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redban
Aug 07, 2015redban rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I've always found Gladwell's writing to be enjoyable to read, but I have to question his journalistic content. Gladwell's content often resembles pop sociology/science at its worst, which is to say he takes complex events and forces out a simple, catchy explanation. He is at his worst when he talks about large-scale financial success stories (like in Outliers) given that he ignores how "business" is done on the larger scales (lobbying, predatory behaviors, Wall Street manipulations, etc.). Thankfully for Gladwell, he does not focus on Economics, so he is not as bad as the clowns who brought us Freakanomics. I just have no patience for this kind of pseudo-investigative gibberish, it's not like we have a shortage of insightful journalists these days! (David Graeber, Matt Taibbi, Ben Goldacre, Chris Hedges, Naomi Klein, etc.)