Revisionist History
Episodes
McDonald’s Broke My Heart
10 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
They made the world’s greatest French Fry. Then they threw it away. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omn...
Mr. Hollowell Didn’t Like That
03 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Arrested, arraigned, indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in the electric chair in 24 hours. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://...
State v Johnson
27 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Nobody was interested in justice.” Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
The King of Tears
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Why country music makes you cry, and rock and roll doesn’t: A musical interpretation of divided America. Learn more about your ad-choices at https:...
The Prime Minister and the Prof
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The friendship that changed the course of World War II. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/li...
The Foot Soldier of Birmingham
06 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Oh, Mac. What did you do?” Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...
Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A landmark Supreme Court case. A civil rights revolution. Why has everyone forgotten what happened next? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://...
The Road to Damascus
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a terrorist has a change of heart? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/liste...
A Good Walk Spoiled
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rich people and their addiction to golf: a philosophical investigation. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee o...
Introducing Revisionist History Season Two
26 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
From bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, season two of Revisionist History launches June 15th. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.ihear...
The Satire Paradox
18 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the political turmoil of mid-1990s Britain, a brilliant young comic named Harry Enfield set out to satirize the ideology and politics of Prime Mi...
Generous Orthodoxy
11 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A 98-year-old minister takes on his church over the subject of gay marriage—and teaches the rest of us what it means to stand up in protest. To lear...
Blame Game
04 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer and fall of 2009, hundreds of Toyota owners came forward with an alarming allegation: Their cars were suddenly and uncontrollably accele...
Hallelujah
28 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How does genius emerge? An exploration of different types of innovation—through the lens of Elvis Costello’s extraordinary song “Deportee,” on...
My Little Hundred Million
21 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jersey: not Harvard, not Yale, not even to his alma ma...
Food Fight
14 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Bowdoin College and Vassar College are two elite private schools that compete for the same students. But one of those schools is trying hard to addres...
Carlos Doesn’t Remember
07 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Of the tens of thousands of talented, low-income students who graduate from high school every year in the United States, most never make it to univers...
The Big Man Can't Shoot
30 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Wilt Chamberlain’s brilliant career was marred by one, deeply inexplicable decision: He chose a shooting technique that made him one of the worst fo...
Saigon, 1965
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnam...
The Lady Vanishes
16 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 19th century, a painting titled The Roll Call, by a virtually unknown artist, took England by storm. But after that brilliant first effort...
Introducing Revisionist History
03 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Coming soon, a new podcast series from bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comS...