Revisionist History

By Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture

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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time. From Pushkin Industries. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.

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The Bomber Mafia

07.09.2020

On the eve of the Second World War, a band of visionaries at Maxwell Air Force Base tried to reimagine modern warfare. They failed. Part one on the extraordinary life of the Air Force General Curtis LeMay. Get Revisionist History ...

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07.09.2020 The Bomber Mafia On the eve of the Second World War, a band of visionaries at Maxwell Air Force Base tried to reimagine modern warfare. They failed. Part one on the extraordinary life of the Air Force General Curtis LeMay. Get Revisionist History ...
07.02.2020 The Powerball Revolution In Bolivia, a political activist radically reforms the voting process for... student council elections. Who else does he convince? Revisionist History. And maybe a fancy private school in New Jersey. Get Revisionist History updates first by signing up for our ...
06.25.2020 Hedwig’s Lost Van Gogh An escape from war-torn Germany. Lavish dinners with Hollywood royalty. A Swedish baron and a dime-store heiress: we explore the long journey of a Van Gogh still life — and what it says about the real value of the things ...
06.23.2020 Revisionist History Presents: Axios Today Pushkin Industries and Axios are joining forces to produce a daily news podcast that gets audiences smarter, faster on the most pressing topics of the day. Start your morning with news that matters in just 10 minutes. Host Niala Boodhoo ...
06.18.2020 Dragon Psychology 101 Dragons hoard treasure, deep in their lairs. They don’t show it off to their neighbors. Revisionist History applies dragon psychology to the strange world of art museums, with help from Andy Warhol, J.R.R. Tolkien, a handful of accountants and the ...
06.16.2020 Revisionist Revisited: The King of Tears In our last listener favorite, we revisit The King of Tears from Season 2 where Revisionist History goes to Nashville to talk with Bobby Braddock, who has written more sad songs than almost anyone else. What is it about music ...
06.04.2020 Introducing Revisionist History Season 5 Andy Warhol. War. Smaug the Dragon. And, as always, digressions of great importance. Launching June 18 from Pushkin Industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.02.2020 Revisionist History Presents: The Limits of Power Malcolm has been writing about race and policing for a very long time, going back to the killing of Amadou Diallo in 1999. Sometimes, it is useful to take a step back and consider policing in a broader context. Here ...
05.21.2020 Revisionist History Presents: The Last Archive This week we're featuring the second episode of The Last Archive, a new podcast hosted by Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore. When a young black man is charged with murder under unusual circumstances in 1922, he ...
05.14.2020 Revisionist Revisited: Free Brian Williams Brian Williams made a mistake and Malcolm vouched for him. So why hasn't Brian Williams reached out to Malcolm in response? "Free Brian Williams" came in second place from our "Revisionist Revisited" survey. Stay tuned in the coming weeks to ...
05.07.2020 Revisionist Revisited: A Good Walk Spoiled Golfers everywhere love to hate this episode. Since its debut in Season 2, the subject of golf ignites Malcolm's Twitter feed like no other. A Good Walk Spoiled came in third in our "Revisionist Revisited" survey. Stay tuned in the ...
04.02.2020 Revisionist Revisited: Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis We're gearing up to launch Season 5 of Revisionist History soon. In celebration, we are revisiting some of our favorite episodes from past seasons. Malcolm is kicking this off with his favorite Revisionist History episode: Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis from Season ...
03.05.2020 Revisionist History Presents: Go and See Malcolm, a serious car nut, is invited to Toyota City in Japan to meet test-track drivers and obsessive engineers. The result is a six-part series called "Go and See." The first episode explores the Japanese concept of hospitality called "omotenashi" ...
02.12.2020 Revisionist History Presents: Deep Background with Noah Feldman Could we really fix gridlock in the Senate by creating new states? Malcolm revisits the "Divide and Conquer" episode from Season 3 in an interview on Deep Background with Noah Feldman, the newest podcast from Pushkin Industries. "Divide and Conquer" ...
12.02.2019 Revisionist History Presents: The Pushkin Industries Holiday Variety Show Malcolm Gladwell debuts his first fireside chat, answering burning questions from Revisionist History listeners in this bonus episode. He lets us listen in on a conversation with Conan O’Brien and supplies tasty tidbits of new shows on the Pushkin Industries ...
10.01.2019 Revisionist History Presents: The Happiness Lab Malcolm Gladwell presents the newest podcast from Pushkin Industries: The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos. To listen to all episodes of The Happiness Lab, visit https://megaphone.link/CAD5602975937 or www.happinesslab.fm/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.19.2019 Bonus: Malcolm Gladwell on Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations Malcolm Gladwell speaks with Oprah Winfrey about his new book Talking to Strangers, the one mystery he hopes might be resolved in our lifetimes, and the ways we could all benefit from a little more patience and humility when judging ...
08.29.2019 The Queen of Cuba On February 24, 1996, Cuban fighter jets shot down two small planes operated by Brothers to the Rescue, an organization in Florida that tried to spot refugees fleeing Cuba in boats. A strange chain of events preceded the shoot-down, and ...
08.22.2019 The Obscure Virus Club Throughout the 1960s, a biologist named Howard Temin became convinced that something wasn’t right in science’s understanding of viruses. His colleagues dismissed him as a heretic. He turned out to be right — and you're alive today as a result. ...
08.15.2019 Chutzpah vs. Chutzpah You thought that there was only one kind of chutzpah. Wrong. There’s two. Revisionist History tells the story of the Mafia’s showdown with a legendary Hollywood producer, in a battle of competing chutzpahs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
