Summary: <a href="https://twitter.com/Gladwell">Malcolm Gladwell</a>’s hit podcast <em>Revisionist History</em> spits out neat, distilled theories in every episode. Some of them are careful, others are reductive. But Gladwell says his theories aren’t all meant to be airtight: They just help him organize his stories, or merely spruce them up. “In some of them I’m trying to make a very, very serious, moral point. Sometimes I’m just—I’m making intellectual mischief.” <br><br>In the Spiel: the parallels between the Obama administration and the Trump administration on race relations.
