The world's smartest dunce collecting $45,000 per speaking engagement is fine, but his plagiarism, slandering of truth-bearers, and ambassadorship of corporate lies is not
Malc made a fool of himself by continually referring to Matt Taibbi as a white supremacist. And Douglas Murray was so composed, delivering searing rebuttals that had Gladwell with nothing left except petulant insults.
Nassim Taleb's IYI shorthand formulation (Intellectual Yet Idiot) was coined for guys like Gladwell, even if he overapplies it to people like Pinker (only because of his Pollyanna "world is getting less violent" shtick.)
Malc made a fool of himself by continually referring to Matt Taibbi as a white supremacist. And Douglas Murray was so composed, delivering searing rebuttals that had Gladwell with nothing left except petulant insults.
Nassim Taleb's IYI shorthand formulation (Intellectual Yet Idiot) was coined for guys like Gladwell, even if he overapplies it to people like Pinker (only because of his Pollyanna "world is getting less violent" shtick.)