Malcolm Gladwell, on the New Yorker’s website, today:
In the French Revolution the crowd in the streets spoke to one another with that strange, today largely unknown instrument known as the human voice.
Just one question, Malcolm. How old are you?
I’m serious — my grandfather doesn’t sound this old, and he’s been dead for twelve years.
studentactivism.net 
4 comments
Comments feed for this article
February 2, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Maxwell John Love
I feel like you both might as well duke it out. I’d be on your side. I don’t get his deal lol.
February 2, 2011 at 6:32 pm
David Parry
“Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot.” – McLuhan
February 2, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Angus Johnston
That’s a great quote, David. It’s also worth noting that Gladwell’s thesis now — that media don’t matter — manages to be simultaneously [1] the exact opposite of that argument that garnered him so much ridicule last September and [2] just as wrong as that prior argument.
That’s quite a trick.
February 7, 2011 at 10:13 pm
chris902
I think you’d enjoy this: http://www.malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com/