Malcolm Gladwell

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• SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald
  7/9/2021
  

  Review: The Bomber Mafia

  by Paul Ham

  If Curtis LeMay's firebombing broke the will of the Japanese public, nobody remembered to tell the Japanese. Malcolm Gladwell's praise of LeMay suffers from overlooking the Japanese side of the bombing campaign.

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• 8/8/2021
  

  What Can We Learn from Historians vs. Malcolm Gladwell?

  by Gregory A. Daddis

  As the discipline's claims to authority are under attack, it would be a mistake for historians to sacrifice rigorous pursuit of truth to be "interesting."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  9-30-16
  

  Malcolm Gladwell's “Revisionist History” podcast cleanses history of the past

  by Allison Miller

  Empathy is the essence of academic historical methodology today. But in the episodes of Revisionist History that actually deal with history, people of the past come across as basically the same as we are today.

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• SOURCE: Financial Times
  6-28-16
  

  Malcolm Gladwell, historian

  In his new podcast on history Gladwell uses history to illuminate lessons about human behavior.

• SOURCE: BBC News
  7-8-13
  

  Malcolm Gladwell: Could One Man Have Shortened the Vietnam War?

  Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist and authorListening well is a gift. The ability to hear what someone says and not filter it through your own biases is an instinctive ability similar to having a photographic memory.And I think we have a great deal of trouble with people who have this gift. There is something about all of us that likes the fact that what we hear is filtered through someone's biases.There are many examples of this phenomenon, but I want to focus on the story of Konrad Kellen, a truly great listener.During the Vietnam War, he heard something that should have changed the course of history. Only it didn't. And today no-one really knows who Kellen was - which is a shame because his statue should be in the middle of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC...