Gladwell’s mania for teachable narrative goes hand in hand with a revealingly indifferent attitude to truth.

The pseudo-profundity of Malcolm Gladwell
Gladwell is a brilliant salesman for a certain kind of cognitive drug. He tells his readers that everything they thought they knew about a subject is wrong, and then delivers what is presented as a counterintuitive discovery but is actually a bromide of familiar clichés.
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Published on October 10, 2013 05:34