Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker piece "The Pitchman" about Ron Popeil won Gladwell the 2001 National Magazine award.

But, as she headed to Phoenix again with Gladwell and Welsh, the cancer was in remission.

Plus, one of my favorite episodes of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revisionist History” podcast is about the Foot Soldier of Birmingham statue in Kelly Ingram Park and the controversy about the direction of the statue versus its source material.

Gladwell deciphers this sociological puzzle through an eclectic mix of case studies ranging from bank robberies in Los Angeles to Purdue Pharma’s role in the prescription opioid epidemic.

Gladwell laments that Atticus Finch lauded the “character” of racists in Maycomb.

In any case, there is also, Gladwell acknowledges, a Magic Quarter, in which 25% is the tipping point for other group dynamics.

In his earlier books, Gladwell at least coined catchy rules of thumb (the mastery of a skill takes 10,000 hours, for instance), even if their validity was questionable.

After returning to his family in Zimbabwe, Gladwell died a few weeks later.

But Gladwell did offer an optimistic outlook in relation to his observations as an employer of workers in their 20s.

But why would Gladwell or Berenson, two intellectual holdovers from the earlier age of prohibition, want to discuss things that don't fit into their established narrative that pot is bad?

For the past several months, Mr. Gladwell has used his podcasts to promote the “newfangled” audiobook for “Talking to Strangers” — the kind of cross-promotion most publishers can only dream about.

Gladwell himself seems to realize as much.

His father, Graham Gladwell, was an English mathematics and engineering professor at the University of Waterloo.

In 2014, after the fatal police shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., Mr. Gladwell started to think about a book that would explore these topics.

The best book I ever read is …, by Malcolm Gladwell.

The Guardian Books podcastMalcolm Gladwell: David or Goliath?

To highlight this, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell changed some of the metrics used to rank schools.

After coach Bill Belichick put in the doghouse during the Super Bowl and watched him walk to Tennessee, any other Malcolms better tread lightly in New England, whether it’s the guy in the middle, or Malcolm Gladwell.

Gladwell interviews all involved and reveals some fascinating aspects both good and bad.

People like author (and New Yorker writer) Malcolm Gladwell, for instance.