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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time. From Pushkin Industries. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.

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    • 4.7 • 57.3K Ratings

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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time. From Pushkin Industries. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.

To get early access to ad-free episodes and extra content, subscribe to Pushkin+ in Apple Podcasts are pushkin.fm/pus.

iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

Listen on Apple Podcasts
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    Guns Part 1: The Sudden Celebrity of Sir John Knight

    Guns Part 1: The Sudden Celebrity of Sir John Knight

    In the battles over gun rights, a shadowy English nobleman from the 17th century has unexpectedly taken center stage. Who was he? What did he do that has — 300 years later — endeared him to a generation of legal scholars? Revisionist History explores the cult of personality around the mysterious Sir John Knight. 

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    • 47 min
    Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge

    Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge

    The longest running television series of the 20th century was Gunsmoke, a western set in the notorious Dodge City, Kansas. Malcolm sweeps away mountains of legal scholarship to make a bold claim: The simplest explanation for the Supreme’s Court’s puzzling run of gun rights decisions may be that the justices watched too much Gunsmoke when they were growing up. 
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    • 43 min
    Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson

    Guns Part 3: A Shooting Lesson

    Malcolm goes to a shooting range in the woods of North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15. It’s scary. It’s ugly. It’s at the center of the gun control debate. But what exactly makes it worse than other guns? 
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    • 40 min
    Guns Part 4: Moral Hazard

    Guns Part 4: Moral Hazard

    Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1968, ending his presidential run. Had he been shot today, would he have lived? A what-if story about homicides and medical care and the moral consequences of a world where trauma surgeons have gotten really, really good at what they do. 
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    • 43 min
    Guns Part 5: The Footnote

    Guns Part 5: The Footnote

    At the end of a forgotten study of convicted murderers, the author left a devastating footnote.  We travel to an old plantation house outside Montgomery Alabama to hear his story — and what it tells us about American gun violence.
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    • 38 min
    Pushkin+ Early Listen: Guns Part 6: “Sin is the failure to bother to care”

    Pushkin+ Early Listen: Guns Part 6: “Sin is the failure to bother to care”

    You can hear this episode for free starting Thursday, October 5th. To learn more about Pushkin+ offerings, like ad-free episodes, exclusive content, and early access, visit pushkin.fm or the show page on Apple.

    Abdullah Pratt grew up in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in America, then returned to be an ER doctor in his neighborhood hospital. At the end of Revisionist History’s series on everything Americans get wrong about guns, we offer a final lesson on the obligations and costs of compassion.

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
57.3K Ratings

57.3K Ratings

skunkwerk ,

Love it

Season 9 is the best season yet. Impeccable reporting

grosshad ,

Guns - Part 3

Honestly, one of the dumbest episodes of any podcast I have ever listened to. Just a hot mess. This is too important a topic to be treated with such an intellectually lazy approach. Gladwell has embarrassed himself.

Justin N Osos ,

Malcolm and The Seeds of Doubt

Take a second and look up Gladwell’s work for Bank of America and the tobacco lobby.

The man appears to be an uncertainty farmer sowing seeds of doubt for the highest bidder.

It’s really gross.

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