Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1996. He has written on a wide range of topics, including the science of cool hunting, race and sports, physical genius, the concept of moral hazard and health care, and the difference between puzzles and mysteries. Gladwell came to The New Yorker from the Washington Post, where he started as a staff writer in 1987, first reporting for the business section and then on the sciences, later becoming the newspaper’s New York City bureau chief. The author of four books, “Galdwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference”, “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, and “Outliers: The Story of Success”, were all #1 New York Times bestsellers. In his 2009 New Yorker article,” Offensive Play”, he asked: “How different are dogfighting and football?”