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I have no idea.

Malcolm Gladwell is the Richard Florida of pundits.

Ugh so mediocre. All the women in the world shaking their dang heads

Name recognition. I'm sure the actual historians will be working behind the scenes.

The two eras that looking back at my superficial high school and college American History courses that really should have gotten deeper coverage was the Constitutional Convention and Reconstruction. I'll look forward to watching this series with an open mind

What an embarrassment. Malcolm Gladwell cherry-picks work that he doesn't really understand from real scholars. Then he breathlessly writes young adult prose about it and thinks he's an intellectual.

Is Malcolm going to wear his lab coat?

Maybe he's the most centrist one to team up with for the purpose. And Dem leaders keep being advised by their consultants to be "centrist."

Yeah, as far as I know Eric Foner is still alive.....

Maybe he's a big fan of big tobacco apologia?

Eric Foner is still alive. I mean fuck it, tag in DuBois via AI hologram. Anything but airport paperback dimwit.

But none other would come with the spicy take that Reconstruction failed because Hayes didn't devote 10,000 hours to it.

Tbf the history channel doesn't give much of a rat's ass about history. Dont they show ancient aliens and other dreck...

www.patreon.com/posts/158988...

Infinity and beyond, really.

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Reconstruction booklist for K-12 (as on image) & for adults incl. by WEB Du Bois, @kidadaewilliams.com, @hngreen.bsky.social, @katemasur.bsky.social, Justene Edwards, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social, Lerone Bennett, Eric Foner, S. Hahn, Jim Downs, & many more. www.socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/re...

Agree. What is Gladwell doing here?

Ive got waaaaay more important things to worry about than this, too any to name...

did he ask oprah for recommendations or something

David Blight? Eric Foner?? Hello!!

Yea but did they spend 10,000 hours proposing a podcast with Obama?

Yes, but none of those historians would have written "Reconstruct: The Power of Changing Without Actually Changing Anything," which perfectly explains not only what happened in the USA between 1865 and 1890 but also why it took the Red Sox almost a century to win a championship after trading Ruth.

He also could have tried to finish the promise when he was you know president. I think that's worse

Oh great another podcast that’ll fix everything

If even I know who Doris Kearns Goodwin is, then certainly Barack does (not that she’s the ne plus ultra of presidential historians) Gladwell is a choice

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Well Erich von Däniken has passed, so it was Gladwell faute de mieux.

Is MG even that good? Has he spent 10,000 hours podcasting yet?

Kinda shows how the consultant class influences the Democratic Party so much Obama probably wanted to do a history podcast and he turned to consultants and they came up with the most bland idea of Malcolm Gladwell

reading history is not the same as being a historian. I do the former but I'm not the latter

He thought Sapiens was good. His taste has been in question for a while.

Yes tho According to the Variety story, Blight and Foner and other historians do make appearances variety.com/2026/digital...

Hell Bouie is right there!

AOL is still a thing?

Looking forward to the second season on Jerry Sandusky/Penn State trutherism.