08.08.2019 In a Metal Mood Two seasons after its investigation of the decline of McDonalds french fries, Revisionist History returns to fast-food’s high-tech test kitchens. This time the subject is cultural appropriation. The case study is Taco Bell. Oh, and Pat Boone is involved. Learn ...
08.01.2019 Descend into the Particular An unarmed man is shot to death by police. How does the Jesuitical idea of “disordered attachments” help us make sense of what happened? Part three of three. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.25.2019 Dr. Rock’s Taxonomy John Rock was the co-inventor of the birth control pill — and a committed Catholic. He wanted his church to approve of his invention. What happens when a layman takes on the Vatican? Part two of three. Learn more about ...
07.18.2019 The Standard Case Revisionist History tries to make sense of the conundrum of PED use in baseball, using the 500-year-old philosophical techniques of St. Ignatius. Part one of a three-part series on the moral reasoning of the Jesuit order. Learn more about your ...
07.11.2019 Good Old Boys If you disagree with someone — if you find what they think appalling — is there any value in talking to them? In the early 1970s, the talk show host Dick Cavett, the governor of Georgia Lester Maddox, and the ...
07.04.2019 Tempest in a Teacup Bohea, the aroma of tire fire, Mob Wives, smugglers, “bro” tea, and what it all means to the backstory of the American Revolution. Malcolm tells the real story on what happened in Boston on the night of December 16, 1773. ...
06.27.2019 The Tortoise and the Hare A weird speech by Antonin Scalia, a visit with some serious legal tortoises, and a testy exchange with the experts at the Law School Admissions Council prompts Malcolm to formulate his Grand Unified Theory for fixing higher education. Learn more ...
06.20.2019 Puzzle Rush Malcolm challenges his assistant Camille to the Law School Admissions Test. He gets halfway through, panics, runs out of time, and wonders: why does the legal world want him to rush? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.13.2019 Introducing Revisionist History Season Four Jesuits. Chess masters. Mafiosi. Lawyers. And a little bit of tire fire. Launching June 20th from Pushkin Industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.05.2019 Revisionist History Presents: Solvable Revisionist History presents Solvable, a new show from Pushkin Industries and the Rockefeller Foundation that showcases the world’s most innovative thinkers and their ideas about how to solve the world’s most daunting problems. The interviews, conducted by journalists like Malcolm ...
04.09.2019 Revisionist History Presents: Against the Rules with Michael Lewis Malcolm Gladwell presents Ref, You Suck!, the first episode of the newest podcast from Pushkin Industries: Against the Rules with Michael Lewis. Rage at referees is all the rage in professional sports. Michael Lewis visits a replay center that’s trying ...
11.13.2018 Revisionist History Presents: Rick Rubin Revisionist History presents the first episode of a new podcast, Broken Record. It's a conversation between Rick Rubin and Revisionist History host Malcolm Gladwell, covering everything from Rick’s role in the very beginning of hip-hop to his role in introducing ...
11.06.2018 Revisionist History Presents: Broken Record From Revisionist History host Malcolm Gladwell, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam: Conversations. Arguments. Stories. Remembering old music. Discovering new music. Broken Record: Liner notes for the digital age. Revisionist History will be airing the first episode of Broken Record on ...
07.19.2018 Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis The one song The King couldn’t sing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.12.2018 Strong Verbs, Short Sentences “She was Joan of Arc, Madame Curie, and Florence Nightingale—all wrapped up in one.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.05.2018 The Imaginary Crimes of Margit Hamosh Epidemics of fear repeat themselves. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce. Margit Hamosh? Definitely farce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.28.2018 Malcolm Gladwell's 12 Rules for Life Crucial life lessons from the end of hockey games, Idris Elba, and some Wall Street guys with a lot of time on their hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.21.2018 The Hug Heard Round the World Q: Was there a period where you felt you had something to prove? A: The first 45 years of my life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.14.2018 General Chapman’s Last Stand Good fences make good neighbors. Or maybe not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.07.2018 Free Brian Williams "Sorry dude, I don't remember you being on my aircraft." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.31.2018 A Polite Word for Liar An early morning raid, a house-full of Nazis, the world’s greatest harmonica player, and a dashingly handsome undercover spy. What could possibly go wrong? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.24.2018 Burden of Proof “He called to wish me ‘Happy Birthday.’ Then he said, ‘I’m failing everything.’” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.17.2018 Divide and Conquer The complete, unabridged history of the world’s most controversial semicolon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.10.2018 Bonus: Malcolm Gladwell debates Adam Grant In a special live taping at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Malcolm talks with WorkLife’s Adam Grant about how to avoid doing highly undesirable tasks, what makes an idea interesting, and why Malcolm thinks we shouldn't root for ...
05.03.2018 Introducing Revisionist History Season Three Malcolm Gladwell is back with season three of Revisionist History: harmonica players, mass delusion, semicolons, and a constitutional crisis. Launching May 17th on Panoply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.17.2017 The Basement Tapes What is a son’s obligation to his father? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.17.2017 The Basement Tapes What is a son’s obligation to his father?
08.10.2017 McDonald’s Broke My Heart They made the world’s greatest French Fry. Then they threw it away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.03.2017 Mr. Hollowell Didn’t Like That Arrested, arraigned, indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in the electric chair in 24 hours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
07.27.2017 State v Johnson “Nobody was interested in justice.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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