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Mar 2017
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Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World...

MERCATUS CENTER AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
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Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard's under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm's happy risk-averse career going from one "fur-lined rat hole to the next."

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Recorded February 27th, 2017

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