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How David Beats Goliath (2009)
- dang 7y agoDiscussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592043 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=605720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=605720
- ncmncm 7y agoMalcolm Gladwell is quoted, "I don't write things that are true, I write things that are interesting". He has a concealed reactionary slant. Generally, the facts he cites are true, but he omits the other facts that would tell the truth. He's more clever than David Brooks, who just makes things up, but more dangerous. Seriously, Google him. There is a page devoted to fact-checking him.
- rossdavidh 7y agoIf you seriously think that Malcolm Gladwell, who writes for the New Yorker, is right of center, much less the far right of center that "reactionary" means, then your idea of where the political center is, does not match with reality. Whether you think he is correct on a given topic is debatable, of course, but where he is on the political spectrum relative to the rest of the nation, is objectively determinable, and it is left of center.
- m3kw9 7y agoWhen you are David for 82 games and you play full court press, you won’t make it pass all star weekend before your players break down.