The Lady Vanishes | Revisionist History Podcast | Malcolm Gladwell
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In the late 19th century, a painting titled The Roll Call, by a virtually unknown artist, took England by storm. But after that brilliant first effort, the artist all but disappeared. Why?
Season 1 (2016)
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ABOUT REVISIONIST HISTORY
Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every podcast episode re-examines something from the past - an event, a person, an idea, even a song - and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
ABOUT MALCOLM GLADWELL
Malcolm Gladwell is president and co-founder of Pushkin Industries. He is a journalist, a speaker, and the author of six New York Times bestsellers including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers. He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996. He is a trustee of the Surgo Foundation and currently serves on the board of the RAND Corporation.
ABOUT PUSHKIN INDUSTRIES
Pushkin Industries is an audio production company dedicated to creating premium content in a collaborative environment. Co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg in 2018, Pushkin has launched seven new shows into the top 10 on Apple Podcasts (Against the Rules, The Happiness Lab, Solvable, Cautionary Tales, Deep Cover, The Last Archive, and Lost Hills), in addition to producing the hugely successful Revisionist History. Pushkin’s growing audiobook catalogue includes includes the bestselling biography “Fauci,” by Michael Specter, “Hasta La Vista, America,” Kurt Andersen’s parody Trump farewell speech performed by Alec Baldwin, "Takeover" by Noah Feldman, and “Talking to Strangers,” from Pushkin co-founder Malcolm Gladwell. Pushkin is dedicated to producing audio in any format that challenges listeners and inspires curiosity and joy.
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One like is not enough for this podcast, ten thousands are.
I'm so glad that you're a Canadian!!! Keep up the good work!
Brilliant. I loved that.
Beautiful podcast, I loved this idea of moral license, provoked so many tangential thoughts. However, I don't believe it is people consciously granting themselves moral "permission" to act bad. I believe that they are already convinced in their head that they are not doing any bad at all in the first place, because if they were such a bad person how could they have done good deeds in their past and that the circumstances are different and so are their actions. People are their worst(or best, depending on your POV) critics.
Moral licensing is generally considered to be an unconscious or subconscious process.
I have met racists who thought that I was "the right kind of black man" by some unknown rubric. Weird, but not that surprising.
Please come to South Africa and tell our story of racism. How pathetic it's turned out after 1994...
What about “shame”?
Elizabeth Thompson and her husband also had problematic people murdered? Breaking down walls for sure.
On a side note, thanks for creating some content & putting it on UA-cam. Malcolm, you are an absolutely phenomenal storyteller.
A minor quibble: You listed Canada as one of the countries that elected a woman prime minister. Sadly, Kim Campbell inherited the position when Brian Mulroney stepped down as leader of the Progressive Conservatives. Campbell lost the subsequent election. In fact, she even lost he own seat. So she was never elected when she was Prime Minister.. I await the day that Canada is enlightened enough to elect a government that's lead by a woman.
Who is in charge of the running transcription at the bottom of the screen? I would have thought that something closer to standard grammar and punctuation would be used. -Michael Breen
"The UK never elected another female leader" - this didnt age well! We may within days have had 2 out of 3 female leaders since this podcast was released. Not immediately going to 50% female leaders after the first one doesnt mean you've decided to abandon the idea, it's just a gradual process. It's easy to blame it all on Gillard's gender, but male politicians get lots of "gendered insults" too. I would even say that Tony Abbot received much more abuse in his tenure than she did, but he couldnt blame it all on sexism. I liked Gillard at the time, but in hindsight her pro-China policies have been disastrous for the country and she should have known better.
Our view of history changes as we do ourselves. Time passes and we change. My 1966 high school graduation gift from the school to me was History of the World by H.G. Wells. Today it may be the most offensive and unreadable history book on the Planet Earth, It's amazing that people ever thought the way he did, but they did and for a long time. Some still do. You'll find them in the MAGA crowd. Or perhaps "mob" is a more appropriate moniker.
