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VIDEOA very nasty and highly condescending Malcolm Gladwell of the New Yorker insisted on purposely mispronouncing the name of Matt Taibbi even after being corrected as well as calling British author Douglas Murray "Doug" during a debate about the mainstream media. In addition, Gladwell repeatedly played the race card in a desperate attempt to win the debate. In the end, Gladwell is served up with a delicious heaping of Karma as you can see as well as alienating the audience with his antics.

News of the OZY Fest cancellation wasn’t sitting well with out-of-state ticket holders on Friday, with many traveling from far and wide to be at the two-day Central Park event — which cost a whopping $399 to attend. New Yorkers, on the other hand — who blasted the city for renting out a typically free public space and “going capitalist” — were ecstatic

"Malcolm Gladwell probably said it best in a November interview with New York magazine about his new book, “Outliers”: 'I am explicitly turning my back on, I think, these kind of empty models that say, you know, you can be whatever you want to be. Well, actually, you can’t be whatever you want to be. The world decides what you can and can’t be.'” That’s NYT columnist Charles Blow writing in the Gray Lady today. The gist of “No More Excuses?”: Barack Obama’s ascendency to the presidency shouldn’t deprive African-Americans of the precious commodity of being able to blame their...

"Outliers" are not politicians who lie even more than other politicians. It is a term used by statisticians to describe some data that are far away from the average-- data on seven-foot women or freezing temperatures in Los Angeles, for example. "Outliers" is also the title of a very insightful and very readable new book by best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell. The book's subtitle is "The Story of Success." It is a study of the factors behind people who have had spectacular achievements in fields ranging from hockey to computers. One of the first groups of outliers studied are top-level Canadian...

Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, 320 pp., $27.99) Americans love the idea of the self-made man—indeed, it’s an important part of our national ethos. We often tell ourselves that highly successful individuals who rise to prominence without great connections or wealth—from Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates—show just what is possible in our open society for those of modest means. Our politicians like to tout this narrative, too. George W. Bush took great pains to portray himself as a man of the people from Texas, rather than the scion of a blue-blooded New England dynasty. According...