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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's podcast, not a reliable source for anything. https://www.boston.com/news/education/2016/07/15/bowdoin-college-malcolm

• DasIch 10y ago
  Every podcast is someones podcast, that doesn't mean anything nor does it make podcasts in general or this podcast specifically unreliable. Additionally this critique is laughable and if anything proves Gladwell's point. It's not about the food, it's about spending money on things that aren't relevant to education. Gladwell could have made the very same podcast and talked about expensive sports programs instead of food. Maybe Bowdoin isn't wasting money on food and that was a bad example to make. They're still spending a lot of money and not on financial assistance. If they felt confident about what they're spending it on, they would have brought that up and mentioned that they're not spending as much on financial assistance but instead have some large education or research project going on but they're not doing that either. Bowdoin is wasting money and they clearly know it or they would have responded differently.