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Another review (of the book) at http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/malcolm-gladwell-backlash-pseudo-profundity http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/malcolm-gla

Another review (of the book) at http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/malcolm-gladwell-backlash-pseudo-profundity http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/malcolm-gladwell-backlas... "Gladwell is the non-fiction equivalent of Dan Brown."

Brakenshire 13y ago
> So, Gladwell promises that our alleged misunderstanding has “consequences for everything from the way we educate our children to the way we fight crime and disorder”. Consequences for everything! That is the hard sell, the first free rock of intellectual crack. > The examples of “everything” include basketball coaching, policing, university science, Martin Luther King, and the Impressionists. (The waft of luxury art-history tourism in the Impressionists sequence is only the most obvious example of how Gladwell is now the non-fiction equivalent of Dan Brown.) The promise that such heterogeneous matter can be governed by one or two big ideas and understood through them constitutes the main attraction of the Gladwellian literary genre. Armed with these “ideas”, you won’t have to think for yourself ever again. Ouch.