Like a lot of Gladwell yarns, it's a lovely theory with some nice stories (and wonderfully written - a real New Yorker burying of the lede). And he's more hypot

Like a lot of Gladwell yarns, it's a lovely theory with some nice stories (and wonderfully written - a real New Yorker burying of the lede). And he's more hypothesising than suggesting this should be the case. But still - 'except when they were killing people, the PSI was an example of American exceptionalism' won't fly with me.