Politics have always been a nasty game, played by nasty people.
Someone's got to do it and all us goody two shoes won't!
add israel to the sad list at the end.
The academy was founded by 2 women along with the men. Their art was always skied and they were not allowed in many of the meetings.
Moral Licensing sounds very much like idiosyncrasy credit.
@malcolmgladwell Me I do want pictures… moving preferably, with the narrative… just saw you on The Diary of a CEO
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ so many labels …… so little time to wring ones hands and weep over might have been ……. evil can be banal …… virtuousness can be banal ………. Let’s all go to Sugar rock Candy Mountain
You need a new fact checker .. Angele Merkel was prime minister of Germany from 2005 to 2021 .. nobody would claim that Germany "never" had another female leader,; it has only been 2 years. And to a lesser extent this applies to quite a few of the other examples .. which unfortunately means the entire concept of this video is doubtful.
2012 is not practically yesterday. The news cycle moves so quickly these days that 2012 is a lifetime ago. 😂
A little disappointed after having this work heavily recommended
Your take on Julia Gillard is incorrect and leaves quite a bit out
Australians never elected her, and while she was knifed out, that’s exactly how she got in, by knifing a sitting pm who, while the party didn’t like him, the people did
Peter Slipper was not one of hers, she elevated him to speaker to remove an opposition vote in a hung parliament, it back fired 🤷♂️
She also protected Craig Thompson, who used union member funds for prostitutes, to hold on to government
When she was beyond saving, she pulled the gender card
Maybe the game was rigged, but Gillard was victim to her own decisions, nothing else
"Australians never elected her" - they elected her in 2010. She took over as PM before the election, but that's perfectly normal in a parliamentary democracy. In the UK, 6 of the last 9 prime ministers have done so, and the 3 others were the leaders of the opposition. The people dont elect a PM, they elect local representatives who then pick the PM, almost always picking the party leader who got the most seats, but if that party doesnt get a majority then smaller parties can demand to be made PM. That's what happened in Israel last year, a guy with only 6 seats became PM.
"the people did" - he started with 49pp lead over the opposition, but it went down to 9pp by the time he was removed so the people had turned on him and it was absolutely fair for the party to replace him. When Gillard came in she immediately had a 24pp lead.
@Glenda Baptiste I don’t think any of what she put up with ok or appropriate including the constant bullying from female colleagues and media that got her to change everything about herself from how she dressed to how she spoke, abandoning everything that made her in the first place. Is that counted as misogyny too?
I don’t disagree with what she went through, I disagree with how some of the information was presented or (I felt) omitted and don’t believe that is what ultimately ended her political career
@@willzimjohn um, no, no it didn’t, but the point of my comment seems to have gone over yours 😉
Can’t let the truth get in the way of the narrative. It wouldn’t have taken much to fact check this. They could have just about asked anyone in alive Australia in 2012 to check on this.
With art, we look to professionals to help us separate artistic quality from extraneous factors. With politics, you vote for someone you like. It's called democracy. You're going shame people into voting for Hillary? She had her lawyers smash evidence with hammers.
You can also vote strategically, not always liking the person you vote, but admitting that x is best for the job. Sometimes it is most effective to vote somebody you don't like but who has the potential to play out another candidate so that he/she will not be elected.
A female politician pulling out a victim card instead of addressing the matter at hand is hardly a good example of mistreated innocence. Getting offended is not an argument.
Sorry, did you forget the irony tags?
She full on adressed the matter at hand:
She was accused of letting mysogyny go. By a mysogynist.- so she lectured her accuser of his own mysogyny against her.
You cannot get more onto matter than this, me thinks.
Now I do wonder why you chose to ignore this inconvenient detail ...
@@MrRebound68 What I wonder is why you can't go for one paragraph without getting personal...
Possibly the most mediocre podcast I've ever listened to, utterly bereft of substance. Quite an achievement, I admit
Who crapped on your corn flakes?