana Music Live with Drew Holcomb and Malcolm Gladwell
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wrapping up our summer music series, the Memphis-born, East Nashville-based singer songwriter Drew H...
What Is Your Life For? From Hidden Brain
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What should you do with your life? There's no one-size-fits-all answer to that question. But there a...
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
10 Jul 2025
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
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
How does genius emerge? Kicking off our summer series, Malcolm digs into the Revisionist Histo...
Encores
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
19 Jun 2025
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
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Medal of Honor, Pushkin's podcast about those who have received the United States’ top militar...
The Formula
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In our season finale, we team up with the Culinary Institute of America to reverse engineer the secr...
Nooks & Crannies
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Seven people knew the recipe for a half-a-billion dollar muffin. Then, one of them tried to leave. ...
Rat vs. Raccoon
15 May 2025
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
08 May 2025
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
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Malcolm sits down with the linguist John McWhorter, to discuss his new book, Pronoun Trouble: The St...
The Joe Rogan Intervention
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The world's most famous interviewer has a problem with interviewing. Revisionist History is here to ...
The RFK Jr. Problem
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Malcolm investigates the origins of what the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services believes (a...
Running Hot
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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?
03 Apr 2025
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
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
PAW Patrol is in trouble. Like Ryder and the pups, Malcolm comes to the rescue. Get ad-free episode...
Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 2
20 Mar 2025
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
13 Mar 2025
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
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Revisionist History will be back with an all-new season starting March 13th. We’ll be investig...
Welcoming Heavyweight
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We are thrilled to welcome the acclaimed narrative series Heavyweight to the Pushkin network. In eac...
Malcolm Breaks Down the Perfect Break Up Song
14 Feb 2025
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
06 Feb 2025
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
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Rachel Botsman, Oxford University Lecturer and author of the new Pushkin audiobook How to Trust and ...
Presenting Gone South
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Here's an episode from a podcast that you may enjoy. Presenting Gone South. This episode looks at th...
A Very Terminator Christmas
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
What happens when the biggest movie star in the world directs the smallest Christmas film on basic c...
Gambling with Michael Lewis
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Michael Lewis, host of Against the Rules and author of Moneyball, The Big Short, Liar’s Poker, and...
John Birch vs. the PTA
31 Oct 2024
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
29 Oct 2024
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
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In The Tipping Point, Malcolm helped popularize a controversial approach to policing called “Broke...
The Tipping Point Revisited: Live with David Remnick
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
10 Oct 2024
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
03 Oct 2024
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
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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.
22 Aug 2024
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”
15 Aug 2024
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
08 Aug 2024
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
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The most famous athlete in Berlin was the American sprinter Jesse Owens, and one of the most famous ...
Pushkin Goes to the Olympics
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
25 Jul 2024
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
18 Jul 2024
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
11 Jul 2024
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
04 Jul 2024
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
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler granted a rare interview to the American journalist Dorothy Thompso...
Hitler’s Olympics
21 Jun 2024
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
18 Apr 2024
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
11 Apr 2024
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
28 Mar 2024
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
21 Mar 2024
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
14 Mar 2024
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
07 Mar 2024
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
29 Feb 2024
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
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s the mid-2000s, Malcolm and writer/producer Stephen Gaghan (“Traffic”, “Syriana”) are ...
Welcome to Development Hell
23 Feb 2024
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
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Malcolm Gladwell sits with interior design legend Nate Berkus in a live conversation covering everyt...
The IT Revolution
01 Feb 2024
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
21 Dec 2023
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
04 Dec 2023
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
16 Nov 2023
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
02 Nov 2023
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
31 Oct 2023
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
26 Oct 2023
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
19 Oct 2023
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”
05 Oct 2023
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
03 Oct 2023
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
28 Sep 2023
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
21 Sep 2023
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
14 Sep 2023
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
07 Sep 2023
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
31 Aug 2023
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
17 Aug 2023
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
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Today, another episode from the Revisionist History Live universe. It's an old fashioned lecture, re...
Acting Out
06 Jul 2023
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
29 Jun 2023
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
22 Jun 2023
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
08 Jun 2023
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
25 May 2023
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
18 May 2023
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
03 May 2023
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
13 Apr 2023
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
06 Apr 2023
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
16 Mar 2023
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
09 Mar 2023
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
16 Feb 2023
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
26 Jan 2023
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
20 Dec 2022
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
22 Nov 2022
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
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Malcolm's friend, actress/writer/director/producer Lake Bell, is obsessed with voice. Malcolm is a l...