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Writers Hail Message From a 'Prince'
Barack Obama's inaugural address showed a literary mastery of language, assorted authors tell the Los Angeles Times . The president's plain speaking and restraint is commended, along with his use of...
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Anderson vs. Gladwell: The Battle Over Free
Chris Anderson's new book, Free , examining the repercussions the Internet trend of bringing costs to zero, triggered a mini-war with Malcolm Gladwell, who lambasted him for arguing that "the New York...
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Wall Street Lives, Dies by Overconfidence: Gladwell
Confidence is key to the banking game, but an overabundance of it seems to have made the industry’s titans so delusional they blundered into the financial crisis, Malcolm Gladwell writes in the New...
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Dog Fighting, Football Share Brutal Similarities
Malcolm Gladwell is serious when he asks the question, in the New Yorker , whether football is really any different from dog fighting. He doesn't just mean that both inflict grievous injury to...
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Biased? Harvard Wants to Know
Do you have a subconscious love of gays—or hatred of white people? There's an app for that. Actually, it's a website that's part of a study by Harvard, the University of Virginia, and the University of...
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Non-Golfer Will Practice 6 Years, Try to Turn Pro
In his book Outliers , Malcolm Gladwell popularized the notion that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become great at something. Portland's Dan McLaughlin is testing the theory in a remarkable way:...
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Judge Gives Ecoterrorist Reading List for Jail
It's an unusual case, and it resulted in an unusual sentence. Former ecoterrorist and fugitive Rebecca Rubin got sentenced to 5 years in prison for her crimes in the 1990s, reports the Oregonian . The...
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Now on Chipotle Cups: Stories by Famous Writers
Jonathan Safran Foer. Toni Morrison. George Saunders. Michael Lewis. Malcolm Gladwell. They're some of the most famous authors working today, and now they're lending their prose to, of all things,...
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Practice Makes Perfect? Maybe Not So Much
Macklemore may have put in his 10,000 hours , but maybe the rest of us shouldn’t bother—or at least some of us. A new paper disputes the significance of practice over talent, claiming that although...
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