Wolfgang's Law - Part Two
We've known about a solution to violent crime for decades. Why hasn't it been adopted everywhere? And what are the costs of waiting so long?...
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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...
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Wolfgang's Law - Part One
Over the last few years homicide rates in Baltimore have plummeted. A city once labeled America's murder capital is seeing a reprieve that s...
Brian Lehrer and Malcolm Gladwell Talk Policing and Guns
A dispatch from the book tour – Malcolm recently joined WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show for a conversation about his new book, The Americ...
The Invention of an Epidemic
In Malcolm's new book, The American Way of Killing , he investigates why gun violence in the United States is so much worse than every other...
President Barack Obama & Malcolm Gladwell: How Reconstruction Still Defines America
Malcolm sat down with President Barack Obama while making Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise for a conversation about history, progress,...
A Dollop Crossover | Ben Naddaff-Hafrey on Staten Island and the Revolutionary War
After Ben's Staten Island summer, he sat down with The Dollop hosts, comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds, to examine Staten Island du...
The Fines
How did some remains of those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks end up in what was once the world's largest landfill? In this episode:...
Merciless Indian Savages | First America
There's a sentence in the Declaration of Independence that almost no one talks about. It's the last grievance: "He has excited the merciless...
The Other Johnson and Johnson | From Planet Money
The Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a product: Afro Sheen. But Afro Sheen...
The Staten Island Problem - Part 5: Revenge of the Forgotten Borough
Election night 1993 meets election night 2016. The fate of the island and the country converge in the figure of one man: Rudy Giuliani.
The Staten Island Problem - Part 4: Wu-Tang vs. Shaolin
At the height of the secession movement, the Wu-Tang Clan forms on Staten Island. We take a tour of early 1990s hip-hop and reveal the hidde...
The Staten Island Problem - Part 3: The Tuvalu Effect
A group on Staten Island tries to stop secession, squaring off against the secessionists in a heated set of debates and meetings recorded on...
The Staten Island Problem - Part 2: A New Map
After the Supreme Court takes a close look at New York City government, Staten Island comes out the loser. A local artist begins organizing...
The Staten Island Problem - Part 1: The Mayor vs. the Borough President
A riot, a voyage at sea, and a movement to break up the greatest city in the country. The first Black mayor of New York City faces off with...
Revenge of "A Good Walk Spoiled"
Ten years ago, Malcolm inveighed against the exclusive country clubs of Los Angeles in an episode of Revisionist History called "A Good Walk...
Coming Soon: The Staten Island Problem
On the 250th anniversary of the United States, Revisionist History investigates the overlooked story of New York City almost breaking apart...
Frankenfood | The Mistakes Series
Would a tomato by any other name taste as sweet? What about a steak? Malcolm sends Ben on a mission to investigate the cutting edge of food...
Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise
Sharing Malcolm's latest project, a podcast called Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise. Imagine a time when the United States was split i...
Revisited: Ms. Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment
Revisionist History revisits an episode from season two and Malcolm tells the story of a phone call that set in motion a collaboration with...
Introducing The News from Scene on Radio
Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we...