Malcolm Gladwell’s cult of smartness
The educated rationalists addressed by Revenge of the Tipping Point are sometimes the dumbest – and baddest – of them all.
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John Gray
John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman. His latest book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Allen Lane).
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