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Revisionist History

Malcolm Gladwell / Pushkin

Malcolm Gladwell's contrarian reexaminations of the past, often focusing on overlooked social and cultural narratives.

Why we picked this

We picked Revisionist History because Malcolm Gladwell treats the past as an argument, not a record. Each installment takes a misunderstood event, person, or institution and reframes it through meticulous reporting and Gladwell’s own moral lens. The show’s posture is prosecutorial: it names what went wrong and who paid the price. That willingness to argue, rather than merely explain, is what separates it from standard history fare. Subscribe for the back catalog—a warehouse of stubborn, carefully built cases against the way we remember things.

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