Poor Malcolm

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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